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    FREE TO AIR - BBC shouldn't throw stones

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    It might seem an odd question to ask in the midst of The Premiership being shifted back in the schedules: but has anyone seen LA Pool Party?The two issues are not

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    TRADE TALK - Northern grit

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    From atrocities in Kosovo to Weird Weekends with Paul Daniels, new commissioning editor of C4's Dispatches Kevin Sutcliffe has seen it all.

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    IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps, managing director, Granada Content

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    On why we shouldn't underestimate how vital ITV's regional programming is to the network.

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    ON THE BOX - Clash of the bouffants

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Fremantle Media Production Ignition team leader Sean Kirkegaard found The SBS stodgy but Poker kept him up after his bedtime.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Creative dilemmas

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    While ITV strives to innovate, a number of its new programmes have flopped. Now ITV schedulers face the challenge of appeasing advertisers with sure-fire hits while maintaining the channel as a creative force.

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    TV REVENUE - The new economics of TV

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    With commercial TV's£3bn ad revenues ebbing away, it is time the TV industry embraced fresh forms of funding if it's to stand any chance of growing.

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    Roll-out of BBC Jam frozen due to Govt enquiry

    2007-01-22T14:15:00Z

    The launch of new material for the BBC Jam online service has been frozen, following the government's decision to call for a review of the corporation's educational content.

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    INTERVIEW - Broadband's Mr Big

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Video Networks' VOD entertainment service may not be raking in the cash, but chief executive Simon Hochhauser says broadband will help to give his company the edge.

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    INDIE FINANCE - How Blast blew on to the market

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Called 'the bespoke tailor of independent production' by founder and owner Edmund Coulthard, slow-growing Blast is looking to expand its horizons with projects for BBC 1 and ITV and even feature films.

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    TX - Kosovo two years on

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Nick Danziger's powerfully emotional study of Kosovo two years on from the Serbian atrocities nearly went unaired.The general nervousness about audience figures and the fact that stories set abroad are deemed

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    BBC 2's Band of Brothers just misses the top 50

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The prize for outstanding achievement this week goes to the Friday opening of Band of Brothers which single-handedly gave BBC 2 a 16 per cent primetime share for the night. With

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    OFF THE RECORD - The wheelbarrow man hits Cannes

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Whatever next? Apparently a marketing person from a London post facility was seen strolling along the Croisette (the bit that runs up and down the beach) in Cannes last week in

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    OFF THE RECORD - Mettle for sex

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    As much as OTR likes to expose and reveal television's naughtier side (see above), it's just possible that E4 has gone a little too far with its new interactive Sex Bots

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    Worldwide strikes doc deals

    2007-01-22T14:30:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has sold two packages of documentary titles to Ecuavisa in Ecuador and Globo in Brazil.

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    ITV Digital adds subscribers but churn remains high

    2001-10-26T10:28:00Z

    ITV Digital subscriber figures come in at a higher than expected 82,000 but high churn rate for the service means outlook is still grim

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    BBC Radio 2 more popular than ever

    2001-10-26T10:41:00Z

    Station's success story continues as an extra two million listeners are added bringing audience total to over 12m

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    ITC appoints deputy chair

    2001-10-26T11:10:00Z

    Baroness Janet Whitaker to take up role in November

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    Del Boy to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:02:00Z

    David Jason character to sit in the hot-seat as BBC and ITV collaborate over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    NBC orders comedy format from Fremantle

    2007-01-22T14:40:00Z

    US network NBC has ordered 6 x 60-minute episodes of FremantleMedia North America's new improvisational comedy series Thank God You're Here.

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    Del Boy to appear on Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:06:00Z

    David Jason character could get to sit in the quiz hot-seat as BBC plans collaboration over Christmas Only Fools and Horses