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NewsBBC Trust launches wide-ranging channel review
The BBC Trust is to carry out its biggest ever health check on the corporation’s portfolio of TV channels and news output.
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NewsBBC Television Centre to be converted into 1,000 homes
Property developer Stanhope has today outlined plans for a mixed-use scheme including 1,000 houses at the BBC’s Television Centre site in White City, West London.
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NewsLibby Purves details BBC 'sexism' experiences
BBC Radio 4 presenter Libby Purves has shone a light on the sexism she has experienced during her career at the corporation.
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NewsDelia Smith calls time on TV career
Delia Smith has vowed never to make another TV cookery show and will instead offer online tutorials.
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NewsNUJ escalates battle against BBC job cuts
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has stepped up its battle over BBC job cuts in Scotland – rolling out industrial action, including the threat of a strike, across the country.
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NewsABC to remake ITV Studios' BBC1 drama The Syndicate
Kay Mellor’s BBC1 drama The Syndicate is to be piloted by ABC in the US.
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NewsBBC News shake-up continues
Fran Unsworth has landed the additional role of BBC deputy director of news on a permanent basis, as contenders emerge to take on the head of news programmes role previously held by Stephen Mitchell.
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NewsBBC2 lines up David Starkey series
Historian David Starkey is to present a major BBC2 series on the monarchy and music – his first for the corporation since his controversial race remarks on Newsnight in 2011.
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NewsBBC plans Olympics-style Glastonbury streams
The BBC plans to give Glastonbury the Olympics treatment after signing a new four-year deal to cover the music festival.
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NewsCanis builds foundations for local TV to air in 2013
Local television services are likely to be on air before the end of the year after Ofcom put in place the biggest piece of the jigsaw of former culture secretary Jeremy Hunt’s broadcasting vision.
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NewsNick Grimshaw makes steady start as Radio 1 Breakfast host
Rajar: Nick Grimshaw’s came through his first test in the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast hot seat relatively unscathed - managing to keep hold of the majority of Chris Moyles’ 6.7m listeners.
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NewsE4’s Cardinal Burns scoops two Broadcast Awards
E4 sketch show Cardinal Burns won two categories at the Broadcast Awards 2013, as BBC2 was named Channel of the Year and Red Production Company picked up the award for Best Independent Production Company.
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NewsBBC Scotland action potentially 'catastrophic'
Industrial action by journalists at BBC Scotland could have a “catastrophic” impact on the broadcaster’s output, according to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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NewsAdrian Van Klaveren confirmed as BBC's WW1 boss
Adrian Van Klaveren, the former Radio 5 Live controller who lost his job in the wake of Jimmy Savile scandal, has been confirmed as the boss of the BBC’s World War I centenary coverage.
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NewsS4C's future safe until 2017 after BBC deal
The independence of Welsh language broadcaster S4C has been safeguarded under a new agreement with the BBC.
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NewsRipper Street to return for second series on BBC1
BBC1 has recommissioned Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point’s drama Ripper Street for broadcast next year.
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NewsBBC1 faces two-year wait for Mrs Brown’s Boys series
Mrs Brown’s Boys is unlikely to return to BBC1 for a full series until late 2014 as star Brendan O’Carroll juggles his bulging list of commitments.
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NewsC4 plans ginger hair doc
BBC3 courted controversy in 2007 with its attention grabbing documentary F**k Off, I’m Ginger and now Channel 4 is planning its own film on men with red hair.
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NewsBBC employee dies in car crash
Tim Davie has paid tribute to the BBC’s David Cox, who was killed in a road accident in Buxton.
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NewsTony Hall start date agreed
Tony Hall is poised to start work as the director general of the BBC on 2 April.