All News articles – Page 4922

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    LEADER - Public needs news, not stories

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    It's been one of the biggest stories of the 'war' so far: how the media covers it. Next week those involved in the broadcast news business from Azebaijan to Algeria and

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    SHORTT JOINS ZONE

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Networks Europe deputy managing director Dermot Shortt has been poached as chief executive officer for London-based channel operator Zone Vision, which runs channels throughout eastern Europe and Latin America. Shortt,

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    INTERVIEW - Winning on the web

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    BBC Online is flourishing while its commercial counterparts flounder. And Ashley Highfield reckons he can make the newly branded BBC i 'the number one digital destination.'

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    INTERACTIVE REPORT

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Technology rather than the needs of the viewer are driving developments in interactive television, according to a report by Shelley Taylor & Associates. BSkyB was judged the best interactive service in

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    PAT HAS NEW HOME

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Entertainment Rights has bought the worldwide rights to Postman Pat via the acquisition of Woodland Animations for£5.1m. Woodland's library holds 85 episodes of programming including Postman Pat, Gran, Charlie Chalk

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    TRADE TALK - Gift of the gab

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Innovation TK's link-up with effects developer 5D is indicative of the ambitions joint founder Delphi Durrant has for her telecine company.

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    INDIE FINANCE - Heavyweight that can hold its own

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Since Brook Associates merged with Brian Lapping four years' ago, high ratings have never been on the indie's agenda - but that has not hampered the creation of a successful business.

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    VENICE TV FESTIVAL

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The first Venice International Television Festival will take place between 21 and 26 March next year. Canal Grande Awards will be presented for best fiction, documentary, cartoon and format (game, sitcom,

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    TX - Single white farmers

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    It was hardly ideal timing, but Thames Television's decision to press ahead at the height of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year with The Farmer Wants a Wife -

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    FARMER JOB FOR SKARAMOOSH

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Skaramoosh designed the titles and graphics for The Farmer Wants a Wife, produced by Thames Television for ITV 1. The series follows a group of farmers - originally featured in a

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    It's a fact: history does a lot for minority ratings

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Take away The Weakest Link from BBC 2's early evening and what do you get? An unusually varied minority channels' top 10. This is one of those weeks when BBC 2's

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    Nats and others still expanding

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Nats Post-production has made an array of appointments in light of the company's expansion, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Sky entertainment head goes to indie

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    September films has poached the driving force behind Sky One's original programme output to become the indie's first director of programmes, writes Steve Aston.

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    Eyewitnesses to Eichmann

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery.

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    STRANDED DOWN UNDER

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a£3m follow-up to RDF Media reality format Shipwrecked (above) that will see viewers control the lives of six participants living in the Australian rainforest, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Telewest director poached for Japanese post

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Telewest director of content acquisitions and business development Andrew Shaw has been poached by one of the company's biggest shareholders, Liberty Media, to join its Japanese joint-venture company Jupiter Programming, writes Simon Ellery.

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    TWG EASES DEBTS

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) has massively relieved its debt burden after selling its Southampton-based local radio station Wave 105FM to Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) for£18m in cash. As part of

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    GRANADA CUTS FRASER

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Granada's director of international production David Fraser is to leave the company as part of its ongoing cost-cutting drive. Fraser was responsible for overseeing Joy Luck Street, the Chinese version of

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    CORRECTIONS

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    There were two errors in last week's Broadcast (2.11.01). The headline 'Glassworks/Passion strike gold at Bafta' was incorrect and should have referred to the British Television Advertising Awards (BTAA) craft awards.Elsewhere,

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    More upheaval for CITV as Granada rejigs kids

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    ITV's plans to build a children's media empire on the back of its CITV brand suffered a further blow this week after it emerged that Granada has been forced to downsize