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NewsC4 warns indies of tough times ahead
Channel 4 has warned indies to expect tougher and more selective decisions on future commissions at a meeting of its top suppliers last week.
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BBC confirms fourth commercial division
Launch expected in January for new department combining creative services with broadcast and presentation
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BBC appoints head of imagineering
Matt Locke joins department set up to combine programme-making and 'technologist talent'
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BSkyB presses on with interactive strategy
'Pay-to-play' interactive football to kick off next weekend offering cash prizes for viewer predictions
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Pepper's Ghost teams up with Beckett Entertainment
Companies to develop animation properties as first production Gene-fusion looks set to spread to other formats
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Day moves to At It
At It Productions has poached the former Brighter Pictures head of productions Paul Day as its new head of production.Day will oversee a team of 10 working on ongoing productions,
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ECM wins Streetmate
UK indie ECM has struck a deal to distribute Tiger Aspect Channel 4 dating show Streetmate to the US and eastern Europe.ECM has also landed the central and eastern Europe
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NewsGamecast fined by Ofcom for airing porn
Ofcom has fined Gamecast UK£100,000 for screening 'hard-core pornographic' content on its You TV3 channel.
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Initial's music venture
Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Initial has signed a deal with the Association of Independent Music (Aim) to develop music programming together.Aim will contribute talent to the programmes as it
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Root creates exclusive club for producers
BBC2 controller invites producers whose programmes get three million viewers to the 'Three Million Club'
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Target sets its sights on animation arm
Distributor in discussions with indies to develop shows for new venture
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Top of the revamps
The first results of the BBC's review of Top of the Pops will hit television screens next Friday when the show is revamped to coincide with its move back to Television
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Czechs to get Tubbies
BBC Worldwide has licensed 250 episodes of Teletubbies to leading Czech commercial channel Nova, to air from March.Meanwhile 156 episodes of the pre-school show have been licensed to TVP1 in
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MIPCOM personality of the year
MTV Networks chairman Tom Freston was named personality of year at MIPCOM this week in recognition of 'outstanding leadership and creative contributions'.
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S4C unveils kids' channel and rebrand
Welsh broadcaster S4C is planning to launch a children's channel by the end of the year in a move that its chief executive Iona Jones said would bring 'greater diversity' to the genre.
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Carlton and Granada get timely tonic at MIPCOM
Raft of deals at international programme market boosts beleagured ITV companies
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Teamtalk buys Atlantic 252
Troubled dance music radio station expected to change focus after buyout by sports specialist
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BBC winds down disability and Afro-Caribbean units
Insiders at the DPU and ACPU say the two departments are being closed down 'by stealth' to avoid negative publicity
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Soaps and European football score for ITV1
Fail-safe formula helps ITV1 to comfortable peak-time victory over BBC1 as new drama Babyfather fails to impress on BBC2