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PEARSON POACHES GRANADA'S KIRKEGAARD.
Pearson TV Worldwide has hired Granada Media's founder of its 'greenhouse' development project Sean Kirkegaard (left) as its new entertainment development team leader. Kirkegaard, 31, took up the new role at
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UKTV PROGRAMMING CHIEF PROMOTED.
UKTV head of programming Kathryn Mitchell has been promoted to the newly created position of UKTV channels controller. Mitchell's promotion takes place with immediate effect and she reports directly to BBC
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BBC PRODUCER WINS HISTORY TODAY AWARD.
BBC producer Catrine Clay has won the History Today historical film of the year award for The Germans We Kept, a documentary about German prisoners of war made for the Timewatch
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BBC'S QUEST TO CO-ANCHOR CNN PROGRAMME.
CNN has poached BBC news North America correspondent Richard Quest to co-anchor its new daily 1 x 60-minute Business International show. Quest starts next week on the show, which launches in
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TV-LOONLAND EXPANDS DISTRIBUTION DIVISION.
TV-Loonland, producer and rights provider of children's programming, has expanded its distribution division following a number of acquisitions last year. Marzenna Czubowicz joins TV-Loonland's London office as head of sales and
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NewsBT Vision unveils new movie channel
BT's on-demand service BT Vision is to offer movies including Atonement and The Bourne Ultimatum on a new premium subscription channel.
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Stoddart saddles up for Go Racing role
GMTV managing director returns to roots as new chief executive of broadcaster-led horse racing consortium
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RespondTV appoints UK boss in preparation for upturn in European interactivity
US interactive applications provider RespondTV has continued the build up of its European operations with the appointment of David Hughes as European sales director.Hughes, who has over 20 years experience
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Das Werk buys Centropolis Effects
Independence Day and The Grinch vfx producer acquired by German facilities-to-film group in $8.25 million deal
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IBM targets media and telco broadband services with appointment of new media chief
IT giant IBM has appointed a new media and telecoms expert to advise businesses on the launch of broadband content propositons, writes David Wood.Dr Michael Chamberlain joins as head
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Videonet hires creative director in move towards original production
Video-on-demand service Videonet has hired Marco Giusti as creative director to enhance the 'look and feel' of its HomeChoice service, writes David Wood.He will be responsible for promoting the on-screen
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Carlton cleared over Millionaire but Ali G falls foul of ITC
Regulator dismisses 'rigged' claims over quiz show but lambasts episode of Celebrity for use of bad language
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NewsViewers get Inside the Medieval Mind
The start of BBC4's documentary series Inside the Medieval Mind, part of its Medieval season, was a surprise hit last night with 644,000 viewers (3.2%) at 9pm.
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Mole digs up just 1.4 million
New Channel 5 reality show launches with 5.7 per cent market share
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EastEnders goes four times a week
BBC finally confirms that Albert Square fans will get extra episode 'later this year'
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Salmon replaces Hall as BBC ethnic ambassador
Recently appointed director of Sport takes over from outgoing director of news just days after Greg Dyke lambasted the corporation for being 'hideously white'
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Einstein Channel buys Television Education Network
Science and technology channel expands into web-based distance learning
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MTV braced for strike action
Bectu members ballot could see new contract dispute escalate into industrial action as early as next month
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Williams joins Carlton as Cameron eyes parliament
Former PACT chief executive to take on corporate affairs role at Carlton Communications
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ONdigital hits 1m subscriber target
Chief executive Prebble claims digital terrestrial broadcaster's subscriber growth now faster than rivals