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PEARSON TO HIRE CREATIVE TEAM TO GENERATE IDEAS
Pearson TV is planning to hire a small, young creative team to develop and launch a new generation of ideas for the UK's TV and broadband services. The team is charged
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REUTERS FOUNDATION TO RUN NEWS COURSE IN LONDON
Reuters Foundation has developed a new training course, Making Television News, that is designed to bring together 15 journalists from around the world. The course, to be held in London, will
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Corrie's kidnapping steals the show
While Big Brother again won the headlines over the last week, Coronation Street reliably pulled in a chunky 60 per cent share of viewers on Monday (21 August), writes Ashley Davies.
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LONDON TO HOST THREE-DAY VISUAL EFFECTS CONVENTION
The Visual effects convention VFX 2000 will be held in London on 22-24 September. The biennial world summit will bring together international experts for three days of presentations, to be held
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OFF THE RECORD - Dawn comes clean over soap
Ever since witnessing Dawn Airey groping the crotch of one of her commissioning editors 'to check what kind of pants he had on' - a regular occurrence, apparently, although one would
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COMMUNITY CHANNEL TO LAUNCH FROM MID-SEPTEMBER
The Community Channel has confirmed it will launch on 18 September on Sky Digital from 13.00-16.00 every day and online at www.communitychannel.org.As well as broadcasting films and videos from the 50-plus
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Challenge seeks programme ideas
Flextech quiz and gameshow channel Challenge TV is hunting for programme ideas to build up a bank of original output ahead of the launch of an enhanced TV service next year.Flextech
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CARTOON NETWORK GETS RISKY WITH DANGERMOUSE
New Cartoon Network classic animation channel Boomerang has bought cult series Dangermouse and the Pink Panther Show. The cartoons will air from 30 October. Dangermouse was originally broadcast in the 1980s
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GRANADA MEDIA CONTROLLER JOINS CARSEY WERNER
Granada Media controller of business affairs Norma Acland has left the company to become Carsey Werner senior vice-president of legal affairs. Acland, who will be based in the Los Angeles office
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ITV gears up for celebrity Carlton show
ITV is pushing ahead with plans to commission a long-running live, teatime celebrity show from as early as next month and is poised to offer the contract to Carlton TV, writes Colin Robertson.
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HTV WALES FILLS FACTUAL WITH KENNEDY AND CALVERLEY
HTV Wales has filled its two vacant factual roles, appointing Bruce Kennedy and Paul Calverley as head of factual programmes and head of factual development respectively. Kennedy will be charged with
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GWR BUYS MAJORITY STAKE IN PETERBOROUGH STATION
GWR Group has announced the acquisition of 62 per cent of GP Broadcasting which operates Lite FM, a local radio station in Peterborough. The acquisition, for£1.24m in cash, is conditional
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BSKYB TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN WEST HAM'S WEBSITE
BSkyB has agreed a deal to design, develop and maintain West Ham United's website. The five-year deal takes effect at the start of the 2000-01 season and involves enhancing the content,
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Broadcast hotshots
NEWSBEATERS- MATTHEW PRICE, 28Price joined Newsround as a reporter in April 1999 and won the RTS Young Journalist of the Year Award a year later. His assignments have included covering the
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INTERVIEW - Outside of the box
Noel Edmonds has bounced back from his parting with the BBC to energetically front his business activities, including 'the world's best-kept secret', video broadcasting - a radical replacement for outside broadcasting.
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BOURNE TAKES SALES HELM AT TARGET DISTRIBUTION
Target Distribution managing director Alison Rayson has promoted deputy director of sales Kate Bourne (left) to the new role of head of sales. Bourne takes on day-to-day management of Target's sales
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UKTV boosts original factual output
UKTV factual channel editor Andrew Lowrey is gearing up to commission 120 hours of extra factual programming from indies and in-house producers and is also planning to reposition digital channel UK Horizons, writes Simon Ellery.
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Bids end for radio licence
The battle to win the prized new west Midlands analogue radio licence gathered speed this week as 12 bidders lodged their applications with the regulator, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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EDINBURGH - Beyond the George
We provide a brief taster of what promise to be the highlights of this year's television festival - among others Greg Dyke giving an unpredecented repeat MacTaggart lecture and yet another Murdoch taking the podium.
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - Saint Bernard and the Kazakhstani
Prostrate yourself at the mindblowing similarities between GWR overlord Ralph Bernard and Kazakhstani reporter Borat Karabzhanov. While one goes about taking pops at the establishment in a dodgy grey suit, the