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    ARD OVERTAKES RTL AS MOST POPULAR GERMAN CHANNEL

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    German public broadcaster ARD overtook commercial network RTL to take the biggest share of overall viewing in 1998, helped by World Cup soccer coverage, according to commercial rival ProSieben. ARD, which

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    FRENCH KIDS' PRODUCER BERTHIER SNAPS UP TOON FACTORY

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    French children's producer Claude Berthier has acquired Paris-based animation studio Toon Factory from Total Oil. Following the takeover, Berthier plans to contribute up to 50 per cent financing to co-productions between

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    BURNS PACKS BAGS FOR PARIS AFTER NELVANA PROMOTION

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Patricia Burns, supervising producer at Nelvana's Toronto studio, has been promoted to vice-president, production, and will be relocating to the company's Paris office. In her new role Burns will oversee all

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    SIVEWRIGHT QUITS VIDEAL TO RETURN TO CHANNEL 4

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Claire Sivewright has left German programme financier Videal to return to Channel 4 in the UK, as senior business affairs executive overseeing factual and features. Sivewright, who was responsible for setting

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    THE COMMENT PAGE - Digital TV limps into the new year

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    It may be the start of a new year, but a familiar issue is certain to dog the broadcasting industry in the months that lie ahead.Only those with the most vested

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    COMMENT - TV trade gap is not a cause for concern

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    In a few days the UK's TV exporters head out to the US programme market Natpe for their ritual annual humiliation as US acquisition executives greet them with responses ranging from

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    ANALYSIS - Talking loud

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Since Kelvin MacKenzie took control Talk Radio has revamped its programming with the accent on sport. But will this be enough to bring the station into profit?

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    DIGITAL: HOW IS IT FOR YOU?

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a new series, On Digital's Stephen Grabiner believes the coming of digital will lead to a concentration of the market with no more than 20 pay channels lasting the pace.

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    Xmas leaves Eric and Ernie behind

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    If you're lucky, Christmas starts at the beginning of December and works itself up to a last-minute frenzy with a mad dash around the shops on Christmas Eve when the fighting

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    1999 - THE YEAR AHEAD - The big noises of ninety-nine

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    What lies in store for the UK broadcast sector in 1999? As the BBC readies itself for life post-Birt, ITV pins its hopes on a new schedule and Channel 4 goes on the offensive, Broadcast weighs up the challenges facing the industry in the year ahead.

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    1999 - THE YEAR AHEAD - Virtual insanity

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    John Dugdale offers a satirical view of the pre-millennial madness that will shake the broadcasting establishment. Brace yourself for X-Rated Baz, the relaunch of R1 as a rolling news service and Carlton as Trimdon Working Men's Club.

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    PROFILE - Rebel fights for C4 cause

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    From the unlikely beginnings of a Trotskyite children's union, Jim Gray has risen to become ITN's head of Channel 4 News. In the week of the show's relaunch, what are his plans for its future?

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    RATINGS

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Soap stars as lookalikes proved a sensational recipe for ITV on Wednesday. Its Stars in Their Eyes Celebrity Special grabbed the best rating for light entertainment on an ordinary week-night since

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    RATINGS - TX

    1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

    REWINDProducers: Children’s BBC/British PatheBroadcaster: BBC 1 and BBC 2Start: 17.30, 5 JanuaryLength: 100 x 90-secondsCommissioned by Peter SalmonProducer/director: Eric RowanRarely has so much painstaking work gone into a series of such