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2000 Broadcast Awards launches
The 2000 Broadcast Awards launched this week with a call for submissions to the fifth annual event.The awards, which are designed to reward and recognise outstanding production in UK television, will
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WITTE TO HEAD UP MARKETING FOR BBC DIGITAL SERVICES
The BBC has appointed a new head of marketing for its digital services.Gilda Witte, marketing controller at Hogshead Pub Company, will take responsibility for marketing across all of the BBC public
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BRISSENDEN TO LEAVE UNITED BROADCASTING
John Brissenden, United Broadcasting and Entertainment (UBE) controller of press and publicity, is leaving the company at the end of the month.His responsibilities are to be incorporated into a new full-time
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NewsBBC1's Dinner serves up a rare Sunday hit
The success of The Dinner Partygave BBC1 a rare Sunday peaktime victory over ITV1 this weekend, with the corporation's flagship channel gaining the upper hand for only the second time this year.
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LOVE AND WHITE FORGE INDIE PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW DRAMA
Robert Love, a former controller of drama at Scottish Television, and director Marcus DF White have formed a new independent production company called can-u-see. Based in London, the indie plans to
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GINGER MEDIA GROUP CONSIDERS STOCK MARKET FLOTATION
The Ginger Media Group is understood to have spoken to several investment banks about a possible flotation on the stock market. The company, which owns Virgin Radio as well as its
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SIMPSON TAKES NEW POST AS MILLENNIUM REPORTER
BBC News has created the new position of millennium correspondent to report on events and issues surrounding the arrival of the year 2000.Emma Simpson, currently a general news reporter, will report
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DAVIES TO STAY AT LONDON ECONOMICS TO OVERSEE MEDIA
Senior associate at consultancy London Economics Jonathan Davies has been appointed head of media, just two months before he was to quit to join the European Broadcasting Union. In his new
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BAFTA LINES UP WALMSLEY FOR MANAGEMENT CLASS
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has lined up Carlton Communications executive director Nigel Walmsley (right) to present one of its management masterclasses. The session will be chaired
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UDEN GRABS NEEDHAM FOR LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT MOVE
Factual specialist Uden Associates has recruited Delissa Needham from Rapido TV in a bid to break into entertainment programming. Needham, who joins in the newly created role of head of entertainment,
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NewsC4 revs up Sunday night overhaul
Channel 4 is looking for a power-house factual entertainment show to rival BBC2's Top Gearas part of an overhaul of its Sunday night schedule.
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COMMUNITY HEAD SOUGHT
Media Trust chief executive Caroline Diehl is looking to recruit an executive to head up its new Community Channel. Set to launch early next year, the channel was granted just under
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DYSLEXIA BEATS RECORD
Channel 4's Dyslexia season, produced by indie Twenty Twenty Television and broadcast last month, has generated more helpline calls than any previous education campaign on the channel. To date more than
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CARLTON UNVEILS WEBSITES
Carlton TV has launched websites dedicated to the work of documentary-maker John Pilger and long-running investigative show The Cook Report this week. The launch of www.carlton.com/pilger on Wednesday (25 August) precedes
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ENERGY STRIKES GOLD
The Energy Film Library, one of the leading libraries for film images, has struck an agreement with Universal Studios to represent a collection of licensable material from the Universal Film Library.
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C4 boosts drama in autumn schedule
Channel 4 has unveiled its 1999 autumn schedule heralding an increased emphasis on drama output.A£6 million, 2 x 120-minute adaptation by Granada Films of the best-selling book Longitude heads the
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BBC Wales readies cash for S4C 2
BBC Wales has earmarked£500,000 from its£6 million devolution fund to pay for the first year of its live coverage of the Welsh Assembly for new digital channel S4C 2, writes Jason Deans.
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NewsUK indies concern over TLC Los Angeles move
UK indies are worried that TLC's move from Silver Spring to Los Angeles will affect their relationships with the channel's commissioners and that it could signal a further departure from TLC's traditional role as a co-production partner for factual shows.
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UK Play bolsters line-up with raft of new series
UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy has commissioned six new series for the autumn including a show from Avalon starring comedian Richard Herring, writes Alice Macandrew.
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Talk to play sports for Digital One
Digital radio operator Digital One has signed up Talk Radio to provide a new 24-hour digital sports station but has so far failed to reach a deal with Virgin Radio for a digital simulcast of the rock station's analogue service, writes John Plunkett.