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INTERVIEW - Facing the facts.
Factual commissioning controller Nicola Moody is looking for contemporary stories which are 'inventive and innovative' and 'really connect with viewers'. With a remit that extends from BBC 1 and 2 to Choice and Knowledge there should be no shortage of ord
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Everett is Highfield number two.
BBC controller, interactive TV and navigation Katharine Everett has been promoted to the newly created post of controller, new media, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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EUNITE EXPANDING.
Interactive producer Eunite has appointed former Granada G-Wizz director of programmes Chris Pressley to sharpen the company's focus on enhanced TV for the broadcast and entertainment sectors. Pressley, who will head
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Indie quits Emmas job.
THE BBC has been forced to look for another independent to produce the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (Emmas) after its original production choice, Initial, pulled out this week, writes Ashley Davies.
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Einstein ups original production.
Digital science channel Einstein is looking to form a number of production partnerships with science-based indies with a view to increasing its original production output, writes David Wood.
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Play UK editor lured from Sky.
Sky one executive producer Matthew Littleford has been made Play UK's channel editor, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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TOP EDITOR RETURNS.
Martin Hicks has returned from the US to join Oasis Television, bringing its editing team to 19. Formerly at the Moving Picture Company, Hicks worked on music videos for Brian May,
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Puremix to shut down.
Chrysalis New Media is to close its internet radio station, Puremix.com, after conceding there is currently no market for it, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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OFF THE RECORD - No laughs down at the the farm.
Foot and mouth disease could end up having a deeper impact on broadcasting than one would assume, and vice versa. The National Farmers Union chief was heard last week pleading with
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ITV lobbies ITC to promote On Digital.
ITV is lobbying the Independent Television Commission to remove a rule that bars it from cross-promoting On Digital, writes Simon Ellery.
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Deane quits Lucky Dog to set up indie.
Lucky dog chief executive Geoff Deane has severed links with Chrysalis Visual Entertainment (CVE) and is setting up a new production company after disagreeing with the company's strategy of consolidating its
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SKY IN MOBILES DEAL.
Sky News has struck a deal to provide telecommunications outfit YAC's 300,000 customers with news via mobile phones. YAC, which provides a range of telecommunications services including audio conferencing, has signed
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MTV AND TWO WAY TV SIGN INTERACTIVE DEAL.
Interactive games specialist Two Way TV has signed a deal with MTV to supply the music broadcaster with enhanced content. The deal involves the two companies collaborating to develop interactive quizzes
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Sale date for Rapture.
United Business Media (UBM) will sell its loss-making clubbing channel, Rapture, within the next six months, according to chief executive Clive Hollick. The news comes in the week that Hollick confirmed the
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UK TV ORDERS CRIME SHOWS FROM JUST TV.
UK TV's editor factual channels Andrew Lowrey has commissioned Just TV to produce three new crime series for UK Horizons. Bodies of Evidence is a 6 x 30-minute series looking at
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ITV UNVEILS SOAPSTARS CONCEPT.
ITV is extending its successful Popstars format with a new series documenting the nationwide hunt for a new TV family to star in an ITV soap, tipped to be Emmerdale or
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Further suppliers face closure.
Further evidence that facility and technology providers are facing increased financial hardship surfaced this week, following the planned closure of one outfit and the announcement of significant losses at another, write Barbara Marshall and Dominic Timms
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Kirch challenges UK sports 'crown jewels'.
German media group Kirch has lodged a legal appeal with the European Court challenging the law that guarantees a list of protected sports free-to-air coverage in the UK, writes Simon Ellery. The
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TX - The sail of the century.
Even before Ellen MacArthur entered the Vendee Globe race and became the fastest woman to sail around the world single-handed without touching land, her achievements meant she was perfect for the
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LOONLAND'S CBBC LINK.
BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard has bought two long-running series from German-based animation group TV-Loonland, writes Colin Robertson. The deal, TV-Loonland's first with the BBC, includes 26 x 30-minute episodes