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NRW plans Cologne programming market
Former RTL maniging director Helmut Thoma is working with the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government in Germany to launch an international TV programming market in Cologne next year, writes Martin Blaney.NRW
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NewsUnseen BBC footage on web
The BBC is to post unaired footage from genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?on a website linked to a new tie-in magazine.
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Fox takes majority stake in NatGeo
Fox Entertainment Group, the US arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has confirmed it is to take a 50 per cent majority stake in the National Geographic Channel (NGC), writes Colin Grimshaw.
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NBC TO SPIN OFF INTERNET BUSINESS
NBC is to spin off its internet interests into a stand-alone outfit, NBC Internet, which has projected revenues of up to $70 million (£42.7 million) this year and a stock market
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CANAL+ SUBSIDIARY SETS UP INTERNATIONAL CO-PRO ARM
Le Sabre, a subsidiary of Canal+'s principal production arm, Ellipse, is setting up an English-language international co-production arm, Pole International de Co-productions Televisuelles de Reference Europeenne (Picture). The new outfit is
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ZDF DRAWN TO BBC WORLDWIDE EVEREST FILM
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold Lost on Everest, the BBC feaures documentary about the successful search for the body of climber George Mallory, to ZDF in Germany. Worldwide has invested in the
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DEBATE BEGINS ON NEW FRENCH BROADCASTING LAW
Parliamentary debate is to start on France's new broadcasting law, personally sponsored by prime minister Lionel Jospin, on Tuesday (18 May). Culture and communication minister Catherine Trautmann has promised the legislation
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REUTERS TV OPENS DOORS ON NEW EUROPEAN BUREAUX
Video news agency Reuters Television has opened four new bureaux in Europe, bringing its total number of offices in the region to 22. Four video journalists have been appointed to staff
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MURDOCH IN LINE TO LAND BUNDESLIGA RIGHTS
Rupert Murdoch is being tipped as a likely bidder for the TV rights to the premier German domestic football league, the Bundesliga, when the contract comes up for grabs this summer.
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JENNY JONES PRODUCER TO APPEAL NEGLIGENCE RULING
The producer and distributor of US talk show Jenny Jones are to appeal against the award of $25 million (£15.3 million) in damages for negligence last week. A Michigan jury ruled
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Tom Roberts
On why today's programme-makers have to fight for their reputations as well as their commissions.
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Cable dealer
Graeme Stanley has experienced a meteoric ascent in the UK cable TV industry, but his toughest challenges lie ahead, says Alice Macandrew.
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Inform/Premium merger
Digital sports content providers Inform Group and Premium TV have merged.
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Winners take it all?
As the industry packs away its frocks and finery after last weekend's British Academy Awards, Tim Dams asks if the endless round of TV awards are all they're cracked up to be.
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OPINION - Yentob and Hall for the top posts?
How unfortunate that some enterprising independent, say Lion Television or Hart Ryan, was not allowed to film behind the closed doors of the BBC's annual away day at Wood Norton this
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COVERING WAR - Is truth always a casualty of war?
Opening a three-page special on the reporting of the Kosovo conflict, academic Philip Hammond takes broadcasters to task for slavishly accepting Nato's version of the truth, while right and on page 17 news editors defend their coverage.
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INTERVIEW - Head over heels
Sally Head executive produced two of the hardest-hitting dramas of recent times in Prime Suspect and Cracker. Now with her own indie, the Granada and LWT veteran has high hopes of Plastic Man, airing this week on ITV.
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OFF THE RECORD - Thanks for the mammary
Off The Record is disturbed to report the theft from TalkBack's London offices of a pair of four-feet high comedy breasts. The magnificent polystyrene chest, which was being stored in the
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OFF THE RECORD - Gentleman John
Departing director general John Birt was roundly lambasted by programme-makers over his criticism of BBC sitcoms. Nevertheless, OTR can't help but admire him for the courage of his convictions and his
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OFF THE RECORD - When insects attack
It seems the makers of OTR's favourite cable and satellite show, When Animals Attack, could do worse than get down to the Channel 5 HQ in Long Acre. OTR mentions this