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    ALL OUT RENEWS RADIO 5 LIVE CONTRACT

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio 5 Live commissioning editor, news Steve Kyte has asked indie All Out Productions to make a further 40 x 25-minute programmes for the Five Live Report slot over the

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    Soccer and Caine combo boosts Channel 5 figures

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Something very strange happened on Wednesday of this week - glance down the top 50 to eighth place, where Coronation Street (ITV, 28 March) recorded an audience of 11.72 million. Obsessive

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    422 Artist wins quantel prize

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    422 Bristol's Dave Corfield has been named the first UK Quantel artist of the year, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    C4 orders model talent show

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, entertainment Sharon Powers has ordered a Big Brother-style series from Princess Productions, which will attempt to discover a new supermodel, writes Penny Hughes.

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    RUGBY EXTENDED ON S4C

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    S4C is extending its rugby coverage after securing exclusive coverage of the first match in The Barbarians Scottish Amicable Tour against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 20 May.

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    Channel 4 gets rights to Rapido lesbian film

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, factual Jo Wallace has bought the rights to Planet Rapido's documentary about last year's Aqua Girl 2000 lesbian gathering in the US, writes Penny Hughes.

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    MAVERICK TO PROBE HOUSE SWAPPING FOR C4

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, daytime Jo McGrath has ordered a 25 x 30-minute series from Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television about house swapping. It will be filmed in the UK and abroad

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    CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS SCIENCE SERIES

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has ordered a 6 x 30-minutes series, Seismic, from Darlow Smithson. The popular science series will break down events - such as the Argentinian

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    News 24 clears schedule

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC News 24 is gearing up to clear its schedule during the general election campaign with an ambitious plan to focus almost entirely on the election.Broadcast has also learnt that BBC

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    Planet 24 production director quits to set up multimedia indie

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Planet 24 production director Paul Sandler has left the company and plans to launch a multimedia production company in the summer, writes Simon Ellery.

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    £6m boost for C5 productions

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5's warring shareholders RTL Group and United Business Media (UBM) have agreed a truce in their battle over the station's programming budget by green-lighting an extra£6m for original productions.The

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    RATINGS - BBC 1 viewers flee from Godzilla over to ITV

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The first terrestrial showing of Godzilla on BBC 1 failed to get a monster rating writes Jon Rogers.

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    Out of Africa

    2001-04-19T16:56:00Z

    Tigress Productions producer Graham Booth talks to Laura Harding about the trials, tribulations and joys he faced while on location in Ghana

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    Switchdigital wins licence

    2001-04-19T16:32:00Z

    The Radio Authority has awarded the digital multiplex licence for Aberdeen to the Switchdigital consortium.The group, which is majority controlled by The Wireless Group, plans to operate eight commercial services,

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    BBC Resources names first head of business develpment

    2001-04-19T15:31:00Z

    BBC Resources has created a new head of business development role but continues to face industrial action following the restructure first announced last July, in which more than 200 jobs and

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    422 man scooops first Quantel artistry award

    2001-04-19T14:54:00Z

    422 Bristol's Dave Corfield has been named the first UK Quantel artist of the year, writes Barbara MarshallQuantel, in association with Promax & BDA, the associations for marketing, promotion and design

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    BBC buys fantasy animated series UBOS

    2001-04-19T13:03:00Z

    BBC head of acquisitions and co-productions for CBBC Theresa Plummer-Andrews has bought 52 x 22-minute animated series UBOS(formerly Ultimate Book of Spells) from entertainment company BKN.UBOS is a fantasy

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    ITN to stream news to kiosks

    2001-04-19T13:02:00Z

    Leading UK news provider teams with Cityspace & Adshel to bring 24-hour news to I-plus kiosks

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    Carlton signs Crossroads NZ deal

    2001-04-19T12:52:00Z

    Carlton International has signed its first distribution deal for new ITV soap Crossroadswith New Zealand terrestrial broadcaster TVNZ. It plans to run the soap as a key component of its

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    Play UK's Littleford orders first programming raft

    2001-04-19T12:50:00Z

    Play UK's new channel editor Mathew Littleford has commissioned his first batch of programming, led by a new series based on BBC Radio 1 dance show The Essential Selection