All News articles – Page 5212

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    Lookalikes

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Get satisfaction from the rockin' similarities between these two hardcore party animals, Granada Creative chair Andrea Wonfor and Rolling Stones bass player Ronnie Wood. While one has more groupies than most

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    Millionaire or weakest link?

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    So you want to be a TV executive? Do you know what the main events of the year were in broadcasting? The demands of broadband or the 22.00 news move debacle?

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    White Paper Special - ITN and Sky in limbo over news

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    A lack of clarity on the rules over ITV's nominated news provider in the white paper has left both ITN and Sky News in limbo over the ITV news contract, write Lucy Rouse and Simon Ellery.

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    Restructure leads to job losses at Itel

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Granada International this week unveiled its restructure following its merger with former United News & Media distribution arm Itel in the first swathe of a number of planned changes.As predicted by

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    Granada Media to merge sports

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media has stepped up its plans to dominate the UK commercial television content market by unveiling its own dedicated sports department.The company is rebranding its recently acquired United Sport division

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    Johnson joins Granada Sky

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Former Granada lifestyle head of production Lesley Johnson is joining Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) in a newly created role as head of production, writes Colin Robertson.

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    White Paper Special - Government mulls spectrum pricing

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Government aims to value broadcasting spectrum for the first time, in a move that could see a change in the way broadcasters pay for the privilege of using the space, writes Katy Elliott.

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    Rights money to fund grass roots sport

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The European Council (EC) has decided that sporting bodies should contribute fixed percentages of the proceeds of the sale of their broadcast rights to developing grass roots sport, writes John Lewis.

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    FOREVER POSTS LOSS

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Forever Broadcasting has announced its first set of preliminary results for the period to 30 September since its incorporation in September 1999. Forever floated on AIM in August and has recorded

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    AND FINALLY...

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    LWT's Sean Kneale, producer of The Way They Were 4 - Coronation St Special, on eating glue...

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    Paul Watson filming

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    NHS leading film-maker Paul Watson is making a major documentary on the way National Health Service hospitals handle the anticipated patient crisis this winter, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Ratings - ITV's William has the most fans

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Prince William was ITV's crowning glory this week, as the network beat BBC 1 in the battle over last-minute specials on the prince's exploits in Patagonia, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Saatchi to sell off Megalomedia facilities to FrameStore founders

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Megalomedia, the media investment company set up by Maurice Saatchi, has agreed to sell its facilities subsidiaries, FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC), to a new company set up by FrameStore founders Sharon Reed and William Sargent, writes Dom

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    Horton joins The Facilities Group

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    SVC creative director Tom Horton has quit the Soho facility to become director of television at Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary The Facilities Group (TFG), writes Barbara Marshall.

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    INTERVIEW - Real entertainment

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC entertainment controller Danielle Lux is determined to make over the once old-fashioned genre so it feeds the public thirst for reality TV with shows based on people and emotions, filled with 'drama, tension and jeopardy'.

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    ENGLISH & POCKET WIN

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    English & Pockett is the only non-Asian company to win at this year's Promax Asia. The company scooped two golds - one for best launch campaign with Discovery Animal Planet Asia

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    End of an era

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC Birmingham is quitting its premises at Pebble Mill after 29 years to relocate to the modern city centre premises of The Mailbox, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    SUNSET + VINE MAKES THE DOG LISTENER

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 senior programme controller Michael Attwell has commissioned Sunset + Vine North to make a 1 x 30-minute documentary about a woman who claims to be able to alter the

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    Wall to Wall/Bazal Discovery win

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Home & Leisure has signed its biggest output deal and its first with Wall to Wall Television and Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Bazal for both to provide 45 hours of original programming, writes Penny Hughes.

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    FOX KIDS DIRECTOR SISSONS LEAVES OUTFIT

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids UK director of programming Phil Sissons has left the outfit and will not be replaced. Fox Kids Europe (FKE) would not comment on claims that he was made redundant