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NewsR1 to air download chart
The UK's first official music download chart is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 when it launches later this year.
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NewsBBC launches defence of Charter
BBC chairman Michael Grade and director general Mark Thompson will this morning (Tuesday) launch the corporation's defence of the licence fee and spell out their plans for the future direction of the organisation.
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NewsOfcom rejects complaints over séance
Media regulator Ofcom has rejected the avalanche of complaints it received about the controversial Derren Brown Séance , saying the programme did not breach its programme code.
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NewsITV set to sell-off non-core assets
ITV is set to sell off a large number of its non-core assets in a bid to make further savings from the merger process, including post-production house The Moving Picture Company.
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NewsGardner recovers in UK hospital
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, shot whilst on assignment in Saudi Arabia, has been transferred to a UK hospital where he is continuing to make good progress, the BBC has said.
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NewsDJ Fox picks up NTL radio award
Capital FM DJ Neil Fox has been honoured for his outstanding contribution to radio broadcasting at the NTL Commercial Radio Awards.
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NewsAirey: I'm staying at Sky
Sky Networks chief Dawn Airey today told Broadcast she is ruling herself out of the race to become the new chief executive of Channel 4.
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NewsLloyd's crew member killed in firefight
ITN has said new evidence indicates that a member of its news crew missing in Iraq since March last year died in the same firefight that killed reporter Terry Lloyd.
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NewsBBC unveils 'public value' test
The BBC is to unveil plans to apply a 'public value test' to the launch of new services when it presents its Charter renewal submission next week.
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NewsFive expands Britain's Worst strand
Five is to expand its Britain's Worst strand with four new one-hour specials to find the country's worst wife, teenager, neighbour and mother-in-law.
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NewsITV snares Lewinsky for exclusive interview
ITV has secured a world exclusive interview with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky following the publication on Tuesday (22 June) of former US president Bill Clinton's autobiography.
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NewsPEER POLL: Big Brother
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Has Big Brother gone too far?
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NewsFrasier finale pulls 2.4m to C4
The last ever episode of Frasier in a double bill offering at 22.50 entertained 2.4 million (19.7%) and 1.7 million (20.5%) respectively.
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The new law for indies
After months of waiting, Channel 4 has become the first broadcaster to reveal its new terms of trade for doing business with independent producers. So has the indie sector got the deal it wants?
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BBC puts footage sales into Motion
The BBC has launched a new web-based clip sales service which it hopes will double the amount of revenue it gets from selling footage such as The Blue Planet within four years.
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Canada is next to show The Bill
Canada will become the 43rd country to screen ITV1 police drama The Billafter it was sold to cable channel Showcase
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Endemol sells Big Brother to Croatia
Endemol has inked a deal with the newly launched RTL Televizija to air Big Brother in Croatia. It is the first time the Dutch production company has sold a programme format to the east European country. Big Brother, which has now been sold to a ...
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Mipcom names personality of the year
Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five majority shareholder RTL, is to be given the personality of the year award at this year's Mipcom TV market. Zeiler, a former Austrian government press officer who has headed the German media group since March 2003, will pick up the award at a gala ...
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UK's galleon invests in us toon business
UK animation company Galleon has taken a 50% stake in a Hollywood animation company set up by ex-Disney producer Chris Henderson. J Christopher Entertainment is made up of numerous high-profile US animators based in Los Angeles. Galleon, set up by Shoe People creator Jim Driscoll, is putting in half the ...
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Dream Home back for sixth time on TVNZ
Distraction's Dream Home format has been licensed for a sixth series to TVNZ in New Zealand and has gone into production for a second series with French Canada's TVA. The format, in which two young families renovate neighbouring derelict properties over nine weeks, has done ...