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    Finishing School forced to close

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Post-production training centre The Finishing School has been forced into closure after its grant funding ran out, writes Will Strauss. The 18-month old education centre owned by the National Film &

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    Soho dry-hire firm turns to post

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Soho dry-hire facility Morphos is to reinvent itself as a fully fledged post house from next month, writes Will Strauss. Former VTR director Bill Scanlon has been brought in to oversee

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    CONSULTANTS FORM DUO

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Former Teddington Studios chairman Ewart Needham has teamed up with former Panasonic Broadcast Europe managing director Chris Daubney to form a broadcast consultancy practice, Daubney Needham Associates. The pair have put

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    BURRELL ENTERS EMMYS

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Burrell Durrant Hifle art director Rob Hifle and head animator Alan Short have been nominated for an Emmy along with Sauce digital effects operator Nick Brooks. The team has been nominated

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    LEADER - Ofcom's future is already shaky

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Here's a statement to upset the broadcasting apple cart as it trundles towards the Edinburgh and Cambridge talking shops: the creation of Ofcom isn't a dead cert. Those close to the

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    FREE TO AIR - Mass appeal for creativity

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The creation of a single regulator for communications, Ofcom, is a mammoth task involving 1,000-plus people and the expectations of hundreds of commercial and public service operators. But if it's done

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    TRADE TALK - The Dan factor

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Lured by former colleague Kevin Lygo to head factual at C5, Dan Chambers' populist sense could be even more of an asset there than at C4.

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    ON THE BOX - Start of a new season

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Wyn Innes, S4C International managing director, felt The Premiership was old hat but wanted more of The Real Ghostbusters.

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    TV FESTIVAL - Edinburgh acts

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    This weekend the television industry decamps to Edinburgh for its annual fest of backslapping, navel-gazing and, of course, serious debate. Broadcast selects a handful of the best of this year's many provocative sessions.

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    TV HOTSHOTS - The ones to watch 2001

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    DANNY COHEN, 27 CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONING EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES If you're a late-night, niche-TV owl you might have caught Generation E, one of Cohen's more prominent commissions for E4. While the series

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    HOTSHOTS - Where they are now

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    From a former producer of Generation Sex to the brains behind The Weakest Link, former Broadcast hotshots are living up to their promise and emerging as broadcasting's movers and shakers of the future.

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    Sky wins radio deals

    2007-01-11T08:00:00Z

    UBC Media Group has signed a deal to provide the 20 radio stations owned by UTV with its syndicated Sky News radio package.

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    BROADCAST DEBATE - TV's creative limbo

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    While the opportunities offered by new technology are boundless and are supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting industry, many feel that TV is repetitive and no longer provocative. Is this an industry going nowhere, creatively? Five leading lights thra

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    INTERVIEW - Back from the wild

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    As the BBC's Natural History Unit prepares to see what the nation makes of its lavish exploration of the oceans in The Blue Planet NHU head Keith Scholey claims the recession in natural history programming was just the kick it needed.

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    REGIONAL TV - STV flies the flag over the border

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The fourth part of Broadcast's series - which looks at the handful of ITV franchises that have not been subsumed by Carlton or Granada - assesses the fortunes of SMG-owned Scottish TV which is poised for more growth.

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    TX - Comedy for the masses

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    It's been a while since a comedy show has united three generations of the same family in the way that the likes of Morecambe & Wise or The Two Ronnies once

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    Pay TV missing out on new customers, says Jupiter

    2007-01-11T08:00:00Z

    Pay-TV operators are wasting the opportunity to poach millions of potential new customers created by the digital switchover, according to new research from analysis firm Jupiter Research.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Dramatic first for digital media

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    In the exciting world of exhibitions and festivals, organisers will go to any lengths to attract people to their show. But, for this year's Digital Media World, one of those enigmatic

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    OFF THE RECORD - Nipple removal all in a day's work

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    It's a fair bet that most people in the industry won't have to complete the obscure tasks that graphics artists have to. OTR did a spot poll this week and it

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    Gardeners' World shows up BBC 1 peaktime weakness

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    What sort of condition did the networks wake up in with no Survivor and no Big Brother? Interestingly, ITV's primetime share for the week was up on the previous week's performance