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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Goal difference
Last year's football World Cup helped indies notch up 551 entries in the weekly Top 40 charts. But does this apparent success mask a downturn in the sector's fortunes?
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OFF THE RECORD - Excuses, excuses
It is with a heavy heart that Off The Record reports the non-appearance of BBC Radio 4 chief James Boyle at a Radio Academy do last week. Trailed as an 'end
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OFF THE RECORD - Security risk
OTR is proud to reveal the latest celebrity to add their name to the OK! hall of fame - none other than leisure gameshow ubermeister Peter Bazalgette. Baz unwittingly appeared in
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OFF THE RECORD - Skin deep
OTR is worried some readers may have missed the Neutrogena Beauty Journalism awards this month. It included the first ever Broadcast Beauty Journalism award, picked up by BBC 2's Looking Good.
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OFF THE RECORD - Knocked out
Channel 5's retrotastic plans to bring back It's A Knockout (above, right) hit an unexpected hitch when mean-spirited execs at the BBC suggested it still owned the copyright to the name
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OFF THE RECORD - Slipping through the net
Never let it be said those lovely people at Channel 4 don't listen to their indies. Next month, for instance, four of its top execs are going online to take questions
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OFF THE RECORD - Desert TV
Why, OTR wondered, did the usually shy and retiring Michael Green venture into the limelight on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs this week? Could it be to share with the
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OFF THE RECORD - Up the Arse
Listeners who tuned into BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of Arsenal's match against Leeds last week could be forgiven for thinking they were listening to a radio version of OTR's fave
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NewsJungle Group swings into picture post sector
Sound specialist Jungle Group is moving into picture post with the launch of a new division called Giant.
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CQTV attacks ITV docs
Serious ITV documentaries are an 'endangered species', according to a report from the Campaign for Quality Television (CQTV) revealed exclusively to Broadcast.The report - penned by documentarists working in ITV -
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Flextech in talks to buy GSkyB stations
Flextech is in secret talks to buy the Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSkyB) pay-TV channels - Granada Plus, Granada Breeze and Granada Men & Motors - according to sources.The pay-TV operator is
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Jobs axed in R3 overhaul
Three senior executives at BBC Radio 3 are to lose their jobs in a radical management overhaul by controller Roger Wright, writes John Plunkett.Commissioning editor, music policy Hilary Boulding, commissioning editor,
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Treves says no to sale of Channel 4
Channel 4 chairman Vanni Treves has publicly spelt out his opposition to any government attempts to privatise the station, writes Tim Dams.When Treves joined C4 in January 1998, he said he
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Carlton Communications sells post-production subsidiary TVI
Carlton Communications has sold its post-production subsidiary, TVI, in a move that could signal the sale of non-core businesses including companies in its products and film divisions, writes Dominic Timms.Chief executive
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SCARY SPICE INTERVIEW ADDS FLAVA TO C4 SPECIAL
Channel 4 has secured an exclusive interview with Scary Spice (left), aka Mel G, for a 30-minute special edition of its long-running music show, Flava. Series producer Brighter Pictures is filming
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BBC UNVEILS DETAILS OF RADIO SHOW THE CENTURY SPEAKS
The BBC has unveiled further details of a twentieth century history of the UK to be broadcast across all BBC local radio stations. The project, to be produced by BBC regional
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TIGER ASPECT FOLLOWS HENRY AND BULLIMORE TO JAMAICA
Tiger Aspect Productions has been commissioned to produce a special for BBC 1 following Lenny Henry and yachtsman Tony Bullimore as they cross the Atlantic together. The producer is Clive Tulloh,
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TESTBED TO QUIZ GUESTS ON RADIO KNOWLEDGE FOR R4
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned to make a new 6 x 30-minute quiz for BBC Radio 4. Wireless Wise will quiz celebrities on their knowledge of radio with the
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OK! TO ROLL-OUT MASTHEAD FORMAT ON ITV DAYTIME
ITV controller of daytime Dianne Nelmes has commissioned a new masthead celebrity show based on weekly celebrity gossip magazine OK!. OK TV! has been in development for the past 12 months
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Radio for London's Polish community
Radio Orla, the online Anglo-Polish radio station and Hayes FM 91.8, a new multilingual FM broadcaster in west London, have teamed up to launch a programming block targeting the Polish community in the FM station's catchment area.