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GRANADA GRAPHICS MAN TO HEAD UP THE LAB
LWT's The Lab has appointed Ken Higgins as head of design. He was previously graphics manager at Granada Media, where he designed multimedia presentations and worked on corporate identity projects. Higgins
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International News - Granada US wins orders
Granada Entertainment USA (GEUSA) has secured an order for a second series of Beggars and Choosers from Showtime and is producing two new pilots for TNT and Warner Brothers, writes Colin Robertson.
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International News - Sky goes to investors to pay for Kirch stake
BSkyB last week confirmed that in order to raise money to buy a 24 per cent stake in German KirchPayTV it would go to investors for a£340 million share placing.
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GMGR hires Simons for radio push
Guardian Media Group Radio (GMGR) managing director John Myers has drafted in ex-LNR programme director John Simons to become his director of radio, writes Colin Robertson.
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Interview - Singer gives it large
A big man himself, the self-styled godfather of multichannel television, Adam Singer, is convinced that size matters in this business - which suggests that growth is behind the merger of Flextech and Telewest.
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Off the Record - A load of garb-age
And so to the UK's most cutting-edge broadcaster Channel 4 (well, that's what they keep telling us, Ed). Apparently the station's style police have been on the warpath, desperate to preserve
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TOYOTA SIGNS SUNSET + VINE FOR FURTHER WILDLIFE SERIES
Sports indie Sunset + Vine has been commissioned by motor giant Toyota to make two more 26 x 30-minute series of Toyota World of Wildlife. The wildlife show is distributed by
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Off the Record - Lost and found
No-one was more understanding about the story of those two MI6 chaps losing their laptops than CNN kingpin Chris Cramer. Hard to believe I know, but the Cramester lost a laptop
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News Production - Filling a news hole
Channel 4's Indy Fund has not yet been fully allocated to independent news production companies. Jane Marlowe looks at the problems indies face in winning commissions and what the broadcaster is doing to help.
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HEWLAND PICKS UP FURTHER EPISODE ORDER FROM ITV
ITV controller of night time Carol Groves has ordered further 26 x 30-minute series of both Dial A Date and Young, Gifted & Broke from Hewland International. Audience participation dating show
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STAFF SHAKE-OUT AT ENGLISH & POCKETT
Brand consultancy English & Pockett has made several staff changes, including bringing Tim Stebbing in as senior graphic designer. Stebbing previously worked at Californian outfits Frog Design and Montgomery Pfeifer where
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Off the Record - Election fever
Ever wondered who the industry would choose, in a free vote, to be the first-ever minister for TV? Come on, come on, we know you have. Well, a groovy industry get-together
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EIB web-based network to launch
Digital media outfit Edison Interactive Broadcast (EIB) is planning to launch an internet-based entertainment network in May, writes David Wood.
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Off the Record - Music to our ears?
Readers are undoubtedly as excited as Off The Record at the prospect of the Beeb's 'instrument amnesty,' in which members of the public are being urged to hand in their old
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Off the Record - Double take
Heading the factual offerings in last week's BBC 2 spring/summer season launch was Peter Taylor's latest heavyweight offering on the Troubles - Brits: The War Against the IRA. The maker of
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PEARSON TO RAID DORLING KINDERSLEY TRAVEL LIBRARY
Pearson Television plans to exploit Dorling Kindersley's travel catalogue for television content, following the group's acquisition of the publishing company for£311 million. Pearson makes travel show Wish You Were Here
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McKeown sells dotcom distributor
Internet-based television programme distributor itstv.com has been sold by its founders Allan McKeown and Nick Witkowski to US online film distributor InternetStudios.com, less than six months after its launch, writes Colin Robertson.
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International News - Distributor threat to production funding
British-based distributors are planning top-level talks with UK broadcasters to resolve growing conflict over the funding of TV productions.With many sales houses suffering hangovers from bad investment decisions in the 1990s,
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ITN MAINSTAY TILLY LURED TO SKY NEWS DEVELOPMENT
Sky News has poached ITN managing editor Andrew Tilly to become its head of development. Tilly, 49, partly replaces Peter Clements who left to join internet outfit Invaluable.com in December. Tilly
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MERGER REPORT DELAYED
The Competition Commission's report into the proposed merger of Carlton Communications and United News & Media is to be delayed for a month. The commission said extra time was needed for