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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - DIBS REVAMPS AS GO
Sony's interactive technology business, Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBS), has relaunched as Go interact tv. The spin-off, which acts as technology partner to interactive producers and worked with Simply Money
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Southern Star signs two-year deal with RAI
Southern Star Wild & Real has announced a two-year factual output deal with Italian broadcaster RAI 3, writes Steve Aston.The arrangement will see the company provide a minimum of 20 hours
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CHEAP DIGITAL RADIOS
Digital radios could soon cost less than£100 after national multiplex operator Digital One - owned by GWR and NTL - signed a£3m deal with Imagination Technologies to create a
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OFF THE RECORD - Cable chaos
And so to the annual cable industry awards where Off The Record was mightily confused to see Disney's Playhouse pick up a gong for best pre-school channel in 2000. The channel
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Broadcasters embrace ethnic diversity code
Broadcasters are set to agree a new commissioning clause that will force them to reflect the multiracial make-up of Britain in their output, writes Leigh Holmwood.The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel
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OFF THE RECORD - Yanks put Britain in quarantine
RDF is having fun and games filming its Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge in Los Angeles where the weather's more or less guaranteed to be sunny enough for the outdoor shoot
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CREATIVE BRIEFS
Bernard Heyes Design created the opening titles for the new World of Wonder series The Secret Rulers of the World for Channel 4. Produced and directed by Jon Ronson, the series
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MIP-TV IN BRIEF - CARLTON INTERNATIONAL SEALS TV MOVIES DEAL
Carlton International has secured deals for a number of its TV movies through Carlton America. Japan's World Television has secured DVD, video and TV rights for The Triangle, while Japanese distributor
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MIP-TV IN BRIEF - GRANADA EXTENDS DISCOVERY DEAL
Granada International has extended its relationship with Discovery Networks International (DNI) after signing a multi-year deal for 100 hours of new programming to air on Discovery channels outside the US. Under
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BOOT CAMP DISPUTE
Granada could be caught in a legal row over its Boot Camp reality TV format, after it emerged this week that US firm LMNO Productions, which is producing the show in
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Smith: power boost needed
Media Secretary Chris Smith has moved to meet the 2006-2010 switch-off period for analogue TV by calling on broadcasters to boost the power of their transmitters in order to widen and
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OFF THE RECORD - Belt tightening
Blame the economic slow-down, but Granada is tightening its belts. OTR hears that bowls of fruit have been banned from all executive's offices and company credit cards have apparently been taken
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ON THE BOX - The bear necessities
BBC editor, mainstream LE Jonathan Glazier finds Grizzly Face to Face a little uninformative but As If an all-round delight.
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HUGHES TO BBC FACTUAL
Former BBC documentaries managing editor Jacquie Hughes has been appointed to the new role of BBC factual and learning managing editor of fully funded commissions and innovation. Hughes will develop and
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Guinness man to head BBC HR
The BBC has raided drinks giant Guinness to replace outgoing BBC director of human resources and internal communications Gareth Jones, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Guinness global human resources director Stephen Dando will take
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC MediaArc picks Barker
BBC Mediaarc, the corporation's newly created design agency, is expanding with the appointment of Carol Barker to the new role of head of animation and the addition of three 3D artists,
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Pearson International duo poised to bail out
Pearson Television International (PTI) is in 11th-hour talks to retain its two most senior executives, chief executive Brian Harris and president Joe Abrams who both plan to quit the company.The two
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Holby City comes back to prop up Tuesday night
Back to earth with a post-Comic Relief bump for BBC 1 - Coronation Street returns to the top of the stack in the top 50 and all except one primetime night
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Kirch stalls football auction
German MEDIA outfit Kirch has postponed plans to auction off rights to the 2002 World Cup until after the general election to avoid becoming embroiled in electioneering by ministers, writes Simon
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LWT to replace arts partner
LWT is poised to announce a new co-production partner for its arts department following the closure of its former partner, NVC Arts, writes Colin Robertson.The company said this week it was