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    Players at the BBC

    2003-02-11T09:54:55Z

    The corporation's new broadcast centre is set to revolutionise how programmes are made and delivered ...

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    Pre-emptive strike

    2003-02-11T09:54:35Z

    The smartest way for the BBC to wrong-foot its critics in the run up to Charter renewal would be to offer some earl...

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    Blue Sky Thinking

    2003-02-11T09:54:16Z

    Opponents are honing the arguments for breaking up the satellite broadcaster ...

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    Monopolists of the middlebrow

    2003-02-11T09:53:53Z

    The Chrysalis formula is music to the ears of listeners and investors, but will it work on LBC? ...

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    Bee Gees blast at TV joker

    2003-02-11T09:53:30Z

    Bee Gee Robin Gibb has branded TV presenter Graham Norton 'scum' for maiking a joke about the death of his twin bro...

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    SBC risks direct route to confrontation

    2003-02-11T09:53:19Z

    A bid for DirecTV will upset investors ...

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    Vivendi sales fall on weak music market

    2003-02-11T09:52:53Z

    Vivendi Universal's sales fell in the fourth quarter of last year on the back of a weak global music market ...

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    MPs criticise TV levy proposals

    2003-02-11T09:52:26Z

    A group of 95 Labour MPs backed an early day motion criticising proposals for regulating charges levied on ITV, the...

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    Organisers quick to give Beeb backing

    2003-02-11T09:52:10Z

    The impending Six Nations Championship, driven by television without much thought for the supporters who made it a ...

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    Two MPs as wacko as Jacko

    2003-02-11T09:47:51Z

    Two MPs went wacko yesterday and tabled a loopy Commons motion condemning the Michael Jackson documentary. ...

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    Changing Rooms a TV great

    2003-02-11T09:45:52Z

    Changing Rooms and Teletubbies are among Britain's 24 most influential TV programmes ever, a survey has claimed. ...

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    Banff honours Attenborough

    2003-02-11T09:05:28Z

    David Attenborough will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at this year's Banff TV Festival, writes John Plunkett

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    EastEnders' Mark gets special send-off

    2003-02-11T08:58:37Z

    The BBC is to screen a one-off EastEnders special on a Saturday for the first time in the soap's 18-year history in order to mark the departure of long-running character Mark Fowler, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    MTV clinches Brat Awards

    2003-02-10T17:04:06Z

    MTV has clinched an eleventh hour deal with publisher IPC to show the NME Carling Awards Show 2003 on Thursday night, writes Paul Revoir

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    Public says ?no' to US ownership of ITV

    2003-02-10T15:57:50Z

    More than half the British public is against the government's plans to relax ownership laws in the Communications Bill and allow ITV to be taken over by a US-based media giant, according to a survey out today, writes Luke Satchell

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    C4 rapped for ?C' word outburst

    2003-02-10T12:51:12Z

    Channel 4 has been hauled up before the Independent Television Commission (ITC) after it broke one taboo too many - allowing a presenter to say 'you fucking cunt' live on air, writes John Plunkett

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    Telly's new Mr Big

    2003-02-10T10:30:32Z

    He was huge in 2002, but Jonny Vegas is about to get even bigger. ...

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    Barrymore: Why is TV freezing me out?

    2003-02-10T10:26:16Z

    Shamed star Michael Barrymore blasted TV bosses yesterday and moaned: 'Why shouldn't I make a comeback?' ...

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    Bashir in£3m US TV snub

    2003-02-10T10:21:18Z

    Martin Bashir has turned down a£3 million offer to join US television station ABC. ...

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    Homer is where the heart is

    2003-02-10T10:20:16Z

    Dawn Airey has a problem: Sky One's viewers watch little but ...