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RATINGS - Number One Singles gives C4 record ratings.
Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Number One Singles went straight to the top of the charts, making all other channels one-hit wonders writes Jon Rogers.
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BBC BREAKFAST HIRING.
BBC One O'Clock News editor Jay Hunt is understood to be leading the field to replace BBC Breakfast editor Andrew Thompson who has just taken up the new post of BBC
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LWT promotes Graham
Tim Graham, head of development for LWT's multi-skilled digital unit The Lab, has been promoted to deputy managing director. Graham, whose credits include Gordon Ramsay: Beyond Boiling Point and The Borough
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CAT DEELEY CHART SHOW.
Television presenters Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman are to join Capital FM to present their first radio show. Hit Music Sunday, a pre-chart show put together by Deeley and Bowman's management,
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CIESLIK EXPANDS ROLE.
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Productions (YTTP) controller of commercial affairs Filip Cieslik has added the business affairs brief for Granada Television Productions to his role, following the departure of Simon Vyvian at
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BROADCASTER PANEL.
The University of Manchester International Broadcasting Symposium is looking for a panel of under-25s from broadcasting and academia to discuss the future of broadcasting. The symposium will be held on 1
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TALKSPORT RENEWAL.
The Wireless Group has had its TalkSport national analogue licence renewed by the Radio Authority for a further eight years. Under the terms of the renewal, TWG's annual cash payment has
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BBC GETS CHINA LICENCE.
BBC World has been granted a licence to broadcast in China for the first time by the Chinese State Administration for Radio, Films & TV. The BBC has also signed a
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EDINBURGH DATE CHANGE.
This year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival will begin and end earlier, leaving delegates free to enjoy the August bank holiday. The festival will open at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
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TWO WAY ADDS TO BOARD.
NTL managing director Stephen Carter has been appointed to the board of interactive TV outfit Two Way TV as a non-executive director. Carter, who joined NTL from J Walter Thompson, replaces
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CORRECTION.
Pete Simmons, and not Gibbons, has been appointed group head of programmes at Chrysalis Radio, overseeing the Heart and Galaxy brands. He replaces Kevin Palmer who has become Chrysalis Radio Online
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Sky set to air E4.
Channel 4 is on the verge of signing an 11th hour distribution deal with Sky Digital for E4.As Broadcast went to press, The two parties were thrashing out last-minute details of
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C4 extends ITN contract.
Channel 4 has extended ITN's contract to produce the Channel 4 News until the end of 2003, writes Ashley Davies.
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Food Network wants more men.
Carlton Communications and retailer Sainsbury's are repositioning their joint-venture food channel, Carlton Food Network, to appeal to a male audience when it is rebranded as Taste Network in the spring, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC's Salmon appoints key football staff.
BBC Director of sport Peter Salmon has bolstered the sports production team by announcing two appointments, following a recent series of staff departures, write Georgina Lipscomb and Colin Robertson.
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CREATIVE BRIEFS.
Adams Trainor Design was commissioned by Shauna Minoprio of RDF Media to make the titles for the new series of Shipwrecked for T4 and Shipwrecked Extra for the new E4 digital
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PEARSON POACHES GRANADA'S KIRKEGAARD.
Pearson TV Worldwide has hired Granada Media's founder of its 'greenhouse' development project Sean Kirkegaard (left) as its new entertainment development team leader. Kirkegaard, 31, took up the new role at
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UKTV PROGRAMMING CHIEF PROMOTED.
UKTV head of programming Kathryn Mitchell has been promoted to the newly created position of UKTV channels controller. Mitchell's promotion takes place with immediate effect and she reports directly to BBC
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BBC PRODUCER WINS HISTORY TODAY AWARD.
BBC producer Catrine Clay has won the History Today historical film of the year award for The Germans We Kept, a documentary about German prisoners of war made for the Timewatch
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BBC'S QUEST TO CO-ANCHOR CNN PROGRAMME.
CNN has poached BBC news North America correspondent Richard Quest to co-anchor its new daily 1 x 60-minute Business International show. Quest starts next week on the show, which launches in