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Money channel woe
Personal finance service The Money Channel has suspended trading in its shares pending clarification of its financial position and has called in a team of accountants. The 130-strong outfit is understood
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World Cup row
The row over German media giant Kirch's plans to auction the rights to next year's World Cup stepped up a gear this week following news that media secretary Chris Smith has
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Invest TV switch
Invest TV, which recently turned its financial offering Simply Money into retail service Simply Shopping, has promoted chief operating officer John Hodges to managing director. He replaces founder Ed Hall who
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Atlantic 252 sale could fetch£50m
Long-wave radio station Atlantic 252 is on schedule to be sold by the middle of next month for up to£50m, writes Leigh Holmwood.According to a source close to the deal,
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Sky Digital to air the classics
Internet outfit onlineclassics.com is to launch a classical music TV channel featuring international concerts from around the world, including the Vienna State Opera and the week-long opera week in Verona in
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Discovery set to enhance output
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has unveiled a raft of enhanced programmes for Sky Digital viewers as part of the broadcaster's drive to target and retain viewers.Discovery's six-strong internet team has added
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Dispute at Carlton averted
Carlton has averted industrial disputes at its Central and HTV regions that threatened to disrupt key ITV programmes, writes Steve Aston.
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Docu-soap stars forfeit right to privacy
People who agree to participate in fly-on-the wall documentaries should not expect the right to privacy from the media, according to the latest Broadcasting Standards Commission research, writes Steve Aston.
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Ratings - ITV's firemen douse BBC's hopes of McFadden
BBC 1'S episode of Murder in Mind staring Steve McFadden failed to go down in a blaze of glory, writes Jon Rogers.
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3.5 million cable subs
Cable TV uptake rose by 9.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2000, bringing the total number of subscribers to 3.5 million, according to the latest set of Independent Television
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BBC rejigs in the north
BBC Leeds weekly programmes editor Ian Cundall has been appointed to the new post of BBC North deputy head of regional and local programmes.Cundall, who has been at the BBC for
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Warner rights to UK
UK independent distributor NBDtv has been hired to handle more than 200 hours of music programming from Warner Vision, including a number of LWT South Bank Show 60-minute specials and several
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New head for classical
Creative leader of the BBC's classical music television production department Paul Maniura is to take on a new role within the television arts commissioning structure. Maniura will now become head of
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Webby nominations
BBC News Online and BBC World Service websites have both been nominated in the US Webby Awards for excellence in news and radio web-sites respectively.The Webbys, which will take place on
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Forever buys stake
Radio group Forever Broadcasting has bought a 10 per cent stake in production company Somethin' Else for£1.75m. The deal, which values the indie at£16.1m, will help fund its expansion
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CNN poaches journos
CNN News Group chief news executive Eason Jordan has poached two journalists to bolster the company's European production centre in London. ABC journalist Sheila MacVicar has become senior international correspondent and
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Sky cricket advance
Sky Sports has launched Sky Scope, a system which 'uses the latest missile-tracking technology to measure the exact flight path of a cricket ball'.Sky Scope uses computer graphics and six specialised
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ITC carpets QVC
Shopping channel QVC has been carpeted by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) over comments made by one of its presenters. In a segment advertising Buddha statues, the presenter said that if
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ROSE D'OR SPECIAL: MONTREUX 27-30 APRIL - C4 and BBC square up for chat rivalry
Former channel 4 bedfellows Johnny Vaughan and Graham Norton could go head to head as chat show hosts on different channels, after signing exclusive two-year deals with the BBC and C4
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ROSE D'OR SPECIAL: MONTREUX 27-30 APRIL - Montreux news snips
- World's End Productions is developing another series with comedy stars Adam and Joe. Adam and Joe's American Animation Adventure will air as part of a second Channel 4 animation season