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    FRENCH CULTURE MINISTER SLAMS DIGITAL FOOTBALL DEAL

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The decision by French digital platforms Canal+ and TPS to jointly buy broadcast rights to championship matches of the French Football League for more than FFr2 billion (£207 million) per year

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    STUDY FINDS PARLIAMENTARY COVERAGE HAS DECLINED

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A study sponsored by independent educational charity The Hansard Society highlights the decline in TV coverage of the House of Commons in the past 10 years. The report, Electronic Media, Parliament

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    UPC CONSOLIDATES WITH DEALS IN SWEDEN AND HUNGARY

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) has consolidated its position as second largest cable operator in Europe after Deutsche Telekom with deals to buy Swedish cable company Stjarn TV and Hungarian cable company

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    CLEAN SWEEP FOR DVCPRO IN SCANDINAVIA

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Panasonic is claiming all the leading Scandinavian TV networks as customers for its DVCPro digital tape format following the recent addition of Danmarks Radio (DR) to its roster. The Danish TV

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    Classic's licence may rise

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Classic FM could face a increase in its annual payments to the Treasury when its licence is renewed by the Radio Authority later this year.Under the terms of the 1996 Broadcasting

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    CHRYSALIS TO INVEST

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis Visual Entertainment is to plough an extra£1 million into programme development this year, creating up to eight development producer jobs. The money will come from savings at corporate management

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    MD WANTED FOR CHRYSALIS ON-LINE OPERATION

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis Radio has advertised for a managing director for its online operation, which is due to launch in September. Chrysalis Radio On-Line will include simulcasts of the two Chrysalis Radio networks,

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    OPINION - What happened to children's radio?

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    John Birt recently reminded us in his tub-thumping New Statesman media lecture, The Prize and The Price, that we exist in an age of media saturation. Well spotted, Sir John. And

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    CHARRET INVOLVED IN CINEPOSIUM CO-PRO SESSION

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Gaumont chief executive Christian Charret is taking part in a television co-production session at this week's Cineposium event. Held from Friday (16 July), the symposium aims to bring together UK producers

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    Poetic work for Century

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Century Films is making a 90-minute programme based on Simon Armitage's Millennium Poem for Channel 4, writes Wale Azeez.

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    Century set for further expansion

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Border Television unveiled plans for further expansion of its Century Radio brand on Monday (12 July), as it announced that total turnover for the group had risen by one quarter to£19.9 million for the year to 30 April, writes John Plunkett.

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    ITV orders more celeb love tales

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned two TV movies based on real-life celebrity love stories, following the success of Diana Dors biopic Blonde Bombshell, writes Ashley Davies. Gor Blimey

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    NUNEZ NEW CBSBI PRESIDENT AS SIEK TAKES HIS LEAVE

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    CBS Broadcast International has appointed Armando Nunez Jr as its new, LA-based president while former chief Rainer Siek steps down. Nunez Jr joins from Universal International TV, where he was also

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    CRAMP TWINS CO-PRO FOR CARTOON NETWORK AND SUNBOW

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network Europe and Sony Wonder subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment are co-producing the 26 x 30-minute animation The Cramp Twins, which is based on two Bloomsbury children's books by UK artist Brian

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    CARLTON COMMISSIONS LATE-NIGHT LONDON LISTINGS SLOT

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    London News Network has gone into production on a new late-night listings show for Carlton. The Buzz, a 14 x 15-minute show that aims to reveal what goes on in London

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    CARLTON FOOD NETWORK TO SELL TO JAPAN VIA DIGITAL

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Carlton International has signed an output deal with Digital Planet Satellite Broadcasting to channel a minimum 150 hours of Carlton Food Network programming to Japanese digital broadcasters Direct TV and SkyPerfect

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    Unique ID tempts MPC with Cakes

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Unique ID has scored the most high-profile customer it could hope for with its first client for its Cakes asset-tracking system. The new Moving Picture Company facility will adopt Cakes throughout

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    NICKELODEON BUYS DR ZITBAG'S TRANSYLVANIA PETSHOP

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Nickelodeon UK has bought two 13 x 30-minute series of SKD Media's Dr Zitbag's Transylvania Petshop, originally broadcast on Children's ITV in 1994. Transmission will begin from September. Nickelodeon has exclusive

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    Gay drama drew most sex complaints to BSC

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The first episode of Channel 4's Queer As Folk drew more complaints than any other programme in the past year, according to the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC).A total of 110 people

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    Two commissions for Brook Lapping

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Brook Lapping Productions has won two documentary commissions from BBC 1 and ITV, one centred on the Battle of Britain and the other examining British disasters.Finest Hour is a 4 x