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News100 jobs axed as BBCi tightens belt
The bursting of the dotcom bubble has finally caught up with the BBC, which is axing around 100 jobs in its new media department BBCi and refocusing on interactive television, write Leigh Holmwood and Jane Marlow
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Westcountry signs up for hospital reality
Carlton Westcountry controller of features and programme development Caroline Righton has commissioned a further series of fly-on-the-wall hospital documentary Emergencyfrom Seventwenty Productions. The next 8 x 30-minute series will be again set in the casualty department of a Plymouth hospital. David Atkins will produce with ...
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NewsBBC hits Sky with satellite move
The BBC has announced a shock move to broadcast its channels via a new satellite - saving£85 million in encryption charges to Sky over the next five years, writes Conor Dignam
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Broadcasters and publishers head losers' board
A choppy day for the broader market ended with the modest gains for the FTSE 100 but the media sector was prominent...
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The wired network comes home to roost
Local connections take on a new meaning as domestic entertainment uses the advent of broadband as a springboard int...
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Broadcasters are spoiling for a fight
The war in Iraq will mark an evolutionary shift in newsgathering ...
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Cliffhanger for ITV duo as merger is referred
Carlton and Granada shares tumbled to fresh lows as their planned merger was referred to the Competition Commissio...
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Complaints rocket as TV turns up the violence
Television has sunk to new depths with record complaints abou violence and swearing, it was revealed yesterday. ...
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NTL imports new boardroom talent
Cable company NTL is strengthening its management team with the appointment of a new chairman and chief operating o...
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Inquiry to decide on ITV merger
The future of the UK television industry was placed in the hands of the competition commission yesterday. ...
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Television viewers want more news
Television viewers want more news despite attempts by broadcasters to push bulletins out of prime-time slots, accor...
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Royal correspondent Jennie Bond gives up BBC job
Jennie Bond, the doyenne of BBC royal correspondents, is hanging up her microphone to spend more time with a less ...
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Real Story was BBC's humiliation
Yet more embarrasment for the BBC in its attempts to modernise its tired political coverage. After the failure to f...
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Murder on the Leyton Orient Express
ITV is adding 'Hello! magazine glamour' to Agatha Christie in a move which may have perplexed Hercule Poirot. ...
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ITV pair shrug off merger doubts
Broadcasters Carlton and Granada yesterday moved to reassure investors about their proposed merger after Trade Secr...
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Oscar stars nervy but the show will go on
Organisers of this year's Oscars are growing increasingly worried that Hollywood's most glitzy awards ceremony will...