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Bullish Murdoch sticks to his guns
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch yesterday attempted to reassure nervous News Corp shareholders by sticking to previous ...
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It's not hard work, I just have to be me
His skin glows like a burnished mahogany table and his voice is as gnarled as an old bedpost. Yet to millions of fe...
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Boss quits over telly racing row
The Jockey Club's security chief sensationally quit yesterday as horseracing reeled from TV claims that the sport i...
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Lesbian show 'too clean' say angry viewers
Viewers rang the BBC last night to moan about lesbian drama Tipping The Velvet ' saying it wasn't raunchy enough. ...
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Magic is back
Children's classic The Magic Roundabout is to be made into a film starring Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams. ...
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Launching digital channels 'will put BBC£100m in red'
The cost of funding new digital TV channels will plunge the BBC into the red by almost£100 million next year, say ...
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MacIntyre care home libel win
A police force is facing a£750,000 legal bill after it admitted making libellous comments about a TV documentary f...
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Fame school is a 'flopstar'
The BBC's much-hyped reality talent show Fame Academy is failing to make the grade, having shed almost one million ...
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BSkyB chief executive paid£7.5m despite£1.3bn loss
The chief executive of satellite television group BkyB was paid£7.5 million last year, even though the company rep...
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NewsThompson to take axe to C4 schedule
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson is to announce sweeping programming changes next week, following his pledge to reinvent the C4 schedule in his MacTaggart lecture in August, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsRevamped Crossroads to be 'fantastic'
Carlton is hoping to relaunch its daytime soap Crossroads as a glamorous fantasy series with 'influences from Greek tragedy' when it returns to ITV in January, writes Steve Aston
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NewsAttenborough: no plans to quit
Veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough has confirmed he has no intention of hanging up his boots as the BBC's leading natural history presenter, despite passing his 76th birthday, writes David Wood
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NewsCBBC plans global bank of shows
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has unveiled a plan for a global 'programming bank' of children's titles that could be loaned for free to developing countries that have little track record of making kids programming themselves, writes Leigh Holmwood
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If BSkyB keeps dishing it out, punishment will follow
As a lesson in unacceptable boardroom standards the BSkyB annual report and accounts takes some beating. ...
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Pay protest greets Murdoch clan
There are few bigger business heroes in Australia than Rupert Murdoch, the man who built a global media empire from...
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BBC hunters rally to the call for blood
The Tory conference united against the real enemy yesterday. It turned out to be the BBC. ...
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BBC's latest talent show proves to be a turn-off
Fame Academy draws barely more viewers than Gardeners' World on its first showing, despite its£4.5m budget. ...
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BSkyB boss banked£7m despite record loss
Tony Ball, the boss of satellite firm BSkyB, banked more than£7m from salary and share sales last year despite the...