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    Igel opens UK office

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    German entertainment distributor Igel Media has opened a London office and promoted head of international sales Edward Galton to become managing director, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    TRADE TALK - A Midas touch

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Sir Peter Michael has topped the Broadcast Rich List, worth no less than£175m. Barbara Marshall reports on the most eclectic of businessmen.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - A road to nowhere?

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    It's been a bad year for international distribution, with margins being squeezed harder and harder. Katy Elliott finds out whether sales executives can find a way out of the desert of despair.

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    OPINION - Dyke owes us more than hype

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    By the time you read this you may already have heard Greg Dyke's second James MacTaggart lecture. The address is auspicious for a number of reasons, all of which have been

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    Broadcast hotshots

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    NEWSBEATERS- MATTHEW PRICE, 28Price joined Newsround as a reporter in April 1999 and won the RTS Young Journalist of the Year Award a year later. His assignments have included covering the

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    EDINBURGH - Beyond the George

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    We provide a brief taster of what promise to be the highlights of this year's television festival - among others Greg Dyke giving an unpredecented repeat MacTaggart lecture and yet another Murdoch taking the podium.

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    INTERVIEW - Outside of the box

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Noel Edmonds has bounced back from his parting with the BBC to energetically front his business activities, including 'the world's best-kept secret', video broadcasting - a radical replacement for outside broadcasting.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Gift of the gab

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Those classy bastards at Carlton drama are well known in media circles for their exquisite taste. Boy, could they teach Stephanie Beecham a thing or two about dazzling the world with

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    OFF THE RECORD - Snap happy

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    When requesting pictures of media climbers, Broadcast hacks are given special training in sounding gently amused and surprised by responses like: 'All I've got is one of me as a toddler

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    OFF THE RECORD - Dawn comes clean over soap

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Ever since witnessing Dawn Airey groping the crotch of one of her commissioning editors 'to check what kind of pants he had on' - a regular occurrence, apparently, although one would

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    OFF THE RECORD - Money matters

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    OTR has picked up splendid tales from Carlton of a level of prudence that would make Gordon Brown positively animated with envy. Carlton's finance department is trying to trace a company

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    OFF THE RECORD - A question of taste

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Looks like Sky One's been over-working its schedulers so hard, they've lost their legendary current affairs sensitivity. One of Sunday's episodes of The Simpsons saw Homer and his bar pals trapped

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - Saint Bernard and the Kazakhstani

    2000-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Prostrate yourself at the mindblowing similarities between GWR overlord Ralph Bernard and Kazakhstani reporter Borat Karabzhanov. While one goes about taking pops at the establishment in a dodgy grey suit, the

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    Dyke says 'time for change' as he unveils limited BBC strategy

    2000-08-26T12:04:00Z

    £500 million on new programming and seven services across five channels form heart of director general's vision

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    Dyke's MacTaggart Part 1

    2000-08-26T12:45:00Z

    Let me start by saying how pleased I was to be asked to deliver the MacTaggart lecture in this the 25th year of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. I

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    Dyke's MacTaggart Part 2

    2000-08-26T12:45:00Z

    Look at the venom directed at John Birt - the man who had the courage to start the modernisation process at the BBC. Why be radical in an age

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    Indies consider impact of personal video recorders

    2000-08-26T14:22:00Z

    New hard-disk enabled set-top-boxes will change shape of broadcasting, Edinburgh TV festival told

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    Brighter Pictures wins developing world pitch

    2000-08-26T14:32:00Z

    Indie beats October Films and Wark Clements to C4 prize

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    Channel 4 crew released

    2000-08-26T14:49:00Z

    Journalists fly out of Liberia after apologising to President

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    Dyke sets out limited BBC future

    2000-08-26T14:55:00Z

    £500 million on new programming and seven services across five channels form heart of director general's vision