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    BBC news cuts delayed

    2005-11-03T07:50:00Z

    Hundreds of BBC news staff are being kept waiting to hear if they will be allowed to take voluntary redundancy, as the NUJ and management hold further talks on the department's future.

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    BBC1 updates Jekyll and Hyde

    2005-11-03T07:49:00Z

    Coupling writer Stephen Moffatt is to write a modern version of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde for BBC1.

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    Broadcasting House architect dropped

    2005-11-02T14:21:59Z

    The group developing BBC Broadcasting House has ditched the architect in charge of the scheme after running into 'creative differences' over the project.

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    ITV plans 'imminent' acquisitions

    2005-11-02T13:17:39Z

    ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said today he was close to making a series of acquisitions.

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    Football scores for ITV4's launch...

    2005-11-02T13:10:20Z

    ITV4 had an impressive launch night yesterday as the channel soared to an all-hours share of 3.23% in multichannel homes.

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    ...but misses the net on ITV1

    2005-11-02T11:54:05Z

    ITV1's live coverage of Liverpool's Champions League tie against Anderlecht was something of a muted affair with a peak audience of just 5.6 million (24.3%) at 9pm.

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    Blaze confirms CD:USA deal

    2005-11-02T11:09:40Z

    Blaze Television has secured a deal with US multichannel operator DirecTV to produce an American version of ITV1 pop show CD:UK.

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    Tony Blair Rock Star headsC4 winter season

    2005-11-02T10:13:00Z

    Tony and Cherie Blair both feature in Channel 4's winter season unveiled by the broadcaster this morning but the Prime Minister is unlikely to be happy with his TV portrayal.

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    Sex Traffic up for five craft awards

    2005-11-02T10:03:57Z

    Eight members of the production team that worked on the Granada-produced docu-drama Sex Traffic are up for gongs at this month's RTS Craft and Design Awards

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    Unions bid to reduce World Service cuts

    2005-11-02T09:41:28Z

    9.30am: Broadcasting unions will sit down with BBC bosses next week to try to reduce the number of people set to be axed from the World Service staff.

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    C4 revives Comic Strip

    2005-11-02T08:37:19Z

    8.30am: Channel 4 is reviving Comic Strip Presents... 23 years to the day since it first aired on the broadcaster's opening night.

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    Peter Kay to run 6 Music

    2005-11-02T07:59:30Z

    8am: Comedian Peter Kay and various chart-topping acts are to take charge of BBC digital station 6 Music's programming as part of The BBC 6 Music Selector.

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    C4 appoints new commissioning editor

    2005-11-02T07:59:25Z

    8am: Channel 4 has hired Kashaf Chaudhry, the producer of The Real Da Vinci Code, to join its science, history and religion department.

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    Second helpings for Beyond Boundaries

    2005-11-02T07:59:22Z

    8am: BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a second series of disability adventure travel programme Beyond Boundaries while the first series is still on air.

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    Goldman Sachs man launches indie

    2005-11-02T07:59:20Z

    8am: A former Goldman Sachs executive has launched a television production company to provide new revenue streams for high profile sporting clients of his financial services business.

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    SMG to support Gaelic channel

    2005-11-02T07:59:20Z

    8am: Ofcom has raised a further£400,000 a year towards funding a new Gaelic TV Channel after agreeing to change ITV broadcasters Scottish TV and Grampian TV's indigenous language requirements.

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    Ex-TV Corp duo sell indie stake

    2005-11-01T11:51:40Z

    Former TV Corp executives Chris Rowlands and Charles Thompson have sold a majority stake in their new indie to intellectual property and production group Apace Media.

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    Countdown returns with 1.8m

    2005-11-01T11:36:24Z

    The smooth presenting charm of Des Lynam looks to have been an instant hit with the Countdown viewers as his debut on the gameshow drew a strong 1.8 million (21.8%) at 3.30pm.

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    TV chiefs line-up for Manchester

    2005-11-01T10:18:26Z

    BBC director of television Jana Bennett will deliver a key note speech on the BBC's future commissioning and production plans at the Broadcast Commissioning Conference in Manchester this month.

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    Lords attack BBC proposals

    2005-11-01T09:50:14Z

    A House of Lords committee has criticised demands by the BBC for an inflation-busting licence fee rise and called for plans to replace the BBC governors with a Trust to be scrapped.