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NewsSetanta loses survival battle
Around 200 staff will lose their jobs after Setanta finally fell into administration.
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Racing UK reverts to pre-Setanta strategy
Racing UK is to revert to a standalone channel costing £20 a month following the demise of Setanta.
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NewsBBC plans 'pop-up restaurant' show
BBC2 is piloting a primetime reality format based on “pop-up restaurants” – the second of its type to hit the headlines in as many months.
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NewsITV1 orders more Lewis
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are set to return for a fourth series of ITV1 murder mystery drama Lewis.
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NewsC4 backs creative writing game
An iPhone application that aims to stimulate creative writing is the latest project to come out of Channel 4’s online PSB fund, 4iP.
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NewsESPN lands Premier League deal
Disney-owned sports giant ESPN will go head-to-head with Sky next season after it won the rights to 46 Premier League games previously help by Setanta.
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NewsPremier League set for new TV player
Premier League football will be shown by a new broadcaster from this August – with the prospect of the likes of ESPN having just eight weeks to put together a channel and infrastructure to show the matches.
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Clampdown on University Challenge rules
The BBC has tightened the rules for University Challenge in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s debacle which saw the ‘winning team’ being disqualified.
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Brat Camp producer joins Dispatches team
Brat Camp producer Tamara Abood has joined Channel 4 as editor of current affairs strand Dispatches.
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NewsITV, C4 and Five rapped for pushing products
Chat show hosts Alan Titchmarsh and Paul O’Grady as well as Five News gave undue promotion to products in recent shows, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsDuncan to fight on at C4
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has vowed to stay with the broadcaster for at least another two to three years.
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NewsBBC1 to animate Gruffalo
BBC1’s is planning an animated version of the bestselling children’s book The Gruffalo as the centrepiece of its Christmas schedule.
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NewsSunset + Vine strikes tennis deal
Sunset + Vine has extended its contract for the coverage of the Eastbourne and Birmingham tennis tournaments up to 2013.
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NewsBBC Vision "front-loads" cuts
BBC Vision is to make 7.5% in efficiency savings this year, as it front loads its five-year cost cutting plan.
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NewsiPlayer guru honoured at Broadcast Digital Awards
BBC future media controller Anthony Rose was honoured with the Individual Achievement Award for his “ground-breaking” work on the BBC iPlayer at last night’s Broadcast’s Digital Awards.
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NewsBBC comedy chief quits for Sky
The BBC’s comedy chief Lucy Lumsden is leaving the corporation after 11 years to join Sky.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsC4 drives into future with BBCW and kids content
Channel 4 is on the brink of entering the next phase of its evolution after the government backed a tie-up with BBC Worldwide and called for it to put renewed emphasis on content for older children and multiplatform delivery.
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NewsBBC plans strategy to fight top-slice threat
The BBC’s top management was locked in meetings to discuss the fall out from Digital Britain on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a last-ditch attempt to stave off top-slicing - but the mood among rank-and-file staff was very different.
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NewsAirey hits back at critics: ‘Five is not in tatters’
Five chief executive Dawn Airey has hit back at critics who suggest the Digital Britain report means a bleak outlook for the broadcaster, insisting: “Five is not in tatters”.