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NewsBBC's licence fee backlash
BBC director general Mark Thompson and chairman Michael Grade are undoubtedly master politicians but even they may have been surprised by the reaction to their proposal for a beefed-up licence fee increasing by 2.3% above inflation.
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NewsRow at Diverse over Minhas suspension
A disciplinary dispute has erupted between indie Diverse Production and its director of programmes, Narinder Minhas, after he was suspended following 'very serious allegations' about his conduct - and subsequently lodged a counter-claim arguing racial discrimination.
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NewsBroadcast Freelancer job site launches
Broadcast will launch a new job-finding website for tele-vision freelancers on Monday (17 October).
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NewsITV gives Fantasy Football the boot
ITV has axed Frank Skinner and David Baddiel's cult sports comedy show Fantasy Football for the forthcoming 2006 World Cup.
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NewsTeachers and Cutting It stars set up indie
One shot to fame as a hard-nosed taskmaster on Teachers, the other made her name playing an entrepreneurial hairdresser on Cutting It. Now actresses Nina Sosanya and Sarah Parish are moving into the world of production.
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BBC1 to fill regional slots
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham is looking to create a regional slot on the channel between 7pm and 7.30pm, and is asking indies to come up with a Nationwide-style magazine programme to fill it.
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NewsCowell woos Rosencrantz
Simon Cowell is understood to be trying to poach ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz to join his indie Syco.
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ITV1 plans DNA daytime show
SMG TV Productions has landed another ITV1 daytime order, with a 10-part factual series about DNA testing.
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Hallmark snaps up BBC dramas
The Hallmark Channel is on the lookout for UK drama acquisitions and has kicked off its new strategy by buying BBC hits Spooks and Hustle.
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NewsFive in£10m-plus budget boost
4.15pm: Five is increasing its programme budget to over£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers confirmed today.
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Goswami in new TV over broadband venture
2.15pm: Former BSkyB's commercial director Martin Goswami is launching Aggregator, an IPTV service designed to compliment Freeview.
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NewsMore4 not free-to-air for all
2pm: Channel 4 is being bombarded with complaints from angry Sky viewers unable to access its new 'free' digital channel, More4, launched on Monday [10 October].
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NewsEC media chief calls for 'light touch' media regulation
1pm: Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for media, this week said that regulators needed to apply 'a light touch' to internet, broadband and other emerging media platforms.
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NewsViewers indifferent to BBC2's Supernova
BBC2's new comedy series Supernova failed to dazzle the viewers last night with a relatively poor 1.7 million (8.2%).
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NewsPress reaction to the BBC'slicence fee request
10.30am: The Guardian provided a lone voice in support of the BBC's proposal to increase the licence fee above the rate of inflation while the majority of daily newspapers slammed the move.
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NewsChan quits Channel 4 for Firefly
10.30am: Channel 4 commissioning editor Angela Chan is to quit the broadcaster nine months after joining, to become an executive producer for indie Firefly.
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NewsNTL & ITV join forces in Premier League rights bid
NTL and ITV have teamed up to launch a bid for the next set of Premier League rights in an attempt to break BSkyB's stranglehold on the game.
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NewsITV & C4 join Freeview consortium
10.15am: ITV and Channel 4 have confirmed they are to join the Freeview consortium.
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NewsSky looks to raise£1bn
10am: BSkyB has said it is thinking of raising up to£1bn through the sale of its first bonds for more than five years, triggering speculation that the satellite giant may be in acquisitive form.
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NewsNat Geo buys Rough Trades
10am: National Geographic International has picked up the pay TV rights to Rough Trades, a series lookingat unusual professions throughout the world.