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Quantel axes 20 posts to cut costs
Quantel is understood to have laid off around 20 people in an attempt to cut costs. The losses, which were unveiled last Wednesday (30 June), follow the cutting of around 75
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UNITED SIGNED FOR ITV2 FOOTBALL FIRST CONTRACT
ITV2 has commissioned United Productions to make a second series of football news programme Football First to go out at the start of the new season in August. The series will
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R2 TO AIR CELEBRATION OF SINGING COWBOYS
BBC Radio 2 is to air a 4 x 30-minute series commemorating the great cowboy songs and singers of the silver screen. The Singing Cowboys, which is produced by BBC music
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BBC 2 to play Cold War Spying Game
BBC News & Current Affairs is producing a major 4 x 50-minute series for BBC 2 which explores the part played by secret intelligence in bringing an end to the Cold War, writes Tim Dams.
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M2 Design has produced the titles for Planet 24 pilot The Richard Blackwood Show. Designed by Lisa Lloyd and Arundi Asregadoo, the sequence features presenter Blackwood interacting with an animated ba
M2 Design has produced the titles for Planet 24 pilot The Richard Blackwood Show. Designed by Lisa Lloyd and Arundi Asregadoo, the sequence features presenter Blackwood interacting with an animated background,
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FLASHBACK TO RE-VERSION 100 HOURS OF HISTORY
Flashback Television has been asked to re-version 100 hours of history programming for The History Channel this summer. Much of the material is US in origin, and the bulk of the
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KISS 100 PUMPS£2 MILLION INTO LOGO AND AD BLITZ
Emap Radio-owned Kiss 100 has unveiled a new logo as part of a£2 million marketing and ad campaign. The new brand identity (left), created by design firm Bamber Forsyth, comes
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MEDIA 100 HIT BY SUDDEN RESIGNATION OF FEINGOLD
Media 100 president and chief operating officer Robert Feingold has quit unexpectedly. Feingold, who was only appointed to the post last October, is also resigning as a director of the company.
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Sullivan out of BBC 1's Copperfield
BBC 1 has overhauled its£4 million adaptation of David Copperfield, dropping Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan and shifting the production from BBC entertainment into BBC drama, writes Tim Dams.
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BBC 1 head plans to 'own' education
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has recomissioned the Lucy Gannon-scripted schools drama Hope and Glory for a second series, as part of a drive to beef up BBC 1's focus on
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Cat FM turns on RA over£20,000 fine
A Cheltenham radio station has hit back at a£20,000 fine imposed on it by the Radio Authority for broadcasting three bogus competitions, writes John Plunkett.
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Smith plans switch-off timetable
Media Secretary Chris Smith is to announce a 'trigger formula' for the switch-off of analogue TV - the first time the Government has committed itself to making a clear statement about its timetable for the move to digital, writes John Lewis.
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TRIO JOIN PHOENIX TV
Phoenix Television, the TV services company set up by former WTN managers Gerry O'Reilly, Steve Turner, Rex Jenkins and Rick Bayles, has made three further appointments. They include former WTN executives
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INTERVIEW - Independent spirit
Unique Broadcasting's Tim Blackmore says being given an MBE was like reading his own obituary. But there's life in the old dog yet - for the man who was in on the launch of Radio 1 is set to become chairman of production.
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Tigress hires staff to make new UK and US shows
Independent natural history specialist Tigress Productions is taking on 20 extra production staff on the back of new UK and US commissions, writes Jason Deans.
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Watts hires Roberts for Star Kids
Southern Star Sales chief executive Robyn Watts has poached Cascade sales head Teleri Roberts to run the company's newly established children's and family programming business.Roberts is to join the Australian producer/distributor
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HIGH POINT SENDS PEOPLE'S PRINCESS TO TNT IN US
UK independent distributor High Point has sold Live TV's 90-minute drama, The People's Princess, to TNT in the US.A Movie Screen Entertainment production for Mirror TV, the drama documented the last
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NOBLE SUCCESSOR AT HEART
Heart 106.2 has appointed former Drivetime announcer Erika North to replace Kara Noble on the Jono and Morning Crew breakfast show. Noble was sacked after a picture she took of a
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OFF THE RECORD - Going Nationwide
Remember Nationwide - BBC 1's eccentric current affairs strand littered with items on skate-boarding ducks? Well, had it not been axed in 1983 it would be 30 this autumn and to
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Granada to launch German operation
Granada Media has taken another step in its plans for international expansion, with the establishment of German production subsidiary Granada Produktion fur Film und Fernsehen (GPFF).Rikolt von Gagern, managing director of