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Talksport DTT slot
The Wireless Group's flagship station Talk Sport has launched on Freeview. The speech-based station has taken up channel 94 on the DTT platform meaning it is now available on all digital TV platforms.
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Kemp on guns for Sky One doc
ITV's former star signing Ross Kemp has landed his first TV role since relinquishing his golden handcuffs deal with the network.
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Nickelodeon exec quits for Disney role
Nickelodeon UK managing director Nicky Parkinson is leaving the company to take up the role of senior vice-president and managing director, branded television, Walt Disney TV International Asia Pacific in Hong Kong.
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Directors to go as VTR restructures
The VTR Group is to shed some of its most senior staff including managing directors and has earmarked up to£1m for redundancy payments.
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Joey to lead Five comedy
Five is planning to use new US acquisition Joey costing£500,000 an episode - to launch a block of comedy programming, said its chief executive, Jane Lighting, at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Clone doc picked up
Electric Sky has taken on distribution rights to a controversial documentary about human cloning from producer Peter Williams. Cloning the Dead, a 52-minute piece, follows Professor Panayiotis Zavos' successful attempts to produce a 64-cell embryo from three dead people. The documentary was produced over three ...
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Charter's new man
Chris Davies has joined broadcast rental company Charter as a senior engineer. Davies has worked with digital flyaway systems on Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup finals. He previously worked for Star TV, at the time when it became one of the first stations to integrate digital programming.
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Camp TV criticised
Prominent gay figures have rounded on Channel 4 for its portrayal of homosexuality, claiming commissioners still rely on stereotyped camp imagery. All broadcasters came under fire in Edinburgh for commissioning shows that portrayed gay men as camp figures, such as Living's Queer Eye for a ...
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Court camera pilot
Television cameras will be allowed into English and Welsh courtrooms as part of a pilot study which could pave the way for a permanent TV presence in the courts. The pilot will take place in the Court of Appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Footage from the ...
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Flashback buys Double Exposure
Flashback Television has acquired Bafta award-winning education specialist Double Exposure and inherited£2m worth of business.
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Bullseye in entertainment push
Bullseye Television is pushing into factual entertainment and comedy.
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Britain gets Move Channel
The UK's first dedicated property channel is due to launch this month.
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Footballers talk to Bravo
Bravo has commissioned a video diary show for an access-all-areas look into a week in the lives of two Premiership footballers.
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Moving Picture bids
WPP, Kodak, Thomson Multimedia's Technicolour and former Carlton chairman Michael Green are being touted as likely bidders for The Moving Picture Company. ITV declared that it wanted to sell its non-core assets earlier this year ( Broadcast , 28.6.04). WPP already owns post-production companies such ...
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Five schedules Beckham documentary
Startling revelations are promised in a Five documentary about Victoria Beckham. Sham Sandhu, controller of pop features and special events for Five, has commissioned indie Vascha to produce the 60-minute show, which will feature archive footage and interviews and is pencilled in for October. Dave Hills will produce and direct.
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Fremantle to sell BBC's Fingersmith
Fingersmith , the BBC's forthcoming lesbian-themed drama from the author of Tipping the Velvet , is to be sold worldwide by Fremantle International Distribution. The 3 x 60-minute historical drama is based on Sarah Waters' third novel and is due to air on BBC1 in ...
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BBC radio wins Welsh football fixtures
BBC Radio Wales will trace the country's bid for victory in World Cup 2006 as part of a four-year deal with the Football Association of Wales. The contract includes radio coverage of Wales' international home fixtures, which also includes the Euro 2008 tournament, as well as both the home and ...
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BBC Prime to launch on French satellite
Entertainment channel BBC Prime is to boost its presence in France by launching on pay-TV platform Canalsatellite. It will begin broadcasting to Canalsatellite's 2.8 million subscribers this month, taking BBC Prime's total reach across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to 19 million. The schedule includes BBC staples such as ...
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CNBC exits Barb
CNBC Europe has pulled out of ratings body Barb saying that the measurement system fails to accurately reflect ratings figures. The business channel, a joint-venture between US network NBC and Dow Jones, has not renewed its subscription to Barb on the grounds that the system only measures viewing inside private ...