All Broadcast articles in 06 December 2002 – Page 4
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Launch success for free BBC digital TV
The new BBC-backed digital television service, Freeview, has enjoyed on of the most successful launches in broadcas...
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100,000 sign up to BBC digital
The Government's plan to switch off analogue television signals by 2010 has received a boost after one million view...
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Freeview celebrates buoyant sales of adaptors
Freeview, the new multi-channel TV service backed by the BBC and British Sky Broadcasting, has celebrated its succe...
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Aha! It's over for Partridge
Comedian Steve Coogan revealed last night that he will kill off comic creation Alan Partridge ...
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Tories turn to 'Big Brother' for a bright idea
The Conservative Party has called in Peter Bazalgette to help it work out why people have switched off Iain Duncan-...
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Sharon Osbourne to play Queen for 4
Sharon Osbourne, the wife of Brummie rock fiend Ozzy Osbourne, is to present Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message this year, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Stars line up for new London radio station
Chrysalis Radio has signed up a raft of household names including Angela Rippon, Katie Derham and Matthew Wright to present shows for its new radio station LBC 97.3 FM, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV strike vote delayed til after Christmas
A ballot on pay and conditions at Granada has been deferred by broadcasting unions until the end of January, leaving the spectre of industrial action hanging over the company, writes Steve Aston.
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Lifestyle channel hopes for third time lucky for new name
UKTV's new lifestyle offering for digital terrestrial platform Freeview has been given its third and final name - UK Bright Ideas - after its previous two names ran into copyright problems, writes Paul Revoir.
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Sex, guns and Esther Rantzen
Jamie Oliver is in trouble with the Independent Television Commission after it received six complaints about his language in the first episode of his show Jamie's Kitchen, writes John Oates.
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Ratings
Stan the Man gets the can
ITV 1's ratings failure Stan the Man was quietly dumped from the broadcaster's peaktime schedule allowing its replacement to secure viewers, writes Jon Rogers
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Pop Beauties are too sexy for our kids
Pop singer Christina Aquilera's steamy dance routine has been branded too raunchy for kids by telly watchdogs ...
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Telewest sends right signal
Hopes that Telewest was poised to announce a new£2 billion bank loan prompted heavy buying into the debt-laden cab...
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TV bosses warned to tame the pop raunch
TV chiefs have been warned to tone down raunchy dancing by pop stars on children's programmes ...
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High-pressure TV challenge targets Britain's brainiest pupils
Carol Vorderman will ask the questions in ...
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Radio DJ 'offered woman£200 to display her breasts', tribunal told
A production worker at Choice FM was subjected to a sustained campaign of sexual harrassment by DJs and other staff...
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BBC dramatises 'nightmare' children's books
The BBC is to dramatise a controversial trilogy of children's books by Philip Pullman ...