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Hard Choice
Last week Choice FM celebrated a second London licence. But it was just reward for the resilience of boss Patrick Berry, says Tina Mistry.
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Digital TV feels a buzz
FilmFour, the channel that brought you Trainspotting, celebrates its first birthday next month. But what lessons can be drawn for other channels hoping to emulate its success, asks John Plunkett.
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OPINION - Stumping up for the public good
Across the industry, final flourishes are being put to submissions to the Department of Culture, Media & Sport in response to Gavyn Davies' mixed bag of proposals. The BBC is publicly
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CABLE TV - Cable ties itself up in knots
The ITC's controversial ban on minimum carriage requirements has led to growing tension in the cable industry with channel providers complaining of falling penetration, says Louise Bateman. Right, the growth of the European players.
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INTERVIEW - The story teller
Nick Fraser has tackled an impressive range of subjects as editor of flagship BBC 2 documentary strand Storyville. Despite this, his hunger for commissioning films that tell a gripping tale remains undiminished.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Gilt-edged Bond
ITV's highly successful 00 Heaven season masks an awkward fact for broadcasters - Hollywood blockbusters are failing to pull in the punters in the numbers they used to.
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Off the Record - Canned
The UK's reputation as a world force in sport took another hammering last week at Mipcom in Cannes. In the now regular UK broadcasters versus Hollywood majors footie fixture the Brits
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Off the Record - Puppy love
The old maxim 'don't work with children or animals' held true at the Mipcom launch of Yap - a doco partnership between Yorkshire TV and Canada's Associated Producers on the Soho
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Off the Record - Mistaken identity
We couldn't possibly leave Cannes without paying homage to the splendid Mipcom News Daily, which kept Off The Record chuckling all week with its constant stream of press handouts masquerading as
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Off the Record - On the right track
The industry's breath is bated for BBC director general designate Greg Dyke's first public pronouncement - at The Spectator/Zurich lecture next month. Naturally readers will not need reminding that while outgoing
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Off the Record - Millionaire blow
No-one was more impressed than OTR by Chris Evans' ground-breaking quiz idea to give away a million quid. If only those chaps at Celador, makers of ITV's Who Wants To Be
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Off the Record - Power dresses
No surprises at the top of a Good Housekeeping list of the 100 most influential women in the UK last week, with one Liz Murdoch top and Pearson big kahuna Marjorie
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Bannister drafts in Production fixer
BBC Production has expanded its senior management team, drafting in Michele Romaine to the new position of director of production.Romaine, currently BBC News head of production, continuous news, will report directly to BBC
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BBC keeps a grip on indies' rights
New figures from the BBC reveal that since the corporation's latest terms of trade for independent producers were introduced in April 1997, just 4 per cent of deals have resulted in indies retaining
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Fifty posts at risk as Carlton gets ready to axe pay-TV channels
Up to 50 jobs could be lost at Carlton Communications as a result of its plans to ditch three of its pay-TV channels, according to sources, writes John Plunkett.
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McKeown backs net distributor itstv.com
TV producer and SelecTV founder Allan McKeown is backing the launch of a new internet-based TV programming distributor, itstv.com, writes Jason Deans.
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United bags BBC drama
The BBC has commissioned what is believed to be its first-ever drama series from an ITV company, writes Steve Clarke.
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C4 BUYS NEW SOPRANOS AND SEX AND THE CITY SERIES
Channel 4 has acquired the two latest series of HBO shows The Sopranos (left) and Sex and the City, as well as signing up the first series of controversial new Columbia TriStar comedy
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WHERE THE HEART IS GOES INTO PRODUCTION FOR FOURTH RUN
Filming has begun on a fourth series of United Productions' Where the Heart Is for ITV. The 16 x 60-minute drama series is scheduled to air in spring 2000. The series' executive producers
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ISAACS LOOKS AT LIFE AND MUSIC OF POULENC FOR BBC 2
Jeremy Isaacs Productions is making a 50-minute music and arts special about the life and music of Francis Poulenc for BBC 2. The programme, starring soprano Felicity Lott and featuring pianist Graham Johnson, was