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SMITH AWARDED RADIO ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
Independent Radio News chairman Terry Smith has been handed the industry's highest honour, a fellowship of the Radio Academy. Receiving his fellowship at a Savoy Hotel lunch ceremony, Smith said: 'All
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ITC UPHOLDS COMPLAINTS ABOUT C4'S ANGEL
The Independent Television Commission upheld 86 complaints from viewers about the adult tone of the fantasy drama Angel, which aired on Channel 4 in September and October. The commission ruled that
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VFG buys rights to local TV licences
Broadcast equipment hire company VFG has invested£7.4m to acquire the rights to 36 local terrestrial television licences throughout the UK.The restricted service licences (RSL) will be held by a newly
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Indies lead way in best new show category
Indies dominate the shortlist in the best new programme category for the 2001 Broadcast Awards, writes Rebecca Evans.
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BRIGHTER TO MAKE BOY-RACER PROGRAMME
Indie Brighter Pictures has been commissioned by Flextech channel Bravo to produce a 15 x 30-minute series Carnage (left). The factual entertainment magazine series is about boy-racer car culture. The series
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S4C PLANS WELSH ANSWER TO THE X-FILES
Welsh broadcaster S4C has unveiled details of its new year's schedule. The backbone of the schedule is a 6 x 60-minute spine-chiller drama series called Arachnid, which is being made by
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WILSON ORDERS 'SILLIONAIRE' FOR C5 ..
Channel 5 commissioning editor, children's and religious programming Nick Wilson has ordered a 1 x 20-minute broadcast pilot comedy show co-produced by indies Cheeky TV and Brilliant TV. Who Wants 2
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... WHILE WALSH BROS PRODUCES REALITY SHOW
Indie Walsh Bros has been commissioned by Wilson to produce a 13 x 30-minute series Trex. The reality-based TV show will follow the adventures of three British boys and three British
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SUNSET + VINE MAKES THE DOG LISTENER
Channel 5 senior programme controller Michael Attwell has commissioned Sunset + Vine North to make a 1 x 30-minute documentary about a woman who claims to be able to alter the
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Wall to Wall/Bazal Discovery win
Discovery Home & Leisure has signed its biggest output deal and its first with Wall to Wall Television and Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Bazal for both to provide 45 hours of original programming, writes Penny Hughes.
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NewsGavin & Stacey laugh all the way to the Baftas
BBC3 comedy Gavin & Stacey and ITV entertainment format Harry Hill's TV Burp were the big winners at last night's Bafta TV Awards.
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Edinburgh winners in E4 TV deal
Kim Noble and Stuart Silver, whose Noble and Silver double act won them the Perrier Award for the best newcomers in Edinburgh this year, have signed a TV deal with E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel which launches on 18 January, writes Ashley D
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SOLID STATE MD TO QUIT
Solid State Logic (SSL) managing director John Jeffery is to step down from 1 January and will be replaced by Colin Pringle, who is currently group marketing director. Pringle joined SSL
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MANUFACTURER MOVES
A number of recent appointments have been made at manufacturers and their resellers. Jayson Chase has quit Tyrell to join the Root 6 sales team. He will be replaced in January
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ENGLISH & POCKET WIN
English & Pockett is the only non-Asian company to win at this year's Promax Asia. The company scooped two golds - one for best launch campaign with Discovery Animal Planet Asia
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422 TO MODERNISE
422 has dropped the colons and is positioning itself as 'more than just a television design company', according to chief creative Andy Davie-Coward, who added: 'It's a simpler, cleaner look. Those
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Thomson in£1.4bn Technicolor deal
French electronics group Thomson Multimedia is to buy Technicolor in a deal which values the video and DVD processing and duplication business at around£1.4bn.Carlton Communications confirmed on Monday that it
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Saatchi to sell off Megalomedia facilities to FrameStore founders
Megalomedia, the media investment company set up by Maurice Saatchi, has agreed to sell its facilities subsidiaries, FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC), to a new company set up by FrameStore founders Sharon Reed and William Sargent, writes Dom
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Horton joins The Facilities Group
SVC creative director Tom Horton has quit the Soho facility to become director of television at Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary The Facilities Group (TFG), writes Barbara Marshall.
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Reuters backs news software
Reuters is stepping up its support for the news delivery specification NewsML by teaming up with news software developer Wavo to launch an open source NewsML toolkit.NewsML is a web-based programming