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GTV unveils plan for 'broadband factory'.
Granada Television (GTV) is stripping network production from its lifestyle department as part of a plan to create a broadband factory, making high-volume, low-cost programming.The move is a reversal of a
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BRITS GO TO BUDDAH.
Radio indie Wise Buddah, headed by managing director Stephen Mulholland, has secured an agreement, for the sixth year running, to be the exclusive international radio distribution partner of the British Phonographic
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WRIGHT'S BRIGHT FUTURE.
Former footballer Ian Wright has signed an exclusive, two-year presenting contract with the BBC. He will work on a range of BBC 1 entertainment programmes and will front Friends Like These,
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THOMPSON GIVES BRIEFINGS.
The BBC is hosting two briefing days next week in which director of TV Mark Thompson, the channel controllers and genre commissioners will outline the different channel requirements and what each
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BLACK HUMOUR SHOW.
Channel 4 has signed up David Upshaw, who made The Hip Hop Years (above), to series produce a series about the history of black comedy, writes Ashley Davies.
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SEARCH IS ON FOR FOR THE UK'S RADIO BIGWIGS.
The Radio Academy is taking votes for the 100 most important people in the UK radio and music industries, in preparation for the 2001 Music Radio conference. Votes can be registered
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Consortium to bid for ITV news.
BSKYB has assembled a consortium of TV allies to try and snatch ITN's£40m-a-year news supply contract with ITV from next year.The satellite giant's latest plan to wrestle business away from
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GMTV outdoes its new-look BBC rival.
The new-look GMTV has consistently beaten the BBC's Breakfast in the three months since the corporation relaunched its breakfast news programme as a three-hour show, hosted by Jeremy Bowen and Sophie Raworth, writes Katy Elliott.
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Garvie to oversee BBC music team.
BBC Manchester head of entertainment and features Wayne Garvie has been assigned the task of leading the BBC's London-based music entertainment department, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC CHOICE TO MAKE CLASSY BITCH COMEDY.
BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a new 13 x 15-minute comedy series, Terri McIntyre: Classy Bitch, to be made by BBC Scotland. The show will follow the highs and
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BBC digital plans yet to mature.
Greg Dyke officially took over as director general of the BBC a full year ago. In the time since his predecessor, John Birt, finally left the building, Dyke has made the
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Twenty Twenty axes TV veteran Woolwich.
Current affairs veteran Paul Woolwich was ousted from his directorship of Twenty Twenty Television in an emergency board meeting on Monday night (22 January), writes Ashley Davies.
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DAME JUDI WINS AWARD.
Dame Judi Dench has won the Golden Globe award for best actress in a film for her performance in the BBC, HBO and Working Title co-production The Last of the Blonde
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BRADLEY AWARD GIVEN.
BBC Radio 4 has awarded The Alfred Bradley Bursary to Salford writer Pam Leeson, for her play There's Me, David, Chelsea, Charlotte, Scott and Bianca. Leeson has been awarded a R4
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AVID UPS NEWS STAKE.
Avid Technology has bought the outstanding 50 per cent of joint-venture news automation company iNews from partner Grass Valley Group. Although neither partner was prepared to comment on the value of
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OFF THE RECORD - Testcard art draws a crowd.
OTR has been inundated with desperate correspondence after mentioning the exhibition of testcard paintings coming up from David McKeran. Thousands of you begged to know where and when it was happening.
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Interactive firms take new approach.
Interactive television with the emphasis on television is the message Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBs) and Entranet are pushing as they separately unveiled interactive television programming ideas, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Televirtual makes animation breakthrough.
Televirtual, the creator of Channel 4's Karaoke Fishtank virtual presenter, has developed a system that enables multiple animated characters to interact in real time.The PC-based system, which Televirtual founder Tim Child
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ANALYSIS SPECIAL - BBC unveils proposed new services.
The BBC's plans in full and in its own words, plus the DCMS test criteria.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - What's on the breakfast menu?
The BBC reformatted Breakfast News and GMTV changed its sofa, yet early morning TV for the two main channels has again reached an impasse, with C4's The Big Breakfast still mopping up youth viewers. Adrian Edwards reports.