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OFF THE RECORD - A bug's rife
The millennium bug has struck early at ITV. It would appear that gremlins have been at work in the network centre's newly installed 'labels database' (sounds fascinating), resulting in a cock-up
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OFF THE RECORD - Trolley rage
Anybody contemplating the horrors of Christmas shopping will have sympathy for locals in Acton, west London where Richmond Films & Television is currently shooting ITV comedy pilot Privates, starring Brian Conley.
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OFF THE RECORD - Derailed
OTR was grateful to receive a bumper Beeb press pack about the week of programmes on the rail industry, with the puntastic title of Track Record (below). The series will seek
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OFF THE RECORD - Caught in the web
There's not much that Illuminations boss John Wyver doesn't know about the new frontier of high-tech telly. He claims to be the first programme-maker to use the term 'internet' on British
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - In the beginning ..
Broadcast began life as Television Mail in August 1959. Martin Jackson examines the news and personalities covered in that first issue and explains how it moved from gossipy trade mag to serious debating forum.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - TV moves into the modern age
Rod Allen, editor of Television Mail/Broadcast from 1967 to 1978, looks back to a time when ITV entered the modern age with the licence-renewal process and when the idea of a fourth channel was first mooted.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - Broadcast's golden era
Patti Williams, editor of Broadcast from 1978 to 1984, recalls the exciting years of the early eighties, when the launch of Channel 4 opened up new sources of revenue for the magazine and saw its readership double in two years.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - Peacock brings less cosy world
Martin Jackson, editor and publisher of Broadcast between 1985 and 1992, recalls how the Peacock inquiry, first set up to examine the future of the licence fee, had an epoch-shaping effect on the ITV franchises.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - Competitive advantages
While the television landscape has undergone radical changes in the past few years, Broadcast has continued to enjoy its monopoly position, maintaining a key role within an increasingly competitive industry, writes Steve Clarke.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - Visions of the future
Over the next five pages, broadcasting heavyweights predict how the sector will look in five years' time. Digitisation, a new Broadcasting Act and monumental change will revolutionise the industry.
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - THE FUTURE - Visions of the future
MICHAEL GREEN - chairman of Carlton CommunicationsPredicting change in the media is a mug's game, but here goes.In five years' time, almost every home in the country will have at least
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40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - THE FUTURE - The view ahead
How will television viewing change over the next 10 years? Channel 5 head of scheduling Ashley Hill and consultant Budd Margolis got together with Broadcast 1959-1999 to identify the key areas of concern.
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Hilary quits ICG for US cable channel
BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) head Bill Hilary has resigned to join US cable station Comedy Central as general manager and executive vice-president.Hilary is expected to take up the position on
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Sharman bounces back home to Sky
Channel 4 controller of sport Mark Sharman is to return to BSkyB as its new director of broadcasting just one year after he quit the satellite broadcaster to join C4, writes
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Worldwide in talks on£450m ventures
The BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is negotiating private-sector partnerships worth£450 million, covering programmes, publications, the internet and other services.Senior executives are understood to have been negotiating the deals for
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C4 unveils interactive love triangle
Channel 4's independent film and video department is to launch what it claims will be an antidote to the docu-soap next month, with an interactive TV documentary about a marriage break-up,
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C4 ORDERS SECOND SERIES OF COMEDY SPACED
Channel 4 comedy has been re-commissioned for a second 7 x 30-minute series Spaced (left). Ordered by deputy commissioning editor, entertainment Cheryl Taylor, it will again be written by Simon Pegg
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CLERKENWELL FILMS PRODUCES BRACE OF ITV DRAMAS
Production started in Edinburgh this week (15 November) on two ITV dramas adapted from Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels - Black and Blue and The Hanging Garden. The films are being
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SPARKLING PRODUCTIONS TO MAKE UK STYLE TRAVEL SERIES
UK Style channel editor Andrew Lowrey has commissioned Crewless, a 5 x 50-minute documentary series based on five travellers, from independent Sparkling Productions. Five unknowns were given digital video cameras to
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CAPITAL RADIO GOES LIVE AT HOME FOR FORTNIGHTLY SHOW
Capital Radio is to launch a fortnightly two-hour live music show from the newly opened superclub, Home, in Leicester Square. The show, Capital@Home, will air every other week on Sundays from