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    Minorities 'betrayed' by broadcast sector

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The broadcast industry employs more than 115,000 people, according to the first ever census of the TV, radio and new media industries - far more than the government's previous estimate of

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    Granada plans merged kids unit

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media is in discussions with Carlton about pooling together their children's production departments to create a streamlined ITV kids outfit, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Nation reps to sit on BBC genre boards

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Senior editorial executives from each of the nations will sit on the newly created BBC genre commissioning boards, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Pitt in talks to end Real Life connections

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Real Life Productions' director of programmes Ruth Pitt is negotiating ways to leave the company she founded in 1988 as part of a legal process expected to be finalised next spring, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Film outfit buys quarter stake in Gub Neal indie

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Box TV, the drama indie set up by former Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal, has received a 'several million pound' investment from an international film company on the prowl

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    Ideal World hires three staff for E.world interactive arm

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Ideal World has hired three new staff for its new media operation, five months after receiving a£1.5m investment from the Royal Bank of Scotland for its E.world interactive arm, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Crimewatch Daily set to air

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    High-profile crime series Crimewatch is being spun off into a new daily format as a mainstay of BBC1's daytime schedule, writes Colin Robertson.

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    BBC VICE-CHAIR SHORTLIST

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Chris Smith is considering a shortlist of recommended names for the BBC vice chairmanship and is expected to make an announcement in mid-December. MPs and peers are speculating that

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    CHANNEL 4 MADONNA COUP

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    London-based entertainment specialist At It Productions has scooped a rare interview with pop star Madonna weeks after she pulled out of an appearance on BBC 1 show Parkinson. The 75-minute documentary

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    SCOTTISH NEWS 24 PROPOSED

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is understood to be exploring the idea of creating a BBC Scotland-branded News 24 service as part of discussions for the future of the corporation's news channel. According to

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    CHANNEL 5 SHOPPING SERVICE

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is thrashing out plans to launch a TV shopping service similar to BSkyB's interactive shopping platform Open. The new service, which could launch within a year, will be a

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    RACING DECISION POSTPONED

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The Racecourse Association has postponed for another week its decision on whether to award racecourses' terrestrial and interactive media rights to Go Racing - the Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure

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    YENTOB DEPUTY APPOINTED

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Former United Broadcasting & Entertainment (UBE) director of legal and business affairs Jan Rowland has been appointed to the new role of BBC drama, entertainment and children chief operating officer, reporting

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    STAR TV TO LAUNCH ON SKY

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    News Corporation-owned Asian broadcaster Star TV is launching in the UK on Sky Digital this January, as a rival service to Zee TV. It includes Indian entertainment channel Star Plus and

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    Emap and MTV dispute music share

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    EMAP is damaging the market share of its own music video channel, The Box, by launching back-to-back music video channels such as QTV and Kiss, according to research obtained by Broadcast, writes Simon Ellery.

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    ITC acts against joint airtime sales

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission (ITC) reinforced its reluctance to see the formation of a single ITV this week, producing new advertising guidelines that rule out the joint sale of Carlton's and

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    Researchers to gain extra funding

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow-based The Research Centre for Television & Interactivity is looking to co-fund more black and Asian researchers' posts in regional independent production companies and is seeking applications for next year's researchers development programme, writ

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    Scrapheap goes to LA

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    RDF Media is to close its Bristol office and open a new production base in Los Angeles from which it will produce Scrapheap Challenge and its US version Junkyard Wars, writes Ashley Davies.

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    NEW TALENT ARM WINS OVER DONNA AIR

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Production outfit Money has launched a new talent arm, Money Management, and has poached presenter Donna Air from Princess Talent Management. Money Management is a subsidiary of The Money Group -

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    AWARD FOR 'OUTSPOKENNESS' TO BE GIVEN

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The Carlton Women in Film and TV Awards is to be held on 8 December. The 10th award ceremony will include a new category - The Carlton TV Mae West Award