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Convergence top of the DVB agenda.
Convergence between TV and the internet and interactive television will be the technologies that dominate the next agenda of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), it was announced last week at the DVB World 2001 conference in Dublin, writes Nick R
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Aldis MD to go freelance.
Kim Aldis has quit the computer graphics and effects company he founded four years ago to pursue a freelance and consultancy career, writes Barbara Marshall.
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RED NOSE NIGHT.
Jump Design & Direction is behind the programme identity for the BBC's Red Nose Night 2001 for Comic Relief. The graphics will appear throughout the evening's events, from appeal films to
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DCMS should not be scrapped.
While ministers have been eager to paper over tensions that have existed between the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI), MPs reporting
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FREE TO AIR - Unhappy bedfellows.
Tempted as I am to write lyrically and lengthily about the utter joyful brilliance of Celebrity Big Brother and Vanessa's live breakdown, I fear the job has been done better elsewhere.
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TRADE TALK - A northern light.
Controller of features at Yorkshire Tyne Tees Bridget Boseley is credited with 'an enormous sense of mischief' and embarks on her biggest project yet.
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Rebecca Segal, senior vice-president, BBC programme acquisition, USA.
On the US networks' rush to dodge actors' and writers' strikes with reality game shows.
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TRADE TALK - ON THE BOX - Better than school.
Celador head of comedy Mike Whitehall is shocked at Crossroads' use of child labour but enjoys having his toes curled by C4's Borat.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Excess baggage?
Players in the dog-eat-dog equipment hire market are facing tough times, as the fate of Gearhouse Group illustrates, but while competitive price squeezing is playing its part, poor management could also be to blame.
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DIGITAL VIEWING HABITS - The television divisions.
Twenty-seven per cent of households have digital TV. They are a critical group for programme makers, schedulers, strategists and channel controllers. Tim Ewington and Rachel Addley look at digital's viewers and their habits.
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INTERVIEW - The Shaw touch.
Channel 5 senior controller news, current affairs and documentaries Chris Shaw has managed to win favourable press attention with 'grown-up' documentaries. But his reality show, Touch the Truck, and taking news out of peaktime will ensure C5 doesn't garne
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ANALYSIS - INDIE FINANCE - Big cat in the land of producer giants.
With a strong comedy portfolio, a growing reputation in drama and now a Bafta-winning film to its name, Tiger Aspect Productions looks unstoppable - especially as it is planning to make a big noise in the US. Ashley Davies reports.
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Spicing up the story.
Sometimes, when a good story comes along, you just can't wait for a commissioning editor's green light. Just over seven years ago Neil Davies and Matthew Bowers began filming a bunch
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 25 FEBRUARY - BBC 2 has a Tuesday night winner with Paul Daniels.
When you consider the amount of effort ITV made to move News at Ten, it is remarkable the network hasn't made a greater attempt to shift its mandatory regional programmes out
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OFF THE RECORD - Dyke Towers - The occasional diary of a BBC Director General.
SUNDAYAfter dealing with the immediate trauma, I naturally whacked off a witty email to Dickie Sambrook down at BBC News. 'I know you didn't like the turnstiles, mate, and fair enough
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Lookalikes.
Quake in fear at this pair of beefcakes: Sky publicity chief John Brissenden and mafioso Benedetto Spera. One extorts favours by threatening to kneecap his helpless victims while the other was
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Barwick admits BBC and ITV World Cup joint-coverage deal is under threat
ITV sport boss expresses fears as Kirch legal argument gathers pace but both broadcasters remain 'committed' to football's biggest tournament
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Working Title in 'exploratory' talks with Tiger Aspect
Bridget Jones and Notting Hill producer understood to be negotiating bid for Rowan Atkinson's part-owned indie
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NTL forced to delay enhanced TV
Integration issues with Liberate software chosen to run service hits network and jeopardises target of 1.25m digital subscribers by year end
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Animals shoot themselves for BBC
New 3x 60 minute Natural History Unit series puts animals in charge of the cameras as latest cutting-edge micro-technology comes to primetime