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Story gets broad new role at Emap Radio.
Emap Performance has promoted managing director, dance Mark Story to a new group radio role overseeing output across the company's entire portfolio of stations, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Story takes up the expanded
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Keating claims BBC 4 will be boon for rivals.
The launch of highbrow digital channel BBC 4 in March will help its commercial rivals survive rather than put them out of business, according to BBC 4 controller Roly Keating.Speaking in
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Scott warns of losses at C4.
Channel 4 managing director David Scott this week admitted that last year's advertising downturn had resulted in the channel making a loss for the first time in a decade, write Penny
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McKerrow signs up as Maverick creative head.
Maverick Television has lured outgoing Channel 4 commissioning editor, education Richard McKerrow - the man who commissioned it to produce controversial series Embarrassing Illnesses - to become its first creative director,
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Lygo clears out dead wood at Channel 5.
Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has kicked off an early spring-clean, dumping a raft of long-running entertainment shows including a number of formats from Thames TV - the production
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MR BEAN DRIVES TIGER ASPECT EXPANSION.
Tiger Aspect Productions, which last year secured a #10m order from ITV for an animated series of Mr Bean, is launching a dedicated animation department, writes Penny Hughes. The five-strong department
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Planet 24 wins back Sky News' Lazarus.
Planet 24, WHICH recently lost the #10m Big Breakfast contract, has moved to shore up its entertainment output with the appointment of former Sky News producer Sheldon Lazarus as head of
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DCMS may save TV sale and leaseback.
The future of sale and leaseback tax breaks used by broadcasters and indies to fund TV production looks safe despite fears that the government was looking to limit the concession to
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Lush makes top appointments.
New BBC controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush has begun to stamp her mark on the department, appointing former LWT head of comedy Lisa Clark and acting controller of daytime Fenia
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Yorkshire indie Zig Zag hires Disney chief Watts.
Zig Zag, the indie 25 per cent-owned by Yorkshire Television (YTV) has made a number of key appointments, including hiring former Central managing director and Disney executive Mike Watts as an
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BBC DIVISION GREENLIT.
The government has given the BBC the go-ahead to set up a fourth commercial division formed from its broadcast and presentation department. The new company, BBC Broadcast, will sit alongside BBC
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NewsC4 ramps up diversity scheme
Channel 4 has combined its disability and diversity trainee schemes for an expanded initiative with 18 places up for grabs.
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WATSON TO LEAVE.
Documentary-maker Paul Watson has been made redundant from Granada. Watson, who had close ties to United executives John Willis and Tom Archer, who both recently left the company, is expected to
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RADIO CONSULTATION.
The government has launched a consultation that will lead to the online licensing and assignment of radio spectrum and help to develop the market for spectrum trading. The consultation followed the
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SPORT RIGHTS REVIEW.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to take a fresh look at the issue of television sports rights after the debacle of Kirch's sale of the World Cup football rights to the
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GWR REVENUE DROPS.
Commercial radio group GWR, owner of Classic FM, has admitted its revenue in the UK in the last quarter of 2001 dropped by 10.8 per cent year on year. In a
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DEAL OVER ITV BRAND.
Carlton and Granada have reached a financial settlement with Ulster Television over the use of the ITV brand for ITV Digital in Northern Ireland. As a result of the deal, ITV
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Davies resists BBC regulator role for Ofcom.
BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies this week personally entered the row over who should control the BBC, telling MPs he will fight any plans to bring the corporation under the full control
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John Peel joins DRDB for digital radio push.
The Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB), the body set up to promote digital radio, is gearing up for its biggest awareness campaign to date and has signed BBC radio veteran presenter
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Century's MD leaves Capital.
Capital Radio has lost yet another senior figure, following Century Network managing director Julie Fair's decision to quit the radio operator after 14 years with no job to go to.Fair, who