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    ENGLISH & POCKET WIN

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    English & Pockett is the only non-Asian company to win at this year's Promax Asia. The company scooped two golds - one for best launch campaign with Discovery Animal Planet Asia

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    422 TO MODERNISE

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    422 has dropped the colons and is positioning itself as 'more than just a television design company', according to chief creative Andy Davie-Coward, who added: 'It's a simpler, cleaner look. Those

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    Thomson in£1.4bn Technicolor deal

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    French electronics group Thomson Multimedia is to buy Technicolor in a deal which values the video and DVD processing and duplication business at around£1.4bn.Carlton Communications confirmed on Monday that it

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    Saatchi to sell off Megalomedia facilities to FrameStore founders

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Megalomedia, the media investment company set up by Maurice Saatchi, has agreed to sell its facilities subsidiaries, FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC), to a new company set up by FrameStore founders Sharon Reed and William Sargent, writes Dom

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    Horton joins The Facilities Group

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    SVC creative director Tom Horton has quit the Soho facility to become director of television at Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary The Facilities Group (TFG), writes Barbara Marshall.

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    Reuters backs news software

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Reuters is stepping up its support for the news delivery specification NewsML by teaming up with news software developer Wavo to launch an open source NewsML toolkit.NewsML is a web-based programming

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    GRIFFILMS MAKES S4C IDENTS

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Griffilms produced the on-screen Christmas idents for S4C. Animators Hywel Griffith, Dylan Jones and Eryl Jones based the sequences on drawings by the children of Maesybont primary school, animating them in

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    Freedom and accountability

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The white paper published on Tuesday finally provides operators across the industry with a blueprint for their development next year - and the year after that until this white paper turns

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    FREE TO AIR - Regulation, my arse

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    At time of writing, the communications white paper was still at the printers in bundles and by the time I'm able to grace these pages again it will have been as

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    TRADE TALK - Indie champion

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Former punk rocker turned training and investment guru John McVay is leaving Scotland behind and heading south to be the new chief of Pact.

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    IN MY VIEW - David Docherty

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    On how the British lack the courage to build media empires and embrace new technology.

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    ON THE BOX - Staying streets ahead

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC News 24 presenter Christopher Morris loves Corrie's festive 40th but says we should Take a Girl Like You at face value.

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    YULETIDE ANALYSIS - All I want for Christmas is ..

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    What will Santa bring this year? Winning drama for 21.00, hit new entertainment channels, an ITV chief executive, horse racing rights ... TV types will be shaking their presents anxiously.

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    Millionaire or weakest link?

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    So you want to be a TV executive? Do you know what the main events of the year were in broadcasting? The demands of broadband or the 22.00 news move debacle?

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    TX - A humbug of a drama - A Christmas Carol

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Broadcaster: ITVProducer: LWTStart: 21.00, 20 DecemberLength: 1 x 90-minutesCommissioning editors: Nick Elliott/ Jenny ReeksIt was actor Ross Kemp's idea to do a contemporary adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring

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    INTERVIEW - Real entertainment

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC entertainment controller Danielle Lux is determined to make over the once old-fashioned genre so it feeds the public thirst for reality TV with shows based on people and emotions, filled with 'drama, tension and jeopardy'.

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    RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 26 NOVEMBER - Peak Practice overtakes Casualty after slow start

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Like some sort of celestial eclipse, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'s first million-pound winner overshadowed the demise of Victor Meldrew.The result - 33 million people watching TV on a Monday

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    AND FINALLY...

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    LWT's Sean Kneale, producer of The Way They Were 4 - Coronation St Special, on eating glue...

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    Lookalikes

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Get satisfaction from the rockin' similarities between these two hardcore party animals, Granada Creative chair Andrea Wonfor and Rolling Stones bass player Ronnie Wood. While one has more groupies than most

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    Einstein Channel to blast off in January on Sky

    2000-12-14T15:52:00Z

    Digital science broadcaster Einstein Channel has set 25 January for its UK launch date on Sky Digital, writes David Wood.The channel, which is spending£1.5 million on its UK roll