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NewsHungry Caterpillar launches on DVD
The Illuminated Film Company's classic children's series The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Storiesis to be released on DVD for the first time in the UK by Ventura International.
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NewsManchester Passion gains 539,000 for BBC3
BBC3's modern version of the Passion of Christ on Good Friday was a big hit for the digital channel with 539,000 (3.2%) at 9pm.
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NewsMTV UK launches free on-demand service
MTV has confirmed it is to bring its US video on-demand service, Overdrive to the UK allowing viewers to watch exclusive content online.
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NewsWogan costs Radio 2£800,000 a year
10am: Sir Terry Wogan is top of the BBC Radio 2 salary tree, pulling in£800,000 a year for his two hour weekday morning breakfast show.
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NewsRising budgets for new media advertising
8am: New media such as the internet are continuing to see a rise in advertising budgets at the expense of traditional commercial broadcasters, a new report has found.
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NewsSaga wins FM radio licence for the north east
Saga has won the new FM radio licence for the north east of England, beating applications from all the major UK radio groups.
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NewsQueen to re-open Broadcasting House
The Queen is to meet two of the BBC's biggest radio loud-mouths, Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, when she officially re-opens Broadcasting House in London later this month.
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NewsHeart FM dumps Burns
10.45am: Greg Burns, a seven year veteran of Heart FM, has been axed from the London station.
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NewsITN launches mobile weather channel
Vodafone TV customers should never be caught out by the rain again, as from today ITN will provide them with a weather channel.
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NewsNUJ halts ITV strike action
The National Union of Journalists has called off 24-hour strike action at ITV's regional newsrooms planned for next Tuesday.
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NewsGCap considers closing Capital Disney
GCap Media is in negotiations with Disney over the future of digital radio station Capital Disney, which could see the station change hands or close.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC pension scheme
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the BBC keep its existing pension scheme for staff?
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NewsSue Lawley to spin her last disc on Desert Island
Sue Lawley is to stand down as presenter of BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs.
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NewsITV gets up close to Prince Charles
Sir Trevor McDonald has carried out an exclusive 'frank and wide-ranging interview' with Prince Charles for a major ITV documentary to air next month.
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NewsI've Won the Lottery claims 4.1m
The winning numbers for ITV1's documentary I've Won the Lotterydidn't come up at 8pm with 4.1 million (18.4%).
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Sleeper hit Tribe wins double run
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a further two runs of hit anthropology series Tribe, in which adventurer Bruce Parry spends time living with remote world communities.
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Three-piece body work for C4
Channel 4 is to explore Britain's obsession with body shape and appearance in three different hour-long documentaries.
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North One secures popular science task
North One Television has won its first commission from National Geographic Channel (NGC) for a Brainiac-style popular science series.
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Living lines up Most Haunted burial stunt
Living TV is planning a live burial in its next episode of Most Haunted Liveafter the special was recommissioned for a 19th and 20th run. A psychic is to be lowered in a coffin fitted with cameras into a grave in Portsmouth in May. A ...