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ACTION TIME PICKS MTV'S BEATON AS INTERNATIONAL HEAD
Action Time has appointed MTV Networks senior director international programme enterprises Caroline Beaton (right) as head of international and new business. Overseeing a team of six, Beaton's brief includes identifying new
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SUPER RTL BUYS STAKE IN BERLIN ANIMATION FUND
German family channel Super RTL has taken a 3 per cent stake as a 'strategic partner' in the $100 million (£61.9 million) Berlin Animation Fund. The fund was set up by
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GLOBAL CABLE TV SUBS TO RISE 64 PER CENT BY 2010
Global cable TV subscriptions are forecast to grow by 64 per cent to 429 million by 2010, according to a new report from Baskerville Communications.Of this total, the report forecasts that
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LOST ON EVEREST CLIMBS TO TOP BBC SALES HEIGHTS
Lost on Everest is set to become the BBC's most commercially successful single documentary, following a raft of international distribution and publishing deals worth an estimated£350,000 by BBC Worldwide. The
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EU CONSIDERS FOOTBALL RIGHTS' COMPETITION EXEMPTION
Deals giving broadcasters exclusive rights to football may be exempted from EU competition rules if some of the money raised is ploughed back into the game at a grassroots level. EU
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ELLIOTT MOVES TO CHRYSALIS DISTRIBUTION
Chrysalis Distribution has hired Chrysalis Visual Entertainment contracts executive Alexander Elliott to take on the same post.Elliott, 25, was drafted in by Chrysalis Distribution managing director Christina Willoughby to head legal
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FRENCH STATION M6 ADOPTS 52-MINUTE DRAMA FORMAT
French commercial terrestrial broadcaster M6 has decided to adopt the 52-minute format for drama. The news follows successful experiments with the format by France 2, France 3 and TF1.
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WORLDWIDE SPORTS SALES JOINS UP WITH LIBRARY SALES
The five-strong BBC Worldwide sports sales team is moving to become a part of BBC Library Sales. Worldwide sports sales has an annual turnover of more than£2 million and will
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Past master
Steve Humphries, who made C4 doc Green and Pleasant Land, is leaving the safety of minority TV to make a series for ITV. Jason Deans reports.
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Ray Fitzwalter
On why there is still hope for regional programming despite ITV's consolidation of power in London.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Start of something big?
In buying Minotaur, Flextech has gained a top-notch catalogue that includes teen drama Heartbreak High (above). But can the distributor help it crack the international market? Tara Conlan reports.
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OPINION - Government has a digital agenda
Warning: the Government may be trying to hijack digital TV. Two developments over the past week spell out more explicitly than ever the Government's agenda for digital.Last Friday, left-wing think-tank the
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INTERVIEW - Through the Mill
What went wrong at BBC Birmingham's Pebble Mill operation is no secret: its loss of three key series within 18 months was followed by the departure of more than 100 staff. Kate Marsh is charged with putting it all right.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - You only laugh twice
Reruns of BBC sitcoms that long since ceased production now regularly outperform the broadcaster's new lines. But is the Beeb in danger of riding the old warhorses to death?
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OFF THE RECORD - The great Bergg race
Universal surprise greeted news of David 'prince of darkness' Bergg's defection from ITV to Sky One. But perhaps we shouldn't have been so shocked at the latest move by the uberscheduler,
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OFF THE RECORD - Yorkshire Folk tales
Unlikely news reaches OTR from the good people of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, who are apparently adapting Channel 4's controversy-courting (surely 'hard-hitting'? ed) drama, Queer as Folk, for the stage. It
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OFF THE RECORD - Cliff top
OTR can exclusively reveal the real reason Cliff Richard managed to top the hit parade with his yuletide dirge, the Millennium Prayer. It was all down to BBC Wales, according to
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OFF THE RECORD - Cliff top two
Still with Sir Cliff, word has it he has become the most famous customer so far of that mountain of news clips and soundbites, the ITN Archive. Cliff, as readers will
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OFF THE RECORD - Soho hoedown
Undoubtedly the hottest party invite of the week was Granada big kahuna Simon Shaps' Christmas knees-up at Soho House, a shindig put on specially for the broadcaster's massive stable of talent.
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OFF THE RECORD - Name game
Fun and games at the snappily titled Nations & Regions conference in Leeds last week, where OTR's favourite gameshow host, Richard Whiteley, held a competition for the best name for a