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    Monte Carlo to relaunch as format festival

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The Monte Carlo Television Festival is to relaunch as an event dedicated exclusively to formats, abandoning the general market forum it has provided for the past 40 years, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    Kiss goodbye

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning Kiss FM boss Dave Young is quitting the dance station for a television career. Georgina Lipscomb reports on his journey from FM to TV.

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    Ray Fitzwalter

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    On why it would be a mistake to privatise Channel 4 while forcing it to adhere to its public service remit.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Will originality fly Sky?

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Elisabeth Murdoch's departure from Sky Networks has left observers questioning its commitment to original content such as the 10th Kingdom. Simon Ellery reports.

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    OPINION - Not a good year for the Roses

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The fall-out from this week's Rose d'Or awards might not appear a guilded result for British TV. But this is misleading.True, comedy festival veterans were this week insisting that the lack

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    BBC GOVERNORS - Governors in the dock

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    While debate continues to rage over the future of broadcasting regulation, the role and effectiveness of the BBC's select group of governors is still under the spotlight. Mike Shallcross talks to some old hands.

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    BRITISH FILM - Film, camera, action

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    With the world's film industry now firmly cued up for the month in Cannes, Louise Bateman considers British broadcasters' developing love affair with the high-risk business of investing in home-grown feature films.

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    INTERVIEW - United's major Tom

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    In his two years heading programming at HTV West, Tom Archer has put United's regional outpost firmly on the map. However, with that merger creeping ever closer, the major challenge for survival is only just beginning.

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    The occasional diary of a BBC director general

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    WEDNESDAYToday's my midweek lie-in, so you can imagine my dismay when the mobile goes off while I'm still in bed. It's my old mate Chrissy Bland. 'Murdoch's resigned,' he gasps. I

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    OFF THE RECORD - Duff information

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    ITV must be overjoyed to have filled it's daytime controller post with the BBC's Maureen Duffy. And why not? The former J Walter Thompson executive has a list of adland credits

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    OFF THE RECORD - The empty Sky

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Last week's shock-tastic departure of Elisabeth Murdoch from pater's firm to start her own was surely the biggest story at Isleworth since the departures of Messrs Sam Chisholm and David Chance.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Snap to attention

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    More Sky shenanigans were in evidence when we dispatched a law-abiding photographer to Isleworth to take a snap of the great Murdoch TV HQ. It wasn't long before an officious security

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    OFF THE RECORD - Joly good joke

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    So disappointed was Channel 4 it only won one gong at comedy fest Montreux - and a bronze at that for Trigger Happy TV, despite three nominations - that nobody seemed

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    OFF THE RECORD - Angela's bashes

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    OTR assumed there had been a bit of a Montreux mix-up when BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon's PA - the fragrant Angela - showed up at ITV's dinner last weekend. But

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    OFF THE RECORD - Dawn inspection

    2000-05-12T00:00:00Z

    And finally to Channel 5, which was busy at Montreux plugging its forthcoming Naked week in June. During the general starkers gossip, some interesting factoids came to light - for example,

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    Ali G fans march on Channel 4

    2000-05-11T16:53:00Z

    Fans of Ali G marched on Channel 4 headquarters today demanding the return to the small screen of the cult spoof 'gangsta'. Youths calling themselves the 'Staines Massive' after Ali G's

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    Radio listening figures creep up

    2000-05-11T16:40:00Z

    Rajars show BBC stations bag 51 per cent share

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    BBC hit as council axes Music Live

    2000-05-11T16:01:00Z

    Liverpool council pulls out blaming poor ticket sales

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    Brits buoyant at Montreux festival

    2000-05-11T15:36:00Z

    But Belgians strike gold at comedy awards

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    Prix Italia launches web/multimedia awards category

    2000-05-11T15:28:00Z

    The Prix Italia extraordinary general assembly has approved the introduction of a third permanent section of the Prix Italia competition, dedicated to the web and multimedia, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The new category