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GSB FINDS NEW PLUS ROLE
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has promoted its planning and acquisitions manager, Katie Denton, to the newly created role of channel manager, responsible for the Plus channel. Denton joined GSB three years
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BBC STOPS PADDINGTON
Long-running docusoap Paddington Green has finally been axed by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey. The Lion TV show ran for six series and featured residents of the W2 area of London.
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NICK RAIDS GRANADA
Nickelodeon Europe has poached Granada International head of programming Jules Borkent to oversee content for the children's broadcaster. As senior director of programming he will be responsible for all acquisitions for
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EX-BBC BOSS JOINS LBG
Former BBC Resources director of production services Michael Lumley has joined the Local Broadcasting Group (LBG) in the newly created role of director of broadcasting. Lumley joins two other new management
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NewsGreen Bay wins three S4C orders
Cardiff indie Green Bay has won a trio of commissions from S4C. Cardiff's Cupis a 60-minute programme which recreates Cardiff City's 1927 FA Cup victory and is scheduled to air in March.
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LEICESTER OPEN TO BIDS
The Radio Authority is inviting applications for a digital multiplex licence for the city of Leicester and the surrounding area. The closing date for applications is 20 November and the licence
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GRANADA CUTS 10 JOBS
Granada has axed 10 more jobs from its workforce after introducing a series of cuts at its Anglia franchise. The move will affect newsroom and financial staff. Some of the job
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TELL-TALE BOSS MOVES UP
Tell-Tale director Helen Cadwallader has taken on the role of executive director of production. The new role gives her overall responsibility for all productions from the company. She has been involved
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BIRT TO ADVISE BLAIR
Former BBC director general Lord Birt has been appointed as a key advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair's new forward strategy unit based at 10 Downing Street. The part-time position is
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CARLTON CUTS LOSSES
Carlton Communications has backed off from ploughing more money into Quiero, the Spanish pay-TV business in which it has a 7.5 per cent stake.The digital terrestrial operator needs to raise around
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PROMOTION AT ITV SHOW
Wish You Were Here producer Kim Robson has been promoted to the role of series producer of the ITV travel series, working alongside executive producer John Longley. Ruth England also replaces
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Morse outfit folds
Ken Morse Rostrum Cameras, widely dubbed the 'grandfather' of facilities houses, has called in the liquidators, it emerged this week.Letters from insolvency firm Haines Watts have been sent to the company's
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Einstein signs Take 3 deal
Digital Science channel Einstein.tv has snared a£5m co-production deal with media investor Take 3 to fund future programme output, writes David Wood.The deal will see the investment of up to
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BBC to share web content with MSN
The BBC has signed a deal to share content from its commercial website beeb.com with the Microsoft-owned site MSN.co.uk, writes Leigh Holmwood.The deal will prove lucrative for BBC Worldwide and MSN
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C4 promotes Big Bro deputy
Channel 4 has promoted former Big Brother 2 deputy commissioning editor Zizi Durrance to become deputy commissioning editor, features, reporting to commissioning editor, features Ben Frow, writes Penny Hughes.Durrance, who was
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BBC SHORTLISTS SEVEN FOR TV LICENCES
The BBC has shortlisted seven companies, including BT and Centrica, for the contract to handle its TV licences. The corporation put the contract up for tender in April after saying it
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OPAL CHAIRMAN JOINS CENTURY 105.4 FM
Capital-owned Century 105.4 FM has appointed Opal Telecom chairman Robert Hough as its new chairman. Hough, who is also North West Regional Agency chairman, Liverpool Airport chairman and Peel Holdings deputy
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NOBLES GATE WINS C4 FUNDS FOR ALIEN SHOW
Fledgling Edinburgh-based independent producer Nobles Gate has secured Channel 4 development funding to make a programme for Film Four. Alien Evolution is a 75-minute documentary on Sigourney Weaver's Alien films.Commissioned by
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HARTSWOOD BUYS BUD AD CREATOR'S BOOK
Independent Hartswood Films has bought the feature film rights to the first novel from Paul Burke, co-creator of the cult Budweiser ads. Rather Frank tells the story of a Roman Catholic
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C4 looks at mothers who reject their babies
Twenty Twenty will investigate what makes some mothers reject their babies in a two-part documentary for Channel 4.