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    Speech: Andy Duncan (9 March, 09)

    2009-03-09T15:00:05Z

    Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan's keynote speech at the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference.

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    MasterChef moves to BBC1

    2009-03-09T13:22:48Z

    BBC2's hit cookery competition MasterChef is the latest show on the channel to make the move to BBC1.

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    BBC teams with BFI to open archives

    2009-03-09T13:22:13Z

    The BBC is to team with the British Film Institute (BFI) to boost public access to their respective radio, film and TV archives.

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    C4 chief exec to take 35% pay cut

    2009-03-09T13:18:25Z

    Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan and director of TV and content Kevin Lygo will both take home less than£600,000 this year after agreeing pay cuts.

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    Bennett: BBC should not give C4 money

    2009-03-09T12:46:57Z

    Director of BBC Vision Jana Bennett has said the BBC should do everything it can to help Channel 4 - except give it money.

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    Darroch: Gap between free and pay-TV growing

    2009-03-09T12:43:26Z

    BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch has warned free-to-air broadcasters that the gap between what viewers can get for free compared to what they can get with pay TV “will keep growing fast”.

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    BSkyB: C4 should re-enter pay-TV market

    2009-03-09T12:09:52Z

    BSkyB has called on Channel 4 to re-enter the pay-TV market as part of a raft of measures that would provide an alternative to striking a PSB joint venture or merger.

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    BSkyB's Digital Britain response

    2009-03-09T12:05:01Z

    BSkyB's open letter responding to the Digital Britain report (March 2009).

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    ITV execs rally to save Jim Allen

    2009-03-09T11:48:48Z

    ITV Studios top 35 executives have written to executive chairman Michael Grade and chief operating officer John Cresswell asking them to step in and save the broadcaster's director of factual and entertainment production, Jim Allen.

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    Ofcom raps BBC for misleading interviewee

    2009-03-09T11:34:35Z

    Ofcom has censured the production team behind the BBC3 documentary Amy: My Body For Bucks for failing to tell a contributor that the programme focused on the sex industry.

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    Ofcom clears X Factor voting

    2009-03-09T11:10:38Z

    Ofcom has ruled that the last series of the X Factor did not breach any code of conduct after nearly 1,000 complaints sparked an investigation to the ITV1 talent show.

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    Paramount Pictures gets animated

    2009-03-09T10:26:34Z

    The UK division of movie studio Paramount Pictures has launched an animated series designed to promote new theatrical and home entertainment releases.

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    ABC pulls BBC3 sitcom

    2009-03-09T10:15:34Z

    BBC3 comedy Pulling has become the latest British sitcom to be remade for the US market after ABC ordered an adapted pilot.

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    Product placement verdict looms for ITV

    2009-03-09T10:07:14Z

    ITV should learn this week whether product placement will offer some respite from the recession.

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    Richard and Judy consider split

    2009-03-09T10:01:33Z

    Richard Madeley has admitted that his 20-year on-screen partnership with wife Judy Finnigan may be coming to a close.

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    Comedians to open teen diaries on Radio 4

    2009-03-09T09:41:56Z

    The intimate details of six comedian's teenage years are to be revealed in a new series produced by TalkbackThames for BBC Radio 4.

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    Fading Jade Goody delays interview with Piers Morgan

    2009-03-06T13:09:07Z

    Jade Goody's indepth interview with Piers Morgan for ITV1 has been put on ice due to her deteriorating health.

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    ITV1 cooks up talent show

    2009-03-06T12:43:21Z

    ITV1 is launching cooking contest show that will pit county against county in a bid to find the nation's best amateur chefs.

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    ITV to cut a third of top staff

    2009-03-06T12:07:45Z

    ITV will cut 30% of its highest ranking staff as part of its cost-saving measures, Broadcastnow can reveal.

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    Diverse makes Roberts head of factual

    2009-03-06T11:33:03Z

    Diverse London has promoted The Real Slumdog Millionaires exec producer Mark Roberts to head of factual.