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NewsNew Tricks ends run with 7.4m
BBC1's detective drama series New Trickscame to the end of its run with a sizeable peak audience of 7.4 million (34%) at the end of the 60-minute episode.
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NewsBroadcast temp
Broadcastis currently looking for a temp to help out with admin duties across the magazine and the website. Duties include: compiling cuttings from newspapers; assisting with research; dealing with reader enquiries as well as general administration duties.
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NewsBlair to face second MTV grilling
Tony Blair has volunteered to endure another grilling on MTV, this time over key issues surrounding the G8 summit, such as Africa and climate change.
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NewsMP to investigate BBC online archive
A BBC project to make its archive available online has been criticised by a media MP, who fears it could spark a new trade in illegal downloads.
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NewsBBC to test staff before promotions
BBC journalists will have to pass new training courses in order to be promoted, as part of the corporation's response to the Neil Report on its journalistic standards.
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NewsComing soon: ITV on your phone
ITV is poised to sign a deal with O2 that will see it become the first terrestrial channel to be broadcast live on mobile phones.
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NewsBBC makes Mitchell and Kenyon follow up
BBC2 is making a follow up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon.
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News...then suffers worst ever share
After BBC1's strong Saturday performance the corporation's main terrestrial channel fell to its worst all-day share ever on Sunday (26 June) with just 17.4% of the viewing audience.
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NewsBBC1 trounces rival with tennis...
BBC1's live coverage of Andy Murray's valiant but doomed Wimbledon match against David Nalbandian managed a sizeable peak audience of 9.3 million (51.1%) at 7pm as ITV1 suffered its second worst all-day share ever.
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NewsC4 drops today's Countdown
Channel 4 has postponed today's broadcast of Countdownfollowing the death of presenter Richard Whiteley.
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NewsBBC Broadcast sold for£166m
BBC Broadcast has been lined up for a£166m sale to Australian investment consortium Macquarie Bank Group, linking the owners of the BBC playout business with the company that will play a key role in digital switchover.
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NewsDyke: 'Sky has missed HBO chance'
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke believes that BSkyB has made itself 'vulnerable' by failing to become an HBO-style network.
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NewsWhiteley: tributes pour in
Tributes from the broadcasting industry have poured in for the late Countdownpresenter Richard Whiteley.
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NewsFremantle chief says formats are the future
Reality television is to get bigger and better according to the maker of Pop Idoland the X Factor.
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NewsBazalgette: 'Small indies need protection'
The BBC should commission a set percentage of its output from smaller independent producers to prevent 'super-indies' driving them out of business, Peter Bazalgette, the head of one of the UK's biggest indie producers has warned.
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NewsBBC and Africa twin local radio stations
As part of its Africa season, the BBC is next week twinning local radio stations in the UK with stations in Africa. Each day British listeners in five different areas will be able to hear African presenters, guests and phone-ins, and vice versa.
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NewsGilchrist is CBBC's 'indie champion'
Children's BBC has appointed its first 'indie champion' to pull in more pitches from outside the BBC.
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NewsOfcom poised to cut ITV licence
ITV's annual license fee payments are expected to fall by somewhere in the region of£100m this week, when Ofcom announces the terms of the broadcaster's new licence.
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NewsHumphrys to be grilled by Lords
John Humphrys and the BBC's newly appointed political editor Nick Robinson are going to find themselves on the other end of a political grilling this week when they are questioned by a House of Lords select committee.
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Analysis - Power to the nations?
Ofcom's plans for Irish, Gaelic and Welsh language channels sound well intentioned, but with viewers turning off S4C and doubts about funding and broadcasters' commitment, how feasible are they? By Steve Clarke.