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INTERVIEW - United's major Tom
In his two years heading programming at HTV West, Tom Archer has put United's regional outpost firmly on the map. However, with that merger creeping ever closer, the major challenge for survival is only just beginning.
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The occasional diary of a BBC director general
WEDNESDAYToday's my midweek lie-in, so you can imagine my dismay when the mobile goes off while I'm still in bed. It's my old mate Chrissy Bland. 'Murdoch's resigned,' he gasps. I
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OFF THE RECORD - Duff information
ITV must be overjoyed to have filled it's daytime controller post with the BBC's Maureen Duffy. And why not? The former J Walter Thompson executive has a list of adland credits
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NewsMore4 News hires Sky News exec producer
More4 News has poached Sky News executive producer David Mapstone to fill the role of programme editor.
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OFF THE RECORD - The empty Sky
Last week's shock-tastic departure of Elisabeth Murdoch from pater's firm to start her own was surely the biggest story at Isleworth since the departures of Messrs Sam Chisholm and David Chance.
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OFF THE RECORD - Snap to attention
More Sky shenanigans were in evidence when we dispatched a law-abiding photographer to Isleworth to take a snap of the great Murdoch TV HQ. It wasn't long before an officious security
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OFF THE RECORD - Joly good joke
So disappointed was Channel 4 it only won one gong at comedy fest Montreux - and a bronze at that for Trigger Happy TV, despite three nominations - that nobody seemed
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OFF THE RECORD - Angela's bashes
OTR assumed there had been a bit of a Montreux mix-up when BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon's PA - the fragrant Angela - showed up at ITV's dinner last weekend. But
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OFF THE RECORD - Dawn inspection
And finally to Channel 5, which was busy at Montreux plugging its forthcoming Naked week in June. During the general starkers gossip, some interesting factoids came to light - for example,
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Octagon gears up for Superbikes series
Sports agency wheels out bike show for BBC and Sky Sports
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NewsBBC steps up lobbying for HD capacity
Almost 4,000 people have signed an e-petition asking prime minister Tony Blair to force Ofcom to allocate unused spectrum on the Freeview platform to high definition channels at digital switchover.
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Bazal unveils top team for UK's Big Brother
Former Tarrant on TV producer to edit Channel 4 show
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News5.7m take tips from The Bad Mother's Handbook
ITV1's one-off drama The Bad Mother's Handbookgained a respectable 5.7 million (24%) at 9pm last night but still lost out to BBC1's popular Waking the Dead.
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Disney to film young writers' Incredible Stories
Competition winners see stories turned into live-action dramas and animations
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ITC publishes concerns over Granada's Carlton/United merger plans
Watchdog says neither takeover proposal fits with existing 'policy and legislation'
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NewsVirgin Central signs content deal with Warner Bros
Virgin Media has signed a new content deal with Warner Bros for shows including The OCand West Wing. Programming will air on its VoD channel Virgin Central which launched today.
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Independent Television Commission publishes concerns over Granada's Carlton/United merger plans
Watchdog says neither takeover proposal fits with existing 'policy and legislation'