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Top commercial radio stations named
Liverpool-based Radio City 96.7 won the commercial radio station of the year award at the Commercial Radio Awards, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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FOREVER BROADCASTING BUYS PEAK 107FM
Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based radio group Forever Broadcasting has bought Grand Central Broadcasting, which owns and operates Chesterfield's analogue radio station Peak 107 FM, for£4.82m. It is the fifth station that Forever Broadcasting
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NTL REDUCES DEBT MOUNTAIN WITH£100M DEAL
Cable giant NTL has reduced some of its£10bn debt through a£100m investment deal with GE Capital Telecom. NTL chief financial officer John Gregg said the deal, together with another
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SCREENSHOP APPOINTS NEW BOSS
Screenshop, the former Flextech channel now owned and managed by auction outfit bid-up.tv, has named Lee White as its new head, replacing S'an Ellis-Thomas, who is being promoted within Flextech owner
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CBBC WEB SITE FOCUSES ON NEW KIDS' SERIES
The BBC children's department CBBC has established a site on BBC Online giving information on the tender process for the new series to succeed the Teletubbies and the Tweenies, as revealed
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TIVO LINKS UP WITH UKTV FOR HIGHLIGHTS
Personal video recorder manufacturer Tivo has struck a channel highlights deal with BBC and Flextech joint-venture broadcaster UKTV. The deal represents the fourth broadcaster to run a Tivo highlights channel with
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GULLANE BUYS RIGHTS TO GUINNESS RECORDS
Gullane Entertainment - owner of Sooty, Thomas the Tank Engine and Captain Pugwash - has bought the rights to Guinness World Records (GWR) for£45.5m. Gullane chairman Charles Falzon said he
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WALES THIS WEEK TAKES ON NEW PRODUCER
HTV has recruited freelance producer John Mair as series producer for its Wales this Week show. Mair, who joins the programme in the autumn, will report to HTV Wales' head of
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R3 PLANS FILM AND THEATRE MUSIC SERIES
BBC Radio 3 controller Roger Wright has commissioned new weekly programme Stage & Screen. The 44 x 60-minute series will broadcast between 16.00 and 17.00 from 23 July and will play
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Gimme Gimme moves to BBC 1
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey is planing to shore up the channel's failing comedy output by poaching yet another series from BBC 2 - controversial sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme.Heggessey has greenlit
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Chrysalis wins Top Ten sequel
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment has scored a series of commissions including an order from Channel 4 to create a follow-up to its Top Ten music strand, writes Will Strauss.
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S4C to make celebrity co-pro
S4C International has bagged another two co-production deals with Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) and German public broadcaster ZDF, writes Penny Hughes.
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GRANADA TO AIR FAME
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has bought the rights to the entire series of cult drama series Fame, writes Simon Ellery.
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CBBC to show art spin-off
BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard has ordered a raft of new pre-school series for CBBC, including a spin-off of popular art show SMart, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Softimage product boss moves to Orad
Softimage international product manager Richard Spohrer joined Orad this week as the firm's UK managing director, writes Barbara Marshall.
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GVG opens Slough design centre
Grass Valley Group has opened an engineering design centre in Slough as part of its drive 'to move closer to the customer', writes Barbara Marshall.
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BBC pinpoints blackout cause
Faulty circuit-breakers were the cause of the BBC's 20-minute black-out last Saturday (30 June).A spokesman said the circuit-breakers, which take power into and out of the corporation's un-interruptable power supply (UPS),
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Computer Film wins EU software grant
The Computer Film Company has won a European grant to develop software tools for electronic cinema production, writes Ann-Marie Corvin.
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OPEN TV TO USE ACTV KIT
Interactive television platform provider Open TV is to integrate technology from US specialist ACTV into the Open TV platform. This integration will provide ACTV's enhanced TV and programming solutions through digital
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SAT FIRM SIGNS E-DEAL
Interxion has formed a partnership with Cidera to develop a new service that will provide satellite-based delivery of rich media broadband content. The two companies will work together to provide high-quality