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BBC 4 not ratings-driven
BBC 4 is 'defiantly not a ratings-driven channel', according to controller Roly Keating speaking at the Production Show last week, write Lucy Rouse and Peter Keighron
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attheraces, the interactive digital TV channel owned by Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure, has secured a deal to provide live pictures and audio to a number of overseas jurisdictions, in a move which will finance the payment of the annual rights fees to its contracted courses, ...
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Emap signals intentions on radio bill
Emap, the nmagazine and radio group, yesterday signalled that it wanted to play a leading role in radio consolidation as it reported sharply lower losses for last year.Financial Times, page 24
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Not so much teams as motely crews
World Cup: Almost as important as the players are the pundits, commentators and presenters.Financial Times, page 16
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Murdoch considers£1 bn Italian pay-TV acquisition
Rupert Murdoch is exploring a Eu1bn plan that could see him emerge as the dominant pay-TV operator in Italy.Financial Times, page 21
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Carlton eyes links to media's big hitters
Carlton Communications yesterday expressed interest in forming alliances with the world's big media groups, as it tried to draw a line under a 'very difficult? six months.
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Emap in mood for radio purchases
EMAP, the media company that owns heat, the celebrity magazine, and Kerrang!, the hard rock weekly, yesterday indicated that it wanted to buy more radio stations.
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Channel 5 switches to higher art forms
Channel 5 is taking further steps to shed its smutty image by strengthening its arts programming.
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Kingston rings in the right numbers
The Hull-based telecoms company Kingston Communications is, at this rate, in danger of finding itself among the survivors of the current telecoms shake-out.
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Emap reads and sounds like it is worth keeping
Emap, the radio group and publisher, has shown its resilience, having got over its American difficulties. Full-year results, for the year ended 31 March, showed underlying turnover up 3 per cent to£938m while operating profit was off just 1 per cent at£182m. That is pretty commendable in a period when ...
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Archer to be satirised by BBC after rule change
The life story of the jailed Tory peer Jeffrey Archer is to be mocked in a BBC satire as part of a£10m package of political dramas announced by the corporation yesterday. Guy Jenkin, who wrote the Drop the Dead Donkey spoof on television journalism, is to turn his fire on ...
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Bullish Carlton admits to talks with potential US partners
Michael Green, Carlton's chairman, has held informal conversations with potential US partners, it emerged yesterday, as the company provided evidence of a sustained recovery in advertising revenue.
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ITV promises new twist in plot
ITV's fightback has begun. That, at least was the message from Carlton yesterday when it attempted to draw a line ubder a disastrous six months for Britain's leading - but severely damaged - commercial television network.
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Are these the worst people in Britain?
Once it was a force for good - now TV appeals only to the basest instincts.Mail, page 11
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Big Brother Sunita says: Let me out
Trainee barrister Sunita Sharma wants to leave TV's Big Brother after only four days.Express, page 28
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Hit or a Miss? It's over to ITV
For years generations of teenyboppers have tuned into BBC's Top Of The Pops. Now ITV chiefs are planning to get those loyal fans to switch channels with their own brand of the hit show.Express, page 5
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Tottering NTL paid out $2m in bonuses
Barclay Knapp, chief executive of NTL, received a $561, 138 (£384, 341) bonus as the cable company edged towards ba...
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C5 gets in first with royalty doc
Channel 5 is re-affirming its commitment to move away from tacky programming with a new major 12-part documentary on the history of British kings and queens, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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BBC 2 orders bisexual drama
A provocative new thriller featuring one man's search for emotional and sexual gratification with both male and female partners will be one of the highlights of BBC 2's drama slate next year, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Clerkenwell filming horror classic
Clerkenwell Films and Working Title Television are in production on a TV movie version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Universal Television in the US, writes Jon Rogers