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    Production - Transmission impossible?

    2003-11-05T10:25:28Z

    With contracts like Discovery's up for grabs, play-out is turning into a bun fight. But the market is also increasingly polarised, as Kevin Hilton reports.

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    Production - Technology analysis - The sound of silence.

    2003-11-05T10:25:28Z

    If a channel goes off air, money is lost and heads could roll. Kevin Hilton asks what systems play-out centres have in place to prevent disasters - natural or otherwise.

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    Production - TX - Take it to the limit.

    2003-11-05T10:25:28Z

    Train surfing, base jumping and extreme paintball are just some of the pursuits featured in Extremists,

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    Ratings - Canny mix of factual and forensics moves Five on.

    2003-11-05T10:25:28Z

    e 20 7 Two Pints of Lager/ Packet of Crisps

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    OFF THE RECORD - TV HACK'S OTHER ROLE.

    2003-11-05T10:25:29Z

    Swapping the grimy streets of regional news reporting for the stardust of the silver screen was

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    OFF THE RECORD - SKY SPORTS OUT FOR 31.

    2003-11-05T10:25:30Z

    The fine people at BSkyB might know a thing or two about sports rights but they

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    OFF THE RECORD - BAD WEEK.

    2003-11-05T10:25:30Z

    Living TV's Richard Woolfe. Tipped for top job at Five in Tuesday's FT Creative Business. Only

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    OFF THE RECORD - GOOD WEEK.

    2003-11-05T10:25:30Z

    Fresh-faced Dan Chambers. At 34 the youngest terrestrial programme chief in the history of British television.

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    Peter Stothard joins board at September.

    2003-11-05T10:25:58Z

    Sir Peter Stothard, the former editor of The Times, is to enter the indie sector with a board-level role at September Films, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Search for new sky chief widens.

    2003-11-05T10:25:59Z

    BSkyB has instructed corporate head-hunters to find it a new chief executive in a bid to calm fears from City investors that chairman Rupert Murdoch is trying to shoo-in his youngest son, James, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    Davies: we were right to trust Gilligan.

    2003-11-05T10:25:59Z

    BBC chairman Gavyn Davies defended the BBC governors' role in the Dr David Kelly affair again this week, saying it was right that they should not have investigated the accuracy of Andrew Gilligan's original report, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Comment - The digital dichotomy.

    2003-11-05T10:25:59Z

    2010 switchover is looking shaky at best - a factor the BBC must take on board if its digital plans are to succeed Conor Dignam Editor.

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    TV execs knock 2010 target.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    The government will not meet its 2010 analogue switch-off target, key broadcasting figures have predicted.Executives attending

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    Docherty puts forward switch-off solution.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Former Telewest new media chief David Docherty is seeking government backing for a new set-top box service that he claimed will help the government achieve analogue switch-off by 2010, writes Colin Robertson.

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    MAVERICK SEEKS£2M TO FUND FRESH MUFFIN.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Maverick Entertainment Group is looking for£2m of outside investment in order to beef up its

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    New BBC satellite puts third 24 series in doubt.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Plans for the BBC to air the third series of hit thriller 24 are under threat, following US studio Fox's concerns over the BBC's decision to change satellite and broadcast its services unencrypted, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Celebs to feign facial disorders in C4 show.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Birmingham indie Maverick Television is to follow its con-troversial Channel 4 shows Celebrity Blind Man's Buff and Celebrity Wheelchair Challenge with a third programme working titled Celebrities Disfigured: In Your Face, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    Terrestrials plan new Solus card.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Terrestrial broadcasters are devising a plan to resurrect the free viewing cards that allow viewers to watch ITV, Channel 4 and Five on satellite without subscribing to Sky, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Battle over for Design Wars.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    ITV has again wielded the axe on Saturday night and pulled Design Wars after only two

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    Thumbs up for Pact/Bectu freelance deal.

    2003-11-05T10:26:00Z

    Members of broadcasting union Bectu have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a package of changes to the Pact/Bectu Freelance Production Agreement, which will mean employers contributing to freelance pensions for the first time since the 1980s, writes Will