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Bravo puts ultimate fighting centre stage
Ultimate Fighting, the extreme combat phenomenon where contestants batter each other using a mix of martial arts, is to be given a permanent fixture on men's channel Bravo.
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NewsChannel 4 bowls a nation over
Channel 4 secured its highest all-hours share for a Saturday last weekend after winning its biggest ever test cricket audience.
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Arnell goes to ITV4
ITV3 channel editor Stephen Arnell has been appointed ITV4 channel editor in preparation for the channel's launch on 1 November. He takes on the role immediately and will keep his ITV3 responsibilities until a replacement has been found. He said he planed to use ITV4's£15m budget to secure exclusive content. ...
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Bibby joins Optomen
Optomen Television, producer of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, has poached Talkback Thames financial director Mike Bibby to become deputy managing director. He will work alongside managing director Pat Llewellyn who was promoted last month after Peter Gillbe left the company after 15 years. Bibby has previously worked ...
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Livesey to Parthenon
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has poached Discovery Channel senior production manager Maria Livesey to fill the new role of director of production.
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BBC fends off commercial challenge
Commercial radio has failed to claw back significant market share from the BBC.
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ITV news reshuffle
New ITV News Channel editor Ben Rayner has reshuffled his team making a series of promotions. Assistant editor Matt Walsh has been promoted to deputy editor and senior programme editor Harry Gibson will take on the assistant editor role. Gibson's role is taken on by Debora Gorbutt, who moves up ...
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Top breakfast shows lose listeners
Johnny Vaughan hung on to his place as London's top commercial radio breakfast host but the three leading commercial breakfast shows all lost listeners in the latest figures. Vaughan lost 161,000 listeners over the three-month period, falling to 1,077,000 listeners. Jamie Theakston, who joined Chrysalis's Heart 106.2 FM part way ...
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BBC digital making little impact
The BBC's digital stations all failed to make inroads in the most recent Rajars, with share either declining or holding steady. BBC 6 Music and BBC 7 both lost share, down to 0.1 and 0.2 respectively, while Five Live Sports Extra, 1Xtra, and BBC Asian Network could only maintain their ...
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Wogan remains nation's favourite
Wake up to Woganremains the UK's most popular national breakfast show, with more than 8 million listeners, but Chris Moyles managed to increase his audience by 81,000 to reach 6.2 million. R4's Todayprogramme added 120,000 listeners over the quarter, notching up 6.3 million, but Radio 3's ...
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Kerrang! audience and share fall
Emap's West Midlands-based Kerrang! 105.2 lost both audience and share compared with 2005's first Rajar. Share slipped from 2.7% to 2.5%, while audience figures fell by 64,000 to 260,000. When digital listeners are included, the Kerrang! brand's total UK share fell from 0.5% to 0.4%, with audience down 123,000 to ...
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Clyde 1 and 2 slip in Scotland, BBC up
Scottish Radio Holdings' Clyde 1 FM and Clyde 2 both lost out in the battle for audience in Scotland. Clyde 1's share slid from 16.8% in the previous quarter to 15.7%, while Clyde 2 fell from 9.8% to 7.9%. Winners included BBC Radio Scotland which increased from a 7.9% share ...
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Choose your favourite ITV characters
Broadcastthis week launches its readers' poll to discover who are the most popular and iconic ITV characters of all time. Readers are invited to vote from a selection of more than 50 well-loved characters including hard-man of television detectives Taggart; The Saint's ...
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Edinburgh festival hosts Question Time
Salman Rushdie, Dr David Starkey, and MPs Dianne Abbott and George Galloway have been added to the Edinburgh TV Festival Question Time Special. Shadow culture spokeswoman Theresa May and former director general Greg Dyke are also on the panel, chaired by Andrew Neil. The special will be held on Sunday ...
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Kirkham moves from C4 to BBC1
A senior figure on Channel 4's Richard & Judyprogramme has been poached to fill a new post in BBC daytime. Alison Kirkham has been associate editor on the C4 show for the past year but has defected to the BBC to take the newly created role ...
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Network rollout for Capital FM's seven
GCap Media is to roll out its 95.8 Capital FM Sunday night Sevenentertainment show across its The One Network stations. The three-hour show, presented by Justin Wilkes and Sam Mann, looks at the week's celebrity news and has exclusive interviews. It is the first time GCap ...
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Schoonmaker leads Swansea radio bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker is heading a UK radio bid backed by Australian investment bank Macquarie. The bid is for a new 12-year FM licence for Swansea, under the name Diamond FM, a mainstream classic rock proposal. The new station will reach approximately 300,000 adults, depending on ...
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Laughing all the way to the studio
With TV sitcoms traditionally being one of the most studio-bound of TV genres, comedy producers and production managers need to know what they are looking for when choosing a studio. Louis Pattison looks at what's on offer
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I'll miss Family Affairs
Five considered a niche role for Family Affairsbut opted instead to create bold storylines and characters. Paul Marquess says four things conspired against the canned soap.