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NewsNotts council lodge Ofcom complaint
Nottingham City Council has complained to Ofcom after Channel 4's Best and Worst Places to Live in the UKnamed the city the second worst place to live in the country.
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NewsC4's cricket dominates daytime again
Viewers don't seem to have tired of Channel 4's cricket coverage with the afternoon's first day's play of the third test dominating viewing with 2.4 million (28.7%) over five hours.
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NewsFive ventures into multichannel world
Five has announced its first venture into mulitchannel TV with a joint venture with interactive media group YooMedia.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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NewsSecond Ashes test gets DVD release
Indie Sunset + Vine has taken the term 'fast turnaround' to extremes, turning out a DVD of England's Test Match cricket success in just five days.
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NewsLost attracts 6.1m
Channel 4's publicity campaign for its latest US drama series Lostpaid-off last night with the first episode attracting a massive audience of 6.1 million (26.8%) from 8.30pm.
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Livesey to Parthenon
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has poached Discovery Channel senior production manager Maria Livesey to fill the new role of director of production.
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ITV news reshuffle
New ITV News Channel editor Ben Rayner has reshuffled his team making a series of promotions. Assistant editor Matt Walsh has been promoted to deputy editor and senior programme editor Harry Gibson will take on the assistant editor role. Gibson's role is taken on by Debora Gorbutt, who moves up ...
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New in-car TV tuner
Spanish-based hi-fi firm Vieta is to launch a compact Freeview in-car tuner that will enable passengers to watch Freeview broadcasts en route. The TDT500C tuner is designed to operate with Vieta's range of in-car LCD monitors. The tuner aims to put an end to the drawbacks that have always plagued ...
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Sky's HD sat move
Sky has leased three extra transponders from satellite firm SES Astra to transmit its package of HD services, expected to launch in the UK in the first half of next year. Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein said that the HD launches would be a key part of the satellite ...
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Martyr gets Nitris
London post house Martyr has beefed up its HD finishing, spending£250,000 on an Avid DS Nitris editing system, plus HD monitoring and a Sony HDCam VTR. Martyr is already using the HD kit and its Edifis Finaliser HD grading system on Talkback Thames' HDCam series Murder ...
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Wogan remains nation's favourite
Wake up to Woganremains the UK's most popular national breakfast show, with more than 8 million listeners, but Chris Moyles managed to increase his audience by 81,000 to reach 6.2 million. R4's Todayprogramme added 120,000 listeners over the quarter, notching up 6.3 million, but Radio 3's ...
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The Hive provides the fear factor
VTR's graphics specialist The Hive has teamed up with ITV's promos unit to create a 30-second spot for reality hit The X-Factor. The sequence is based on the journey contestants take to reach their auditions through a long and ominous corridor lined with footage of people being ...
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Edinburgh festival hosts Question Time
Salman Rushdie, Dr David Starkey, and MPs Dianne Abbott and George Galloway have been added to the Edinburgh TV Festival Question Time Special. Shadow culture spokeswoman Theresa May and former director general Greg Dyke are also on the panel, chaired by Andrew Neil. The special will be held on Sunday ...
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London Post dresses the part
Titles for BBC2's 8 x 30-minute factual series A Week of Dressing Dangerouslywere created in Softimage XSI by London Post's 2D and 3D graphics designers Toby Goulding and Simon Hooley. The duo used the idea of a zip fastener to introduce the BBC in-house series which ...
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Shine opens doors to tyrants' homes
Indie Shine is to nose around the extravagant former homes of Saddam Hussein for a documentary for Sky One.
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ITV gives go-ahead for more Dial-a-Mum
ITV has ordered a further five episodes of Ludus and Objective Productions' forthcoming ITV daytime show Dial-a-Mum. The ITV1 show, which sends a four-strong team of 'no-nonsense mums' off to sort out people's problems, will now air as a 30 x 45-minute series from 5 September. ...
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DI kit for Resolution
Resolution has bought a Discreet Smoke DI editing system running on Linux from Autodesk through reseller XTFX. The Smoke DI system will replace Resolution's Quantel Editbox for short-form and long-form work. The facility also expects the system to bring in more HD work.It's the second Discreet system that Resolution has ...