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    Indies line up for Five cricket tender

    2006-01-18T07:59:30Z

    8am:Five has put the production contract for its England cricket test highlights deal out to tender to the indie sector, with Sunset + Vine and TWI believed to be the frontrunners.

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    Mobile TV catches on

    2006-01-17T16:08:57Z

    Mobile phone users are prepared to spend over 20 minutes a day watching TV on their phones, according to the first set of results from the Oxford Mobile TV trial.

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    ITV sells O21 for£4.5m

    2006-01-17T12:09:41Z

    ITV has sold its outside broadcast arm, 021 Television, to Gravity Media Group (GMG) for£4.5m.

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    Golden Globe success for C4 imports

    2006-01-17T10:00:04Z

    Channel 4 imports Desperate Housewivesand Lostrepeated their Emmy success at last night's Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles.

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    Virgin Mobile poised to accept NTL offer

    2006-01-17T09:24:56Z

    Virgin Mobile is set to open its books to NTL, after majority shareholder Sir Richard Branson agreed to take a reduced price for his shares in the potential£930m deal.

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    ITV hires strategy director

    2006-01-17T09:09:54Z

    ITV has poached an executive from industry think tank Spectrum Strategy Consultants to become its first strategy director.

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    Tinopolis takes control of TV Corp today

    2006-01-17T08:41:16Z

    Tinopolis has today taken control of TV Corp, delisting 60.59% of the company's shares from the London Stock Exchange, and issuing Tinopolis shares in their place.

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    Jackson to head ITV entertainment

    2006-01-17T08:38:15Z

    ITV will today confirm that Granada USA chief Paul Jackson will become its new director of entertainment and comedy.

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    UK viewers increase spending via TV

    2006-01-17T07:59:20Z

    8am:UK households are spending an average of£144 a year on TV - twice as much as in 2000.

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    Friends and Crocodiles snaps up 4.1m

    2006-01-16T11:56:03Z

    Acclaimed writer and director Stephen Poliakoff returned last night with the stylish drama Friends & Crocodilesaveraging 4.1 million (16.8%) at 9pm in the face of tough competition.

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    Salmon offered creative role at Tinopolis

    2006-01-16T10:32:54Z

    Tinopolis boss Ron Jones has asked Television Corporation chief executive Peter Salmon and director of sport Jeff Foulser to stay on at the group once his acquisition of the larger company is complete.

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    UK-US relationship subject of new BBC thriller

    2006-01-16T10:31:18Z

    The BBC is to make a transatlantic political thriller about the special relationship between Britain and the US.

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    Maverick back in the black

    2006-01-16T09:53:19Z

    Maverick Entertainment Group, the owner of BBC kids character Muffin the Mule, said today it was on track to return to profit.

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    NTL ups Virgin Mobile offer as Branson steps in

    2006-01-16T09:23:17Z

    The Virgin Mobile board is mulling over an increased offer from NTL after Sir Richard Branson said he would dip into his own pockets to break the impasse.

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    ITV and unions settle pay dispute

    2006-01-16T08:00:00Z

    8am:Unions have accepted an improved pay offer from ITV, averting a repeat of last year's industrial action which affected shows including Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeawayand Coronation Street.

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    Indies should get PVR royalties says Pact report

    2006-01-16T07:59:55Z

    A Pact-commissioned report has called for personal video recorder (PVR) platform owners such as Sky+ to pay royalties to programme makers.

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    Sky faces losing Irish Ryder Cup rights

    2006-01-13T09:55:16Z

    BSkyB has found itself in the midst of another sports rights dispute, this time over the Ryder Cup.

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    ITV postpones kids channel launch

    2006-01-13T07:50:30Z

    ITV is delaying the launch of its children's channel by a month, as the broadcaster admits it will not have everything ready in time for its original date in February.

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    PEER POLL: Nigel Pickard

    2006-01-13T07:45:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Did Nigel Pickard make a success of ITV?

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    Fox to make Sky One show

    2006-01-12T08:30:00Z

    A planned US version of Sky One's Double or Nothingis now being made for the Fox Reality Channel after NBC rejected the show.