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    Radio overtakes TV

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Radio is now more popular than television, according to the latest audience research, with BBC Radio 2 having added nearly a million new listeners in the past three months.Second quarter Rajar

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    LONDON RADIO SHAKE-UP

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's London Live station, formerly Greater London Radio, has recruited columnist Anna Raeburn and comedian Jo Brand in a bid to boost audience figures. The two women will be key

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    WALL JOINS TRAVEL SHOP

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    United Business Media chief operating officer Malcolm Wall is to join satellite and cable channel TV Travel Shop as non-executive chairman. Wall, who is also a non-executive director of Channel 5,

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    Recession hits Red Pepper ID

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Post facility Red Pepper ID has become the first casualty of what many within the Soho production community are calling 'the beginning of a recession'.A major downturn in fortunes for the

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    PREMIERSHIP TO HIT PRIMETIME

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    ITV is set to screen its main premiership football highlights programme in an early evening slot, hauling it out of the BBC's late evening tradition, writes Steve Aston.

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    LEADER - The hidden risk of playing safe

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    As BBC 1 this week launches a fourth weekly episode of EastEnders (as first revealed by Broadcast in January last year), it's time to reflect on the state of the terrestrial

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    TOP GEAR UNDER REVIEW

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC 2 motoring strand Top Gear is to be 'reviewed' when its current series ends in October, although it will not be axed, the corporation has said. The programme, fronted by

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    PEAK FLY-BY TO GO ON THE WEB

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    British explorer David Hempleman-Adams' attempt to fly over Mount Everest in a hot air balloon is to be webcast live by broadband service BT Openworld next month, writes David Wood. The

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    WEB RADIO STATION FLOPS

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Internet radio station Net FM has closed just four months from launch after financial backers pulled the plug on second-round funding. The station, launched by former Talk Radio programmer Richard Jacobs

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    INTERVIEW - Survival of the fittest

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    'The policy of an organisation is not the stuff that sexy TV is made of. Our agenda is not to empower people but to get ratings up'.

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    TRADE TALK - Saturday fights

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The Saturday Show producer Annette Williams is set to 'custard pie' ITV viewer magnets Ant and Dec with CBBC's new offering.

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    TELEWEST EARNINGS UP

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Telewest Communications has returned record quarterly earnings of£74m before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Content division Flextech returned revenues of£95m for the six months to 30 June, up 13

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    DISNEY PROFITS DOWN

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The Walt Disney Company has reported a 3 per cent drop in quarterly profits to $479m (£338m) on sales of $6bn (£4.2bn). The company instigated 4,000 job cuts globally in March.

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    Discovery trawls net

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    US Broadcaster Discovery Communications has turned to a TV commissioning website to ask UK indies for ideas for its Discovery Health channel, writes David Wood.

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    West Midlands first in digital TV project

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The West Midlands has been chosen for the government's first 'digital neighbourhood' project, it was announced this week, writes Steve Aston.

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    TOSHIBA SIGNS UP DGP

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    DGP has become the only UK facility with access to the Toshiba DVD encoding and authoring system after it reached an agreement to become the sole UK sub-licensee of California Video

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    Flextech in Icebox deal

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Flextech Television has struck a multimillion pound deal with US animator Icebox for a series of animated shorts as well as a number of new co-productions, writes Simon Ellery.

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    STATIC GAINS CRUZ

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Static Design, the broadcast design wing of visual media company Static 2358, has poached senior broadcast designer Luiza dos Santos Cruz from Deepend. Cruz's new role will focus on bridging the

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    TX - The history of crime

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Makers of historical documentaries probably don't expect to find themselves amid a hail of bullets in Brazil or in a helicopter that Texan prison officers are threatening to shoot down, but

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    DBC funds gap forces closure

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), owner of film and sport pay-per-view outfit u>direct, has gone into liquidation after shareholders withdrew funding, writes Simon Ellery.