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    Wogan costs Radio 2£800,000 a year

    2006-04-18T10:06:26Z

    10am: Sir Terry Wogan is top of the BBC Radio 2 salary tree, pulling in£800,000 a year for his two hour weekday morning breakfast show.

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    Rising budgets for new media advertising

    2006-04-18T07:59:30Z

    8am: New media such as the internet are continuing to see a rise in advertising budgets at the expense of traditional commercial broadcasters, a new report has found.

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    Happy Easter

    2006-04-14T08:00:30Z

    Broadcastnow.co.uk is taking a festive break and will return on 3 January.

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    Saga wins FM radio licence for the north east

    2006-04-13T17:37:41Z

    Saga has won the new FM radio licence for the north east of England, beating applications from all the major UK radio groups.

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    Queen to re-open Broadcasting House

    2006-04-13T15:37:59Z

    The Queen is to meet two of the BBC's biggest radio loud-mouths, Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, when she officially re-opens Broadcasting House in London later this month.

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    Heart FM dumps Burns

    2006-04-13T10:45:33Z

    10.45am: Greg Burns, a seven year veteran of Heart FM, has been axed from the London station.

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    ITN launches mobile weather channel

    2006-04-13T10:29:46Z

    Vodafone TV customers should never be caught out by the rain again, as from today ITN will provide them with a weather channel.

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    NUJ halts ITV strike action

    2006-04-13T10:03:24Z

    The National Union of Journalists has called off 24-hour strike action at ITV's regional newsrooms planned for next Tuesday.

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    GCap considers closing Capital Disney

    2006-04-13T08:39:21Z

    GCap Media is in negotiations with Disney over the future of digital radio station Capital Disney, which could see the station change hands or close.

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    PEER POLL: BBC pension scheme

    2006-04-13T07:45:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the BBC keep its existing pension scheme for staff?

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    Sue Lawley to spin her last disc on Desert Island

    2006-04-12T12:03:10Z

    Sue Lawley is to stand down as presenter of BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs.

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    ITV gets up close to Prince Charles

    2006-04-12T11:42:33Z

    Sir Trevor McDonald has carried out an exclusive 'frank and wide-ranging interview' with Prince Charles for a major ITV documentary to air next month.

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    I've Won the Lottery claims 4.1m

    2006-04-12T11:29:15Z

    The winning numbers for ITV1's documentary I've Won the Lotterydidn't come up at 8pm with 4.1 million (18.4%).

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    Sleeper hit Tribe wins double run

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a further two runs of hit anthropology series Tribe, in which adventurer Bruce Parry spends time living with remote world communities.

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    Three-piece body work for C4

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 is to explore Britain's obsession with body shape and appearance in three different hour-long documentaries.

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    North One secures popular science task

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    North One Television has won its first commission from National Geographic Channel (NGC) for a Brainiac-style popular science series.

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    Living lines up Most Haunted burial stunt

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Living TV is planning a live burial in its next episode of Most Haunted Liveafter the special was recommissioned for a 19th and 20th run. A psychic is to be lowered in a coffin fitted with cameras into a grave in Portsmouth in May. A ...

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    Star makes Indian Housewives

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Hit US drama Desperate Housewivesis set to be remade in India by Rupert Murdoch-owned cable broadcaster Star TV.

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    Sun Hill cops' European beat

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    The Billwill continue to pound the beat in Denmark and Belgium after Fremantle International Distribution signed lucrative new deals to keep the long-running ITV1 show on air.

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    Sky One bags Ludlum thriller rights

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has picked up the multichannel and terrestrial TV rights to Robert Ludlum's bio-terrorism thriller The Hades Factor. The 2 x 90-minute miniseries, starring Stephen Dorff, Anjelica Huston and Mira Sorvino, was acquired from Tandem Communications. It is due to air on Sky in ...