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NewsCBeebies audio trial proves a turn-off with Radio 7 listeners
The BBC has all but given up on children’s radio after a trial CBeebies block on Radio 7 lost the slot 40% of its listeners in the six months it was running.
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NewsCowell tops US TV earners list
Simon Cowell has been ranked as prime-time American TV’s highest earner, receiving an estimated $75 million (£45 million) inside a year, according to business magazine Forbes.
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NewsMandelson attacks BBC impartiality
The BBC has denied allegations that its news coverage is influenced by Sky, the TV broadcast arm of The Sun newspaper owner News International.
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NewsOscar-winning producers form doc alliance
The Oscar-winning producers of documentaries Man On Wire and One Day In September have teamed up for an informal co-production deal.
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NewsC4 examines foreigners' role in UK history
Channel 4 has commissioned three indies to produce a 4 x 60-minute series of drama documentaries looking at the role that foreigners have played in key moments in British history.
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NewsIndia season tops C4 doc slate
An India season, life on the maternity ward, teen BNP members and Amy Winehouse’s dad are among the highlights of C4’s documentary slate over the coming months.
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NewsMonty Halls to escape to Outer Hebrides for BBC2
BBC2 has ordered a second series of Monty Halls’ Great Escape from Tigress Productions.
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NewsDoc explores when to take car keys away from elderly
BBC1 will look at the dilemma facing the families of many elderly drivers in a 1 x 60-minute documentary from Matchlight.
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NewsZeppotron makes Radio 4 show
Endemol UK has won its first ever radio commission - a 5 x 30-minute Radio 4 panel series called So Wrong It’s Right.
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NewsHigh Point picks up Londoners
Londoners, dubbed “the Polish EastEnders”, has been picked up for international distribution by High Point Television.
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NewsCamilla Campbell named head of C4 drama
Camilla Campbell, the commissioner behind Shameless, is to replace Liza Marshall as Channel 4 head of drama, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsiPlayer wins RTS Innovation award
The BBC iPlayer was last night described as being as important an invention as the steam engine after being handed the prestigious Judges award at the RTS Innovation Awards.
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NewsITV places CSA into voluntary liquidation
ITV has put its remaining interests in cinema advertising company, Carlton Screen Advertising (CSA), into creditors voluntary liquidation.
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NewsBradshaw urged to "strong arm" watchdog over Canvas
The House of Lords communications committee has urged culture secretary Ben Bradshaw to “strong arm” the Competition Commission into approving Project Canvas.
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NewsBragg returns to the BBC
Melvyn Bragg, the longstanding face of arts coverage at ITV, is to return to BBC television where he started his career nearly 50 years ago.
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NewsBBCW wins 2Entertain appeal
BBC Worldwide has triumphed over Woolworths’ liquidators in an appeal case over the value of DVD publishing business 2Entertain.
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NewsPeake to play "first modern lesbian" in BBC2 drama
Criminal Justice’s Maxine Peake is to play 19th century landowning lesbian Anne Lister, in a BBC2 dramatisation of her “painfully honest” diaries.
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NewsBurns victim to host Five News
Five News is to hand presenting duties to a man with extensive facial burns in a bid to generate debate around disfigurement.
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NewsiPlayer honoured by RTS
The BBC iPlayer has been compared to innovations including the steam engine, jet engine and Viagra by the RTS judges who honoured its creators at an awards ceremony last night.