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Ex-Sky News chief to produce Commonwealth doc
Former deputy head of Sky News Mike Nolan has been hired to executive produce a 30-minute programme, Freedom, sponsored by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). The film will be based on
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C4I and NBC hook up for Old Testament docs
Channel 4 International (C4I) has struck a co-production deal with NBC for two 60-minute documentaries, The Ark of the Covenant and Sodom and Gomorrah. The films, which were commissioned by Channel
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Pearson's Scardino to receive Gold Nymph Award
Pearson's chief executive Marjorie Scardino is to receive the Gold Nymph Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival and Market. The award will be presented to Scardino by His Royal Highness
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ITN and Carlton win golds at New York awards
ITN and Carlton Television scooped gold medals at the recent 1999 International Television Programming Awards in New York. ITN foreign correspondent Julian Manyon took gold in the best reporter category for
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Trade Talk - Book maker
As non-executive chairman of Octopus Publishing, Michael Grade has lost no time pursuing TV production partnerships. Ashley Davies reports.
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Trade Talk - Tony Stoller
With radio licensees now come of age, their regulator is listening more keenly but won't be a soft touch.
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News Analysis - Watching the clock
With a select committee report due before Parliament in March, ahead of the ITC's review of ITV's new evening schedule, the stage is set for the renewal of hostilities over News at Ten. Tara Conlan reports.
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Opinion - BBC should treat quotas cautiously
Greg Dyke had a busy first day as BBC director general on Monday.He began his already famous Q&A session with 450 corporation employees with a promise to support in-house production, before
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Soaps - The North-South divide
Coronation Street vs EastEnders has been a key ratings tussle in the UK's TV schedules for the past 15 years. As EastEnders celebrates its fifteenth birthday and Corrie turns 40, Meg Carter asks what it is that makes these stories run and run.
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Interactive Channels - Get ahead, get a niche
New channels are launching all the time. But these days, in addition to good quality content and marketing, interactivity is key to attracting consumers. And if you can also forge yourself a niche, you've got it made.
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Interview - The Jazzman
If it was listening to Jazz FM that once kept him sane, Richard Wheatly has repaid the station as its chief executive by bringing it back from the brink of financial disaster.
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Off The Record - Dirty dancing
The enoblement of Simon Shaps as Granada Media Productions' managing director already seems to have blown away the cobwebs at the company's normally sedate senior management meetings. In place of the
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NewsBuena Vista adds Barwick to distribution arm
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has added to its London-based international distribution arm, with the promotion of Simon Barwick as senior sales manager for UK and Ireland.
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Off The Record - Taking the gloves off
Out-going BBC big kahuna Will Wyatt was doubtless looking forward to his swansong speech to the Royal Television Society last week. Unfortunately for him, he had to follow a 'tribute' speech
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Off The Record - Messing about on a river
But forget Will Wyatt (and you will). The social event of the year was due to take place on a boat on the river Thames this Thursday (3 February), intent on
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Off The Record - Bodily discharge
Imagine the excitement at Off The Record when a free copy of BBC grand fromage David Docherty's eagerly awaited first novel, The Spirit Death, landed with a thump on its desk.
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Off The Record - Ideas above its station
Size does matter if Channel 4 International's presence at last week's Natpe programming bash in New Orleans was anything to go by. The chaps from Horseferry Road outdid themselves with a
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Off The Record - Award-winning
This week's picture features OTR's favourite newsreader Michael Buerk (left), who was snapped moments after putting pen to paper on his new one-year deal to stay at the BBC. If truth
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Off The Record - And Finally
Catherine Houston, MD of 124 Facilities, would love to guzzle tea while watching soft furnishings on TV.