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    Five weighs up multichannel options

    2005-05-19T07:50:06Z

    Five is looking to launch a crime channel or a female-skewed lifestyle channel, as it gears up to make its first step into multichannel television.

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    BBC creative director takes over at Community Channel

    2005-05-19T07:50:04Z

    The Community Channel has hired the former creative director at BBC learning, Nick Ware, as its new channel controller.

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    Smith to edit Watchdog

    2005-05-19T07:50:02Z

    Sandy Smith, the BBC current affairs producer nominated for a Bafta for his film on the Brighton bomb at the 1984 Tory party conference, has been appointed editor of Watchdog.

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    Sky poaches Discovery exec for factual role

    2005-05-19T07:50:00Z

    Sky One has poached Discovery Channel executive Emma Read to become commissioning editor for specialist factual.

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    Digital Classics to buy up indies

    2005-05-19T07:49:00Z

    Digital Classics, the AIM-listed TV distribution and production business chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein, has become the latest company to announce plans to buy up a series of other producers.

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    8mm wins backgammon series

    2005-05-18T15:32:02Z

    8mm Productions has won a commission from gaming channel Pokerzone to cover the forthcoming backgammon world championship. The indie will make High Stakes Backgammonas a 4 x 60-minute series following the event in July. 8mm Productions chief executive and creative director Andy Bell is producing with Pokerzone's ...

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    Love Island celebs appeal to 4.4m

    2005-05-18T11:53:46Z

    The flirtatious goings-on in ITV1's Celebrity Love Islandhit a high of 4.4 million (21%) at the beginning as the show moved to its regular 10pm slot.

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    Bumper profits for Channel 4

    2005-05-18T10:18:45Z

    Channel 4's profits soared last year to£46m thanks to record advertising revenues and a threefold rise in operating profits from 4 Ventures, its commercial arm.

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    Virgin poaches Xfm's O'Connell

    2005-05-18T10:06:14Z

    Virgin Radio has poached Xfm's award-winning breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell.

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    MP calls for BBC cuts debate

    2005-05-18T09:57:43Z

    Labour MP Austin Mitchell has made a fresh bid to get a Parliamentary debate on job cuts at the BBC.

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    NUJ slams BBC Governors

    2005-05-18T09:48:36Z

    The National Union of Journalists has accused BBC Governors of 'betraying licence fee payers' over their refusal to meet the union to discuss job cuts at the corporation.

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    Strong hand for Brits at NY Upfronts

    2005-05-18T09:46:00Z

    British producers have had a good showing at the New York Upfronts, the annual event where US TV networks present their new autumn schedules to advertisers, with the BBC, RDF Media, Ricochet and Granada all picking up recommissions.

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    Goodwin quits Talkback

    2005-05-18T08:37:50Z

    Talkback editorial director Daisy Goodwin, one of the TV industry's most successful programme makers, has quit.

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    Celebrity Love Island seduces 5.3m

    2005-05-17T11:38:42Z

    ITV1's widely touted new reality show Celebrity Love Islandgot off to a modest start with an average of 5.3 million (23.4%) over 90-minutes from 9pm.

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    Sky man to head Heart FM

    2005-05-17T10:29:58Z

    Chrysalis Radio has appointed Sky Networks director of marketing Barnaby Dawe to the role of managing director for flagship London station Heart 106.2.

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    BBC trials 'itunes' for TV

    2005-05-17T10:24:33Z

    The BBC is offering viewers the chance to download TV programmes over the internet with a new initiative it hopes will become 'iTunes for the broadcasting industry'.

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    Emap launches FHM TV

    2005-05-17T10:21:23Z

    Lads' mag FHM is to launch a music TV channel on Friday featuring the sexiest female bums in music and videos for viewers to air-guitar along to.

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    Deadline looms for C4 racing talks

    2005-05-17T10:03:45Z

    Channel 4 will decide whether to continue screening horseracing coverage at the end of the month after issuing racing authorities with a 31 May deadline to put up a suitable offer.

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    Pitching chance for new channels

    2005-05-17T09:38:34Z

    Budding entrepreneurs are being invited to pitch their channel start-up idea to an industry panel at next month's Broadcast Digital Channel Conference.

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    100 Greatest War films takes 2.9m

    2005-05-16T13:05:50Z

    Channel 4's conclusion of its 100 Greatest War Filmsdrew in a sizeable peak audience of 2.9 million (16.1%) at 10.15pm.