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Garrigue and Lightfoot quit Resources
BBC Resources director of strategy Olivier Garrigue and acting director of operations John Lightfoot are both quitting the directorate, writes Dominic Timms.
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BBC may yet air 'hoaxed' Everyman
The BBC may still show a version of the Everyman programme that fell victim to a hoax by The Sun newspaper this week, writes Tim Dams.
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C5 RENEWS ITN CONTRACT
Channel 5 has re-awarded its news contract to ITN in an extended five-year deal, despite inviting a bid from rival news organisation Sky News. ITN has supplied news to the channel
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CARLTON SCRAPS HQ PLAN
The Carlton Media Group has scrapped plans to unify its London operations at a new building in Great Marlborough Street. The plan, which was announced last July, has been abandoned because
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NewsBBC1 benefits from football victory
BBC1's live coverage of England's crunch Euro 2008 qualifying game against Israel took the Saturday teatime spoils with 6.1m viewers (41%). [ALL]
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KEYTE TO LEAVE BSKYB
BSkyB general manager movies Andrew Keyte is leaving at the end of July to set up his own movie development and production company. Keyte, who joined Sky Movies in October 1997
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JOBS GO AT BBC WORLD
The BBC is to make what it calls 'efficiencies' at BBC World in a bid to reduce losses at the channel, which totalled£15.6 million last year. At least 19 newsroom
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JOHN WOOLF DIES AGED 86
Anglia Television founding director and Oscar-winning film and TV producer Sir John Woolf has died aged 86. Woolf ran Anglia's drama department for over 25 years. Before entering television he worked
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Pearson TV acts on successor to Dyke
Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino is to become chairman of Pearson TV following Greg Dyke's appointment as BBC director general.Scardino will also handle Pearson TV's dealings with the BBC to avoid
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New arts channel to launch
A European-backed art and design channel is hoping to launch this October and is holding carriage talks with BSkyB and the major UK cable companies, writes Claire Atkinson.
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MTV UK has completed a new on-air look to coincide with its second birthday and the launch of new digital channels MTV base, MTV Extra and VH1 Classic, writes Dominic Timms
MTV UK has completed a new on-air look to coincide with its second birthday and the launch of new digital channels MTV base, MTV Extra and VH1 Classic, writes Dominic Timms.
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Chrysalis hires BBC's Reich for comedy push
Chrysalis Television has poached producer Gary Reich from the BBC to spearhead a new drive into comedy production, writes John Plunkett.
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Carlton World orders some Toast
Digital terrestrial channel Carlton World has lined up two 26 x 30-minute series from Carlton Productions and Carlton subsidiary Action Time, writes Alice Macandrew.
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MCKEOWN PUMPS£100,000 INTO ISLE OF WIGHT CHANNEL
TV producer and founder of Select TV Allan McKeown has invested more than£100,000 in the UK's first terrestrial restricted service licence (RSL) channel, TV12. The investment in the local community
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DCMS' JONES TAKES POLICY POST AT PACT
Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Kris Jones, a broadcasting policy adviser at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, as its new head of public affairs. Jones has worked at the
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NewsThe Foundry launches Nuke 5
IBC: Soho based The Foundry has launched a new version of its compositing application Nuke. Read this and other IBC stories by clicking on the link. [ALL]
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CCI DENIES BID FOR SCOTTISH RADIO HOLDINGS
Clear Channel International (CCI) has denied it has approached Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) with a proposal to buy a stake in the company. Weekend newspaper reports suggested CCI was interested in
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LWT PROMOTES MACKIE TO DEPUTY CONTROLLER OF DRAMA
Laura Mackie has been promoted from head to deputy controller of drama at LWT, as part of a reshuffle by controller Jo Wright. Since joining LWT from BBC drama along with
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RADIO AUTHORITY WINS HIGH COURT BATTLE OVER LICENCE
The High Court has upheld a decision by the Radio Authority not to award a small-scale alternative licence to a man in east Kent. Francis Wildman won Court of Appeal approval
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TELEWEST ON THE OFFENSIVE OVER SET-TOP BOX OFFERS
Telewest conducted a marketing offensive last week to discourage consumers from taking up free digital set-top box offers from Sky Digital and On Digital. The campaign, which saw Telewest representatives handing