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ELLIPSE JOINS QUEUE FOR GAUMONT
Canal+ production subsidiary Ellipse is among the bidders for French production company Gaumont TV. Gaumont, which was established in 1990 and has a programme catalogue including the Highlander series, recently reported
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EC LAUNCHES INQUIRY INTO FUNDING OF PUBLIC SERVICE TV
The European Commission (EC) has launched formal investigations into the state funding of public service TV in France and Italy. The probe will concentrate on government cash injections and direct subsidies
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NewsOrange picks Red Bee
Orange has chosen Red Bee Media to repurpose content from its digital TV service, due to launch in the final quarter of this year.
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CANAL+ IN TALKS WITH CNN, REUTERS OVER I-TELEVISION
Canal+, which is to launch news channel I-Television on French digital satellite platform CanalSatellite on 4 November, is said to be talking to CNN and Reuters Television about forming strategic alliances
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SBS AND UPC IN JOINT BID FOR DUTCH SOCCER RIGHTS
Europe's largest broadcaster, SBS, is mounting a joint bid for Dutch football TV rights with its new pan-European partner, cable company UPC. SBS chief executive Harry Sloan said the two planned
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NBDTV LANDS RIGHTS TO BBC 1'S WICKED WOMEN
UK indie distributor NBDtv has secured the international rights to the Wicked Women concert, which went out on BBC 1 last Saturday (24 July).The charity concert to promote breast cancer awareness
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WORLD SERVICE JOINS US DIGITAL SATELLITE PLATFORM
BBC World Service is to be included in a digital satellite radio platform that will start broadcasting to the US in 2001. XM Satellite, a subsidiary of American Mobile Satellite Corporation,
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King of comedy
If anyone can crack the US market, it's Hat Trick founder Jimmy Mulville, who last week unveiled plans to open an LA office. David Wood reports.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - NTL's boat comes in
NTL's announcement that it has lined up an£8.2 billion takeover of Cable & Wireless took everyone by surprise, not least digital TV rivals BSkyB and On Digital. Alice Macandrew on the repercussions.
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CORPORATE JOLLIES - Junkets, jollies and journos
Whether it's white water rafting in the Rockies, a trip on Concorde or just a team-building weekend in Windsor, the corporate jolly is now an established part of the broadcasting calendar. Ed Shelton goes in search of a free lunch.
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INTERVIEW - Kings of the jungle
Since launching two years ago, Lion Television has expanded production beyond its staple docu-soap output into classic documentaries. Now the indie is stalking some new prey: drama and the overseas markets.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Back of the nets
Over the last decade, the Big Three US networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - have seen their audience share plummet from 66 to 43 per cent and the decline shows no sign of abating.
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NewsSave Storyville - Is there a twist in the tale?
Can the digital channels step into the void being made by the proposed cuts to Storyville?
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OFF THE RECORD - Four play
If only England's cricketers were as good at their jobs as Channel 4, which broadcast its first live coverage of a Test match last week. The hand of marketing supremo David
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OFF THE RECORD - Countdown hit for six
On a similar note, Channel 4's decision to axe Countdown for last week's cricket didn't go unnoticed. Presenter Richie Benaud told viewers that 'only about three or four thousand people' had
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OFF THE RECORD - Starstruck
There is, it appears, no limit to the number of BBC execs desperate to get on the telly. Regular readers will remember how Alan Yentob, Paul Jackson and Geoffrey Perkins sneaked
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OFF THE RECORD - Back page splash
Cheesy snap of the week comes courtesy of the Radio Festival, held in Cardiff earlier this month. Off The Record was amazed when it heard that this Loaded-style woman-in-bikini stunt (below)
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OFF THE RECORD - Campaign for quality food
The angry debate in the letters page of the BBC's in-house rag, Ariel, reached fever pitch this week. No, nothing to do with the programmes, silly, but the quality (or lack
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OFF THE RECORD - C5: The Next Generation
OTR's warmest congratulations go out to bewhiskered Channel 5 spinmeister Paul Leather and his girlfriend, Shelly Walker, who are expecting their first child. It is of particular interest to OTR because