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RADIO SPECIAL - A sounder system for radio?
Rajar's new system for measuring radio audiences promises greater accuracy for broadcasters and advertisers alike. But what does it tell us about future trends, asks Julian Lee. Graham Mytton, assesses future research tools.
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RADIO SPECIAL - Growing pains
The BBC does not air any radio shows for people under 15 - a situation that Children 2000 wants rectified.
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INTERVIEW - A passion for radio
Jenny Abramsky has been far from idle since she succeeded Matthew Bannister as BBC director of radio. But how will her review of commissioning - which, she says, will let creatives create - go down with the industry?
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OFF THE RECORD - A tight squeeze
Word reaches Off The Record of some unfortunate goings-on at BBC TV Centre, where a daytime talk show about agoraphobia and claustrophobia was being recorded. The show, which OTR understands was
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OFF THE RECORD - Lollies suck
Channel 5's Pepsi Chart host Dr Fox bit off more than he could chew on last week's show interviewing the latest teenage singing sensation, Lolly.The leathery-skinned presenter was naturally curious as
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OFF THE RECORD - Breakfast for two
Remember Phil Collins' stamina-busting dash from Wembley to Philadelphia to play in two concerts for Live Aid? Well, that was nothing compared to breakfast DJs Tony James and Jo Lewis, who
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OFF THE RECORD - The fine art of complaining
Producers who are pissed off with their programmes being shifted around the schedules of BBC 1 and ITV at a moment's notice should follow the example of OTR's favourite Manhattan cable
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OFF THE RECORD - Snap happy
Delegates at this week's Radio Festival in Cardiff are being armed with cameras disguised as radios in a cunning wheeze by Digital One and BBC Digital Radio. Festival-goers are being encouraged
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OFF THE RECORD - You're nicked
Headline of the week goes to the beautiful people of Channel 5. Accompanying the press release about their new docu-soap, Chopper Coppers - the thrilling tale of police officers chasing bad
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OFF THE RECORD - Praise the Lord for television
It's not often we have the privilege of featuring the Pope on the back page, but here is His Holiness himself receiving a top-notch Snell and Wilco CVR45 standards converter.A what?
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OFF THE RECORD - =. DUTY LOG
This week's round-up of incoming calls is from Talk Radio. Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...A stressful caller: 'Stress is a reaction to technology.
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Simons quits ITN's new-look LNR
London News Radio (LNR) programme director John Simons has quit a week after ITN took editorial control of its two stations, LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3 FM.Simons was to
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C4 launches raid on US with drama
Channel 4's drama department is spearheading an assault on the US market and is on the verge of signing deals to co-produce American versions of two of its UK dramas.C4 wants
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Sullivan out of BBC 1's Copperfield
BBC 1 has overhauled its£4 million adaptation of David Copperfield, dropping Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan and shifting the production from BBC entertainment into BBC drama, writes Tim Dams.
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Lygo heads search for animation
Channel 4 has created a new animation team under the auspices of Kevin Lygo's entertainment department as part of a drive to find a peaktime, British-made animated sitcom, writes Tim Dams.
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SKY ONE DRAWS UP SUMMER ANIMATION STRAND
Sky One is introducing a two-hour summer weekday animation strand, Animaktion, to go out for six weeks from Monday 26 July between 08.00 and 10.00. The line-up, which replaces Sky One's
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ALL-STAR CAST FOR LUCY SULLIVAN IS GETTING MARRIED
Letitia Dean, Sarah Stockbridge, Frances Tomelty and Niall Buggy have been cast in the 16 x 30-minute drama series Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, which independent Carnival TV is producing for
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UNITED SIGNED FOR ITV2 FOOTBALL FIRST CONTRACT
ITV2 has commissioned United Productions to make a second series of football news programme Football First to go out at the start of the new season in August. The series will
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INITIAL TO PRODUCE ECLIPSE CONCERT SPECIAL FOR C4
GMG Endemol Entertainment subsidiary Initial is to produce a 60-minute concert special, Lynx Voodoo Eclipse, for Channel 4. The concert is being staged on 11 August to mark the solar eclipse
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R2 TO AIR CELEBRATION OF SINGING COWBOYS
BBC Radio 2 is to air a 4 x 30-minute series commemorating the great cowboy songs and singers of the silver screen. The Singing Cowboys, which is produced by BBC music