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TWAMLEY TO RED DRAGON
Capital Radio has appointed Paul Twamley as the non-executive chairman of its Welsh radio group, Red Dragon Radio. Twamley is currently group finance director at utility company Hyder and a non-executive
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REVISED LICENCE INVITED
The Independent Television Commission has published a revised invitation to apply for non-exclusive local delivery licences to provide TV services over cable networks. It was updated after Telewest asked for all
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OVERTON TO HOST GLR SLOT
Former Talk Radio breakfast show presenter Bill Overton is to co-host the same slot for BBC London regional station GLR 94.9FM. Overton will present the show with Clare McDonnell on the
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NEW ECLIPSE STATION
A new radio station for the south-west will launch on 26 July to cover the eclipse and the numerous summer music festivals in the area. Eclipse FM will be run on
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Gay drama drew most sex complaints to BSC
The first episode of Channel 4's Queer As Folk drew more complaints than any other programme in the past year, according to the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC).A total of 110 people
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Century set for further expansion
Border Television unveiled plans for further expansion of its Century Radio brand on Monday (12 July), as it announced that total turnover for the group had risen by one quarter to£19.9 million for the year to 30 April, writes John Plunkett.
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Borland made new festival director
Ros Borland, former commercial manager, drama at BBC Worldwide, has been named as the new director of international co-production conference Sharing Stories.Borland will succeed Dianne Muirhead, who announced she was stepping
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Disney Channel UK's autumn schedule will launch on 1 September with a new graphics package created by French production company Gedeon. The idents, set to roll out to other parts of
Disney Channel UK's autumn schedule will launch on 1 September with a new graphics package created by French production company Gedeon. The idents, set to roll out to other parts of
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Half of commercial radio yet to have bug appraisals
Half of the country's 300 independent radio stations have no idea if they are millennium bug-compliant, according to government watchdog Action 2000, writes Lucy Rouse.
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ISO directed and produced the titles for Life Support, a new medical drama for BBC 1. Damien Smith and Clyde Lawson employed new software on the 2D graphic sequence to mimic
ISO directed and produced the titles for Life Support, a new medical drama for BBC 1. Damien Smith and Clyde Lawson employed new software on the 2D graphic sequence to mimic
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Diverse Design created the title sequence to sister company Diverse North's series, Love in Leeds. Designed by Steve Picard, the retro disco lights and mirror balls were composited with colour-saturat
Diverse Design created the title sequence to sister company Diverse North's series, Love in Leeds. Designed by Steve Picard, the retro disco lights and mirror balls were composited with colour-saturated footage
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Framestore was brought in to composite the title sequence to Adam Curtis' new documentary, The Mayfair Set. The work, designed by Bernard Heyes, combines archive 16mm film from the 1960s with
Framestore was brought in to composite the title sequence to Adam Curtis' new documentary, The Mayfair Set. The work, designed by Bernard Heyes, combines archive 16mm film from the 1960s with
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Elstein urges BBC to launch pay-TV
The BBC should launch its own pay-TV film and sports channels, according to Channel 5 chief executive David Elstein, who was recently a candidate for the director general's job.Discussing The Next
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BBC is 'putting digital at risk'
Michael Green, chairman of Carlton Communications and On Digital, has accused the BBC of putting the future of digital terrestrial television (DTT) at risk by allowing its channels to be available
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Men & Motors job given to Hamilton
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSkyB) has appointed Ian Hamilton to take over from Suzan Price as editor of programmes for men's lifestyle channel Men & Motors, writes Liz Shackleton.
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Edinburgh One to One
Senior commissioning executives from four of the five terrestrial channels and Sky One have been lined up to appear at the 1999 Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival's Controller One to One strand, writes Tim Dams.
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CLEAN SWEEP FOR DVCPRO IN SCANDINAVIA
Panasonic is claiming all the leading Scandinavian TV networks as customers for its DVCPro digital tape format following the recent addition of Danmarks Radio (DR) to its roster. The Danish TV
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NewsAntony Cotton gets lowest audience yet
The teatime series that ITV1 hoped would raise its ratings fortunes, That Antony Cotton Show, slipped to its lowest audience yet yesterday with an audience below 1.1m viewers and a share of just 10.4%. [ALL]
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DVB PROJECT ACCEPTS USE OF DOLBY AUDIO FOR DIGITAL TV
Following pressure from some of the countries that are considering the adoption of the DVB system for their digital television services, the DVB Project has officially accepted that the Dolby Digital
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OPTEX WINS EMMY FOR AURASOFT SOFTLIGHT
Optical and lighting manufacturer OpTex has won an Engineering Emmy from the US Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its development of the Aurasoft softlight. The award follows a similar