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    BBC SHORTLISTS ARCHITECTS FOR SCOT HQ.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A BBC architectural competition jury has shortlisted two international architectural firms to build BBC Scotland's new headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Architects David Chipperfield and Mecanoo have been chosen from

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    FOX APPOINTS HARRINGTON FOR SALES.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Twentieth Century Fox TV has appointed Jennifer Harrington as sales manager.She joins from Flextech where she was acquisitions executive for the outfit's Bravo channel. In her new role, Harrington will report

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    OFF THE RECORD - DGs have no answers for EBU.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A high-profile audience at an EBU conference in Brussels on public service broadcasting in Europe was left puzzled last week when a Q & A session had to be abandoned as

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    SPECIAL: MIP-TV - BBC hits to air on Yes TV.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Yes Television is to launch a BBC-branded video-on-demand (VOD) channel this month, offering shows such as Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly and Walking with Dinosaurs.The service, which will initially only be

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    KERRANG! SET TO AIR.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Ortmansyounginternational has created the complete on-air identity package for new rock music channel Kerrang! TV. A series of graphical opening and closing sequences were created using cell animation before being composited

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    Free to Air - No time to be proud.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Awards, as Channel 4 was reminded at last week's Broadcasting Press Guild gong show, can be a curse as well as a cause for celebration. C4 cleaned up at this year's

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    SMG AGREES NEW TERMS.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Scottish Media Group has agreed to the terms for its ITV licences announced by the ITC on 19 March. SMG was the sole ITV company not to agree immediately to new

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    AND FINALLY: Jane O'Hara, managing director Rajar, wishes she could still smoke on aeroplanes.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    If you weren't in radio what would you be doing?Probably something to do with gardening or sailingWhat is your proudest achievement?Helping to get radio taken seriously when it was a 1

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    GREEN OFFERS ADVICE.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Video Europe managing director Steve Green has insisted that good management would have softened the blow for equipment hire companies in the recent market slump. Green said: 'A company has to

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    Advertising Revenue - Fate of the shop window.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A slow-down in advertising sales is not good news for the biggest commercial broadcaster of them all - ITV - or for its programme-makers. Despite strong performances in the ratings, a lack of revenue will inevitably affect future budgets and commissions.

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    Carlton acts to cash in on family tree fad.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    CARLTON is hoping to cash in on public interest in genealogy with a new series for ITV - Find Your Family, writes Steve Aston.

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    Archer to act in TV version of stage play.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Disgraced former politician Jeffrey Archer will appear in his first TV acting role when a version of his interactive stage play The Accused airs on the small screen, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC accused of 'dumping' news.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of news, current affairs, religion and arts Steve Anderson has criticised the BBC's reorganisation of its current affairs schedule and called for the corporation to be more accountable over decisions to move key programmes, writes Steve Ast

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    ANDERSON OKAYS ACCESS.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasting minister Janet Anderson has given permission for the launch of access radio pilot broadcasts. The announcement, at last week's Celtic Radio & Television Festival, was welcomed by the Radio Authority,

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    News Analysis - The British abroad.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    As programme funding is increasingly tied to overseas sales, the British Television Distributors Association must get the promised backing of the government to develop the muscle it needs to fight the UK's corner.

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    ABC WILDLIFE SERIES.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has signed up Australian broadcaster ABC as co-production partner for its $10m (£7m) natural history series Australasia: Worlds Apart. The 6 x 50-minute landmark series goes into production next

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    Ratings - England coverage nets C5 its biggest share.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5's coverage of England's World Cup qualifier brought the channel its largest audience this year, writes Jon Rogers.

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    C4'S New face.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is developing a youth show fronted by a virtual TV presenter called The Head, writes Penny Hughes. A 30-minute pilot is poised to go into production through the Comedy

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    Hague in S4C safety pledge.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Opposition leader William Hague has pledged that Welsh channel S4C would survive Tory plans to sell off Channel 4 if the Conservatives confound pollsters and win the general election, writes David Rose.

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    MCCARTNEY DOC SOLD TO C4.

    2001-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Buena Vista International TV has sold a documentary about Paul McCartney to Channel 4, writes Simon Ellery. C4 has bought exclusive UK rights to the two-hour special Wingspan, which features unseen