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    Animal Planet tells birth stories

    2007-11-28T14:28:01.010Z

    Animal Planet International will screen the rare birth of a giant panda cub on “panda-cam” CCTV as part of a five-part series on baby animals from Parthenon Entertainment.

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    Sky Real Lives follows brain op family

    2007-11-28T14:22:21.990Z

    Sky Real Lives is to tell the poignant story of a man’s battle to receive life-saving treatment for a potentially fatal brain condition.

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    C4 counts the cost of counterfeits

    2007-11-28T14:06:06.560Z

    Documentary director Nick Hornby is to follow up Return to Jamie’s School Dinners with a two-part Channel 4 series tracing the human cost of the global trade in fake goods.

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    BBC airs Aerial Britain

    2007-11-28T14:02:47.590Z

    The BBC is to examine the workings of the country from the air in Britain from Above, a 3 x 60-minute documentary series for BBC1 now in production at Lion TV.

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    Two docs for Ladbroke

    2007-11-28T13:41:16.097Z

    Ladbroke Radio has been awarded two one-off commissions for BBC Radio 4.

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    Celador secures R4 dramas

    2007-11-28T13:38:07.830Z

    Johnny Vaughan and Nick Hancock are to star in a BBC Radio 4 play from Celador Productions’ radio arm.

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    Choice FM revamps schedule

    2007-11-28T13:34:45.560Z

    Choice FM London, the urban youth station owned by GCap Media, will now broadcast a 'Bigger Breakfast Show' with Martin Jay and Lucy Ambache.

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    Today programme unveils guest editors

    2007-11-28T13:34:20.030Z

    The former head of MI5 and musician Damon Albarn are among a diverse mix selected to edit BBC Radio 4's Today programme over the festive period.

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    ITV1’s football gives BBC1 a scare

    2007-11-28T13:34:08.810Z

    ITV1’s live coverage of Manchester United against Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League averaged a respectable 5.2m viewers (21.3%) last night, outperforming BBC1’s Spooks.

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    New quotas boost commercial radio

    2007-11-28T13:33:18.090Z

    Commercial radio will be able to compete more effectively with the BBC following Ofcom’s decision to reduce quotas of locally produced content to 10 hours a day, according to City analysts.

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    Zane to name rising star

    2007-11-28T13:31:41.230Z

    Xfm has become the official radio partner to the Orange Rising Star Award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards.

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    Three execs to battle outsiders for GCap job

    2007-11-28T13:14:12.060Z

    GCap’s departing chief executive, Ralph Bernard, has revealed that there are three strong internal candidates applying for the role.

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    Five's Hotel Inspector lured by C4

    2007-11-28T13:12:03.480Z

    Channel 4 has lured Five’s Hotel Inspector Ruth Watson away from her inspection duties with an exclusive presenter deal.

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    Top level hirings at MediaCity:uk

    2007-11-28T13:09:42.447Z

    Salford's MediaCity:UK has appointed Brian Greasley as managing director and Jane Deane as programme director, two weeks after the project's developer secured a£360m funding package.

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    More Freshly Squeezed

    2007-11-28T13:07:47.523Z

    Channel 4 is to extend weekday breakfast music show Freshly Squeezed to Saturday mornings.

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    Viewers accept online ads if content free

    2007-11-28T12:21:15.987Z

    Consumers will tolerate online advertising as long as content is free, a survey by business law firm Olswang has found.

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    SMG and GCap both sink to 52-week lows

    2007-11-28T11:40:57.630Z

    As happened last week, the majority of the Broadcast 20 ended the week less valuable than at the start.

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    Ten Alps acquires online ad firm MMA

    2007-11-28T11:20:26.440Z

    Bob Geldof’s indie Ten Alps plans to boost revenues with a new online video advertising business, following its acquisition of Multimedia Arts (MMA).

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    High demand fuels rapid growth in VFX

    2007-11-28T11:16:52Z

    Three leading Soho post facilities are investing in compositing and 3D kit in order to meet a surge in demand for broadcast visual effects.

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    Scratch solution for Red workflow

    2007-11-28T11:04:00.943Z

    DI software specialist Assimilate has launched version 3.7 of Scratch, which supports the first workflow to allow an editor to work on uncompressed footage from the Red camera.