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NewsNeil sets up TV rights fund
10am: Andrew Neil, the broadcaster and former Sunday Times editor, is moving into the television rights business with a£30m TV fund.
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NewsHumphrys compensated over leaked after dinner speech
BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys has received a£10,000 payout from the event firm which leaked controversial remarks he made in an after dinner speech.
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NewsITV hires daytime exec
9.45am: Helen Warner, a former editor of Loose Women and This Morning, is joining ITV to find daytime shows from the regions.
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NewsSky in advanced talks with Easynet
9.45am: BSkyB is poised to buy telecoms company Easynet for an estimated£150m, and could announce a deal within the week.
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NewsBBC Manchester move gets£50m boost
8am: The BBC's proposed plan to move four departments to Manchester has been given a£50 million boost from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and public sector partners.
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NewsGCap put Xfm forward for north east FM licence
GCap Media is looking to extend its alternative music format Xfm into a national analogue network by putting it forward for the north east FM licence currently being advertised by Ofcom.
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NewsProducers slam BBC's desktop editing drive
The BBC's drive to bring in desktop editing for its factual department came under fresh criticism today, as producers slammed it as an unwise way to shrink production budgets.
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NewsO'Connell takes Xfm team to Virgin
New Virgin Radio breakfast host Christian O'Connell is taking his entire Xfm team with him, when he starts his new job on 23 January.
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Production - Rough Cut - A tapeless nirvana?
Ian Bucknell on how tapeless production has changed and broadened the role of the TV librarian.
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Production - So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless. At this stage, he argues, it's less about selecting kit and more about documenti
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Off the Record - Just who is Paxman?
When Jeremy Paxman was asked to take part in the latest series of Who Do You
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Analysis - It's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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Analysis - Profile - Can he make stuff happen?
After restructuring his department, the BBC's new head of comedy, Jon Plowman, is taking on one of the most difficult slots in TV: a new peaktime BBC1 comedy.
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NewsComment: Don't knock the telenovela
Forget the latest US dramas and UK reality formats - the next big thing to take the international TV market by storm is going to be the telenovela, apparently, writes Dominic Schreiber.
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NewsAll3Media moves formats arm to London
All3Media International is moving its format sales operation from Amsterdam to the company's London headquarters, as part of a restructuring of its formats division.
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NewsFrench buyer for Mike Young Productions
French animation company MoonScoop has acquired a 51% stake in UK and US-based animation studio Mike Young Productions (MYP) and its distribution arm Taffy Entertainment.
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NewsSpellbound unveils new pre-school series
UK-based Spellbound Entertainment will follow up its pre-school series The Koala Brothers with the launch of new property Q Pootle 5 & the Pootles at Mipcom.
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NewsFoothill turns five at Mipcom Jr
Santa Barbara-based Foothill Entertainment will showcase new properties from the UK's Phew!! TV and LA-based Phuuz Entertainment, along with live-action series The Dress Up Box, when it attends Mipcom Junior for the first time this year.
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NewsER targets Spain
Entertainment Rights has strengthened its international sales team with the appointment of Isabel Pascual as territory manager for Spain and Portugal.
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Illumina unleashes Ghosts at Mipcom
London-based indie producer Illumina Digital will use next week's Mipcom to showcase the technology behind its new children's format GhostHouse.