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Soaps - The North-South divide
Coronation Street vs EastEnders has been a key ratings tussle in the UK's TV schedules for the past 15 years. As EastEnders celebrates its fifteenth birthday and Corrie turns 40, Meg Carter asks what it is that makes these stories run and run.
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Interactive Channels - Get ahead, get a niche
New channels are launching all the time. But these days, in addition to good quality content and marketing, interactivity is key to attracting consumers. And if you can also forge yourself a niche, you've got it made.
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Interview - The Jazzman
If it was listening to Jazz FM that once kept him sane, Richard Wheatly has repaid the station as its chief executive by bringing it back from the brink of financial disaster.
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Off The Record - Dirty dancing
The enoblement of Simon Shaps as Granada Media Productions' managing director already seems to have blown away the cobwebs at the company's normally sedate senior management meetings. In place of the
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Off The Record - Taking the gloves off
Out-going BBC big kahuna Will Wyatt was doubtless looking forward to his swansong speech to the Royal Television Society last week. Unfortunately for him, he had to follow a 'tribute' speech
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Off The Record - Messing about on a river
But forget Will Wyatt (and you will). The social event of the year was due to take place on a boat on the river Thames this Thursday (3 February), intent on
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Off The Record - Bodily discharge
Imagine the excitement at Off The Record when a free copy of BBC grand fromage David Docherty's eagerly awaited first novel, The Spirit Death, landed with a thump on its desk.
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Off The Record - Ideas above its station
Size does matter if Channel 4 International's presence at last week's Natpe programming bash in New Orleans was anything to go by. The chaps from Horseferry Road outdid themselves with a
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Off The Record - Award-winning
This week's picture features OTR's favourite newsreader Michael Buerk (left), who was snapped moments after putting pen to paper on his new one-year deal to stay at the BBC. If truth
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Off The Record - And Finally
Catherine Houston, MD of 124 Facilities, would love to guzzle tea while watching soft furnishings on TV.
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BBC increases lead over commercial radio
Zoe Ball breakfast show tops seven million as latest Rajar figures show boost for corporation
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GWR chief urges MPs to relax radio ownership rules
Bernard argues that current limits put 'future of commercial radio at risk'
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Mansfield and Nelmes rise in ITV reshuffle
Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime chief Dianne Nelmes named as successor
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Planet 24 chat show recommissioned by Channel 4
Planet 24 is about to go into production on a second 8 x 30-minute series of late-night chat show The Richard Blackwood Show for Channel 4's spring schedule, writes Ashley Davies.
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Planet 24 chat show recommissioned by C4
Planet 24 is about to go into production on a second 8 x 30-minute series of late-night chat show The Richard Blackwood Show for Channel 4's spring schedule, writes Ashley Davies.
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Salmon lines up BBC 1 primetime satire
Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year