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NewsTime to halt the PR circus
TV should tone down the hype and allow films like Watson's to speak for themselves, says Broadcastdeputy editor Emily Booth
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NewsGCap chief: radio spending has 'turned a corner'
GCap Media chief executive Ralph Bernard believes that the UK commercial radio industry has 'turned a corner' as advertisers which had stopped investing in commercial radio advertising start to return, writes Yvette Mackenzie.
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Crime channel looks at killers
Crime and Investigation Network has teamed up with Scarlet TV to make a 6 x 60-minute series looking at the origins of serial killers. The Making of Monstershas no air date as yet but there are also plans to run it on sister station The ...
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Community Channel digs into gardening
The Community Channel will offer a snapshot of the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom 2007 competition by following the progress of two of its regional finalists.
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NewsIndie Century wins Live Earth film commission
Century Films has become the first UK indie to win a commission from the US film producer behind the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
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NewsGearbox Cardiff opening
Equipment dealer and hire company GearBox is opening a new office in Cardiff.
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Camerawork critique
It was good to see Michael Hurll mentioning 'camera direction' ( Broadcastletters, 06.07.07) and even better to see Roger Fenna (13.07.07) responding.
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NewsPolice wait on Ofcom and Icstis call-TV inquiries
Scotland Yard has given regulators Ofcom and Icstis the power to decide whether it should launch a criminal investigation into recent phone-in allegations.
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NewsTime to restore trust in call TV
Has the industry learnt its lesson over the problem with call TV?
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Red Bull in China shop
IMG Media has sold the upcoming Red Bull Air Races to Chinese broadcaster CCTV-5.
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GCap and Emap buck downward trend
The FTSE 100 endured a turbulent week. Buffeted by concerns over the debt market, share prices fell more than 300 points, before recovering slightly to 6,360.1p. The Broadcast 20 fell in line with the market, with the majority of shares ending the week down.
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NewsEnd of BT Movio points to crisis in mobile TV
BT has scrapped wholesale mobile TV service BT Movio, putting paid to Virgin Mobile's nascent mobile TV service and highlighting some of the problems facing the mobile TV industry.
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Blackburn joins KMFM
Veteran broadcaster Tony Blackburn is to join KMFM to host a new syndicated show in Kent following his departure from Classic Gold at the end of this week.
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NewsBKN opens HD facility
Children's media and entertainment company BKN is creating a new HD facility but it has not yet released details of the amount of money involved.
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NewsUK focus for Viacom's BET launch
Viacom's Black Entertainment Television (BET) will launch on Sky later this year with a heavy focus on local commissioning.
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NewsLonely girl finds new friends at Bebo
KateModern is a UK internet drama spin-off from the successful Lonelygirl15, an interactive web drama that viewers originally didn't realise was staged, writes Holly Cruickshank.
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BBCW hires news chief
BBC Worldwide America has appointed a new executive vice-president of news and sport in a move to step up the expansion of BBC news in the US.
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NewsBBC's OB slice of Salford Pie
The BBC's outside broadcast division will take a presence at the Pie Factory in Salford Quays, the only building currently standing at the Salford MediaCity:UK site.
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NewsLime wins first BBC drama commission
Lime Pictures has won its first BBC drama commission, a supernatural drama starring actor Martin Shaw as a Jesuit priest drawn into the world of exorcisms.
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NewsWatson backed by peers over 'fake publicity' row
Documentary-makers have leapt to Paul Watson's defence in the row over Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, arguing that marketing practices and the drive for ratings can easily lead to their work being misrepresented. [ALL]