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Lords vote poised to shake up control of ITN news
Move could trigger a scramble among ITN shareholders for control of provider ...
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Crime show drops drink drive host
Alastair Stewart, the newsreader and presenter of Police, Camera, Action was banned from the road and fined£2,000 ...
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BBC taps bond market for£800m development funds
The BBC will tap the capital markets for the first time today with an£800 million bond to finance the redevelopmen...
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Ministers strike media Bill deal with rebel peers
Ministers sealed an eleventh-hour deal yesterday with Labour rebels led by the film producer Lord Puttnam ...
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NewsITV wins right to own ITN
ITV has finally won its battle to compete equally with the BBC and BSkyB after the Government agreed it could own ITN outright, writes David Rose
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NewsITC raps Five over clipshow footage
Five has been criticised by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for broadcasting a programme in which a man swung a small child around his head by its limbs, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsMacKenzie threatens to sue Rajar
Kelvin MacKenzie, the former Suneditor and chairman of The Wireless Group, is threatening to sue radio measurement body Rajar following its decision to reject electronic measurement of audiences behind closed doors, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsRajar finds fault with accuracy of new measuring systems
After 15-months of testing two audio-meters, radio audience research board Rajar has said it has decided not to go ahead with electronic measurement in the short term, primarily due to fears over accuracy, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Sexiest and the city
Sex And THe cIty stunner Kim Cattral is set to shock viewers with one of the hottest TV romps ever. ...
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ITV takes dive with Drop the Celebrity
Telly bosses at ITV1 were reeling last night after a thrashing by the BBC in the ratings war. ...
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It's the REAL thing
For the first time viewers can vote for their favourite reality TV show. ...
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Bail us out!
Television corporation, which produces Channel Four's cricket coverage, has lost a quarter of its stock market valu...
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The BBC is standing up for a British principle
The war over Campbell's mouth is about something bigger than it seems. It is bigger even than the Iraq conflict and...
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Labour faces defeat in Lords over Channel Five
The Labour peer Lord Puttnam has failed to secure an agreement with the government over his proposed communications...
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BBC offers No 10 an olive branch
The BBC is willing to offer the government an olive branch by admitting the source that had claimed that No 10 had ...
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Government blamed for Britain's inability to recover from ad slump
The UK advertising market is shrinking faster than any of the other four leading European markets and underperformi...
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Shopping around
The cost of most channels' airtime used to be based on ITV's rates. Now Sky, C4 and Five are relying increasingly o...
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So many amendments, so little time
Key parts of the Comms Bill still need resolving - in a matter of weeks ...