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NewsBusiness leaders slam 'self-serving' TV industry
RTS Convention:Business leaders invited to talk about the TV industry have accused broadcasters of putting the audience second to their own interests. [ALL]
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Blue Peter undergoes makeover
Long-running BBC children's series Blue Peter is to get its first major makeover in more than five years when a new-look show goes on air on Monday (13 September), writes Dominic Timms.
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C5 picks CLT chief as chair
CLT-Ufa president and chief executive Remy Sautter has been named as Greg Dyke's replacement as chairman of Channel 5, writes Tina Mistry.
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BBC AND EUROSPORT SIGN£28M DEAL TO COVER EURO RUGBY
BBC Sport has secured the exclusive live rights to broadcast the European Rugby Cup in partnership with British Eurosport in a four-year deal worth£28 million. Previously with BSkyB, matches will
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OPEN KEEPS QUIET OVER FLOTATION TALKS
Digital interactive TV consortium Open has refused to comment on speculation that it may float on the stock market with a valuation of between£1.4 billion and£2.4 billion if it
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APTN TO COVER TUC CONFERENCE FOR BBC 2
APTN Productions, the business television arm of Associated Press Television News, has won the commission to produce coverage of the Trades Union Congress, to be broadcast on BBC 2 from 13
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STEWART TRADES IN LIBERTY FOR CHRYSALIS ROLE
Chrysalis Radio has poached Adrian Stewart from Liberty Radio to become deputy programme director of midlands-based 100.7 Heart fm. Stewart, 36, was head of music and operations manager at Liberty for
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BBC SCOTLAND FILLS UNIT TO COVER NEW PARLIAMENT
BBC Scotland has completed the line-up of its newly formed parliamentary unit presenting team to cover events from the new Scottish parliament.John Morrison, currently BBC Scotland's European correspondent, joins as chief
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UNITED REVAMPS HTV BOARD STRUCTURE
United Broadcasting & Entertainment has announced a series of changes in the board structure of HTV. The board has been enlarged to encompass the interests of both Wales and the west
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NewsSky One to air Champions League games
Sky is to show Champions League football matches live on Sky One this season for the first time due to a record number of British sides qualifying for the group stages of the tournament. [ALL]
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DODD TO HEAD BBC NEWS ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS CENTRE
BBC News has unveiled plans to create an economics and business centre to house 100 journalists reporting for TV, radio and online. Based alongside the BBC's London newsgathering operation, it will
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FAY TO OVERSEE YEAR OF PROMISE FOR CARLTON
Carlton has appointed Colin Fay as senior producer of ITV's millennium initiative, Year of Promise. The scheme will ask people to make their mark on the year 2000 by making and
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C4 BAGS CRICKET RIGHTS
Channel 4 has secured the rights to show Test cricket highlights of England's forthcoming winter tour of South Africa. Coverage will include the five-match series against South Africa plus highlights of
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PROFITS UP AT ALLCROFT
Britt Allcroft announced a record profits performance for the year ending 30 June 1999. Pre-tax profits shot up 60 per cent to£4.88 million on a 25 per cent increase in
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BBC WANTS MORE SPORT
The BBC is launching a new social action campaign to encourage people to get involved in sport. Called Get Your Kit On!, the campaign follows recent BBC action campaigns Fighting Fat,
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NewsDigital UK strives to raise switchover awareness
Digital UK, the body charged with promoting digital switchover, is to kick off an£8m national awareness raising campaign this week designed to inform the public about their place in the switchover timetable. [ALL]
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CE Digital scoops London multiplex
The hotly contested London digital radio multiplex has been awarded by the Radio Authority to the joint-venture between Capital Radio and Emap Radio, CE Digital.The winning application, which consists of eight
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Indie producer Max Carlish of MMM Television is in talks with broadcasters about an observational documentary featuring last month's 70th birthday celebrations for great train robber Ronnie Biggs, wri
Indie producer Max Carlish of MMM Television is in talks with broadcasters about an observational documentary featuring last month's 70th birthday celebrations for great train robber Ronnie Biggs, writes Jason Deans.
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SMG bid for GMTV stake could be blocked
Granada Media and Carlton Communications are thought to be planning to block moves by the Scottish Media Group (SMG) to take a controlling stake in breakfast broadcaster GMTV.SMG is understood to
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Bazal lands ICG's Holland
Independent Bazal has poached Pat Holland from the BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) to executive produce a raft of new productions, writes John Plunkett.