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Michael Grade speech Oxford Media Convention 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen, we meet at an extremely interesting time. The latest in a very long line of inquiries into the BBC is reaching a critical moment.
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NewsCommunity Channel appeal hits£1m
Charity TV service The Community Channel said today it had has raised over£1m for the tsunami disaster appeal through its interactive donation service.
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NewsGrade: BBC should sack under-par controllers
BBC chairman Michael Grade has warned TV and radio channel controllers they will be fired if they don't meet new quality criteria.
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NewsPEER POLL: Dick and Dom
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Are MPs right to question the PSB value of Dick and Dom?
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The God-given right
Does the unprecedented campaign against the BBC for showing Jerry Springer: The Operaportend a real threat to free speech on TV and, if so, what is the best way for broadcasters to respond?
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NewsDead Man Weds falls to 2.3m
ITV1's struggling sitcom Dead Man Wedslost a further 400,000 viewers last night to average just 2.3 million (12%) at 10pm.
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Five signs Sunset for another three years
Indie Sunset + Vine is to make 1,500 hours of programming for Five after the broadcaster renewed its contract with the company for sports content until 2007.
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NewsWoolfe named as Flextech director of TV
Flextech has promoted Living TV and Bravo director of programmes Richard Woolfe to the new role of director of television.
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Featherstone to lead Flame global push
Flame Television has promoted its head of production, Claire Featherstone, to managing director as it attempts a major push into the international market.
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NewsScream! Get it off the schedule
Poor-performing shows such as Scream! If You Want to Get Off- which has been pulled from this Saturday's ITV1 line-up - can have a knock-on effect across that channel's schedule.
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On-demand launches
Telewest Broadband and NTL have launched the first phase of their TV on-demand services, which they plan to roll out region by region this year. Telewest's movies-on-demand service, provided by FilmFlex, is now available to its customers in Bristol who will be offered film titles through their existing set-top box. ...
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Twofourtv's price
Producer twofourtv has appointed Nick Price as head of branded content. Price, formerly head of programme development and co-production at Extreme Entertainment, will be charged with growing the company's advertiser-funded programming which already includes projects such as Audi at Le Mans (Channel 4), The British Heart Foundation's Kitchen Detective (Discovery) ...
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BBC moments vote
Broadcastis asking readers to vote for their favourite BBC moment from the 1930s to the present day for publication in a special supplement entitled My BBC. The readers vote will be featured alongside iconic BBC moments and programmes chosen by leading industry figures. Produced in collaboration ...
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Princess gains bumper C4 order
Channel 4 has commissioned Princess Productions to make 75 hours of a new gardening show as part of a strategy to pull in middle-aged adults to the daytime schedule.
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London figurehead ousted in Disney shake-up
Disney International has signalled a shift in power back to Los Angeles after its London-based president David Hulbert was ousted as part of a management shake-up.
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Initial builds team
Endemol-owned indie Initial has strengthened its senior management team with three new appointments to handle its expanding production slate.
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RDFR in first-look deal with ZKK
RDF Rights (RDFR) has signed a first-look all-rights deal with factual indie ZKK that will see the Wife Swapproducer provide development funding for new programming and staff.
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Trisha to front outrageous TV clips on Five
Five is to extend its Greatest TV Momentsstrand and has secured new daytime signing Trisha Goddard to present the first of the new batch.
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Sellers biopic win
Company Pictures' biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellerswon two awards at the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday (16 January). The piece, which was co-produced by BBC Films and American pay-TV channel HBO, took the award for best miniseries or motion picture ...
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Van Outen in drama
Former Big Breakfastpresenter and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is. Van Outen will play district nurse and single mum Kim Blakeney, who moves to rural Yorkshire to start a ...