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Immigration is BBC1's next special topic
BBC1 is to look at the controversial issue of immigration and asylum in the next instalment of its day-long current affairs specials. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks have greenlit the project, which will aim to look at all angles of asylum. Programme details are ...
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BBC prepares to up Iraq presence
The BBC is preparing to send London-based Iraqi reporters into Baghdad and Basra for the first time, writes Michael Rosser.
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ITC penalises Shop America
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has fined teleshopping channel Shop America a hefty£60,000 for repeated breaches of its advertising code, just days after its sister station You TV was fined£40,000 for similar transgressions, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Sirius TV bought back for pound
The founders of shopping channel operator Sirius TV (SRTV) have bought the entire company for just£1 only three months after they sold it to Pacific Media, writes Paul Revoir.
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Global spread of C4 Sars film
The threat of the Sars virus may have receded in the UK, but the virus is still of great interest to overseas TV broadcasters, 13 of which have picked up Channel 4's Sars: Killer Bugfilm, writes Penny Hughes.
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Potter web launch
Endemol-owned companies Initial and Victoria Real are to film a one-off event for the web to mark the launch of JK Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Hosted by actor Stephen Fry, the event at London's Royal Albert Hall will ...
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BBC enters music biz
BBC Worldwide is set to add further artists to its newly launched commercial music label despite criticism that it should not be entering such a competitive market. Inversion Records has been set up to develop non-BBC related artists and released its first album this week by acoustic guitarist Dominic Miller. ...
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ITC rethinks occult
The Independent Television Commission is considering revisions to its programme code after Living TV presented two shows about the paranormal as factual rather than entertainment. The TV watchdog is proposing the changes in an attempt to address the occult and attempts to contact the dead. The move follows the screening ...
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NewsITC sets out list of new indie rights
Broadcasters could be forced to lend development money to producers and limit their hold on primary rights to five years under new proposals from the Independent Television Commission (ITC), writes Jane Marlow.
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Carlton and Granada moot sales house disposals
Carlton and Granada have privately softened their stance on the terms of their proposed merger and have started to explore ways in which selling both sales houses could work, according to a source close to the deal, writes Paul Revoir.
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Ofcom could loosen ITN ownership rules
ITV could be allowed to have complete ownership of news provider ITN from the end of the year, according to media minister Baroness Blackstone, writes David Rose.
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NewsBragg speaks up for ITV 'indies'
Broadcasting peer Melvyn Bragg has made an impassioned plea for Ofcom to allow smaller independent ITV companies to be given independent production status, writes David Rose.
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NewsITN loses Purvis after 31 years
ITN chief executive and editor-in-chief Stewart Purvis is to retire before the end of the year after 31 years at the news provider, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsITV set for full ITN ownership
ITV could be allowed to have complete ownership of news provider ITN from the end of the year, according to media minister Baroness Blackstone, writes David Rose
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NewsVoice of horse racing dies
Peter Bromley - former BBC racing correspondent and radio's voice of horse racing for 41 years, has died aged 74.
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NewsFash to present Man Versus Beast
TV tough-guy John Fashanu has landed a presenting job on a new Gladiator-style show, Man Versus Beast - in which humans compete against animals writes Sam Matthews
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'If your mum could see this...'
With their Channel 4 show How Clean Is Your House? Aggies MacKensie and Kim Woodburn have made housework more fashi...
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Is Channel 4 bringing down the curtain on televised sport?
Pulling the plug on Lord's Test may be sign of things to come, writes Paul Kelso. ...
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This is as dumb as it gets
The communications bill is yet another attack on the notion of public service broadcasting. ...
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Puttnam acts to shield Channel 5
Lord Puttnam, the chief cheerleader of Labour rebels in the Lords, last night put forward a compromise to extricate...