Co-production key to UK TV export future. (Finance & Business).

Co-productions and format sales boosted overall export revenues of UK television programmes in 2002, but sales of finished programmes plummeted by 8.2 per cent says latest survey from British Television Distributors' Association (BTDA). Television export revenues grew 6.6 per cent against 2001 to $666m, with more than a third of all sales--$232m--going to US. Sales to US increased 16.4 per cent overall. Sales of finished programmes fel