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NewsBBC angers music staff
The BBC has angered staff in its radio and music division with plans to merge three roles into one as it attempts to slash 150 posts in the department.
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NewsJowell pledges digital TV for all
Tessa Jowell will tonight (Thursday) fire the starting gun for a fully digital Britain by confirming the 2008 to 2012 analogue TV switch-off target and pledging to give 'the disabled pensioner... the same access to digital as the City broker'.
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Invasion of the audience snatchers
The RTS Cambridge Convention is known for its scare stories about the future of television - but this year the message is that the future is here, and digital has won. What does that mean for the industry?
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NewsPreparing to make a splash
As Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis make the leap into the indie sector, how will the doyennes of BBC entertainment take to their new roles as sellers?
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Mischief maker
From Shoot to Killto The Government Inspector, king of the docu-drama Peter Kosminsky has made a career of rattling those in power - and the Daily Mailcould be next in his sights.
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Are you sure, Tessa?
With the Border region lined up to be the first to go digital, doubts remain over whether the government and broadcasters have adequately prepared for, and funded, the upheaval of switchover, writes Jenny Smith.
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The BBC's full-on future
John Willis believes that putting new technology at the top of the agenda will have creative and financial benefits for programme-making at the BBC's factual and learning department.
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ITV's virtuous circle
Those who put the boot into ITV are kidding themselves that there was ever a golden age. ITV is as good as ever, insists Nigel Pickard.
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Turkeys for Christmas?
Do the broadcasters know what they're letting themselves in for when they give the thumbs-up to digital switchover?
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UK indies scoop MTV Int orders
UK indies have been given a strong hand in MTV Networks International's autumn line-up, which includes a Tiger Aspect production following a group of virgins on the road to sexual maturity.
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RDF in first-look deal with Maverick
RDF Rights has signed a two-year, first-look development deal with Birmingham-based Maverick Television for the company's international TV and consumer product rights.
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Discovery to make masthead show with IPC
Discovery has teamed up with magazine publisher IPC to make a masthead show based around its home and design magazine Livingetc.
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Format focus: Ruth 66
The latest reality series from Swedish producer Strix sends a group of pensioners off on a road trip to encounter bikers, supermodels and artists.
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Wall to Wall sells hurricane doc to Oz
Indie Wall to Wall has sold the rights to its Oil Stormdocumentary - which months before Hurricane Katrina hypothesised what would happen if a hurricane struck the Gulf of Mexico - to Australia's Seven Network. The two-hour programme was produced for FX in the US and ...
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Top of the Pops sells to South America
BBC music show Top of the Popshas been picked up by Latin American entertainment channel People + Arts, a joint-venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery. The programme will be broadcast shortly after its transmission in the UK, with presenter links from Fearne Cotton and guest presenters ...
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Asian radio station in deal with Napster
London-based radio station Club Asia has signed up with online music download service Napster to promote Asian music downloads and streams. Under the deal, Club Asia 963 and 972 AM will act as a
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Nat Geo makes Katrina documentary
National Geographic Television and Film is making an hour-long special on Hurricane Katrina featuring an engineer who predicted a similar disaster. The Day The Big Easy Drownedfeatures footage filmed last year by Nat Geo in which Joe Suhayda stood on a New Orleans levee outlining just ...
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GI shares catalogue with BBC America
BBC America has signed a two-year deal that will allow it to cherry-pick 160 hours of programmes from Granada International's back catalogue of drama and comedy. The deal will give BBC America access to a range of Granada International's back catalogue as well as new programmes. The titles involved are ...
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Sky One lines up coke and Viagra
Sky One is to explore the use of cocaine and Viagra as part of its autumn season.
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Shine makes high-risk property show for C4
Indie Shine is making a new property series for Channel 4 following budding property magnates as they try to make a killing overseas.