All Broadcast articles in 05 July 2002 – Page 8
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Footie fury on digital telly deal
Furious Football League bosses are urging telly watchdogs NOT to award the new digital TV licence to ITV firms Carl...
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BT's fears over cable tie-up
Piere Danon, chief executive of BT Retail, has admitted that he fears a merger between broadband rivals NTL and Tel...
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Shipman TV movie plea fails
TV bosses yeseterday put off the broadcast of a controversial documentary about serial killer Harold Shipman. ...
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BBC wins Cup final TV battle
BBC bosses celebrated their own World Cup victory yesterday when it emerged they had four times as many viewers for...
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£100m shot in TV ratings war
ITV is to invest an extra£100 million on new programmes next year in an attempt to win back the ratings crown from...
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Philip and his fillies
Prince Edward has piled fresh embarrassment onthe Royal Family after his film company helped cast doubt on his own ...
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Ex-C5 boss on board at rights co
Former Channel 5 chief executive David Elstein has joined the board of Aim-listed Sports and Leisure, a company whi...
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Why a third way may not work for the BBC
The popping of champagne corks may soon be heard in the executive offices at BBC Television Centre. The Government...
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Return of Dr Who
One of the best-loved heroes in television history is to step out of his blue police box and back on to our TV scre...
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Embarrassment at Keith Harris's Radio First
Keith Harris, chairman of the Football League and champion of its£178.5m claim against the owners of ITV Digital, ...
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Messier heads for the exit
Jean-Marie Messier, the embattled chief executive of Vivendi Universal, was last night on the verge of quitting aft...
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World's biggest radio gorup eyes British stations
The chief executive of US company Clear Channel, the world's biggest operator in the radio sector, last night admit...
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Shipman victims' families protest over TV film
Families of the victims of Harold Shipman yesterday condemned the decision to screen a dramatisation of the case da...
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The battle for rolling news
For the first time, BBC News 24 has recorded better figures than Sky News - or has it? As an inquiry into the BBC c...
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Boardroom coup ends Messier's reign at Vivendi
Jean-Marie Messier, the embattled chief executive of the media giant Vivendi Universal, agreed to resign yesterday ...
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Kabul TV chief ignites row after banning women from singing on air
The new Afghan government of Hamid Karzai is trying to resolve a dispute after the head of the country's broadcasti...
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Vivendi's Messier 'faces palace coup by Chirac'
Jean-Marie Messier, the controversial architect of the Vivendi media and water empire, was close to being outed las...
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Sacked Afghan TV chief refuses to go
The head of Afghan television was refusing to leave his post yesterday after he was sacked for banning women from t...
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Rise and fall of a French Master of the Universe
Jean-Marie Messier, the chairman and chief executive of Vivendi Universal, faced his nemesis last night, after fell...