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    ITV Unions to oppose budget and jobs cuts

    2001-09-21T12:06:00Z

    Newly established pan-union body says further ITV cuts will 'seriously weaken' broadcaster

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    Shed builds new Bad Girls set

    2001-09-21T12:06:00Z

    £300,000 construction is largest for non-soap drama in UK

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    Channel 3 claims it would have 'bettered' ITV's coverage of US tragedy

    2001-09-21T12:06:00Z

    Consortium head says crisis showed importance of strong international ties

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    Zenith ups programming budget by£500,000

    2001-09-21T12:06:00Z

    More factual shows in the pipeline as new post of head of network factual programmes is created

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    BT and Deutsche Telecom ink 3G deal

    2001-09-21T12:03:00Z

    UK and German telcos seek to cut costs of rolling out third generation wireless networks

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    SNELL WINS TUCKER

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Roderick Snell has won this year's IBC John Tucker award, the international honour for excellence. Snell, who founded Snell & Wilcox with Joe Wilcox in 1973, was presented with the award

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    Overseas ownership threat to regions

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Regional production in the UK would be threatened if a foreign media company were to buy Carlton or Granada, Granada chief executive Steve Morrison said at the weekend, writes Colin Robertson.Speaking

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    NEWS ON TAP

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Simon Ellery takes a look at whether the 24-hour rolling news channels came of age in reporting the tragic events in the US.

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    TX - Unravelling a mystery

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The director of indie TV 6, Richard Reisz, was filming an archaeological series for Channel 4 in Egypt when the curator of Cairo's national museum first got a call from a

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    Tapscott warns of kids' know-how

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    'Welcome to the post-dotcom world ... eyeballs were the wrong part of the body - hearts are what counts.' So began a presentation by New Paradigm Learning Corporation president Don Tapscott

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    OFF THE RECORD - Just kidding..

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Next up on the stocks, sorry, podium was the ITC's Patricia Hodgson. Dispensing with her doubtless scintillating speech on the future of this, that and the other, dear old Pat opted

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    NHU'S HI-TECH PILOT

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is piloting a state-of-the-art asset management system at its Natural History Unit in Bristol. Project Mercury is intended to be a fully networked system allowing desktop access to all

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    Granada takes reshuffle path

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Granada has called off the search for a controller of entertainment for its content division and instead has reshuffled its existing staff.The move is the latest change of direction from the

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    KILROY GAMESHOW PLAN

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Endemol Entertainment UK arm Initial has been commissioned by ITV to produce new primetime psychological gameshow Shafted. Presented by Robert Kilroy-Silk, the show features 10 contestants who second guess questions and

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    ITV SPORT GAINS RUGBY

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    ITV Sport Channel has struck a two-year deal to share UK coverage of pan-European rugby tournament The Heineken Cup with the BBC. ISN and Granada Sport will produce the coverage, which

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    Flextech's new series unveiled

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Flextech has announced details of six new series for its wholly owned men's channel Bravo and its BBC joint-venture UK Horizons.Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice has ordered three series including 15

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    AND FINALLY..

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The producer of The Office and Up Late Ralf Little, Ash Atalla, relaxes by listening to the couple upstairs.

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    NEW PROGRAMME FIGURES FALL, SAYS REPORT

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The world's most competitive TV markets saw less new programming in 2000-2001 than in the previous TV season, according to an annual report from French TV research outfit Mediametrie. The New

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    Tivo drops price to undercut Sky

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Personalised Video recorder (PVR) maker Tivo has cut the price of its stand-alone device by£100 to£299 following disappointing take-up in the UK, writes David Wood.The move makes the device

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    Sky to launch Dolby service

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    BskyB is the first UK broadcaster to commit to transmitting programmes with Dolby Digital surround sound, it was revealed at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam last week, writes Barbara Marshall.From