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MacKenzie slams Rajar ratings.
The Wireless Group chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie has sparked controversy in the radio sector once again, this time criticising the Rajar audience measurement system as misleading and inaccurate, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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PRODUCTION SHOW LIST.
The Production Show, which runs from 21 to 23 May at Olympia, London, has unveiled its list of speakers. BBC controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody, BBC controller of entertainment commissioning
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TRADE TALK - Teenage kicks.
Will Channel 5's Sham Sandhu ensure that 16 to 24-year-olds can't get the channel out of their heads with the Kylie special he ordered last week?
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UBC MEDIA SETS UP WEATHER JV WITH MET OFFICE.
UBC Media Group has developed a Meteorological Office (Met Office) digital weather service. The service will be freely available on the Digizone data channel and will be updated six times a
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ITV snaps up Living TV show.
In an attempt to shore up its daytime share and save money, ITV has taken the rare decision to buy in a factual series which was commissioned by another broadcaster, writes Steve Aston.
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PROGRAMMING - LOUIS ON THE HORIZON.
UK Horizons is to dedicate an entire weekend to Louis Theroux, writes Jon Rogers.
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Lion Scotland makes history.
Glasgow-based indie Lion Scotland is pushing into high-end history programming and has appointed producer John Toba to oversee the drive, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NESTA GRANT FOR HORNBY.
Documentary filmmaker Craig Hornby has received a #75,000 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) fellowship to establish a community TV network in his Teeside. The three-year fellowship will
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SIR PAUL LENDS VOICE TO GMG.
Musician Paul McCartney this week launched Guardian Media Group Radio's new analogue radio station in Yorkshire, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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PROGRAMMING - ITV SENDS JOHN McCARTHY GLOBETROTTING.
ITV controller of news, current affairs, arts and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned CTVC to produce a show for ITV 1 exploring the relationship between politics and religion. The 6 x
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PROGRAMMING - FOX KIDS UK WINS OLSEN TWINS SERIES RIGHTS.
Fox Kids UK has secured exclusive cable and satellite rights to the live-action series So Little Time produced by Dualstar Productions, the outfit owned by 15-year-old twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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FOOTBALLERS' WIVES GO TO OZ.
Shed Productions has sold its ITV drama Footballers' Wives to a raft of territories including Australia (Network Ten) and New Zealand (TVNZ), writes Penny Hughes.
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PROGRAMMING - ITN FACTUAL TO MAKE SUZY LAMPLUGH FILM.
ITV controller of news, current affairs, art and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned ITN Factual to produce a documentary for its Real Crime strand, based on the disappearance of estate agent
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Quantel launches generationQ range.
Quantel has unveiled a completely redesigned 'generationQ' range of production, post, broadcast graphics and news systems, all based around Windows 2000.At its heart is a new generation of scaleable Quantel software
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - The Mill goes to Manhattan.
The Mill plans to set up a New York base to work on commercials visual effects projects, writes Barbara Marshall.
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WORLDWIDE ENGLISH.
BBC Worldwide is to launch an English learning package for broadcasters around the world to help jobseekers. The package, which is also available for publishing, encompasses the 26 x 15-minute TV
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EMAP TRADING UPDATE.
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, has released a trading update for the year ending 31 March 2002. Radio revenues, for its stations including Kiss 100, Magic 105.4 and the Big City Network,
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OFF THE RECORD - Party on, dudes.
And finally, a plea for help. A group of industry folk (including this very magazine) are getting together to organise a street party in Soho for the Queen's Jubilee. It'll take
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TOP GEAR DRIVES SOUTH.
Production of BBC 2 motoring show Top Gear is to be moved from Birmingham to London in order to accommodate frontman Jeremy Clarkson, who has been lured back to present the
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Man U takes Yankee dollar.
Manchester United's dedicated TV station, MUTV, will be made available to football fans in the US following a deal with the New York Yankees TV channel Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) in the US, writes Georgina Lipscomb.