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    BBC NEW MEDIA FIRST

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC new media has appointed its first controller of business development as part of its departmental restructure. Director of broadband services at games portal gameplay.com Angel Gambino has been hired and

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    TWG HITS OUT AT BBC

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    The Wireless Group has submitted a document to the Office of Fair Trading in which it complains that the BBC abuses its dominant position by buying radio rights to sporting events

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    BBC Wales boosts factual team

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC Wales has recruited three producers from the commercial sector to work on new projects in its standalone factual department, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC DESIGNER IN MOVE

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources graphic designer Andrew Norris Sherborn has joined digital agency Entranet as senior technology project manager responsible for the technical output of its inter-active TV team. Sherborn joins from the

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    OFF THE RECORD - The occasional diary of a BBC Director General Dyke Towers

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    TUESDAYChannel 4 doesn't half make me laugh - what with finally announcing the chop for the crappest-rating breakfast show of all time (and I should know) to that bloody Go Racing

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    ITV SHELVES SLAP BANG

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    ITV has decided not to commission any further episodes of Ant and Dec vehicle Slap Bang from indie Blaze. The show was originally intended to return with 16 shows in the

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    INDIE FINANCE - From Bad Girls to Footballers' Wives

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    A simple structure and efficient cost control have meant Shed Productions, maker of Bad Girls, was able to turn a profit in its first year. It has also found success in overseas sales and merchandising. Ed Shelton reports.

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    Go Racing deal back on course

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Horseracing consortium Go Racing has clinched a last-minute deal to save its£387m TV rights contract.The British Horseracing Board (BHB) has signed a contract with the consortium to provide it with

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    CARE SCOOPS FIVE AWARDS AT BAFTA CYMRU

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Care, the BBC's drama about abuse in Welsh children's homes during the 1970s and 1980s won five Bafta Cymru awards on Sunday (24 June). It took the best drama award while

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    UK firms win top awards at Promax

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    UK broadcasters triumphed at the Promax and BDA 2001 awards in Miami last Thursday, writes Mark Banham.

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    NEW RORY PECK AWARD

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    The Rory Peck Awards is introducing a new category, the Sony International Impact Award, for freelance broadcast journalists whose work that has made an impact on government policy or public opinion.

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    CARLTON WINS AWARD

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Carlton has picked up The Windrush Partnership Achievement Award for its commitment to cultural diversity. The award is given to organisations that have helped people from ethnic minorities through their business.

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    SKILLSET ASKS INDUSTRY TO RETURN CENSUS

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Skillset this week called for all those working in the audiovisual industries to return forms for the second industry-wide census by the end of July. The first census showed that 116,000

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    ARRI GB CHIEF RETIRES

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Arri GB chief executive Derrick Ross has retired after 18 years with the German-owned company. Ross set up Arri's UK subsidiary in 1983 after being poached from competitor Rank Strand where

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    TELEWEST APPOINTS KINGSMILL AS NON-EXEC

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Cable outfit Telewest has strengthened its board by naming former MFI Furniture deputy chair Denise Kingsmill as a non-executive director. Kingsmill, who has been deputy chair of the Competition Commission since

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - American cream

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    With British entertainment formats having performed strongly in the US lately, confidence is growing among American broadcasters that UK indies branching out into the States can deliver hit factual and reality shows.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Carlton driven by naked ambition

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Industry observers are familiar with the argument that the quality of Carlton's programming really has improved in the eight years of its short life, not least since Steve Hewlett arrived to

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    Allen should've kept quiet

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Sitting beside the Camel - river not ship of desert - word reaches me of a bizarre happening. Apparently, and it is hard to believe, Granada has written to the prime

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    BBC CHOICE TO AIR WEAKEST LINK THEME NIGHT

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC Choice is to screen a theme night dedicated to quiz show The Weakest Link. The six-hour event, which will go out on 1 July from 19.00, will feature the first

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    Big Brother looks ahead to third run

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Endemol Entertainment UK controller of entertainment Ruth Wrigley is already working on plans for Big Brother 3, despite the fact the existing house in Bow will be torn down in three months' time, writes Georgina Lipscomb.