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NewsGranada International securedeal with TV Polaska
4pm: Granada International has sold the rights to 11 Hollywood TV movies and a selection of classic films to Poland's state broadcaster, TV Polaska
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NewsMPs: BBC Manchester move must happen
Labour MP's have warned BBC chiefs they will face a political backlash if they renege on their plan to move to Manchester.
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NewsTalks fail to pacify Sky shareholders
4.45pm: Preliminary talks between BSkyB and its major UK shareholders, aimed at preventing a potential rebellion over proposals to increase the stake News Corp has in the satellite company, have ended in deadlock.
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NewsBBC4 secures largest ever audience
5pm: BBC4, the corporation's digital arts and documentaries channel, gained its best ever ratings last week with an audience share of 0.8% in multichannel homes.
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BBC films tower block makeover
The BBC is spending two-and-a-half years filming the regeneration of a London tower block for a landmark BBC1 documentary.
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NewsHow Homechoice got ahead of the curve
Sky is making a£150m bid for Easynet and is also understood to be casting its eye over west London on-demand TV business Homechoice. Susan Thompson reports on why the cutting-edge company could be a target.
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Tinopolis steps up TV Corp bid
Major shareholders in troubled indie TV Corp are pressuring the company's board to accept a takeover bid from Welsh producer Tinopolis.
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CPS improves media access
News crews and documentary makers are to be given greater access to prosecution material, following a new deal with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).
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Meet TV's average Joe
The great and good of the freelance community might consider themselves anything but average but Broadcast has exposed what the typical TV freelancer is like.
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Sky One probes world's oldest profession
Sky One is delving into the world of courtesans and call girls with a three-part series on prostitution.
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NewsFive u-turn is game on for reality
Five has commissioned a new reality show just a week after channel boss Dan Chambers said he was banning them from the channel.
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NewsBroadcasters spurn Commander In Chief
Commander In Chief, the biggest hit of the new American TV season, has yet to find a British home with terrestrial networks rejecting the 'jingoistic' nature of the series.
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NewsDigital UK plans target schools
English, maths, science? and digital switchover could be the new lesson plan facing schoolchildren across the UK.
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NewsRDF continues expansion
RDF Media is pushing ahead with its growth strategy, kick-starting takeover talks with IWC Media and hiring BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy as creative director.
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NewsMurphy joins BBC exodus to indies
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has become the latest high-profile figure to quit the BBC, after being poached by Wife Swap producer RDF Media.
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Interview: Jon Blair - The trophy hunter
You may not have heard of Jon Blair, but with a shelf groaning under the weight of awards this is not because his documentaries lack quality but rather because his work speaks for itself. By Belinda Archer.
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Sky faces a new game
The EC's competition commission has made it clear it wants a second pay-TV broadcaster to take a share of Premiership football rights. But just how damaging will losing exclusivity be to Sky?
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In my view: Losing faith in BBC spin
The BBC should be made to step into line with other public institutions, argues John Hambley, and face up to the reality that public funding is likely to go down not up.
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Comment: Make this your mission
John Geraint issues a rallying call for targets to make broadcasters other than the BBC commission network production from the UK nations
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What life's like for TV's freelancers
From protests about unpaid work experience to job cuts at the BBC, freelancing has rarely been as newsworthy as it is now. In an effort to understand what makes an increasingly large part of the workforce tick, Will Strauss analyses a major piece of research and finds that not all ...