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    'Soap hour' forces C5 news shift

    2001-05-18T10:48:00Z

    New soap slot forces C5's flagship evening news programme to find a new home in the schedules

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    Bambi in cyberspace

    2001-05-18T10:48:00Z

    Former University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne joins forces with Henghes to launch Historyworld

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    BBC digital radio budget mired in confusion

    2001-05-18T10:48:00Z

    The corporation still mulling over exact costs of new radio services

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    SRH reports 5% profit drop

    2001-05-18T09:27:00Z

    Group's first-half results ad to sector's short term woes

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    ITV gambles on Survivor online PPV

    2001-05-18T09:21:00Z

    Commercial broadcaster to test online PPV waters with drop dialing internet feed of exclusive footage from Snake Island

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    BBC revives dinosaurs hits

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is raiding the graves of its Bafta-winning dinosaurs in a bid to turn the Jurassic giants into a new breed of BBC stars, write Georgina Lipscomb and Barbara Marshall.The

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    Interactive TV polls are a waste of time

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Britain's leading pollster has slammed broadcasters for their use of online and interactive TV (iTV) polls in the run up to the election, branding the services 'crap'.Mori Polls chairman Professor Bob

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    ROCK STAR GOES TO USA

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    US broadcaster The WB Network has finally greenlit British drama The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star to air this autumn, writes Katy Elliott. Channel 4 and Company Pictures

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    Bergg gets top ITV2 job

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Former ITV scheduler and Sky One general manager David Bergg has rejoined the ITV Network Centre as director of programmes for ITV2, writes Lucy Rouse.Bergg left Sky One under a cloud

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    BBC signs Box first-look deal

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Box TV Productions, the independent set up by former Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal, has signed its first deal with the BBC for a slate of returnable drama series,

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    'Soap hour' forces news shift at C5

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 plans to create a 'soap hour' in its early evening schedule in a move that will once again force its main news programme to find an alternative home, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    C5 TAKES THE ECO-CHALLENGE

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 has bought Emmy-award winning reality sports show Eco-Challenge from Columbia Tristar International Television, writes Leigh Holmwood.The 6 x 60-minute series, due to air from next month, is made by

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    NTL and BBC form British Sport

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    British Sports broadcasting is set to face its biggest shake-up yet this summer following confirmation that the BBC plans to launch its new sport channel, British Sport, within a month of

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    Henghes to head interactive Historyworld

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Diverse former head of interactive Ian Henghes has left the company to become chief executive of an interactive joint-venture between Diverse and former University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne called Historyworld, writes

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    BBC digital radio budget is mired in confusion

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The BBC appeared in a muddle over the exact finances for its five new proposed digital radio services this week, after admitting an extra£2m was added to its submission to

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    Watchdog brand to be reinvented

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    BBC 1 is poised to axe high-profile brand Watchdog as part of an overhaul of the channel's consumer affairs output, writes Georgina Lipscomb.According to BBC creative director, consumer Mark Killick who

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    Elstein slams public service TV

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Former Channel 5 chief executive David Elstein has hit out at the public service model for broadcasting, claiming the BBC and Channel 4's funding does not add to the diversity of

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    Video Networks sets up learning output

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Video On Demand (VOD) service provider Video Networks is to launch an on-demand education service this summer, initially available free of charge, to entertainment platform HomeChoice, subscribers, writes David Wood.LearningChoice will

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    Just TV goes into daytime

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Just Productions is moving into lifestyle programming and has appointed Bazal executive producer Debbie Pollitt to spearhead the drive, writes Penny Hughes.A former head of Granada Breeze, Pollitt, who joined the

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    Big Brother 2 web firm to axe staff

    2001-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Victoria Real, the new media company behind the original Big Brother and the forthcoming Big Brother 2 websites, is to axe up to 20 members of its 126-strong staff.The cuts will