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Monte Carlo to relaunch as format festival
The Monte Carlo Television Festival is to relaunch as an event dedicated exclusively to formats, abandoning the general market forum it has provided for the past 40 years, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Kiss goodbye
Award-winning Kiss FM boss Dave Young is quitting the dance station for a television career. Georgina Lipscomb reports on his journey from FM to TV.
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Ray Fitzwalter
On why it would be a mistake to privatise Channel 4 while forcing it to adhere to its public service remit.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Will originality fly Sky?
Elisabeth Murdoch's departure from Sky Networks has left observers questioning its commitment to original content such as the 10th Kingdom. Simon Ellery reports.
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NewsDesmond to float adult TV channels
Expressnewspapers owner Richard Desmond is poised to float his adult entertainment television business, a move which would mark his first publicly-listed foray into the sector in the UK.
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OPINION - Not a good year for the Roses
The fall-out from this week's Rose d'Or awards might not appear a guilded result for British TV. But this is misleading.True, comedy festival veterans were this week insisting that the lack
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BBC GOVERNORS - Governors in the dock
While debate continues to rage over the future of broadcasting regulation, the role and effectiveness of the BBC's select group of governors is still under the spotlight. Mike Shallcross talks to some old hands.
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BRITISH FILM - Film, camera, action
With the world's film industry now firmly cued up for the month in Cannes, Louise Bateman considers British broadcasters' developing love affair with the high-risk business of investing in home-grown feature films.
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INTERVIEW - United's major Tom
In his two years heading programming at HTV West, Tom Archer has put United's regional outpost firmly on the map. However, with that merger creeping ever closer, the major challenge for survival is only just beginning.
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The occasional diary of a BBC director general
WEDNESDAYToday's my midweek lie-in, so you can imagine my dismay when the mobile goes off while I'm still in bed. It's my old mate Chrissy Bland. 'Murdoch's resigned,' he gasps. I
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OFF THE RECORD - Duff information
ITV must be overjoyed to have filled it's daytime controller post with the BBC's Maureen Duffy. And why not? The former J Walter Thompson executive has a list of adland credits
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NewsMore4 News hires Sky News exec producer
More4 News has poached Sky News executive producer David Mapstone to fill the role of programme editor.
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OFF THE RECORD - The empty Sky
Last week's shock-tastic departure of Elisabeth Murdoch from pater's firm to start her own was surely the biggest story at Isleworth since the departures of Messrs Sam Chisholm and David Chance.
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OFF THE RECORD - Snap to attention
More Sky shenanigans were in evidence when we dispatched a law-abiding photographer to Isleworth to take a snap of the great Murdoch TV HQ. It wasn't long before an officious security
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OFF THE RECORD - Joly good joke
So disappointed was Channel 4 it only won one gong at comedy fest Montreux - and a bronze at that for Trigger Happy TV, despite three nominations - that nobody seemed
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OFF THE RECORD - Angela's bashes
OTR assumed there had been a bit of a Montreux mix-up when BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon's PA - the fragrant Angela - showed up at ITV's dinner last weekend. But
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OFF THE RECORD - Dawn inspection
And finally to Channel 5, which was busy at Montreux plugging its forthcoming Naked week in June. During the general starkers gossip, some interesting factoids came to light - for example,
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Octagon gears up for Superbikes series
Sports agency wheels out bike show for BBC and Sky Sports
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NewsBBC steps up lobbying for HD capacity
Almost 4,000 people have signed an e-petition asking prime minister Tony Blair to force Ofcom to allocate unused spectrum on the Freeview platform to high definition channels at digital switchover.