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Borland made new festival director
Ros Borland, former commercial manager, drama at BBC Worldwide, has been named as the new director of international co-production conference Sharing Stories.Borland will succeed Dianne Muirhead, who announced she was stepping
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ZENITH'S BOMBER UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Zenith Entertainment has gone into production on Bomber, a new 2 x 90-minute psychological thriller set in the world of bomb disposal. It has been written by Bob Heyland (Between the
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EMAP SOLE BIDDER FOR DIGITAL MULTIPLEX IN YORKSHIRE
Emap Radio was the sole applicant for the local digital radio multiplex in south Yorkshire when the deadline for bids passed on Tuesday (13 July). Emap Radio - part of the
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TELEWEST CWC BID?
Consolidation between the UK's three cable TV operators appeared to be moving closer this week, with Telewest said by City sources to be seeking to raise£1 billion in order to
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OPIE EXPANDS FLEXTECH ROLE BEYOND TROUBLE
Lis Howell, senior vice-president of Flextech Channels, has promoted Lisa Opie, head of programming at Trouble, to director of programming in charge of acquisitions, scheduling and commissioning across Flextech services Bravo,
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Behind the Birtspeak
A heartfelt plea for public service broadcasting - or the self-serving speech of a man keen to secure his place in history? What was Sir John's New Statesman Lecture really about, asks Peter Keighron.
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Bennett quits BBC for Discovery post
Jana Bennett, BBC Production deputy chief executive and director of programmes, has ended weeks of speculation by confirming she is to join Discovery Communications as senior vice-president and general manager of
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BBC 'COMMITTED TO WEST MIDLANDS FACILITIES'
BBC director of nations and regions Mark Thompson has assured the Birmingham group of Labour MPs the corporation remains committed to retaining studio and production facilities in the west midlands. Following
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Elstein urges BBC to launch pay-TV
The BBC should launch its own pay-TV film and sports channels, according to Channel 5 chief executive David Elstein, who was recently a candidate for the director general's job.Discussing The Next
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BBC is 'putting digital at risk'
Michael Green, chairman of Carlton Communications and On Digital, has accused the BBC of putting the future of digital terrestrial television (DTT) at risk by allowing its channels to be available
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Diverse Design created the title sequence to sister company Diverse North's series, Love in Leeds. Designed by Steve Picard, the retro disco lights and mirror balls were composited with colour-saturat
Diverse Design created the title sequence to sister company Diverse North's series, Love in Leeds. Designed by Steve Picard, the retro disco lights and mirror balls were composited with colour-saturated footage
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BBC OFFERS BALL'S EYE VIEW WITH POLE-CAM
This week's Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie sees BBC Resources make yet another effort to revive the interests of jaded TV sports producers.Its latest innovation is the Pole-Cam - literally a
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Baker mulls new drama for Sky One
BSkyB head of programming James Baker is planning to start producing 60-minute drama series for Sky One as part of a drive to increase original production to 50 per cent of
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Bad Girls defies criticism and wins a second series
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a second run of Shed Productions' Bad Girls, which he believes has the potential to be a long-running series, writes Ashley Davies.
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Drake Automation sold to Columbine
Another leading UK technology company has passed into US ownership with the news that Drake Automation, which specialises in automating the transmission of programming for large multi-channel broadcasters, has been bought
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OPTEX WINS EMMY FOR AURASOFT SOFTLIGHT
Optical and lighting manufacturer OpTex has won an Engineering Emmy from the US Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its development of the Aurasoft softlight. The award follows a similar
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CNNI LAUNCHES PLANS TO INCREASE ASIAN VIEWING
CNN International (CNNI) has launched its regionalisation strategy to increase viewing in Asia. Initially, CNNI is airing 19 hours of local language programming per week, with $8-9 million (£5-5.8 million) earmarked
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OFF THE RECORD - The fine art of complaining
Producers who are pissed off with their programmes being shifted around the schedules of BBC 1 and ITV at a moment's notice should follow the example of OTR's favourite Manhattan cable
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ARMY PRESENTATION TEAM RECRUITS DVD
The army is the first of the services to adopt DVD technology as its core presentation system for the future. Freehand Graphics has supplied the army presentation team with a full
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Half of commercial radio yet to have bug appraisals
Half of the country's 300 independent radio stations have no idea if they are millennium bug-compliant, according to government watchdog Action 2000, writes Lucy Rouse.