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    Five commissions El Greco documentary

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Michael Attwell, former senior programme controller at Five, is making a 60-minute film on the forthcoming El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery for his old employer. Hanging El Grecowill follow curators and staff at the National Gallery as they choose and negotiate the loan ...

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    Five Live loses Payne to Sky Sports

    2003-05-14T15:39:02Z

    BBC Radio Five Live sports anchor Ian Payne has defected to Sky Sports to accompany Andy Gray and Richard Keys as a major face of the channel's football coverage from the start of next season, writes Sam Matthews

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    Cathy Come Home writer dies

    2003-05-14T14:31:34Z

    Jeremy Sandford, the writer of the ground-breaking BBC television play Cathy Come Home, has died aged 69.

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    6.7 million now reach for the sky

    2003-05-14T10:27:06Z

    Satellite broadcaster BSkyB signed another 150,000 households in January, February and March, taking the total to 6...

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    Digital surge helps Sky hammer rivals

    2003-05-14T10:13:09Z

    Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is still hammering its cable rivals, winning a further 150,000 subscribers in the past ...

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    Sky's stark warning to struggling soccer clubs

    2003-05-14T10:10:31Z

    Broadcaster may put TV riches into Champions League instead. ...

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    BSkyB scans Freeview option

    2003-05-14T10:09:12Z

    BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball confirmed yesterday that the pay-TV group was considering starting a mass market e...

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    Murdoch rejects C5

    2003-05-14T10:07:25Z

    Media chief denies doing a deal with Labour. ...

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    Sky TV threat poses money worry for FA

    2003-05-14T10:06:03Z

    The Football Association is facing the prospect of further financial difficultie after Tony Ball, the chief executi...

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    More Emap brands on Freeview

    2003-05-14T10:00:05Z

    Emap is launching three more of its brands as national digital radio stations on the Freeview DTT service after securing encouraging results for its existing digital only stations in the latest Rajars.

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    Bids flood in for West Midlands licence

    2003-05-14T09:51:06Z

    The Radio Authority has confirmed it has received 11 bids for the West Midlands FM licence - one of the last regional independent radio licences, writes Rosemary Gallagher

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    Barbara Taylor Bradford accuses TV of plagiarism

    2003-05-14T09:33:41Z

    The best selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford accused a television network of stealing from her most famous wor...

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    Murdoch rules out bid for C5

    2003-05-14T09:30:30Z

    Rupert Murdoch has dismissed suggestions he is lining up a takeover of Channel Five and said he would oppose any at...

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    Abacus sees no light on the horizon for its industry

    2003-05-14T09:27:39Z

    Abacus said it saw no upturn in the electronic components industry this year as it unveiled a 12.5 per cent fall in...

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    Murdoch has no plans for spending spree

    2003-05-14T09:24:15Z

    Rupert Murdoch yesterday ruled out a spending spree on US television and newspaper assets despite the expected rela...

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    3,000 BBC journalists to boycott 'Big Con'

    2003-05-13T16:51:04Z

    Three thousand BBC journalists are set to boycott the corporation's biggest ever internal corporate event this Thursday in protest at the sacking of two colleagues, writes Luke Satchell

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    BBC launches new commercial business

    2003-05-13T13:56:09Z

    The BBC is to further expand its commercial remit with the launch of a new company to exploit technical innovations developed by its in-house research and development teams, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    So glad I finally beat Eu

    2003-05-13T10:16:06Z

    Boxing legend Nigel Benn was punching the air with delight last night after finally beating his old ring rival Chri...

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    Winners are...Ant and Dec

    2003-05-13T10:13:51Z

    The gruelling fortnight in the jungle is over and two real stars have emerged from the show - presenters Ant and De...

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    Ab Fabbey Road

    2003-05-13T10:11:31Z

    Eddy and Patsy's Beatle crossing. ...