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LEADER - DCMS at last makes a decision
What every corner of this industry needs at the moment is a fighter. And thus far media secretary Tessa Jowell has shown no such spirit
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FREE TO AIR - Winning isn't everything
Before you can say 'arse-numbing workshop' and 'crashing hangover', Edinburgh in all its pomp is upon us again. This year at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival there will be but one theme, broken roughly into two sections: those complete and utter bastards at the BBC and how much we ...
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TRADE TALK - Music maestro.
BBC bosses are hoping former pirate DJ Willber Willberforce will drive digital radio take-up among 16 to 24-year-olds with hip new station 1Xtra
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TRADE TALK - IN MY VIEW - Tony Stoller, chief executive of the Radio Authority.
On the increasing significance and improved quality of sports coverage on the radio
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ON THE BOX - In a class of their own
David Jamieson, BT Broadcast Services head of content services, mourns The West Wing and 24 but Classmates does not pass muster
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The bluffer's guide to Edinburgh 2002.
THE MACTAGGART LECTURETraditionally, the MacTaggart is the source of more George Bar ice-breakers than any other
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TARGET PICKS UP RIGHTS TO POPSTARS SEQUEL.
UK-based distributor Target Distribution has picked up the international rights to Popstars: the Rivals (left), which
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BENNETT TO SPEAK AT SPECIAL RTS DINNER.
BBC director of television Jana Bennett is to give her views on public service broadcasting in
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HUGH GRANT TO JUDGE TURNER CLASSIC SHORTS.
Actor Hugh Grant is to judge this year's Turner Classic Movies annual short film competition. Turner
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HTV WEST TO SET UP REGIONAL VIEWER COUNCIL.
HTV West is to set up a regional advisory council to gather feedback from viewers in
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GALAXY 105 TO REVAMP ITS BREAKFAST SHOW.
Chrysalis-owned Galaxy 105, based in Yorkshire, is revamping its breakfast show and has hired Emap's Viking
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UK ASIANS GET PUNJABI CHANNEL FROM ZEE TV.
Zee TV is poised to launch a raft of new channels targeting different Asian cultures in
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Liddiment goes to war with BBC.
Britain's two biggest broadcasters have become embroiled in an embarrassing squabble after outgoing ITV director of
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All change at the top for music chart radio shows.
The UK's two leading music chart radio shows are both set for a shake-up next year as presenters and sponsors pull out, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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THE CLASSICS GO HIGH-DEF.
BBC Worldwide has signed a three-year deal with Japanese state broadcaster NHK to co-produce a series
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Programming - October kids drama takes on asylum system.
The fictional tale of a boy who seeks refuge in England after witnessing the slaughter of his entire village is to be featured in a children's drama for the BBC, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Programming - Graef to make Potters Bar doc.
Veteran film-maker Roger Graef has been commissioned to make a documentary about last May's Potters Bar
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PROGRAMMING - BRAVO ENTERS WORLD OF PAIN.
A 'moving and occasionally shocking' documentary series highlighting the spectrum of human pain - from having
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PROGRAMMING - C4 peanut to explain world trade abuses.
An animated peanut is to present a new Channel 4 programme on the effects of trade liberalisation on developing countries for the station's experimental Alt-TV strand, writes Penny Hughes
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PROGRAMMING - CARLTON REVIVES FAMILY FORTUNES QUIZ SHOW.
Carlton is recording a new 80 x 30-minute daytime series of ITV quiz show staple Family