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ITN Archive enters Japanese market
ITN Archive is expanding into Tokyo through a new agreement with Reuters Japan, as it gears up to secure additional clients in the region.The outfit, which launches this week, will be
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FA APPOINTS FAULL'S .COM
Interactive broadcasting outfit sit-up.com has been appointed as a strategic consultant to the Football Association to advise it on the sale of future broadcast rights to FA Cup and England home
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Overnight Ratings - ITV's Framed mars Ant and Dec's night out
The first outing of BBC 1's new Saturday night entertainment show fronted by Ant and Dec clocked up a respectable audience, but was still beaten by ITV stalwart You've Been Framed, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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News Analysis - Changing its digital tune
Although it has been little publicised, BBC chiefs are in the midst of a comprehensive overhaul of their digital TV output. Tim Dams asks whether upping the tempo will get more coins in the hat.
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Opinion - BBC's critics look after number one
This editorial requires a brief justification: a defence of why we're writing about the BBC yet again. The corporation faces one of the biggest tests of its history as the government
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RUSHES RECRUITS SALLY COOPER FROM AD AGENCY
Producer Sally Cooper has joined Rushes after four years at advertising agency WCRS, where she worked on a number of high profile, post-production and animation intensive projects. They included RSA's Little
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BUENA VISTA FACES COURT ACTION ON US MILLIONAIRE
Buena Vista Entertainment is being sued by Lloyd's UK insurance firm Goshawk, which is concerned that the US version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is producing too many winners.
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ON DIGITAL AND BT BAND TOGETHER FOR INTERNET ACCESS
On Digital and BT are linking up to provide internet access to the broadcaster's 552,000 subscribers. The service, which is expected to launch at the start of the summer, will feature
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PERRY PREPARES DAY-LONG QUEEN SPECIAL FOR C5
Channel 5 controller of special events Adam Perry is to commission original programming for a day of themed programming paying tribute to rock band Queen in March. Details are still being
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C5 buys new soap to replace Sunset
Channel 5 is to replace daytime US soap Sunset Beach with veteran US drama Days of Our Lives, under a new deal with Columbia Pictures Television.C5 controller of acquisitions Jeff Ford
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C4's Hayling joins Cosgrove
Channel 4 editor, documentaries Alan Hayling has been made editor, nations and regions as part of a reshuffle by department chief Stuart Cosgrove, writes Ashley Davies.
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COMPANY PICS UNVEILS DETAILS OF NEW C4 LEGAL DRAMA
Company Pictures has signed up Cracker and Woman in White director Tim Fywell to direct its 10 x 60-minute Channel 4 legal drama series, Law Zone (working title). The drama, formerly
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C4 ups music output
Channel 4 has tripled the output of late-night Wednesday music zone 4 Music to nearly 100 hours and introduced four new series, writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC Knowledge to be 'TV version of R4'
The BBC is to reposition digital educational channel BBC Knowledge as a television version of BBC Radio 4, as part of its ongoing overhaul of non-terrestrial stations.Currently positioned as an educational
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E4 APPROACHES MURPHY
BBC Choice head Stuart Murphy is understood to have been reapproached to run new Channel 4 entertainment channel, E4. Murphy is believed to have met senior C4 executives last week to
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C4 EDITOR WINS US AWARD
Channel 4 News Washington bureau editor Chris Shlemon has won the White House News Photographer's Association (WHNPA) inaugural TV news editor of the year award for a montage on the Bill
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C4 NEWS' MARCUS MOVES TO SENIOR HOME NEWS EDITOR
ITN's Channel 4 news programme editor Kerry Marcus has been named as senior home news editor following the departure of incumbent Chris Jones to management consultancy Blue Rubicon. Marcus joined ITN's
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C4/Ideal rev up for motoring site
Channel 4 and Ideal World's new media arm e.world have formed a joint-venture motoring website called 4car.co.uk, writes Ashley Davies.
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C4 signs Morris films
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Peter Dale has ordered a 6 x 30-minute series of interviews, under the strand name First Person, from controversial US film-maker Errol Morris, writes Ashley Davies.
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SKY GRABS $35 MILLION WRESTLING DEAL
BSkyB has signed a new five-year $35 million (£22 million) deal to extend its coverage of World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWFE) events until the end of 2004. The new agreement means