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    Pace launches digital set-top box

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    UK set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology has launched its next-generation digital cable set-top box, capable of carrying high-quality video and interactive TV services over IP networks, writes David Wood.

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    Lip Sync first to buy Harding FPA

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Lip Sync Post is the first Soho facility to buy the Harding Flash and Pattern Analyser (FPA) which identifies potential photo-sensitive epilepsy triggers on video sequences, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    PGP LOSES CREATIVE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Pepper's Ghost Productions creative director Richard Morss is leaving the company to set up his own business developing creative properties for broadcast. Although he will continue to work with PGP on

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    PROMOTIONS AT DB

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Cambridgeshire-based DB Broadcast has made two internal promotions. Graham Pearl has been appointed as operations director and Tom Swan has taken the role of sales and marketing director. Pearl joined DB

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    LEADER - Will C4 make the obvious choice?

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    A decision on the new Channel 4 chief executive will be made within a month and is likely to be announced on or near the board's next meeting in the first

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    FREE TO AIR - Strike: force for good?

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    It looks as though The Premiership has moved just in time. As the likes of Ryan Giggs and Paolo di Canio get out their fingerless gloves and fire up the braziers

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    TRADE TALK - Building Brick

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    After a string of successes as Sky One's head of entertainment and factual programming, Sam Brick is poised to take September by storm.

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    ON THE BOX - Victorians still valued

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Producer Jane O'Brien says Trollope's The Way We Live Now is an apt choice, but sees little point in getting Together Again.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - A shrinking asset

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the strong showing ITV kids series made at last month's Baftas and the high-earning distribution potential of the genre, CITV's future looks far from rosy as further cuts are expected in the department.

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    CENSUS - The broadcast sweatshops

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Last year's Skillset census revealed that freelancers are a vital part of the audiovisual industry, making up half the workforce. A new follow-up survey of freelancers received more than 1,000 responses. The results are startling.

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    WORK EXPERIENCE - Invisible workers

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Work experience might seem like the best way of getting a foot in the door of the audiovisual sector but in return for their free labour are volunteers really gaining the skills they need to get on? Nishita Sharma reports.

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    CHANNEL REPORT - Giving the people what they want

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite facing competitors on all fronts in the young adult market, Play UK is determined to reinvent itself as a distinct brand offering an unbeatable blend of hit comedy and music programming. Peter Keighron reports.

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    TX - A walk on the wild side

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Sixteen million years after dinosaurs became extinct, a strange collection of beasts roamed the earth. It was a time when whales were still on land and giant birds preyed on miniature

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    ITV gets pulses racing again on Sunday night

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Heartbeat got the blood pumping through ITV's veins this week, reinvigorating the network which put its drama crown jewels on display once more. Sunday night fell under the enduring spell of

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    OFF THE RECORD - Sky has Harry under its spell

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    'Harry Potty About Sky Movies Active' is the headline BSkyB bosses must have craved. And they got it, but Off The Record refuses to let them off so lightly. During an

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    OFF THE RECORD - Big girl's blouse

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Desperate times call for desperate measures. And never has this been more true for London's post community, who met last week in an informal gathering (organised by Soho Editors) neatly titled

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    TV takes on the consoles

    2001-11-15T17:10:00Z

    Adrian Pennington examines TV's embryonic challenge to the hitherto impenetrable might of the dedicated video games consoles

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    Bazalgette withdraws from C4 race

    2001-11-15T16:55:00Z

    Endemol Entertainment UK creative director and industry favourite rules himself out as candidate to replace Michael Jackson

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    Top Gear drives over to C5

    2001-11-15T15:59:00Z

    One of BBC2's longest running series to become Fifth Gear when it airs on C5 next year

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    The war on the web

    2001-11-15T15:20:00Z

    Peter Keighron looks at how the internet has come of age during the current Afghan crisis