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GMTV hires two new correspondents
GMTV has appointed London News Network reporter Richard Gaisford and BBC Scotland reporter Carlo Romano to join its on-screen team, writes Tara Conlan. The two correspondents will join GMTV from mid-February,
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BBC stretches lead over commercial radio
Zoe Ball's Radio 1 breakfast show tops seven million as latest Rajar audience figures show rise for the corporation
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Soul Music returns to Carlton's central region
Carlton Productions is recording a second series of Soul Music featuring leading bands and solo performers. The 6 x 30-minute regional run will be recorded in March for transmission at the
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Wyatt puts wind in Discovery sails
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has commissioned indie Wyatt & Wyatt to make a 7 x 30-minute series on the evolution and technology of sailing, writes John Plunkett. Wind Driven will seek
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Radio 1 Leeds sets summer date for love parade
BBC Radio 1 has announced plans for a Leeds-based annual summer street music festival. Love Parade UK will be based on the Berlin Love Parade festival, which has been taking place
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Carter to oversee wireless strategy at CNN Interactive
Former CNN.com senior editor lands director post
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Capital lures Francis from Invicta
Capital Radio 95.8 has poached DJ Neil Francis from its sister station, Invicta FM, to front a new evening show between 22.00 and midnight. Francis, who hosted Invicta's breakfast show, will
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Timothy returns for BBC daytime drama
BBC Production's drama serials department has lined up Christopher Timothy (All Creatures Great and Small) and Jacqueline Leonard (EastEnders) to head the cast of new BBC daytime drama Doctors. Known by
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Carlton Productions bags Commuter Wars commission
Carlton Productions has won a 60-minute commission from ITV for a documentary on the daily life of commuters travelling into London, writes Paul Donovan. Commuter Wars is being produced by Carlton's
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BBC 1 orders primetime satire
Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year
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Ball and Hall in headline bout over News 24
BBC News chief squares up to Sky counterpart over future of 24-hour rolling news service
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Mansfield and Nelmes step up in ITV reshuffle
Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime boss Dianne Nelmes is successor
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Sky Box Office and FilmFour flick digital switch
Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April
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This week's quotes
'I was never in television. I was a political lobbyist for Channel 4. If I was going to miss it I wouldn't have left.'Michael Grade, formerly of Channel 4, now non-executive chairman of Octopus Television
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Government to reform broadcast and telecom laws
Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution
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Mansfield, Nelmes step up ITV ladders
Granada Television has picked ITV Network Centre controller of documentaries, features and arts Grant Mansfield to be its new director of programmes in a move that sees ITV daytime chief Dianne
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Worldwide sets up US joint-venture
BBC Worldwide has struck a $100 million (£61.7 million) deal with a US merchant bank, as media secretary Chris Smith prepares to deliver his verdict on the future funding of the BBC, writes Steve Clarke.
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C4 considers NTL for E4 partnership
Cable giant NTL is understood to have talked to Channel 4 about becoming an equity partner in the broadcaster's planned general entertainment channel, E4, writes John Plunkett.