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GMTV may cease to be independent.
The next managing director of GMTV may well be the company's last, as speculation mounts that the breakfast broadcaster may cease to be a separate ITV franchise after the forthcoming communications
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Endemol status case 'may risk UK indie commissions'.
Large European broadcasting networks, such as RTL Group, TF1 and Canal+, could swoop on the UK and compete for the independent production quota if Endemol Entertainment UK regains its independent status
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Pact's Williams will join Carlton.
Outgoing pact chief executive Shaun Williams has confirmed his next move will be to join Carlton Communications as director of corporate affairs in March.He will fill the shoes of David Cameron,
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OXFORD NABS CAHUSAC.
Oxford Film & Television has appointed Emma Cahusac as the company's new head of development and executive producer for special projects. Cahusac will work alongside company directors Nicolas Kent and Vanessa
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SKY BUYS TEMPTATION.
Sky One has bought the 6 x 60-minute gameshow Temptation Island from its US sister News Corp network, Fox, and scheduled the first episode for Thursday (18 January) at 22.00 on
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FutureBrand buys English & Pockett.
Media brand agency English & Pockett has been bought by FutureBrand as part of the global consultancy's push into the media and entertainment sector.Neither party would disclose the sum paid but
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Telewest hires to strengthen broadband.
Telewest managing director, broadband content David Docherty has appointed a trio of creative directors to begin broadband development at the cable company, writes David Wood.
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ON THE BOX - A dose of reality.
UK Horizons deputy editor Jane Wilson sings the praises of reality show Popstars but would like to put The Mole out of its misery.
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ROGER BOLTON TO MAKE EAST END SERIES.
Roger Bolton Productions has been commissioned by Carlton Television to produce a 6 x 30-minute regional series looking at the history of London's East End. The series, which will feature, among
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YORKSHIRE CONSORTIUM BIDS FOR FM LICENCE.
Yorkshire Radio Enterprises, a consortium backed by the UK's largest regional newspaper group Newsquest and chaired by former chairman of York-based Minster Sound radio group Martyn Rose, last week launched its
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Benson export role
Pact's international committee chairman Graham Benson has been appointed by the government's export promotion agency, Trade Partners UK, to its Americas advisory group. Benson, who is chairman of Blue Heaven Productions,
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Digital picture becomes clearer.
As the year 2000 segued into the first year of the pedants' true millennium, there was a certain amount of confusion as to how and when the BBC would win government
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BBC staff resist cuts in expenses.
The BBC faces the prospect of industrial action across the corporation, as union Bectu prepares to ballot its BBC members over proposals to change expense allowances, writes Barbara Marshall.
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BBC factual post a 'non-job'.
BBC bosses are having difficulty filling the factual and learning co-director post which became vacant when the department's co-director Lorraine Heggessey was named BBC 1 controller four months ago, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC Online put under scrutiny.
The government has agreed to review BBC Online amid concern that the boundaries between its commercial and publicly funded activities are blurring.The Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) has told
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BBC director of news up for grabs as Hall leaves.
The post of BBC director of news was advertised internally this week, following confirmation that Tony Hall is to become the new executive director of the Royal Opera House (ROH) after weeks of speculation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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US IS FIRST OVERSEAS WEAKEST LINK SALE BBC.
Worldwide has sold The Weakest Link format to NBC in the United States. The deal, negotiated by BBC Worldwide director of programming and operations Colin Jarvis, is the first international sale
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BBC DISCUSSING GROWN-UP BLUE PETER.
The BBC is in discussions with former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves about creating a version of the children's show aimed at the generation who watched Blue Peter when it was
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'Backstop' power must be clarified.
The communications white paper's definition of 'backstop powers' must be improved before a new act can be implemented, a seminar heard this week, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Sky One back to basics.
Sky One is redrawing its so-called mainstream programme strategy, going back to its roots of risque 16 to 34-skewed programming as it attempts to fend off E4, which launches today (Thursday).Channel