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BAFTA'S BIG AD.
Richard E Grant is to star in a big budget cinema trailer promoting the BBC's coverage of the Bafta Film Awards on 24 February, writes Leigh Holmwood. The ad, which hits
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Jowell to move quickly to appoint Ofcom chairman.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to move swiftly to appoint the first chair of Ofcom even though the media regulator will not take up its full powers until next summer at the earliest, writes David Rose.
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Al-Jazeera breaks off ties with CNN.
CNN newsgathering president Eason Jordan has launched a scathing attack on the former darling of the news community Al-Jazeera, intensifying the war of words over the Qatar-based channel's exclusive interview with
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BBC looks for secret of cool.
The BBC is conducting an 11th hour study into the competitive children's television market just days ahead of the launch of its two new kids channels and has roped in former Carlton kids chief Michael Forte to oversee it, writes Simon Ellery.
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C4 TO OFFER INTERACTIVE FIFTEEN TO ONE.
Channel 4 is to launch its first fully interactive quiz show by allowing Sky Digital viewers to play its long-running general knowledge quiz Fifteen to One, writes Simon Ellery. Sky viewers
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Blaxill rejoins Capital.
Former Top of the Pops producer Ric Blaxill is rejoining Capital 95.8 FM as deputy programme controller, writes Georgina Lispcomb.
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Indie Straight TV goes to the wall.
Manchester-based indie Straight TV, producer of the now defunct Channel 4/Trouble series Planet Pop, has gone into voluntary liquidation just before its fifth anniversary, writes Jon Rogers.
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Edinburgh TV festival lines up advisers.
The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) has announced the line-up for its advisory committee for this year's festival, writes Jon Rogers.
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C5 to aim for greater range.
Channel 5 has criticised the 'increasing homogenisation of the established broadcasters' and promised to have 'editorial ambitions that are consciously different' from other broadcasters, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Sky raps 'illogical' rules.
BSkyB has hit out at the government's cross-media ownership rules, branding them 'illogical' and 'discriminatory', writes David Wood.
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Bennett decision gets wide support.
TLC executive vice-president and general manager Jana Bennett's appointment as the BBC's first female director of television this week has been welcomed across the industry, with many observers suggesting a 'commercial
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ANSON ON BROADBAND.
Former Channel 4 head of business planning and interactive Andy Anson has resurfaced as joint head of a government-funded scheme to study the development of content for broadband networks. Anson will
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BT'S BLAND IN TV RETREAT.
BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland has backtracked on earlier comments about turning the telecoms group into a broadcaster and programme producer. Speaking to the House of Commons media select committee, he
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BBC/CBS ARCHIVE DEAL.
BBC Worldwide has struck a major deal with CBS News to commercially exploit the US broadcaster's archive. The footage will be marketed alongside that of the BBC through the library sales
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BARB ADMITS DECLINE.
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) has claimed that television audiences have fallen by an average of 5 per cent but added it was still evaluating its new data. Research has
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C5 BUYS LIVE UEFA RIGHTS.
Channel 5 has bought exclusive live rights to show the football Uefa Cup fourth round tie between Leeds United and PSV Eindhoven on 21 February.
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JOHN BROMLEY DIES.
Former ITV Sport head John Bromley has died of cancer. He was 68. His last role at ITV was as head of sport at LWT. In his 25-year television career he
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BBC 1 LOTTERY TO STAY.
The National Lottery draws will continue to be screened on BBC 1 at least until June, after the corporation secured an extension to its broadcasting rights contract with Camelot. Both parties
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Bidders line up for east midlands radio.
The race to win the hotly contested east midlands analogue radio licence gathered pace this week as 15 bidders lodged applications to the Radio Authority.Proposals were submitted to the regulator by
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MTV to offer interactivity.
MTV is to become the first entertainment channel to launch 24-hour interactivity as it continues to fend off competition from rival Emap Performance TV, writes Simon Ellery.