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BORDER BIDDING GOES ON
The bidding war for Border TV continued this week, with Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) increasing its offer for Border to£141million, up from its original bid of£116 million. The increased
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ON DIGITAL UPS SUBS
On Digital has announced its digital subscribers now number 673,000 homes, up from 552,000 at the end of 1999, and claims it is still on course to hit 1 million homes
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ILLSLEY SET TO BOW OUT
Telewest chief executive Tony Illsley has decided not to stay on as number two to Flextech chief executive Adam Singer, who will head the operation formed out of the merger of
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BBC RESOURCES STAFF
The BBC is considering transferring a number of its BBC Resources property management staff as it seeks a private partner to oversee its 750,000 square metre portfolio. The corporation is planning
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BROADCAST OUT EARLY
Broadcast will publish a day early next week to allow for the Easter bank holiday. It will be available from Wednesday 19 April.
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Ferguson quits STV for new NTL division
NTL is to start making its own programmes for its digital services and has poached Scottish TV (STV) controller Scott Ferguson to set up the department.The level of NTL's investment is
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Disney enters Animal World
Buena Vista Productions in the UK has been commissioned to make a new 26 x 15-minute series Disney's Animal World for Disney Channels International, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The show, which is targeted
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Diverse wins 1st OU order
Diverse Production has won the Open University's (OU) first external commission since the process was opened up to independent producers last year (Broadcast, 29.5.98), writes Ashley Davies.Diverse has made two versions
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C4 orders United All Saints doc
Channel 4 deputy commissioning editor, entertainment Jo Wallace has ordered a 30-minute one-off documentary from United Productions about the launch of the All Saints film Honest at the Cannes Film Festival,
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Brown and Neame move up at BBC drama
BBC head of drama serials Jane Tranter has promoted two in-house staffers to key posts in her department, writes Tim Dams.Script editor Sarah Brown moves up to become head of development,
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DROMGOOLE TO HEAD E4 ACQUISITIONS WITH KANDOLA
Channel 4 has announced that controller of programme acquisitions June Dromgoole will extend her role to include E4, the broadcaster's planned digital entertainment channel. Meanwhile, senior editor, series acquisition Jay Kandola
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DYKE VOWS TO UP BBC'S ETHNIC MINORITY STAFF LEVELS
BBC director general Greg Dyke has pledged to increase the targets for staff from ethnic minority backgrounds at the BBC from 8 to 10 per cent by 2003. Speaking at the
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FORMER CARLTON FACTUAL CHIEF UNVEILS NEW LOOK MBC
Former Carlton TV controller of factual Steve Clark (right) has unveiled a relaunch of Arab TV service MBC News. Clark, now MBC director of news and production, said the London-based channel's
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NewsChicken and egg - or surfers catching a wave?
Channel 4 has commissioned Silver River to make a landmark series about television and when I read the following quote from Daisy Goodwin, I knew I would have to think harder this week. 'It's a chicken and egg concept. What comes first: our obsession with house prices or the vast ...
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FIRST CROSS MEDIA CENSUS TO KICK OFF ON 19 MAY
Skillset has announced that 19 May will see the launch of the industry's first census. The cross-media survey is one of the first major initiatives by the Audio Visual Industries Training
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VIRGIN AGREES NEW LICENCE TERMS FOR AM STATION
Virgin Radio has accepted the terms to renewal its AM national licence with the Radio Authority. The station currently pays£2.2 million a year and four per cent of ad revenue,
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JIM HENSON TV POACHES LITTLE PONDS' BLAKE
The Jim Henson Company has hired Little Pond chief Juliet Blake as Jim Henson TV senior vice-president, creative affairs. Blake was a Pearson TV senior vice-president, programming until she moved to
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AD AGENCY BBH PREPARES ADVERTISER PROGRAMME PUSH
Leading ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has made its first move into advertiser-funded programming and interactive TV. The agency has made head of TV production Rebecca Atkinson its first head
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ROGER COOK GETS LEGAL WITH NEWS OF THE WORLD
Roger Cook has issued a High Court claim for defamation against the News of the World newspaper, following a series of articles that have accused Carlton Television's The Cook Report of
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SKY'S SWINGEWOOD HIRES RUDDER FOR NEW MEDIA ROLE
BSkyB director of new media John Swingewood has announced the full-time appointment of Sky News deputy head Jim Rudder as head of new media for movies and news. Rudder, who was