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Local Radio company buys Bath FM
The Local Radio Company has brought Bath FM in a cash-and-shares deal worth£675,000. The company, which runs Ivel FM in Yeovil and 3TR in nearby Warminster, paid£400,000 for the station, which was owned by a group of private shareholders. They will also get as much as£275,000 in TLRC shares depending ...
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Five brings back Rupert
Five is set to sign up a new animated serie s of Rupert the Bearfor its Milkshakemorning children's strand.
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Love explores baby blues for Five
Love Productions, the indie formed by former Maverick TV managing director Richard McKerrow, is making a film about the downside of parenthood for Five.
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RDF rights to handle con artist series
Distributor RDF Rights has taken on US cable channel Court TV's newest show The Takedownfor inter-national distribution. The 12 x 30-minute reality series, which premieres this week in the US, sees a reformed con artist and his team try to 'take down' everything from foolproof casino ...
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Zero Hour is sold around the world
Distributor Cineflix International has sold indie 3BM Television's factual entertainment series Zero Hourto RTL Belgium, TVP in Portugal, MBC in Dubai, RTV in Slovenia, SABC 2 in South Africa and TBS in Japan. RTE in Ireland has also bought the series and its follow-up ...
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Peppa gets Annecy
Contender Entertainment's kids show Peppa Pigbeat off 12 other competitors, including Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants, to win the Annecy Animation Festival's best TV series award. The series, which is aimed at two to five year-olds, is shown on Five and Nick Jr in ...
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Oasis posts Africa icons series
Oasis Television has completed post-production on Out of Africa: Heroes and Icons, a 90-minute documentary opening BBC's Africa season. The documentary features interviews and archive footage of some of the most famous and influential icons in Africa's recent history such as Nelson Mandela ...
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Fuji takes action against family
Fuji Film has confirmed that it is taking its former broadcast divisional manager Eric Mould and stock supplier Transco Group plc directors to court over alleged trading irregularities.
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Freeview tops 5m
Freeview has passed the 5 million household mark, helping push digital penetration to 62% of all UK homes, according to new figures from Ofcom. In the three months to 31 March this year 643,000 more homes took digital TV - a rise of 2.5% over the end of 2004.
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C4 ties up with Two Way TV for BB add-ons
Channel 4 has hired interactive TV specialist Two Way TV to roll out a number of new services for cable users including live 24-hour uncut streaming of Big Brother 6.
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C4 keeps horse racing on terrestrial
Channel 4 has struck an eleventh hour deal to continue terrestrial horse racing coverage for at least another year. On Wednesday (15 June) C4 agreed a pound;4m sponsorship deal with the tote and participating UK racecourses that will keep racing on the channel throughout 2006, with the option to renew ...
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Jetix animated by 2006 line-up
Jetix Europe has commissioned two animated series for its 2006 line-up. Pucca, from Canada's Studio B, is a 78 x 7-minute series based on the cult Korean star of an animated e-card service created by VOOZ Co. The second show Get Ed, ...
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Musgrove Quits M2
Darren Musgrove has left Soho post-production company M2 to join broadcast facility Evolutions Television. Musgrove joins as a business development manager at the Berners Street post house. Musgrove previously worked for the BBC, Oasis and Broadcastmagazine. Post production producer Melanie Tomlin has also joined, leaving Nats ...
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Ofcom approves 15
Ofcom has licensed a further 15 community radio licences in a bid to create a third tier of radio services. New services will launch in Central Southampton, Hedge End, Botley and West End, near Eastleigh in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Newport on the Isle of Wight, Cumbernauld, Normanton in Derby, Leicester, Market ...
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Search is on for the new thing
With Jess Search heading C4's new Documentary Film Foundation, you can bet the films it funds will be different. But she wouldn't have it any other way
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Licence to skill
From Tai Chi to camera operating and graffiti, National Skills Day offered a chance for broadcasting staff to try something new and better understand each other's jobs. But there was a serious message too.
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Virgin goes head to head with Planet Rock
Virgin Radio is taking its digital rock station live in a bid to go head to head with GCap rival service Planet Rock.
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Toughest gig in town?
Growing concern about the long hours culture in reality and factual TV has prompted Pact and Bectu to begin renegotiating terms for freelancers. But just what is the worst job in television?
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Growing pains in the world of DVD
DVD is good business for facilities houses. But with increased competition and the introduction of new formats, it's a maturing market. By Kevin Hilton.
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Commission me, you git
TV executives claim to be always on the lookout for exciting ideas, but never seem to grasp them when they come their way.