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DISNEY PROFITS DOWN
The Walt Disney Company has reported a 3 per cent drop in quarterly profits to $479m (£338m) on sales of $6bn (£4.2bn). The company instigated 4,000 job cuts globally in March.
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NCC CONSUMER CALL
The National Consumer Council has called for a body independent of Ofcom to handle consumer representation in communications issues. Its latest report Plugging in the Panel calls for a well-resourced body
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GO RACING ALTERS LOOK
Horseracing consortium Go Racing, comprising BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, has unveiled its new company name and logo as At The Races - the former name was unavailable as a
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BBC PLANS LONDON BASE
The BBC has unveiled plans for the£400m redevelopment of Broadcasting House as the new home of network radio, news and the World Service. The proposals include erecting a new building
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LONDON RADIO SHAKE-UP
The BBC's London Live station, formerly Greater London Radio, has recruited columnist Anna Raeburn and comedian Jo Brand in a bid to boost audience figures. The two women will be key
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Radio overtakes TV
Radio is now more popular than television, according to the latest audience research, with BBC Radio 2 having added nearly a million new listeners in the past three months.Second quarter Rajar
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NewsUnions and MPs in last bid to improve licence fee
The government has been warned it will starve the BBC of the resources required to maintain quality broadcasting if the Cabinet endorses a below-inflation increase in the licence fee tomorrow (11 January).
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Capital leads in ratings
Capital 95.8 FM has regained its lead over Kiss 100 in London's crucial 15 to 24 demographic, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Forever director to take helm at Century FM
Capital radio has confirmed the appointment of Forever Broadcasting group programme director Giles Squire as brand programme director for its Century FM Network, writes Colin Robertson.
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TalkSport set to air opt-outs
The Radio Authority has given national speech radio station TalkSport permission to air separate opt-outs in Scotland and Northern Ireland for three hours a day, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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X-MEN SERIES BOUGHT BY CARTOON NETWORK
Cartoon Network UK has bought the latest 26 x 30-minute series of X-Men from Warner Bros. The series takes a new look at the characters as they 'learn to control their
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Kemistry lifts lid on soccer show for ITV1
London creative facility Kemistry has created the series branding, titles and content graphics for new ITV1 football highlights programme The Premiership.After winning an open pitch way back in April the company
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Ealing Studios hosts BT Wireless facility
BT Wireless has opened a multimedia digital facility at Ealing Studios to help developers produce content for mobile phone services, writes Jon Rogers.
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Fast native editor arrives
German software company Fast Multimedia is to debut its native digital editor Blue at IBC in September, more than four years after the product was first announced, writes Dominic Timms.
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NewsSky shares tipped to rise
City analysts are predicting a marked improvement in BSkyB's share price in 2007 after three years of underperformance.
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Recession hits Red Pepper ID
Post facility Red Pepper ID has become the first casualty of what many within the Soho production community are calling 'the beginning of a recession'.A major downturn in fortunes for the
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Passion wins Soho prizes
Passion pictures directors Pete Candleland and Jamie Hewlett snatched the ITK music video award at the third Rushes Soho Shorts Festival for their work on animated virtual band Gorillaz' debut single, Clint Eastwood, writes Jon Rogers.
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5D TO UNVEIL CYBORG
5D will expose its new playback/output system, Cyborg (Commander), to the European market at this year's IBC. Developed in association with leading film facilities in LA and London, Cyborg (Commander) provides
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STATIC GAINS CRUZ
Static Design, the broadcast design wing of visual media company Static 2358, has poached senior broadcast designer Luiza dos Santos Cruz from Deepend. Cruz's new role will focus on bridging the
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TOSHIBA SIGNS UP DGP
DGP has become the only UK facility with access to the Toshiba DVD encoding and authoring system after it reached an agreement to become the sole UK sub-licensee of California Video