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    NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - CNN rejects Kosovo compromise charge

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    CNN president of international networks Eason Jordan has angrily rejected claims that the broadcaster made journalistic compromises in order to gain top-level access to governments, writes John Plunkett.

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    NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - Purvis backs TV bulletins

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis launched a passionate defence of traditional TV news bulletins, claiming they had kept their audience 'rather better' than terrestrial TV as a whole.In a debate on

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    NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - BARCELONA IN BRIEF: NEWS WORLD SOUNDBITES

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    'No self-respecting businessman can operate without a PR man telling him what to say.' Lord (Tim) Bell, chairman of Bell Pottinger'The internet. In two years' time you are never going to

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    KIND RETURNS TO 4MC UK TO RUN STREAM DIGITAL MEDIA

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    4MC UK, the recently formed company created by the mergers of independent facilities TVP Group and TVI, has lured back its former technical manager Paul Kind to head DVD arm Stream

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    EX-TELE-CINE MAINTENANCE HEAD SMITH JOINS COMPLETE

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Facility house Complete has appointed former Tele-Cine head of maintenance Colin Smith as its new chief engineer and technology director. Smith, who spent 14 years at Tele-Cine, replaces former technology director

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    NEWS CORP TO FLOAT 20 PER CENT OF NDS

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    News Corp is to spin off a minority stake in its UK-based conditional access and electronics subsidiary NDS. News Corp intends to float 20 per cent of the business on both

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    RTS AWARD FOR INNOVATION GOES TO PHILIPS SPECTER

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Philips Specter Datacine has won the Royal Television Society award for innovative applications. Philips beat nominations from Autocue and BSkyB to win the award, which was presented at a ceremony on

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    GEARHOUSE DENIES TAKEOVER AS SHARES SOAR

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Gearhouse was forced to deny it is in talks about a possible takeover of the company after speculation sent its share price up by 10 per cent.However, the company's denial did

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    HEWITT AND HODGSON JOIN IN KEMISTRY EXPANSION

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Kemistry is expanding its new media business by appointing Guy Hewitt as business development director and Elinor Hodgson as new media producer.Hewitt joins after running his own commercial presentation company. Hodgson

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    Liberty plans internet strategy

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Liberty Media plans to build a network of post-production companies to provide a digital infrastructure to support future internet and broadband services, according to vice-president David Beddow.Speaking only days after Liberty's

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    Pacy moves in for Appleton at Clever

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    WPP subsidiary Clever Group has parted company with chief executive Stuart Appleton as part of a move to restructure the company, which will eventually group WPP's diverse facilities interests into a

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    Quantel and Omnibus link up to develop Inspiration

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Quantel has signed a development and marketing deal with news station automation specialist Omnibus.The alliance, announced at last week's News World Conference in Barcelona, will focus on technical development, sales and

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    Avid cuts Unity price to attract smaller facilities

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Avid technology is dropping the price of its Unity media networking system in an attempt to kick-start sales to smaller facilities.In a campaign redolent of its disastrous summer promotion for AVBV-based

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    GMG and Seven in joint-venture talks

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media Group and Australia's Seven Network are in talks about a joint-venture production outfit to create programming for the Australian and international markets.The venture is intended to operate as an

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    X-Dream to break out of Europe

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    UK broadcaster, distributor and producer X-Dream International has secured a $70 million (£43 million) investment deal to back the launch of its European Extreme Sports Channel into South America and Asia,

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    Distributors join forces for Sithengi

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Seven UK distributors are joining forces to boost UK sales to the South African market at the Sithengi film and TV market in Cape Town this month (November 16-19), writes Liz

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    Flashback wins A&E job for war machines series

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Flashback Television has picked up a commission from A&E Television Networks' The History Channel for a 4 x 60-minute series, Battle Stations, writes Tim Dams.The series examines the machines that proved

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    NEWS CORP AND BT CONSIDER TAKING CONTROL OF VIVENDI

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    News Corp and BT are considering a joint move to take control of Vivendi, according to newspaper reports. The French utilities and media giant made its own predatory move on BSkyB,

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    PRICE RANGE FOR FOX KIDS EUROPE FLOTATION REVEALED

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids Europe is to be floated at between )10.50 (£6.74) and )13.50 (£8.66) per share when it is offered on the Amsterdam stock market on 18 November. Fox Kids Europe

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    NAT GEO/CARLTON VENTURE FINISHES FIVE WILDLIFE DOCS

    1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

    National Geographic Channel's Program Enterprises Group (NGT-PET) has wrapped production on five projects focusing on conservation, all produced under the channel's joint-venture with Carlton Television. Under the deal, signed in April