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News Analysis - Changing its digital tune
Although it has been little publicised, BBC chiefs are in the midst of a comprehensive overhaul of their digital TV output. Tim Dams asks whether upping the tempo will get more coins in the hat.
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Opinion - BBC's critics look after number one
This editorial requires a brief justification: a defence of why we're writing about the BBC yet again. The corporation faces one of the biggest tests of its history as the government
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Indie Business - A pitch is worth 1000 words
You've worked for weeks on your idea, now you have just minutes to sell it. Below, commissioning editors tell Georgina Lipscomb what they look for in a pitch while, right, programme-makers discuss their attempts to become salesmen.
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Indie Business - The whole picture
In the competitive world of modern television, the way you pitch an idea for a programme has become almost as important as what you are pitching. Peter Keighron offers a step-by-step guide to mastering the hard sell.
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Interview - The Red invasion
Nicola Shindler set up Manchester-based independent Red Productions in 1998 with an impressive list of drama credits behind her, including Our Friends in the North and Hillsborough. Two years on, the company is thriving.
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APE-MANProducer: BBC scienceBroadcaster: BBC 2Start: 21.00, 22 FebruaryLength: 6 x 50-minutesCommissioned by: John LynchExecutive producer: Deputy head of BBC science John LynchSeries producer: Philip MartinIn the footsteps of The Human Body
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Off the Record - Nary a kilt to be seen
Would-be spotters of the Loch Ness monster got more than they bargained for recently, if an upcoming show on Channel 5 is anything to go by. The show, ambiguously entitled the
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Off the Record - Highs and lows
Off The Record was as pleased as the next man (and his name's Gary Lineker) that the Beeb has given Match of the Day a regular 22.30 slot, as opposed to
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Off the Record - It's how you see it
OTR is glad to report another famous victory for free speech, after 12 malcon-tents complained about the posters for the Channel 4-funded movie, East Is East. The complainants took offence at
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Off the Record - Boyle lanced
Commiserations to outgoing BBC Radio 4 grand fromage James Boyle (right), who missed out on the top job at the British Library, which was given to a librarian. What were they
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Off the Record - Sock shock
Staffers at BBC's much-maligned News 24 might want to check what their new managing editor Peter Knowles is wearing on his feet. OTR only mentions this after an intriguing tale reached
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Off the Record - News hounds
Shock news from OTR's favourite leisure and listings website, Flextech-owned Scene One, which reports that people in Britain watch a lot of TV. Hold the back page! 'The results of the
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Off the Record - Facilities news
Rumours that ITV's Year of Promise charity non-event is rapidly going down the pan were completely flushed out of the system this week when the campaign's latest supporter was revealed -
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Root axes two more BBC 2 factual strands
Closure of long-running shows comes as channel controller fends off criticism of entertainment bias
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Sky News' founding presenter quits channel
Abrupt departure linked to contract negotiations say insiders
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Kaufman urged to probe SMG's Grampian coverage
ITV inquiry pressed to consider whether regional content has suffered since Grampian merger with Scottish Media Group
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Oniya parts company with Carlton
Multicultural programmes chief Dele Oniya quits broadcaster to focus on own production outfit