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    Broadcasters need to open training

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Skillset/DCMS report calls on Ofcom to monitor amount broadcasters spend on training

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    Teletext bids to boost ITV sport output

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Text-based content provider says it can enhance ITV coverage as broadcaster looks to improve services

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    BBC Choice commissions Jordan doc

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Crew get access to surgically enhanced model for 60-minute special

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    Heggessey to give Bafta lecture

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey is giving the Bafta annual lecture next Wednesday (12 September).Almost a year into her job, Heggessey is expected to underline her personal views on what

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    NoW axes two channels

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    TV and internet venture to cuts its losses to concentrate on computer gaming and sports

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    Overnights suggest reality TV losing appeal

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Second episode of ITV's search-for-a-star reality show Soapstars loses viewers despite being scheduled after Coronation Street

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    C4 nabs Mykura

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Blakeway Associates' head of programming arrives at Horseferry Road as commissioning editor, history

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    Cavalier's dDaddy nets C4 Mesh cash

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Channel 4 has chosen Stephen Cavalier's short film Daddyas winner of this year's Mesh new-talent digital animation scheme.Set in 1950s America, Daddyis a tale of small-town adultery, corruption

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    Bannister downbeat on prospects for digital radio

    2001-09-07T13:34:00Z

    BBC's former director of radio warns of consumer apathy and says current strategies to promote take-up are failing

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    TV Corp shares bomb as Rowlands quits and company warns on full year profits

    2001-09-07T12:20:00Z

    Facilities to rights company sees nearly a quarter of its value wiped out following sudden departure of chief executive and collapse of first half profits

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    TV Corp shares plummet as Rowlands quits

    2001-09-07T12:12:00Z

    Facilities to rights company sees nearly a quarter of its value wiped -out following surprise departure of chief executive

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    Scientist joins race for BBC chairman

    2001-09-07T11:05:00Z

    John Ashworth, a former scientific adviser to Margeret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan, makes the five-strong shortlist to replace outgoing BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland

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    Lion plans entertainment move

    2001-09-07T09:08:00Z

    Castaway producer searching for new head of entertainment to spearhead move to make format driven shows

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    Channel TV lambasts Carlton and Granada over ITV name

    2001-09-07T09:08:00Z

    Huw Davies says two company's 'using strength to do exactly as they want

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    TEXT FOR TALKSPORT

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    National radio station TalkSport is the first to sign up to an SMS text messaging service developed by Quartez called Txt2Air. The system will be used by the station to canvas

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    Trade Talk - Secret weapon

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Few have heard of Jagdip Jagpal since she took the helm at SMG. Can this legal specialist turn around the company's creative fortunes?

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    OFF THE RECORD - The show that's too sexy for TV

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    If C4 ever feels the heat of its competitors' ratings breathing down its now more populist neck, it could always try dredging the depths of its archive for racy sexploits from

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    Storm set for retail radio

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Storm Digital Broadcasting (SDB), the radio outfit run by former Radio One DJ Bruno Brookes, is entering the in-house radio market with the launch of two new channels - Post Office Live and a radio station for newsagents, writes Georgina Lispcomb.

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    Youlton quits S&W

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    David Youlton has said he will step down as chairman of Snell & Wilcox in the same week that the company has confirmed its purchase of Newbury-based manufacturer Post Impressions.Youlton told

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    RUSHES PICKS UP SPIRIT

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Soho commercials facility Rushes has added Philips' Spirit Datacine to its existing Cintel C-Reality and URSA Diamond telecine. The Spirit, which is the 20th to be installed in the UK, will