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    Omnibus expands into rentals

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Omnibus Systems is expanding into the equipment rental business - hiring out complete automated transmission systems, writes Nick Radlo.Priced from around£30,000, Eclipse is a complete automated transmission system controlling the

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    Liberty to acquire control of Todd AO

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    John Malone's Liberty Media Corporation is acquiring control of US facilities group Todd AO less than two months after the US post-production group said it was looking to sell or merge

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    Winners of the inaugural Rushes Soho Shorts film festival were announced last Friday (30 July). Director Ed Fraiman won the Directors' Guild newcomers award for Nurse Ajax (above). The Innovation TK

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Winners of the inaugural Rushes Soho Shorts film festival were announced last Friday (30 July). Director Ed Fraiman won the Directors' Guild newcomers award for Nurse Ajax (above). The Innovation TK

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    Salmon unleashes Resources revamp

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources' new chief executive, Margaret Salmon, has revamped the directorate's senior management team following the departures of head of strategy Olivier Garrigue and acting director of operations John Lightfoot last

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    Canal+ on brink of Italian pay-TV deal

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Canal+ is on the verge of completing a deal to sell stakes in its Italian pay-TV subsidiary Tele+ to investors including telecoms operator Wind, according to a newspaper report.The agreement being

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    Bravo buys Smack the Pony

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 International (C4I) has sold TalkBack Productions' all-female sketch show, Smack The Pony, to US cable channel Bravo, writes Wale Azeez.The deal for the 7 x 30-minute series, which has

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    Worldwide snaps up Hy Gardner's celebrity archive

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has bought the library of the late US journalist Hy Gardner, who interviewed many of the biggest showbusiness names from the 1950s to the 1970s, writes Ashley Davies.The Hy

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    World View - Sandy George in Sydney

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Serious concerns have emerged about how domestic shifts in Australian children's drama production will have an impact on export potential and the survival of indigenous producers.The change likely to have the

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    Meyer takes the helm at Warner Bros

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin has promoted head of Warner Bros' TV operations Barry Meyer to become chairman and chief executive of the studio.Meyer, who as Warner Bros executive vice-president and

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    Exit of Seven chief rocks Aussie broadcasting

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    The Australian broadcasting industry was caught off guard on Friday (30 July) by the shock resignation of Seven Network chief executive Julian Mounter after less than a year in the job.

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    Target lands Nine Network drama Pacific Drive

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Target Distribution has beaten off UK and Australian competition to secure international rights to Nine Network's drama series, Pacific Drive.The deal gives Target access to 360 x 30-minute episodes of the

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    Gaumont to sell TV stake to President

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Gaumont is to sell a majority share of TV production/distribution subsidiary Gaumont Television to the outfit's president, Christian Charret. Gaumont is still looking to sell its remaining stake in the TV

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    Nelvana takes on Laughton to head London arm

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Canadian producer/distributor Nelvana has hired Cathy Laughton, director of international television distribution at the Jim Henson Company and former international distribution manager for Hit Entertainment, to be managing director of its

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    Trade Talk - Popular front

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    John Sullivan, who penned BBC comedy classics such as Citizen Smith and Only Fools and Horses, is taking his talent to ITV. Tina Mistry asks why.

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    Trade Talk -

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    On the threat posed to the lucrative kids' advertising market by the upcoming Swedish presidency of the EU.

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    News Analysis - Preferential treatment

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    When Channel 4 wrote to indies recently it looked as if a preferred supplier system was on the cards. Wale Azeez reports on the growth of two-tier commissioning in broadcasting.

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    Opinion - Viewers must see what fee pays for

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    By the time you read this, Gavyn Davies' report into the BBC's future funding will have been published. And all the signs are that, after digesting a myriad of weird and

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    Succession Planning - One day all this will be yours

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Because many independents are so closely identified with their founding members, outfits can be vulnerable if they leave. In the first of a new series of exploring business issues faced by indies, Peter Keighron looks at succession.

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    Eclipse - Covering the eclipse

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    The UK's broadcasters have taken different approaches to the country's first solar eclipse since 1927. While the BBC is offering extensive live coverage of the event on television and radio, ITV will rely on ITN for updates.

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    Interview - Live and kicking

    1999-08-06T00:00:00Z

    'Less talk, more music' is controller Roger Wright's blueprint for success at Radio 3. His new-look schedule rolls out this month but how will these orchestral manoeuvres go down with the station's demanding audience?