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OFF THE RECORD - Birt down on the canvas
Off The Record was shocked to see that the BBC is spending the thick end of£15,000 on a portrait of everyone's favourite out-going director general, Sir John Birt. We are
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OFF THE RECORD - Airey bashing
Let's hope Dawn Airey hasn't already sent her Christmas cards out this year, because she just might want to take Will Wyatt off her list after he gave her a bit
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OFF THE RECORD - Capital punishment
In what must surely rank as one of the most desperate (surely ground-breaking? Ed) marketing ploys of the new millennium, Capital Radio has hired 40 London cab drivers to drone on
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OFF THE RECORD - Salmon floats like a butterfly
Readers who missed the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century must be kicking themselves, for this was public service broadcasting at its best.Not only that, but as The Sun showed us
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OFF THE RECORD - Triumph communicates
OTR's John Birt award for plain speaking goes to the good people of TV news agency APTN. The chaps at Associated Press really came up trumps with a release hailing a
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NewsMultiplatform distribution is media's 'biggest challenge'
Distribution models, funding and creativity are the biggest challenges for broadcasters seeking to work across different platforms and with other media companies, according to a survey commissioned by Broadcast.
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South Asian VoD set to launch in UK
A video-on-demand service for the UK's 2.2 million South Asians, featuring content from broadcasters such as Star, Sony and Zee TV, is set to launch by the end of this year.
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Zattoo gets 2m downloads
Two million people have downloaded the Zattoo multichannel media player ahead of its full UK launch.
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Full launch for Blinkbox
TV and film download and social networking site blinkbox.com has added an ad-supported TV channel that will screen entire episodes of shows.
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ITV archive shows on iTunes
ITV is to offer archive shows including Inspector Morse and Cold Feet on Apple's iTunes.
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BT Vision to air new films
BT's on-demand service BT Vision is to offer movies including Atonement and The Bourne Ultimatum on Picture Box, a subscription channel developed with Universal Pictures.
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NewsITV1 between a Rock and a hard place
ITV1's troubled drama series Rock Rivals came to a close last night with a meagre 2.4m viewers (9.9%) in its high profile 9pm slot.
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NewsTV critics 24 April '08
'... this felt like a history lesson for the Facebook generation'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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NewsRDF and Clements settle dispute
RDF Media and Alan Clements have settled their long-running dispute, with the former IWC creative director now free to join a competitor from 15 September this year.
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NewsClements to join STV in the autumn
Update: Former IWC creative director Alan Clements will join STV as director of content, it has confirmed.
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NewsMBO offer for RDF
RDF, the indie behind hit Channel 4 show Wife Swap, may be taken private after a consortium including its management team made an indicative cash proposal for all of the company's shares.
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NewsExcelsior takes ITV to court
A Touch of Frost indie Excelsior Group Productions has issued a multi-million pound claim against ITV in the High Court of Justice today (24 April) over unpaid royalties.
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NewsSpeculation mounts over RDF backers
All3Media and Cyrte Investments, the investment vehicle owned by John De Mol, are being tipped as the most likely backers for the RDF management buy out bid.
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NewsPaul Watson: I did not intend to deceive
Documentary maker Paul Watson has claimed that ITV turned down his initial offer to clarify that his film Malcolm & Barbara: Love's Farewelldid not portray the actual moment of Malcolm Pointon's death. [ALL]