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Sky denies rift as digital chief exits
BSkyB digital chief Ian West has left the company suddenly, just two months after the arrival of the satellite broadcaster's new chief executive Tony Ball.The departure of West after 10 years
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OSMAN AND CHAPMAN TAKE TO LIFE ON THE FARM
The Farm has appointed former Tele-Cine editor Tam Osman and audio mixer Dan Chapman, who joins from Magmasters. The Soho Square facility also said it had promoted Clyde Kellet to editor,
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CELADOR CASHES IN ON MILLIONAIRE SERIES
Celador Productions is to launch a range of new consumer products based around its successful ITV series, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (right). Slated for release this September are a
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VNU BUYS RATINGS FIRM
Nielsen Media Research, the television ratings service, has been bought in the US by Dutch media company VNU for $2.5 billion (£1.6 billion), which also assumes $200 million (£124 million) in
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The Brits are coming
GB Productions' LA launch last week generated favourable column inches Stateside but mixed reviews in the UK. Jason Deans on the new BBC Worldwide and Granada joint-venture.
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BRIGHTER RAISES RAMAN
Brighter Pictures has appointed Nav Raman to the newly created head of production role to work under creative director Remy Blumenfeld. Raman, who joined Brighter Pictures last year as series producer
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OFF THE RECORD - Elstein's brain
Still on the subject of Channel 5, OTR was as pleased as punch when its favourite movie, The Man With Two Brains, was screened last week. But just how does chief
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OFF THE RECORD - Brahms and eclipsed
Anyone left underwhelmed by last week's cloud-ridden eclipse may be heartened to hear that darting off to the zone of totality was no guarantee of the full-corona effect either. Take GMG
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On the box - Stuart Murpny
UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy on Weekender and BBC News 24's Zero 30.
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FORT BOYARD BOOSTS EXPAND'S REVENUES
Expand, the French company that owns the Fort Boyard entertainment format, has announced a 10 per cent increase in revenues for the first half of 1999, to FFr 604 million (£61
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FOX BROUGHT ON BOARD TO PRODUCE CITV PROMOTION LINKS
Carlton controller of children's and young people's programming Michael Forte has hired Martyn Fox as executive producer of CITV's promotion links.Fox, who recently worked with CITV as series producer of Top
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MILLENNIUM BLACKADDER TO PREMIERE ON SKY
BSkyB has stolen a march on the BBC by winning the exclusive rights to the television premiere of a one-off millennium special episode of hit comedy series Blackadder (left). The programme,
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Money Channel poaches BBC's Low
Adam Faith's proposed digital TV station, The Money Channel, has named Toby Low, editor of BBC 1's Business Breakfast, as its first editor-in-chief, writes Alice Macandrew.Low will oversee all Money Channel
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BBC takes Ryder Cup highlights
The BBC has struck a deal with BSkyB to acquire the highlights to golf's Ryder Cup between 24-26 September, writes Tim Dams.BSkyB, which will be airing live coverage of the event
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BBC LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE SAFETY COURSE ON CD-ROM
BBC training and development has produced an interactive safety training course on CD-Rom, inspired by Bectu's June conference which highlighted a 'deficit of health and safety instruction in an increasingly untrained
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LWT borrows BBC teen group
LWT has lured teen pop band S Club 7 away from the BBC to make a one-off, hour-long special for an ITV primetime Saturday night slot in September.S Club 7 rose
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BBC coverage puts rivals in the shade
BBC 1 trounced every other UK television broadcaster last Wednesday (11 August) when its coverage of the solar eclipse peaked at 12.8 million viewers.Billed as one of the great national shared
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OPINION - Sky makes pace in digital battle
Elisabeth Murdoch's evangelical address at last year's Edinburgh Television Festival may have been a triumph of style over content. Nonetheless it did contain one highly prescient message that at the time
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Canterbury Tales bags four Emmys
Animated series The Canterbury Tales, an S4C/BBC Wales/HBO co-production, has picked up four Emmy Awards for outstanding individual achievement in animation.Joanna Quinn, who works at Cardiff-based Beryl Productions, has notched up
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RA PULLS UP STATIONS FOR BAD TASTE AND LANGUAGE
The Radio Authority upheld six complaints about programmes on commercial radio in the second quarter of this year. Two of the complaints related to jokes on 104.9 Xfm that were judged