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    Piers Morgan makes strong US debut

    2006-06-23T10:45:00Z

    Piers Morgan is on track to repeat the American success of Simon Cowell, as the new talent show he judges on debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC.

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    Hustle to be re-made by Fox as a US movie

    2006-06-23T09:40:00Z

    Kudos Film & Television drama Hustleis set to move to the big screen after US studio 20th Century Fox picked up the film rights to the BBC 1 series.

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    ITV and BBC agree World Cup spoils

    2006-06-23T08:30:00Z

    ITV and the BBC have agreed on how to divide the next round of World Cup games, which do not include England.

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    Flextech hands out two promotions

    2006-06-23T08:30:00Z

    Living TV boss, Claudia Rosencrantz has promoted senior commissioning editor Clare Hollywood to head of commissioning.

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    C4 in comedy reshuffle

    2006-06-23T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has restructured its comedy department, promoting Andrew Newman to oversee its output alongside his existing entertainment brief.

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    'Why we sold BBC Books to Random House'

    2006-06-23T08:00:00Z

    The BBC Worldwide executive responsible for the deal to sell BBC Books to international publisher Random House has said redundancies will be kept to a minimum.

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    PEER POLL: ITV's sports presenters

    2006-06-23T07:50:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Gabby Logan better than Steve Rider at presenting ITV's World Cup matches?

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    Analysis - Can C4 take them on?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Broadcast's report last week revealing Channel 4's plans to launch arival to Radio 4's Today sparked a debate about how well the programmeserves its audience. So could a competitor really succeed, asks LucyRouse.

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    Opinion - Comment - Nationwide reborn?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    With Nationwide set to return in the summer, John Mair, who worked onthe programme from 1981 to 1983, recalls the glory days and catches upwith anchor Michael Barratt.

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    Off the record - Where will former Television Corporation chiefexecutive re-appear?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    People keep asking the question - where will former TelevisionCorporation chief executive Peter Salmon re-appear. ...

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    Sky News introduces three new roles

    2006-06-22T17:05:00Z

    Sky News has made three promotions in the wake of the channel's cull of 17 jobs and return to a rolling news format.

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    Shaps reveals cuts and costs savings

    2006-06-22T16:15:00Z

    ITV director of television Simon Shaps yesterday spelled out the network's programming strategy and how the announcement of£100m in savings will impact on schedules and commissioning.

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    BBC Books sale puts jobs at risk

    2006-06-22T15:00:00Z

    Publisher Random House has acquired a majority stake in BBC Books, whose titles include Rick Stein's French Odysseyand David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth, in a move expected to put jobs at risk.

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    BBC1's New Street Law ends with 3.2m

    2006-06-22T12:29:00Z

    BBC1's legal drama series New Street Lawended its eight-part run last night, attracting only 3.2 million (15.3%).

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    World Cup Watch: Dutch and Argentinian goalless draw brings 9.5m to ITV1

    2006-06-22T12:15:00Z

    Despite the lack of goals the World Cup match between the Netherlands and Argentina brought ITV1 a peak audience of 9.5 million (44%) at 8.40pm.

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    Read Andy Duncan's speech in full

    2006-06-22T10:29:00Z

    Maximising public value in the 'now' media worldThe New Statesman media lecture, 21 June 2006

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    Clarification

    2006-06-22T08:30:00Z

    Last week's Broadcaststated that Strongroom Post and the Air Studios were rebranding as Breathe Post Production. Breathe would like to clarify that it consists of only the audio and video post facilities within the Strongroom and Air buildings. The music side of the business at ...

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    Gearhouse new role

    2006-06-22T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast kit hire and sales company Gearhouse Broadcast has become a value added reseller for testing and monitoring provider Tektronix, having been selected to sell and support Tektronix's baseband video test and monitoring products to clients within the M25. Tektronix product lines provided include WFM7100 multiformat waveform monitors and the ...

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    Vividas in HD 'first'

    2006-06-22T08:30:00Z

    Video streaming technology specialist Vividas has added HD output to its Vivcast encoding suite, which it claims allows live and pre-recorded HD video content to be streamed over the internet for the first time.

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    Board role for Doshi

    2006-06-22T08:30:00Z

    VTR has appointed Anshul Doshi to the board as non-executive director. Doshi is also vice-president, strategy and business development, of the company's majority shareholder, Prime Focus. Before joining Prime Focus, he worked in the corporate finance division of KPMG