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    Carlton founder member leaves.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Carlton Broadcasting managing director Colin Stanbridge, one of the original team who bid for the Carlton ITV licence, has quit the company after more than 10 years' service, writes Steve Aston

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    ITV to silence regional voices.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Carlton and Granada are to risk further accusations that they are diluting their regional identities with

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    Hopes grow for U-turn over local radio ownership rules.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    The government is seeking to resolve its dispute with the commercial radio industry over the controversial local ownership 'three plus one rule' by early next month, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    FRESH PARTRIDGE ON BBC 2 MENU - A-HA!

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Steve Coogan's comic anti-hero Alan Partridge is finally set to return to the screen in his first new series for five years as part of BBC 2's #106m autumn season, launched this week, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Sky plans E4-style shows.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Sky One is taking steps to fend off rival E4 with plans to commission a number of reality comedy shows in an attempt to beat the Channel 4 entertainment channel at its own game, writes Paul Revoir

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    Pass quits Radio 2 for TV indie.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    BBC Radio 2 was dealt a blow this week after one of its senior producers announced his decision to quit the corporation after 20 years, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    Freeview still short of three channels.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Time is running out for Crown Castle to fill the three vacant channels on the new DTT platform it is operating with the BBC, after the two companies confirmed the service will launch from the end of October, writes Paul Revoir

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    Bullseye show will bare all.

    2002-08-22T16:18:52Z

    Indie Bullseye Television has been commissioned to make a naked Blind Date-style game-show in which contestants will be encouraged to embark on a one-night stand and then be filmed having sex, writes Paul Revoir

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    TV HOTSHOTS - 2002's sharpest shooters

    2002-08-22T16:18:00Z

    ng computer graphics with dramatic reconstruction.Ginger Television senior producer Ed Stobart says Turner is ‘the best

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    Tracy lands mega deal to stayt at ITV

    2002-08-22T10:15:04Z

    Telly bosses are working on a mega deal to hold on to sexbomb Tracy Shaw after she threatened to quit Corrie after ...

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    Subversive? My arse!

    2002-08-22T10:13:35Z

    Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was branded a subversive thug in secret MI5 files, a new TV documentary reveals....

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    Capital in a tizz over Tarrant

    2002-08-22T10:11:48Z

    Capital Radio shares are being dogged by fears that top presenter Chris Tarrant, 56, will quit the Breakfast Show s...

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    BBC faces obscenity row over 'shocking' new lesbian drama

    2002-08-22T10:10:30Z

    A drama featuring graphic lesbian sex scenes looks set to embroil the BBC in another furious row about standards. ...

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    Voyage to the end of the earth

    2002-08-22T10:07:50Z

    A new TV series recreates Captain Cook's epic journey of discovery to Australia. But could the 21st century crew ha...

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    MI5 call Ricky 'a thug'

    2002-08-22T10:06:10Z

    Security services kept files on Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson describing him as a 'political thug', a groundbre...

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    Go it alone TV threat to football

    2002-08-22T10:04:07Z

    The future of the Premiership is on a knife-edge, withy the current format, where the TV deal is collectively negot...

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    Whipping up a synthetic controversy

    2002-08-22T09:51:47Z

    What a pity that the intellectually supine executives who run British television feel that the only way they can se...

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    AOL and AT&T agree $9bn deal over cable interests

    2002-08-22T09:50:10Z

    AOL Time Warner and AT&T are to unwind a decade-long cable partnership. The $9 billion (£5.89 billion) deal will al...

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    AOL pushes the plot along as it takes control of the script

    2002-08-22T09:49:37Z

    AOL Time Warner is paying $3.6 billion to unravel a joint venture with America's biggest phone business that gives ...

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    Special Branch kept files on Royle Family star

    2002-08-22T09:49:07Z

    Ricky Tomlinson, star of the television comedy The Royle Family, was denounced as a 'subversive' and 'political thu...