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    YTV Keeler scoop.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire Television (YTV) is producing a major documentary on the Profumo scandal for ITV, featuring the first major TV interview with Christine Keeler (right). The 60-minute piece, dubbed internally as Keeler,

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    RATINGS - Reality TV is what we really, really watched.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The combination of marketing hype, Lythgoe put-downs and teenage hysteria ensured Popstars a secure footing in the ratings charts, writes Jon Rogers.

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    STAFF ACTION AT MTV?

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Employees at MTV's broadcast services division are to be balloted on industrial action from 22 January. The ballot is the latest development in an ongoing dispute over proposed cuts to paid

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    AMANPOUR CNN DEAL.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has signed a new multi-year contract to remain at CNN, following negotiations with the news group since December. Amanpour will report across all of the

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    ITC SANCTIONS NOTE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The ITC has issued a new guidance note on revised procedures for statutory sanctions, replacing the series of notes put out since 1991. The document, which takes into account new legislation,

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    THREE VIE FOR NW RADIO,

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority had received three applications for the north-west regional digital multiplex licence by the closing date of 16 January. The Digital Radio Group is proposing to broadcast 10 programme

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    REUTERS ONLINE AUDIO.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Reuters has launched an online audio news service in conjunction with indie radio production company Somethin' Else. Journalists from Somethin' Else will edit Reuters online reports and turn them into audio

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    UK STYLE WEBSITE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    UKTV's leisure and lifestyle channel UK Style has commissioned web technology and design company Blueberry.Net to launch its first website.

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    PEPSI CHART PRODUCER.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Endemol Entertainment UK has appointed a new series producer for the Pepsi Chart on Channel 5. Dave Skinner will join on 1 February, replacing Susan Maxwell, who is moving internally to

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    SALMON'S RACE ROLE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    BBC director of sport Peter Salmon has taken on the additional role of diversity 'champion' for race - a role currently filled by BBC director of news Tony Hall who is

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    SMITH TAKES QUESTIONS.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Chris Smith will be taking questions on the government's communications white paper at a Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) seminar on 1 February. The event will be

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    Benson export role

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Pact's international committee chairman Graham Benson has been appointed by the government's export promotion agency, Trade Partners UK, to its Americas advisory group. Benson, who is chairman of Blue Heaven Productions,

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    Dyke upbeat over digital feedback.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    BBC director general Greg Dyke has told BBC staff that the results of the corporation's latest public consultation on its proposed digital channels are 'positive', pre-empting the publication of the consultation's

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    Regional franchises losing orders to indies.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    ITV is commissioning an increasing number of its independently produced programmes directly from suppliers rather than via ITV regional franchises, according to the ITC's latest Channel 3 Networking Arrangements report for 1999, writes Colin Robertson.

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    C5 News gets new format.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is revamping its early morning news programme, 5 News at Breakfast, and has appointed a new editor, Greg Orme, for the show writes Rebecca Evans.

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    ITV peak targets to go.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    ITV This Week ditched its policy of setting peaktime audience targets and unveiled a package of measures aimed at maintaining its lead in mainstream and multichannel TV, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Union 175 JV hires drama head.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Union 175, the Union Pictures and West 175 Media joint-venture TV production outfit, has hired Claire Hirsch as its head of TV drama, writes David Wood. Hirsch, whose producer credits include

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    ITC FINDS FOR MILLIONAIRE AFTER COMPLAINTS.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Celador Productions, producer of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has been cleared by the Independent Television Commission of any wrongdoing over the first episode to produce a£1m winner. The

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    REGULATORS CLEAR AOL TIME WARNER MERGER.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The AOL Time Warner merger was cleared by US regulators last week, paving the way for the creation of the largest media firm in the world. As a result, Time Warner

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    ALL CHANGE IN CLASSIC FM SENIOR LINE-UP.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    GWR-owned Classic FM has announced a number of senior management changes following last month's GWR restructure which saw Classic FM managing director Roger Lewis appointed chairman of the GWR commercial board