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VIRGIN RADIO TO GO ON WORLD TOUR.
Virgin Radio has announced a series of events as part of its new strategy to focus on 'real' music rather than chart hits. The station has lined up the Virgin Radio
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CARTOON NETWORK TO AIR SHEEP ANIMATION.
Cartoon Network is to premier a new 13 x 30-minute animated series, Sheep in the Big City. The story centres on the eponymous Sheep, who leaves the farm to live in
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C5 entertainment bolsters its output.
Channel 5 is ramping up its entertainment output with two major new gameshows and a second series of The Mole. Controller of entertainment Alan Nixon has commissioned Pearson Television to make a
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Gary Rhodes series for BBC 2.
BBC leisure and factual entertainment has won three commissions for BBC 1 and BBC 2, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Priory spin-off underway for E4.
Ginger Television Productions is working on a spin-off from its Channel 4 celebrity chatshow The Priory for E4, writes Ashley Davies.
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AIR GETS FIRST ORDER.
Donna Air's fledgling indie, Airhead & Money, has nailed its first commission, a 5 x 30-minute series for E4, writes Ashley Davies.
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INTERACTIVE ADS TO AIR.
The first interactive advertising campaign to be shown on ITV will run from 1 to 11 March. Developed by Carlton Active for Unilever, the campaign for its Colman's and Olivio ranges
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VIRGIN REVAMPS LOOK.
Virgin Atlantic is to revamp its in-flight channel look. Thirteen new channel idents will be designed and produced by Jump Design & Direction to run across all the Virgin channels, which
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Sony launches HD edit system.
Sony is making an aggressive move into the high-definition (HD) editing market with a PC-based non-linear system that will sell for about $180,000 (£124,000), writes Adrian Pennington.
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THE BBC SKI CAM.
Developed by BBC Resources special projects, the world's first ski-pole-cams are currently being used by Austrian state broadcaster ORF in Slalom gates at the World Skiing Championships in Austria.
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Creditors question value of BFV assets.
Angry creditors were this week questioning the activities of Broadcast Film & Video (BFV) directors, following the voluntary liquidation of the Bristol-based facility group and the creation of a new company,
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Grade buys Shepperton as Mill MBO completes.
Pinewood and Shepperton film studios have completed their merger, while Soho facility The Mill has been bought out by its management for£24m, write Barbara Marshall and Dominic Timms. Both deals are
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BBC updates asset management.
Standard Media Exchange Framework (Smef), the core data model for media asset management developed by the BBC's Media Data Project, will see its first application go live this April, writes Nick Radlo.
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RUSSIA TESTS DIGITAL TV.
The Russian authorities have given the go-ahead to three city broadcasters to test digital terrestrial broadcasting using the DVB-T standard. Transmissions are due to start in June in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod
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NTL WINS OZ CONTRACT.
NTL has won a£24m contract with Cable & Wireless Optus to provide satellite downlink services for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The news comes just two months after NTL won ABC's
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RESOLUTION BUYS OB VAN.
Big Brother facility provider Resolution has ordered a£500,000 server-based OB edit vehicle with duplication, satellite uplink and broadband capabilities. Resolution managing director Roger Moffatt said: 'Putting all that effort into
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Anomalies threaten legislation.
As work on translating the white paper into legislation continues, it's becoming clear just how many oars have been stuck in to the 'green' policy document. First we have Independent Television
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FREE TO AIR - How to serve the public.
All hell is breaking loose as the industry tries to find a definition for 'public service broadcasting'. It's all very well for the government and its communications white paper to come
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TRADE TALK - Royal comedian.
He has a midas touch as far as TV comedy is concerned but Henry Normal is now working for ITV - a sore subject for Royle Family broadcaster BBC.
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IN MY VIEW - Sarah Thane.
On bringing a little clarity to the current regulatory guidelines, as well as future plans.