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Youlton quits S&W
David Youlton has said he will step down as chairman of Snell & Wilcox in the same week that the company has confirmed its purchase of Newbury-based manufacturer Post Impressions.Youlton told
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XTV snaps up Red Pepper ID heads
Two founding members of recently defunct television branding company Red Pepper ID have joined Soho design house XTV, writes Will Strauss.
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BBC Tech fills top post
BBC Technology is stepping up its market presence with the appointment of Sun Microsystems global sales director for entertainment and media Stephen McKenna to the newly created post of sales director, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TV 'talks' to viewers via home appliances
Broadcasters and advertisers will soon be able to interact with viewers using inanimate objects in the home, writes Barbara Marshall.
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MEDIA 100 TAKES U-TURN
Media 100 is selling off its software product line-up including its Cleaner web streaming technologies to Discreet, the editing and effects subsidiary of Autodesk, for $16m (£11m). The sale marks a
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RUSHES PICKS UP SPIRIT
Soho commercials facility Rushes has added Philips' Spirit Datacine to its existing Cintel C-Reality and URSA Diamond telecine. The Spirit, which is the 20th to be installed in the UK, will
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TEXT FOR TALKSPORT
National radio station TalkSport is the first to sign up to an SMS text messaging service developed by Quartez called Txt2Air. The system will be used by the station to canvas
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ARTIST AWARD ENTRIES
Quantel is inviting entries for the second Quantel artist of the year award, run in conjunction with Promax & BDA. There is a series of regional competitions over the next 10
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Leader - Should channels release rights?
In a sophisticated, garrulous industry such as broadcasting, debate ebbs and flows between landmark speeches and events throughout the year.The industry is about to face another such landmark, as the RTS
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Free to air - Kids and football don't mix
David Liddiment does not have children. Because I am a well-informed member of the media community, I know this for a fact. But even if I wasn't, I could easily guess
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Trade Talk - Secret weapon
Few have heard of Jagdip Jagpal since she took the helm at SMG. Can this legal specialist turn around the company's creative fortunes?
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On the Box - We're back, sweetie
Producer of Katya and the Nutcracker, Jon Cary found Jennifer Saunders fairly fabulous and was captivated by the killers.
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News Analysis - Taking the plunge
Respected indies such as Wall To Wall, maker of The 1940s House (above), used to shun the multichannel sector, with its bargain basement reputation. Now they are keen to sell at the cheap end but keep quality high.
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RTS Cambridge Preview - Ask the minister
In the wake of media secretary Tessa Jowell's no-show in Edinburgh and in anticipation of her keynote speech at next week's Royal Television Society Cambridge convention, Broadcast asked leading industry figures what questions they would like to put to th
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INTERVIEW - A time for Action
As Action Time's well-known chiefs Stephen Leahy and Trish Kinane prepare to leave, managing director Phil Trelease is stepping out of their shadow to front the indie.
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PROFILE ANALYSIS - TV's top viewers and their camps
A formula has been devised to measure how well a TV programme's audience profile compares with the audience profile of the channel on which it is shown. It's time to meet the 'conformers' and the 'deviants'. Adrian Edwards reports.
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TX - Submerged in comedy
When Armando Iannucci left the BBC, teamed up with Talkback and defected to Channel 4, he didn't want to do the same old satire on a different channel. Instead he decided
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BBC 2 gains a few million innings with Ian Botham
While it was fun to have been in Edinburgh to listen to ITV director of programmes David Liddiment's fears for the soul of television, there was no time to pause for
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AND FINALLY ... Ben Hall, managing partner, The Chatterbox Partnership, on Bono and tennis
Who do you most admire in broadcasting?Mr Shakey Hand Man on BanzaiWhich TV or radio programme would you resuscitate?The off the tiny ladder, high-diving bit on World of SportWho would you
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OFF THE RECORD - The show that's too sexy for TV
If C4 ever feels the heat of its competitors' ratings breathing down its now more populist neck, it could always try dredging the depths of its archive for racy sexploits from