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Downgrade for ITV expectations
ITV faces another year of advertising gloom under performing in the television audience ratings, according to a lea...
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1,000 jobs under threat at Telewest
A further 1,000 staff could lose their jobs at Telewest by the end of the year as the debt-laden cable group seeks ...
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US acclaim for Pop Idol creator
Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Pop Idol phenomenon, has been invited to meet George Bush after t...
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Out with the old, in with the younger, at BBC news
The BBC has instigated a generational changing of the guard among its top news presenters, with 41-year-old Huw Edw...
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I'm a legend. Get me out of here!
The nation is gripped by a group of washed-up celebs stranded in the Australian jungle. But what if some real supe...
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ITV advertising growth forecasts cut to just 0.5%
ITV hopes of a sustained recovery in advertising were punctured yesterday by research by Merill Lynch which predict...
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Monkey stars in ITV Digital auction
The ITV Digital monkey, the face of the bankrupt broadcaster, made its former bosses more than£5,500 when 30 of te...
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BBC unveils the new faces of news
Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce will be the new presenters of the Ten O'Clock News when Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons...
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UK export a hit with American audience
Pop Idol, the talent contest that launched the careers of Will Young and Gareth Gates, last night became one of the...
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NewsNews World in legal row with former executive
News World, the international conference for broadcast journalists and news executives, has become embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with organisers of a new European Broadcast Union (EBU) funded event after Newsworld alleged its former managing director supplied its private database to its rival, writes ...
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NewsTaxpayers reject C4's cash plea
Taxpayers have given the thumbs-down to Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson's plea for government cash to support a more risk-taking channel, according to an NOP survey commissioned for Broadcast, writes David Wood
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NewsPlanet Rapido in 'cock fight'
Planet Rapido is locked in an embarrassing tussle with a sex industry charity following allegations that the penis-shaped trophy it used for its Channel 4 Eurotrash Awards was in breach of copyright, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsBBC to give Test the Nation more outings
BBC 1 is to screen two more specials of its ratings winner Test the Nationas part of a drive to shake up its flagging Saturday night output, writes Leigh Holmwood
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OFT ekes out BSkyB ruling
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has delayed making a decision on its longstanding case against BSkyB over claims that the satellite giant breached competition rules, writesPaul Revoir
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Granada Screen folds
Granada has quietly shut down international film and fiction business Granada Screen after domestic pressures forced the company to scale back its global ambitions , writes Steve Aston
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IRN brand is phased out
News provider ITN has been forced to dilute yet another of its brands after external research revealed that commercial radio customers no longer wanted its sister radio company to sign off its bulletins with the IRN tag, writes Penny Hughes
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BBC 2 edges away from youth drama
BBC 2 is to broaden its drama output away from its traditional diet of cult youth-orientated fare such as This Lifeand Attachmentsafter controller Jane Root claimed they had run their course, writesLeigh Holmwood
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TWG bids to get west Midlands radio talking
Kelvin MacKenzie's The Wireless Group (TWG) has thrown its hat in the ring for the west Midlands radio licence with a bid which, if successful, will expand its Talk brand into FM for the first time, writesSteve Aston
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Extreme gets the Creative Touch
Distributor Extreme International is set to move into programme-making after teaming up with London based production company Creative Touch Films, writes Paul Revoir
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TV execs line up to rap festival
One of the UK's leading television producers has launched a scathing attack on the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, claiming the annual event has become 'obsessed with the cult of personality'