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    All3Media moves formats arm to London

    2005-10-14T14:00:00Z

    All3Media International is moving its format sales operation from Amsterdam to the company's London headquarters, as part of a restructuring of its formats division.

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    Comment: Don't knock the telenovela

    2005-10-14T14:57:10Z

    Forget the latest US dramas and UK reality formats - the next big thing to take the international TV market by storm is going to be the telenovela, apparently, writes Dominic Schreiber.

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    Analysis - Profile - Can he make stuff happen?

    2005-10-14T15:02:09Z

    After restructuring his department, the BBC's new head of comedy, Jon Plowman, is taking on one of the most difficult slots in TV: a new peaktime BBC1 comedy.

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    Analysis - It's not just cricket!

    2005-10-14T15:02:10Z

    Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.

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    Production - Rough Cut - A tapeless nirvana?

    2005-10-14T15:02:11Z

    Ian Bucknell on how tapeless production has changed and broadened the role of the TV librarian.

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    Production - So you want to go tapeless?

    2005-10-14T15:02:11Z

    Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless. At this stage, he argues, it's less about selecting kit and more about documenti

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    Off the Record - Just who is Paxman?

    2005-10-14T15:02:11Z

    When Jeremy Paxman was asked to take part in the latest series of Who Do You

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    O'Connell takes Xfm team to Virgin

    2005-10-14T17:17:22Z

    New Virgin Radio breakfast host Christian O'Connell is taking his entire Xfm team with him, when he starts his new job on 23 January.

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    Producers slam BBC's desktop editing drive

    2005-10-17T07:59:55Z

    The BBC's drive to bring in desktop editing for its factual department came under fresh criticism today, as producers slammed it as an unwise way to shrink production budgets.

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    BBC Manchester move gets£50m boost

    2005-10-17T08:00:00Z

    8am: The BBC's proposed plan to move four departments to Manchester has been given a£50 million boost from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and public sector partners.

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    GCap put Xfm forward for north east FM licence

    2005-10-17T08:00:00Z

    GCap Media is looking to extend its alternative music format Xfm into a national analogue network by putting it forward for the north east FM licence currently being advertised by Ofcom.

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    Sky in advanced talks with Easynet

    2005-10-17T09:46:22Z

    9.45am: BSkyB is poised to buy telecoms company Easynet for an estimated£150m, and could announce a deal within the week.

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    ITV hires daytime exec

    2005-10-17T10:00:26Z

    9.45am: Helen Warner, a former editor of Loose Women and This Morning, is joining ITV to find daytime shows from the regions.

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    Humphrys compensated over leaked after dinner speech

    2005-10-17T10:05:50Z

    BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys has received a£10,000 payout from the event firm which leaked controversial remarks he made in an after dinner speech.

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    Neil sets up TV rights fund

    2005-10-17T10:09:37Z

    10am: Andrew Neil, the broadcaster and former Sunday Times editor, is moving into the television rights business with a£30m TV fund.

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    Murphy to join RDF

    2005-10-17T10:46:58Z

    RDF is set to unveil BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy as its new creative director.

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    Enteraction & AIM to launch movie channel

    2005-10-17T10:53:48Z

    Enteraction TV has teamed up with UK film and cinema consortium, All Industry Marketing (AIM) to launch a movie channel with a twist?it won't show any movies.

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    Freudenstein hits out over Premiership rights

    2005-10-17T11:01:04Z

    BSkyB's chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein has criticised attempts by ITV and NTL to end Sky's monopoly of live Premier League coverage, saying they risk scoring a 'spectacular own goal'.

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    Viewers think ITV1 has the X Factor

    2005-10-17T12:00:14Z

    First blood in the latest Saturday night ratings battle of the talent shows went to ITV1's The X Factor with 7.5 million (38.3%).

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    BBC1's Dead topple ITV1's Jericho

    2005-10-17T12:34:00Z

    Jericho and Waking the Dead went head to head on Sunday night but BBC1's established crime drama narrowly trumped ITV1's new offering with 6.9 million (27.6%).