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CLOCKWORK HIRING.
Broadcast equipment and finance provider Clockwork Capital has appointed former BBC MediaArc interactive account manager Nick Looby as broadcast account manager. Before joining BBC Media-Arc, Looby was business development manager with
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MUSIC CHOICE DEAL.
Digital audio broadcaster Music Choice has struck a content deal with Phonographic Performance to broadcast music from its library representing 3,000 record companies. The broadcaster airs 10 channels on Sky Digital
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SPORTAL CHIEF TO DITG.
Former Sportal chief executive Neil MacDonald has joined the Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG) as sales and marketing director. MacDonald will lead the commercial development of the group's interactive TV interests,
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UNION RAISES CASH.
Union Media, which owns TV drama and documentary-maker Union Pictures and has a 50 per cent stake in film producer Natural Nylon, has announced plans to pump up to #2m into
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CARRY ON INDIA.
Carry On Up the Khyber, the classic comic film which lampoons British rule in colonial India and features a blacked up Kenneth Williams playing an Indian rajah, is set to be made available in India following a deal between rights-holder Carlton Internatio
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Pinewood launches broadband service.
Pinewood Shepperton Studios is launching a new service next month called Studiolink to provide broadband connectivity to film and television studios in Europe and the US.The new service, which will be
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Creative briefs - News in brief.
Framestore CFC is behind the visual effects for Bartle Bogle Hegarty's latest commercial for Levi's engineered jeans. Called Odyssey, the ad was directed by Jonathan Glazer and features two denim-clad Romeo
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OFF THE RECORD - News in brief.
As much as we Brits hate to laugh at the Germans (there's only so many times one can chortle while declaring 'don't mention the score!'), it's most amusing to see the
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ON THE BOX - Toast of the terraces.
For TCM general manager, Europe, Africa & Middle East Tina McCann Footballers' Wives scores but Love Cruise misses the boat.
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Britons to make Giuliani biopic.
THE LIFE OF former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani will be documented for US viewers by UK companies following a $4m (#2.8m) deal between London-based Jam Pictures, Carlton America and USA Network, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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WHEN LILY MET BETTE.
ITV has ordered a one-off programme from indie RDF, which takes its inspiration from the recent advertisements from mobile phone operator One 2 One, writes Penny Hughes. Live Forever, ordered by
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OFF THE RECORD - The best-kept secret in town.
Hands up who was surprised when Will won Pop Idol? It shocked quite a few folk, not least Off The Record as well as the nationals who had been touting a
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BBC moves to quell 'Delia effect' panic.
Manufacturers of gardening equipment have held talks with the BBC over concerns that the so-called 'Delia effect' - where retailers were swamped with requests for specific products after the celebrity chef used them on her show - could happen to them, wri
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BBC FILLS KEY EXEC JOB.
BBC entertainment in Manchester has appointed LWT Hothouse development producer Celina Parker as executive producer of development. Parker, who has previously worked on Stars in their Eyes and Find a Fortune,
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Retailers to feel BBC pressure.
The BBC wants retailers to warn customers against digital terrestrial television (DTT) set-top boxes that fail to provide all its digital services.The corporation is concerned that some models may eschew some
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BBC in nationwide Doctors drive.
The BBC is to launch its first nationwide marketing campaign for daytime programming after confirming that popular afternoon soap Doctors will air all year round from March, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC DIGITAL - Double-edged success.
The BBC was always going to use its generous licence fee settlement as a means to embark on an unprecedented expansion in digital media. But the corporation's ambitions are facing mounting opposition from rivals.
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OFF THE RECORD - Dyke Towers - The occasional diary of a BBC Director General.
MONDAYZipadee-doo-dah, Zipadee-day. My oh my what a wonderful bloody bloke I am. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the crap is being cut by the minute. Maybe it's
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BASIL BRUSH TO FRONT NEW CBBC SITCOM.
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a 26 x 30-minute sitcom featuring the cult character Basil Brush. Each show, produced by Entertainment Rights and The Foundation at Maidstone Studios, will feature
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TRADE TALK - Barbie world.
The year could hardly have begun on a worse note for Barb chief executive Caroline McDevitt, but she's determined to weather the storm.