All Broadcast articles in 05 July 2002 – Page 7
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News Corp slashes offer for pay-TV arm
News Corporation has slashed one-third off its original $1.4bn offer to buy Vivendi Universal's Italian pay-TV plat...
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Unifying vision evaporated along with credibility of its architect
With the chief gone, the betting among senior company executives as well as investors and bankers is that a break-u...
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Messier era ends with junk downgrade
The Messier era has ended in financial crisis after a rating agency downgraded Vivendi Universal's debt to junk sta...
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Pace profit alert blamed on BSkyB set-top box deal
Shares in Pace Micro Technology fell to a four-year low yesterday after issuing its third profit warning in four mo...
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Season when no news is bad news
Reporters may be on holiday, but war, terror and famine do not take breaks ...
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Broadcasting rivals differ on how to switch viewers on to digital television
As ITV Digital's licences are reissued, the choice between free-to-view and pay TV seems unavoidable ...
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Messier's departure fails to quell fears
Vivendi's shares sharply down despite denial that its results were flattered ...
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Breast op live on TV
Millions of viewers watched in amazement yesterday as the first ever breast operation was shown live on TV. ...
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TV Amanda quits£3m home over raid fear
Telly's Les Dennis and wife Amanda Holden have put their£3.5 million home up for sale after being burgled. ...
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EastEnders star is hurt in holiday crash
EastEnders actress Kim Medcalf has narrowly escaped death in a head-on car crash in France. ...
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BBC 'to cut Deayton's£50,000-a-show salary' in wake of sex scandal
Angus Deayton is under pressure to take a pay cut to save his job as host of Have I Got News For You after sordid r...
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EastEnder Sam in horror crash
EastEnders star Kim Medcalf was recovering in hospital last night after cheating death in a high-speed road crash i...
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BSkyB forces Pace to discount contract
Struggling set-top box manufacturer Pace Microtechnology nearly halved in value yesterday as it revealed it has bee...
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TV chiefs defend live plastic surgery show
ITV has defended its decision to broadcast a cosmetic breast operation live on daytime TV. ...
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Pace shares tumble
Shares in Pace Micro Technology almost halved in price this morning following news that the set-top box manufacturer has been forced to accept new terms on its key contract with BSkyB, writes Barbara Marshall
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ITV drama given£100 million boost
ITV's main shareholders Granada and Carlton have earmarked a£100m investment to boost the network's drama output in 2003, writes Steve Aston
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Ratings
BBC claim World Cup tournament ratings victory
Brazil may have been victorious against Germany in the World Cup final but the BBC has claimed a convincing ratings victory over its commercial rival, writes Jon Rogers
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BBC 3 a step closer to approval
The BBC's new digital youth channel BBC 3 is a step closer to being approved by media secretary Tessa Jowell after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) said any concerns over its impact could be overcome, writes Leigh Holmwood
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New telly show prize is ...wife
Twenty girls will do battle in ITV's latest reality game show - to find a WIFE for a bachelor. ...
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Why ITV are right to screen the film of Shipman murders
Next week, ITV1 will screen one of the most gripping murder mysteries ever to be shown on television. Called simpl...