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Telefonica mounts£3.4 billion bid for Endemol
Spanish telecoms group Telefonica has launched a Euro5.5 billion (£3.4 billion) bid for Endemol Entertainment, one of Europe's largest independent TV content producers.The proposed deal would see Netherlands-based Endemol form
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SKY SPORTS TEES OFF
Sky Sports has secured rights to the Severiano Ballesteros golf trophy, the European equivalent of the Ryder Cup that pitches continental teams against the UK and starts next month. The broadcaster
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Trade Talk - Power player
Having tackled Slobodan Milosevic, renowned documentary maker Norma Percy has turned her lens to Northern Ireland. Tim Dams reports.
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NET ONLY SOUL RADIO STATION PREPARES FOR LAUNCH
A 24-hour internet radio channel devoted to soul music will start broadcasting on 31 March. Soul 24-7 will comprise 20 pages of playlist information, programming schedules, presenter profiles, charts and interviews
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WATCHMAKER SECURES ITV RECOMMISSIONS
ITV has recommissioned two series from Watchmaker Productions. The first is a new series of celebrity profile show The Unforgettable, which in the past has featured Hattie Jacques and Richard Beckinsale.
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News Special: The Production Show - Pitch to ISPs, says Mersey's Redmond
Mersey TV chief executive Phil Redmond has called for first-time producers to pitch ideas to internet service providers (ISPs), side-stepping the traditional broadcast commissioning process.Speaking at the Production Show last Thursday
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Interview - Growing pains
As ex-Disney channel executive Joan Lofts takes the helm at ITV2, she says that what the fledgling broadcaster needs is a little understanding and outlines her plans to coax this ITV baby into the world of grown-up TV.
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Sky One prepares to go mainstream
Sky One's new general manager, David Bergg, is preparing to go head to head with ITV and BBC 1 by repositioning the channel as 'a broader' entertainment service targeting 4 to 49 year-olds, writes Steve Clarke.
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GMG RADIO PUTS MYERS UP TO HEAD RADIO INVESTMENTS
Guardian Media Group Radio managing director John Myers has been appointed chief executive of Radio Investments Ltd (RIL), which is part-owned by GMG. Myers' new job is an extension of his
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International News - Postcard from ... Isabelle Repiton in France
France is no more immune to the meteoric rise of internet start-ups than the rest of the planet. Nor are the major traditional TV players slow to muscle in. One after
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OFF THE RECORD - Food for thought
The beautiful people of On Digital have come up with an ingenious way of spreading the word about the newly expanded schedule of one of their most popular channels, Carlton Food
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OFF THE RECORD - Fading tsar
Poor old Kelvin MacKenzie. The Talk Sport tsar came over all hot and bothered on the Today programme after the Beeb successfully fought off Talk's bid to snatch the radio rights
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International News - Egmont subsidiary for London
Danish producer and distributor Egmont Imagination has set up a UK subsidiary, Egmont Imagination UK, and hired Gem children's sales manager Tatiana Kober to head the operation, writes Tara Conlan.
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Health venture in staff drive
The Natural Health Channel, the new digital channel unveiled this week by The Sanctuary Group and West 175 Media Group, is seeking to hire up to 45 people before launching later this year, writes Colin Robertson.
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Drive to DTT could freeze out local TV
The Independent Television Commission admitted last week at the Production Show that the roll-out of analogue local television is being held back by the government in a bid to maximise digital