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NewsOfcom investigates C4 News over hoax call
Channel 4 News is being investigated by Ofcom after broadcasting the hoax call made by Australian radio presenters to the hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated.
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NewsSky hires Brogden to beef up entertainment team
Sky is beefing up Phil Edgar-Jones’ entertainment team with the hire of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here executive producer Chris Brogden.
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NewsNick Clegg to front LBC phone-in
Talk radio station LBC 97.3 has secured Nick Clegg to co-host a weekly live phone-in on Thursday mornings with Nick Ferrari.
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NewsDancing on Ice scores product placement deal
Highland Spring bottled water is to become the first brand to feature in ITV entertainment show, Dancing on Ice, when it returns this weekend.
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NewsC4 eyes multiplatform profit
Channel 4 plans to “re-establish a reputation for commerciality” in multiplatform content in 2013 as it opens its next commissioning round.
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NewsITV2 picks up Dallas-style reality hit
ITV2 has picked up Big Rich Texas – the US reality hit about a group of wealthy Dallas socialites.
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NewsRylan Clark helps CBB smash Twitter record
The live launch of Celebrity Big Brother saw more than 7% of its audience head to Twitter to send 530,000 messages about the show.
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NewsMorrisons to sponsor ITV entertainment shows
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket, will sponsor Britain’s Got Talent and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway after signing a multi-million pound deal.
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NewsJim Davidson out of CBB
Comedian Jim Davidson, widely tipped to appear in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5, will not now feature further to his arrest yesterday.
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NewsGroupM and C4 ad stand-off tips into 2013
Channel 4 and advertising agency Group M’s failure to renew a deal at the end of 2012 has resulted in a raft of ads from top brands being pulled from the broadcaster.
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NewsDavid Attenborough’s Galapagos heads to Europe
Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough is to travel across Europe following its debut on Sky 1 and Sky 3D on New Year’s Day.
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NewsMicky Flanagan deal with C4 expires
Comedian Mick Flanagan’s Channel 4 golden handcuffs deal will not be renewed after it expired at the end of 2012.
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NewsAfrica attracts twice the tweets of One Born Every Minute
Footage of giraffes fighting boosted BBC1’s lavish new documentary series Africa to become the most-tweeted about show of the day.
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NewsRipper Street draws nearly 90 complaints
Nearly 90 viewers have complained about the violent and sexual scenes in BBC1’s new period crime thriller Ripper Street.
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NewsAntiques Roadshow gets playalong game; Disney reorders Doc McStuffins
The BBC has launched its first playalong mobile game; plus click through for a news round-up.
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NewsDoctor Who tops iPlayer over Xmas
Doctor Who was again the most watched show on BBC iPlayer over Christmas after racking up nearly 1.5m views.
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NewsAl Jazeera acquires Current TV
International news operator Al Jazeera has acquired Al Gore’s Current TV - but cable network Time Warner will not carry the new channel planned for launch.
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NewsITV4 kicks off football-themed animation
Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye is working on an animated sitcom about a die-hard Brainsford United fan for ITV4.
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NewsITV buys US indie Gurney; Christmas news round-up
ITV has spent almost £25m to take a controlling stake in US fact ent indie Gurney Productions, plus click through for a round-up of the news from the Christmas period.
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NewsBroadcast Top 20 of 2012
2012 ended with the BBC in crisis and the glow of the Olympics starting to fade. But what were Broadcast’s most popular stories of 2012?