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TPS POISED TO WREST SOCCER RIGHTS FROM CANAL+
French digital satellite TV (DST) operator Television par Satellite (TPS) is set to pay FFr2 billion (£200 million) to snatch the country's football league rights from arch-rival Canal+, according to French
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CORNISH STEPS UP AT TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX INTL
Stephen Cornish has been promoted to senior vice- president/managing director (Europe) for Twentieth Century Fox International Television.Cornish (right), who works out of Fox's London office, was previously vice-president/managing director (Europe). He
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MURDOCH MEETS MESSIER FOR TALKS
News Corp and BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier met last week to discuss areas of co-operation, including the possibility of establishing a European TV production operation, according
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E! PLANS ISRAELI CHANNEL
E! Entertainment Television Networks is planning to launch an E!-branded channel in Israel before the end of the year in partnership with local broadcaster Tel-Ad. The Israeli company is negotiating cable
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ITEL LICENSES SURVIVAL SHOWS TO DISCOVERY
UK distributor Itel has licensed a 14 x 60-minute package of Survival natural history programming to Discovery Communications for its networks in Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, India and
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NewsEx Tearaways host to lead kid internet review
Child psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, the former host of House of Tiny Tearaways, is to lead the first phase of the government's review of the effects of media on children, which will focus on the internet. [ALL]
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CANAL+ LOSES APPEAL AGAINST COURT FINE
Canal+ has lost its appeal against last November's FFr10 million (£1 million) court-imposed fine for abusing its dominant position in French film-financing to secure secondary TV licensing windows. The initial ruling
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TRANSMEDIA SIGNS CO-PRO DEAL WITH TLC AND DISCOVERY
UK independent Transmedia Productions has struck a co-production deal with Discovery Communications' US outfit, The Learning Channel (TLC), and Discovery Networks Europe to produce a 2 x 60-minute documentary on bodyguards.
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SCOTS UMBRELLA BRAND MAKES MARSEILLES DEBUT
(100%) proof, a new umbrella brand under which a group of Scottish indie factual producers are marketing their output internationally, made its debut at the Sunny Side of Doc festival in
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PERES TO DEPART REED MIDEM FOR CONSULTANCY ROLE
Reed Midem director of television Rene Peres, whose responsibilities include Mip-TV, Mipcom, Mipdoc, Mipcom Junior and Mip Asia, is leaving the company at the end of the year to set up
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Happy landing?
As new head of BBC Resources, Margaret Salmon will handle big budget shows like Navy In Action. Is she out of her depth, asks Dominic Timms.
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Sparks fly over C4 remit
Channel 4 may no longer be seen as a minority channel, but in the light of the growth of such populist shows as Blaze Jason Deans asks if it is still fulfilling its public service commitments.
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OPINION - BBC's power play turns to high farce
The BBC can still get many things right, but when it comes to appointing its own leader the corporation's worst instincts have an unpleasant habit of coming to the fore. When
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EDUCATION - GENRE AUDIT: TV's broader education
Educational TV, once thought worthy but dull, is reinventing itself by borrowing from mainstream genres. Andy Fry reports in the first of a series of new-look Genre Audits.
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Soap rubs off
Brookside an educational show? 'Tis so, says Liz Warner, commissioning editor at Channel 4, who argues that educational programming must quit the ghetto to survive.
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EDUCATION - GENRE AUDIT: On a learning curve
Educational programming is likely to undergo a radical transformation with the use of interactive technology. Jane Marlow examines how broadcasters are developing the genre and, right, educational shows on the radio.
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INTERVIEW - The popular touch
Departing the BBC after 20 years, Peter Dale found himself fighting fakery claims as head of C4 documentaries. Now that the channel is shedding its 'minority' tag, his latest challenge is to introduce genuinely popular fare.
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BROADCAST RATINGS - TX
APPLE OPERABroadcaster: BBC 2Producer: BBC features (Bristol)Start: 21.50, 27 JuneLength: 10 x 10-minutesSeries producer: Jeremy HoweDirector: Wiz HokApples may not sound like the most enticing of subjects to kick off the
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OFF THE RECORD - No invitation to the ball
Hurrah! It's the end of June - the time when our attention turns to one of Auntie's most beloved events. No, not Wimbledon, silly. We're talking about OTR's annual invite to