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NO FOOTBALL STRIKE
The Premier League and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) have struck a deal to avert a damaging footballers' strike which would have hit ITV and BSkyB sports coverage. The deal sees
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TV LICENCE FEE TO RISE
The television licence fee is to go up by£3 to£112 from April under the funding formula drawn up by the BBC and the government to pay for the corporation's
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DISTRIBUTORS SEMINAR
BBC Worldwide director of international TV Mike Phillips is to head a British Television Distributors Association seminar on TV distribution to be held on 4 December at Channel 4's Horseferry Road
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FIVE LIVE NEWS HIRES
New BBC Radio Five Live head of news Ceri Thomas has made a clutch of appointments across the station's daily news strands. Simon Mayo editor Sali Collins is to become editor
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RTS FILM-MAKING EVENT
Veteran Northern Irish TV producers Paul Greengrass and Peter Taylor are to discuss their contrasting approaches to filmmaking at a Royal Television Society session on 10 December. Chaired by factual producer
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Energis scoops pension project
Energis Interactive, the digital TV firm owned by telecoms giant Energis and software developer Graham Technology, has been selected by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to develop a£1.6m
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Portman sold to MBO team
TV and media company PrimeEnt has offloaded its wholly owned subsidiary Portman Entertainment for£1.2m following a management buyout, writes Simon Ellery.
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Multicultural deputy named
Channel 4 has appointed BBC producer Sam Bickley to the post of deputy commissioning editor, multicultural, writes Penny Hughes.
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Black magic not right for TV, say viewers
Scores of television viewers believe that programmes showing practices such as voodoo and black magic should not be shown on TV at any time, writes Steve Aston.
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CREATIVE BRIEFS
Moving Picture Company has created a Christmas ident for E4 in collaboration with E4/Film Four creative director Brett Foraker. Designed by Russell Appleford, it features E4 characters being chased by a
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UK distributors pull out of Natpe
Two of the UK's biggest broadcasters have been forced to pull out of next year's Natpe programme market in Las Vegas due to the high cost of attending the annual event.Both
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Chrysalis ups European stake
Chrysalis TV Group is poised for a renewed push into Europe after taking full control of its Holland-based joint-venture CVI Media Group last week, writes Colin Robertson.
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
The advertising market is down across Europe, but smaller TV markets with less developed commercial television are feeling less of a pinch, writes Kate Bulkley.
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TV SMUT CAMPAIGNER MARY WHITEHOUSE DIES
Veteran television campaigner Mary Whitehouse - scourge of television liberals and a vitriolic opponent of on-screen 'smut' - has died at the age of 91. Whitehouse, a former schoolteacher, launched her
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BTDA LAUNCHES STANDARD CONTRACT
The British Television Distributors Association (BTDA) has launched its first standard issue contract in the hope that it will encourage industry-wide practices and agreements. The 'user-friendly' contracts, covering television and video
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SOUTHERN STAR AND ALBA TO EXPLAIN THE WAR
Southern Star and history specialist Alba Communications have unveiled their first project following an output deal signed at last month's Mipcom.The two are to make 12 x 60-minute factual series Visions
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ITC BRINGS IN TWO NEW FACES
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has made two senior appointments to its new combined advertising and programmes group. Steve Perkins becomes controller of advertising and programme standards from his role heading
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NOW DIGITAL WINS PETERBOROUGH LICENCE
The Radio Authority has awarded Now Digital the local digital multiplex licence for Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Now Digital, wholly owned by GWR, is proposing seven commercial services and has reserved capacity
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ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS GETS NY BOSS
Entertainment Rights' new office in New York is to be headed by former Nelvana International sales executive Gillian Kirby. She will be head of sales for the US, Canada and Latin
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VIENNA EUROPEAN RADIO FORUM POSTPONED
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has called off its planned European radio forum next June. The conference, The Voice of European Radio in the 21st Century, was due to be held