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    London Post hit by departures

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    London Post senior editor John Pearce and acting managing director Charles Taylor are both quitting the company, just weeks after parent Aspen Group confirmed it was looking for a buyer.Pearce, who

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    CWC sheds two execs

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has parted company with another two executives, including Ben Bull, director of digital strategy, writes Alice Macandrew.

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    Unkindest cut

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    What is the way forward for the World Service in a post-Cold War era of multiple information sources and diminishing Foreign Office funding?

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    Street cred

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    After years of snobbery, all of sudden it's cool to have a soap credit on your CV - for writers, producers and directors as well as for stars, writes BBC head of drama series Mal Young.

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    Skaramoosh has created the title sequence for Union Skyline's new three-part series, Riddle of the Skies. Designed by Piers Helm, the sequence utilises specially shot optical effects that were treated

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Skaramoosh has created the title sequence for Union Skyline's new three-part series, Riddle of the Skies. Designed by Piers Helm, the sequence utilises specially shot optical effects that were treated and

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    Corrie writers go solo for ITV drama

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Two Coronation Street writers have been commissioned by ITV to make a humorous drama series on life in a northern family.Yorkshire TV is to produce the 6 x 60-minute At Home

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    Resources set for giant OB contract

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources Ltd looks set to secure one of the largest outside broadcast contracts ever when it helps broadcast Music Live 2000, five days of music in celebration of the new

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    HALL TO QUIT REUTERS AT EASTER TO SET UP CONSULTANCY

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Reuters International media marketing manager Mervyn Hall is leaving the news organisation at Easter to set up his own consultancy company.Hall, 50, joined Reuters as sales director from ITN three years

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    ITV companies reveal regional news plans

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The ITV companies have unveiled changes to their regional news programming in preparation for the network's new-look, post-News at Ten schedule to be introduced on 8 March, writes Liz Shackleton.

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    TELE-CINE COMMITS TO DVD WITH MAESTRO PURCHASE

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Tele-Cine's new media division is installing Spruce Technologies' DVD Maestro authoring system and Digital Vision's BitPack encoding system. Tele-Cine general manager Jeff Emerson said the new technology demonstrated the company's commitment

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    Tomlinson shortlisted for Laughing Gas comedy prize

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool-based actor Ricky Tomlinson is one of nine writers shortlisted for the Laughing Gas regional comedy initiative, writes Jeanette Blair.

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    ITC PUBLISHES REVISED CODE ON SPORTS EVENTS

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has published its revised code on sports and other listed events, following Media Secretary Chris Smith's review of terrestrial TV's 'crown jewels' list of sports. Smith created

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    CLAYPOLE TAKES ON PR ROLE AT MEDIALINK WORLDWIDE

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Former APTV managing director Stephen Claypole has been appointed international broadcast adviser at broadcast public relations consultancy Medialink Worldwide Incorporated. Claypole, who masterminded the launch of APTV - the video news

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    RA changes may lead to indie gains

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Radio indies could win more business as a result of the new regulatory system announced by the Radio Authority last Thursday (21 January), writes John Plunkett.

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    CELTIC DRAMA REWARDED

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    BBC Scotland's Looking after Jo Jo, Parallel Films' Amongst Women and Channel 4's The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star are among 62 entries shortlisted for the Celtic Film

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    Father Ted to make UK cable debut

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Acclaimed Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted is to make its UK cable and satellite debut on the Paramount Comedy Channel later this year.The Paramount Comedy Channel has acquired all three series

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    THE COMMENT PAGE - The opening of Gates to cable

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    A 5 per cent stake in the UK's third largest cable operator does not exactly add up to world domination. Yet NTL's rivals in the British cable market must be feeling

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    GEITJENBEEK NAMED INTERGRAPH EURO BUSINESS DIRECTOR

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Intergraph Computer Systems has appointed Dingco Geijtenbeek as business director for Europe. Geijtenbeek (left), who joined Intergraph from Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe early last year, succeeds Nacho Mazzini as head

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    Soaps - The Business Page - Cleaning up?

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Selling soaps abroad means crossing cultural and language barriers and persuading foreign broadcasters to offer an untried product a long run in a primetime slot. However, as Esther Eley discovers, the potential rewards are huge.

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    Charge of the lifestyle brigade

    1999-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The dark-haired host, who looked strangely familiar, pulled a card from the desk and read a single word to a brooding figure slumped to his right. Just an innocuous couple of