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BBC NEW MEDIA FIRST
BBC new media has appointed its first controller of business development as part of its departmental restructure. Director of broadband services at games portal gameplay.com Angel Gambino has been hired and
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UKTV'S FOOD PLANS
UKTV has unveiled fresh details for its new food channel which include a plan to commission half of its content from indies as part of a£20m spend. Content for the
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TWG HITS OUT AT BBC
The Wireless Group has submitted a document to the Office of Fair Trading in which it complains that the BBC abuses its dominant position by buying radio rights to sporting events
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PLAY ORDERS TOONS
Play UK's website has commissioned a brace of original animated series as part of a dual TV and web bid to bolster the channel's image. The commissions are 6 x 3-minute
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NEW RORY PECK AWARD
The Rory Peck Awards is introducing a new category, the Sony International Impact Award, for freelance broadcast journalists whose work that has made an impact on government policy or public opinion.
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OCTOPUS ONLINE WORK
Digital Octopus, the new media division of Octopus Publishing, has continued plans to extend books to the web and interactive TV. Projects include antiques information resource The Miller's Price Guide for
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ITV SHELVES SLAP BANG
ITV has decided not to commission any further episodes of Ant and Dec vehicle Slap Bang from indie Blaze. The show was originally intended to return with 16 shows in the
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CARLTON WINS AWARD
Carlton has picked up The Windrush Partnership Achievement Award for its commitment to cultural diversity. The award is given to organisations that have helped people from ethnic minorities through their business.
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C4 launches health and lifestyle portal
Channel 4 is extending its commitment to educational services with the roll-out of a health and lifestyle portal.Health House, which will be a cross-media project overseen by 4 Learning and aimed
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ITV issues tender doc to bidders
The battle for ITV's£200m news contract kicked off last week as bidders ITN and Channel 3 News took receipt of the much anticipated tender document, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC Wales boosts factual team
BBC Wales has recruited three producers from the commercial sector to work on new projects in its standalone factual department, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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PVR homes to surge by 2010
The market for personal video recorder (PVR) technology is set to mushroom to half a billion homes worldwide by 2010, according to a report out this week, writes David Wood.
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CREATIVE - News in brief
Tsunami Films is behind a series of nine idents for Sci-Fi, the cable and satellite digital channel. The idents can be played together to form a narrative or as standalone pieces.
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CARE SCOOPS FIVE AWARDS AT BAFTA CYMRU
Care, the BBC's drama about abuse in Welsh children's homes during the 1970s and 1980s won five Bafta Cymru awards on Sunday (24 June). It took the best drama award while
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TELEWEST APPOINTS KINGSMILL AS NON-EXEC
Cable outfit Telewest has strengthened its board by naming former MFI Furniture deputy chair Denise Kingsmill as a non-executive director. Kingsmill, who has been deputy chair of the Competition Commission since
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LAMBIE NAIRN TO REBRAND CBBC'S OUTPUT
Design consultant Lambie Nairn has been appointed by the BBC to rebrand its children's output. The company, which has a long history of revamping BBC channels and services, is currently working
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TV FORUM EUROPE GEARS UP FOR 2002 LAUNCH
A new television market, TV Forum Europe, is to launch early next year. The new market, to be held in Barcelona from 18 to 21 February, is being overseen by the
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JAZZ FM PROGRAMME CHIEF TAKES DIGITAL JOB
Jazz FM has appointed deputy programme controller Kirsten MacGillivray to the new role of head of digital programming. Reporting to programme director John Baish, she will be responsible for launching the
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WISE BUDDAH WINS RADIO PRIZES IN NEW YORK
Radio indie Wise Buddah has been awarded two awards at the New York Radio Festival Programming and Promotion awards. The indie won a culture and arts gold world medal award for
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SKILLSET ASKS INDUSTRY TO RETURN CENSUS
Skillset this week called for all those working in the audiovisual industries to return forms for the second industry-wide census by the end of July. The first census showed that 116,000