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    ATLANTIC 252 GETS LW RIVAL

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Atlantic 252 managing director Travis Baxter has failed in a bid to win a second national long wave licence for the UK. The Isle of Man Communications Commission has awarded the

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    24P format gets NAB support

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    More than a dozen of the world's leading manufacturers of editing, effects, storage and network tools are expected to throw their weight behind a new 24-frames-per-second high-definition post-production video format at

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    Broadcasters hand out year 2000 bug warning

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Millennium bug specialists have warned that producers and facilities houses unable to deliver programmes or services because of systems failures after 1 January 2000 risk not being paid by their clients.ITV's

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    ICON TO MAKE INDIAN TRAVELOGUES FOR BBC 2 AIRING

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Icon Films is producing a series of three travelogue documentaries with the working title Indian Journeys for BBC 2, which are due for transmission in autumn. BBC Religion executive producer of

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    BBC Resources Birmingham has completed the titles for new BBC 2 series Sikhs. Designed by Gurpreet Renoata, the sequence uses images and symbols from the Sikh world to reflect the historical

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources Birmingham has completed the titles for new BBC 2 series Sikhs. Designed by Gurpreet Renoata, the sequence uses images and symbols from the Sikh world to reflect the historical

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    Burrell Durrant Hifle has created the new titles for The Antiques Show on BBC 2. Commissioned by Mark Hill and Jane Lomas of BBC Features Bristol, the titles are based on

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Burrell Durrant Hifle has created the new titles for The Antiques Show on BBC 2. Commissioned by Mark Hill and Jane Lomas of BBC Features Bristol, the titles are based on

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    NEW YOUTH CHANNEL TF2 TO LAUNCH EARLY NEXT YEAR

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    TF1 is to launch a new youth channel, in spite of the decision by Rupert Murdoch to pull out of a joint project, TFX, which had been widely touted earlier this

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    VFG TO RAISE£10 MILLION TO FINANCE EXPANSION

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    VFG, the facilities group listed on the Alternative Investment Market, is planning to raise a minimum of£10 million through a share placement to finance further expansion. VFG, which now consists

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    65,000 TAKE UP FILMFOUR

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    FilmFour, the new pay-TV film channel from Channel 4, has attracted 65,000 subscribers within four months of launch. The new channel aimed to attract 150,000 subscribers by the end of this

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    Super sleuths

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Last year Laurie Flynn and Michael Sean Gillard exposed the fakery of The Connection - now they've turned their guns on C4. Tim Dams reports.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Toilet training

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    An intriguing note reaches OTR regarding a jolly jape on a recent trip abroad by ITV's Wish You Were Here ..?team. OTR is understandably reluctant to go into detail, safe to

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    Star shuts Primetime

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Australian distributor Southern Star is to close Primetime and merge the operation into an expanded London sales office, six months after buying the British company, writes Tim Westcott.Greg Phillips, previously Southern

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    US rival muscles in on Teletubbies toys

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide is distancing itself from a row over Teletubbies in the US, where rival toys the Bubbly Chubbies are accused of infringing the Teletubbies copyright, writes Lucy Rouse.Worldwide handles publishing,

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    TELEMAGINATION MAKES NUTRITION SPOT FOR UNICEF

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Telemagination has filmed a 30-second spot (right) for Unicef's Cartoons for Children's Rights initiative, which brings together 70 animation studios to produce public service announcements illustrating its Convention on the Rights

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    OFF THE RECORD - Transfer listed

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Hard to believe I know, but John Birt is being touted as a possible contender for the vacant job of chairman of the football Premier League. Footie fans who have watched

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    TALK LAUNCHES ON THE NET

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Talk Radio parent TalkCo is to launch the first stand-alone sports radio station on the internet. The new station, to be called T@lk-Sport, will broadcast 16 hours a day, seven days

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    TURNER LAING PROMOTED

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Sophie Turner Laing has been promoted to controller, programme acquisitions at BBC Broadcast, replacing Alan Howden who is retiring from the position at the end of August. Howden is stepping down

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    HAT TRICK SHOOTS SECOND RUN OF THE PETER PRINCIPLE

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Hat Trick Productions began recording the second series of BBC 1 sitcom The Peter Principle last week. The series, featuring Jim Broadbent in the main role as an incompetent bank manager,

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    LION AND WARNER SISTERS FIND TARGET AT MIP-TV

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Target Distribution has agreed to distribute factual and drama shows from Lion TV and Warner Sisters at Mip-TV. Target is selling Lion's Naked Secrets documentary at the market, plus a feature

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    Granada Girls usher in ITV film nights

    1999-04-02T00:00:00Z

    The ITV Film Initiative, launched in 1996, will bear fruit later this month when the first of nine movie premieres transmits on the channel, writes Nicola Methven.Granada Film's Girls' Night, one