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C5 HIRES TOP MTV MAN
Channel 5 has poached MTV Networks, UK and Ireland marketing vice-president David Pullan to become the channel's new director of marketing and communications.Pullan replaces Jim Hytner and starts in the new
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S4C BOOSTS CHILDREN'S
S4C is doubling its children's output to one hour in the afternoons and to 45 minutes from 30 minutes at lunchtime from January. The Welsh language broadcaster is extending its children's
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NO FOOTBALL STRIKE
The Premier League and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) have struck a deal to avert a damaging footballers' strike which would have hit ITV and BSkyB sports coverage. The deal sees
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TV LICENCE FEE TO RISE
The television licence fee is to go up by£3 to£112 from April under the funding formula drawn up by the BBC and the government to pay for the corporation's
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DISTRIBUTORS SEMINAR
BBC Worldwide director of international TV Mike Phillips is to head a British Television Distributors Association seminar on TV distribution to be held on 4 December at Channel 4's Horseferry Road
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FIVE LIVE NEWS HIRES
New BBC Radio Five Live head of news Ceri Thomas has made a clutch of appointments across the station's daily news strands. Simon Mayo editor Sali Collins is to become editor
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NewsKershaw leaves Five to set up indie
Five's controller of factual Justine Kershaw is leaving the channel after five years to set up her own independent production company.
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RTS FILM-MAKING EVENT
Veteran Northern Irish TV producers Paul Greengrass and Peter Taylor are to discuss their contrasting approaches to filmmaking at a Royal Television Society session on 10 December. Chaired by factual producer
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Energis scoops pension project
Energis Interactive, the digital TV firm owned by telecoms giant Energis and software developer Graham Technology, has been selected by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to develop a£1.6m
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Portman sold to MBO team
TV and media company PrimeEnt has offloaded its wholly owned subsidiary Portman Entertainment for£1.2m following a management buyout, writes Simon Ellery.
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Multicultural deputy named
Channel 4 has appointed BBC producer Sam Bickley to the post of deputy commissioning editor, multicultural, writes Penny Hughes.
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Black magic not right for TV, say viewers
Scores of television viewers believe that programmes showing practices such as voodoo and black magic should not be shown on TV at any time, writes Steve Aston.
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CREATIVE BRIEFS
Moving Picture Company has created a Christmas ident for E4 in collaboration with E4/Film Four creative director Brett Foraker. Designed by Russell Appleford, it features E4 characters being chased by a
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UK distributors pull out of Natpe
Two of the UK's biggest broadcasters have been forced to pull out of next year's Natpe programme market in Las Vegas due to the high cost of attending the annual event.Both
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NewsMPs call for Call TV quiz shows to be reclassified
MPs have called on the government to reclassify Call TV quiz shows as lottery games, meaning broadcasters would have to donate up 20% of their revenues to charity.
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AND FINALLY.
Mark Damazer, BBC assistant director news, tinkles the ivories about as well as Spurs play ...What is your proudest achievement?Learning to play the piano - appallingly - while working for BBC
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OFF THE RECORD - New evidence of PM losing fans.
ITN's schpinmeister, Mark Gallagher, showed the world just how influential he is last week during a white paper briefing session just opposite the Houses of Parliament. The meeting, which was attended
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OFF THE RECORD - Mole win proves critics wrong.
It has emerged that Action Time initially had a bit of trouble pitching the format for The Mole to British broadcasters last year. Many of the biggies said they kind of
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OFF THE RECORD - Lythgoe watch: a bad hair day.
We love you too much to expect you to manage without your weekly Lythgoe fix, so here's a snippet from The Look (Sunday Mirror) in which our Popstars hero talks readers
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OFF THE RECORD - Pact man wouldn't go near an indie.
After giving some of the best years of his life to championing the interests of independent producers at the helm of Pact, Shaun Williams has admitted to Broadcast that there are