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BBC 1 orders primetime satire
Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year
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Ball and Hall in headline bout over News 24
BBC News chief squares up to Sky counterpart over future of 24-hour rolling news service
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Mansfield and Nelmes step up in ITV reshuffle
Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime boss Dianne Nelmes is successor
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Sky Box Office and FilmFour flick digital switch
Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April
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This week's quotes
'I was never in television. I was a political lobbyist for Channel 4. If I was going to miss it I wouldn't have left.'Michael Grade, formerly of Channel 4, now non-executive chairman of Octopus Television
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Government to reform broadcast and telecom laws
Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution
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Trade Talk - Tony Stoller
With radio licensees now come of age, their regulator is listening more keenly but won't be a soft touch.
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Worldwide sets up US joint-venture
BBC Worldwide has struck a $100 million (£61.7 million) deal with a US merchant bank, as media secretary Chris Smith prepares to deliver his verdict on the future funding of the BBC, writes Steve Clarke.
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Szabo joins Red Post to work new Spirit
Red Post Production has bought a Philips Spirit Datacine with a Pandora MegaDEF secondary colour corrector, and hired telecine colourist Gary Szabo (left) to lead the team working with the system.
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Jazz unveils plans for net only station
Jazz FM revealed plans to launch an internet-exclusive radio station this week as it announced a sharp fall in pre-tax losses for the second half of last year, writes John Plunkett.
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Mansfield, Nelmes step up ITV ladders
Granada Television has picked ITV Network Centre controller of documentaries, features and arts Grant Mansfield to be its new director of programmes in a move that sees ITV daytime chief Dianne
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Postcard from ... Isabelle Repiton in Paris
France is gripped by convergence mania, just like the rest of the world, and there is no greater champion of this phenomenon than Vivendi chief Jean Marie Messier, who has been
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Interview - The Jazzman
If it was listening to Jazz FM that once kept him sane, Richard Wheatly has repaid the station as its chief executive by bringing it back from the brink of financial disaster.
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Pact launches online jobs site for indies
Producers alliance Pact has launched a jobs page on its website: www.pact.co.uk.The free service is designed to help indies recruit from a broad pool of production and technical staff.
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Team seeks out second UK indie
US independent Team Communications is scouring the UK independent production sector to find a second acquisition target following its $5 million (£3.1 million) purchase of UK sales outfit Dandelion Distribution.Team bought
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Lab's Harrison moves to Sky
Sky Productions head Mark Freeland has continued to boost his in-house programme-making department by recruiting Andy Harrison from LWT's low-cost programme-making unit The Lab, writes David Wood.
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Henwood ushers Hallmark into UK
US entertainment network Hallmark has recruited former Fox Kids managing director Rod Henwood's new company to manage the launch of its UK channel this spring.The new channel, which will be known
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Wireless Group names Scottish management team
Kelvin MacKenzie's Wireless Group has appointed a new management team for its three Scottish radio stations, acquired as part of its£21.4 million purchase of Independent Radio Group. Mick Hall, Wireless