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    News Corp, NTL on shortlist for DT cable

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    News Corp, Microsoft, NTL and United Pan Europe Communications (UPC) are among the companies still in the running to buy Deutsche Telekom's (DT) cable TV networks, according to German newspaper reports.DT

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    UPCtv rolls out seven niche cable channels

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    UPCtv, the programming arm of United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC), plans to roll out seven niche cable channels across western Europe and Scandinavia by the end of the year.Telekabel, UPC's Austrian cable

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    MURPHY QUITS TV3 'FOR PERSONAL REASONS'

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Michael Murphy, the director of programmes for Ireland's first commercial broadcaster, TV3, has left the company 'for personal reasons', according to a spokeswoman. Murphy, formerly Elmsdale Media director of programmes, put

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    DLT SELLS BENNY HILL SHOW TO USA BROADCASTING

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    UK indie producer/distributor DLT Entertainment has sold 111 x 30-minutes of The Benny Hill Show (left) to Barry Diller's USA Broadcasting Group, which owns 12 terrestrial stations in the US. USA

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    RED COLOBUS GEARS UP FOR LAUNCH OF TV BUCURESTI

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    UK-registered company Red Colobus is gearing up to launch terrestrial station TV Bucuresti in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, next summer. The channel, which is to be run by Chris Lowe and

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    ENDEMOL SELLS BIG BROTHER REALITY SOAP TO SBS

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Dutch producer/distributor Endemol Entertainment has sold its Big Brother reality soap format to SBS for transmission on the pan-European broadcaster's stations outside the Netherlands.Endemol has just posted a 20 per cent

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    ZONE VISION GRABS 50% STAKE IN DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    London-based niche channel producer and distributor Zone Vision Group has taken a 50 per cent stake in the European operations of action/adventure documentary channel QuesTV. The new partners are planning to

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    APTED TO SPEAK AT AUSSIE DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The Sixth Australian International Documentary Conference will play host to UK television practitioners including 42 Up director Michael Apted, in Adelaide from 2-6 November. Other UK executives attending the conference will

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    MTV JOINS PREMIERE WORLD TO DEVELOP MUSIC CHANNEL

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    MTV Networks Europe and Kirch-owned German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World have linked up to develop an exclusive music channel for the platform. Following the agreement, MTV and VH-1 will cease

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    Wonder years

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Shows like C4's Pornography prove that World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey is as at home with boned-up docs as pop ephemera, reports David Wood.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Keep it in the family?

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    With many of Auntie's most successful shows such as The Royle Family (above) now being produced by outside suppliers, Tim Dams asks why BBC Production is missing out.

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    OPINION - Content is king, the rest is detail

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Shorthand. We all use it and it's endemic to the TV and radio industries, just as all industries develop their own jargon. We write about Gavyn Davies and you realise we're

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    GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Here is the news, 2009

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    What will TV news look like in 10 years' time? With technology revolutionising the way news is gathered and delivered, our three-page special offers a few pointers.

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    GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Taking a hit

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The pictures may be blurry, unreliable and prone to freezing, but broadcasters will soon welcome the internet as a cheap and efficient way of distributing video, says Bob Eggington.

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    GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Brand new take

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Once regarded as the enemy of newsrooms, marketing makeovers have now become so commonplace even the BBC succumbed when updating its bulletins. But have editorial concerns taken a back seat, asks Andy Fry.

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    INTERVIEW - Keeper of the faith

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    News 24 and BBC World offered viewers a ringside seat at the Paddington rail disaster and the military coup in Pakistan, says Tim Orchard, as he makes the case for the BBC rolling news and global channels he runs.

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    OFF THE RECORD - News on the cheap

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations to the BBC's Fergal Keane - winner of the TV news gong at this year's Bayeux Awards for war correspondents. It was Keane's hard-hitting reports from Sierra Leone that impressed

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    OFF THE RECORD - Eat my shorts

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Shock news from Off The Record's favourite Christian radio station, Premier, which was proud to announce this month the hiring of a big-name presenter for one of its evangelical slots. Knowing

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    OFF THE RECORD - If you can't stand the heat ..

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Times are hard at Mentorn Barraclough Carey, which has auctioned off hundreds of items of cooking equipment after its daytime food show, Quisine (left), was cancelled by ITV. All MBC staff

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    OFF THE RECORD - If you can't stand ... (part 2)

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Criticism that there just aren't enough programmes around to justify the glut of awards ceremonies was surely laid to rest last week when it was announced that Blighty's very own Floyd