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TV BODS GET HONOURS.
Carlton's diversity adviser Parminder Vir and Skillset chief executive Dinah Caine have been awarded OBEs in
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BBC REGIONAL MOVE.
BBC east head of regional and local programmes David Holdsworth has moved to the same position
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BBC 3 verdict expected before recess.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is expected to announce her long-awaited decision on the BBC's proposed new digital youth channel, BBC 3, next month, ending almost a year of tense politicking, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Sky One hires chief buyer.
Sky one has appointed a former Channel 4 film buyer to be its new head of acquisitions - one of the channel's key executive roles, writes Paul Revoir
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Industry slams spectrum tax.
Broadcasters have warned parliament they will have to cut back on original programmes if the government
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DAN BACK ON TV.
Channel 5 has picked up the rights to the first terrestrial broadcast of the new #15m Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future series, writes Penny Hughes
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BBC opposes US investment.
The BBC has added its voice to concern over the government's plans to allow US investment in ITV, claiming that the new rule should be iced until the Bush administration in the US grants the same concessions to UK broadcasters, writes David Rose
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BECTU HOLDS PAY RESULT.
Broadcast union Bectu has postponed the result of its BBC pay ballot in order to release
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PENK BACK AT CAPITAL.
DJ Steve Penk is returning to 95.8 Capital FM to front a new late night show
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Row brews over DTT bids.
A row has broken out between the BBC and ITV after the corporation threatened to withhold support for digital terrestrial television if ITV's bid to take over the former ITV Digital multiplexes succeeded, writes Paul Revoir
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Radio Authority may relax local news rule.
The Radio Authority is considering dropping rules that force local radio stations to produce and broadcast news from within their catchment areas in order to allow news operations to consolidate, writes Leigh Holmwood
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CRCA U-turns on changes.
The commercial radio companies are set for a head-on collision with their regulator, the Radio Authority, when they appear before the joint committee examining the communications bill on Monday (24 June), writes Lucy Rouse
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PRESS GANG REUNITED.
Press Gang, the Bafta-winning cult kids show that launched the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, could soon return to screens as a special one-off epilogue, writes Colin Robertson
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Cosgrove Hall up for grabs.
Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down
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Tiger Aspect chief hits out at youth 'obsession'.
Broadcasters are wasting some of the country's best creative talent with their 'over-obsession' with the under-35s, according to the head of one of the UK's biggest indies, writes Colin Robertson
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Planet plots new course.
Planet 24, the former indie that did for TV in the early 1990s what the Sex Pistols did for music in the 1970s, is set to be restructured following the loss of its crucial #11m Big Breakfast contract earlier this year, writes Colin Robertson
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ITV KIDS CHIEF GOES SOLO.
Former Granada director of children's Dan Maddicott has resurfaced with his own production company, Indie Kids, writes Steve Aston
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BBC drama investigates Hatfield train disaster.
The events surrounding the train crashes at Paddington and Hatfield which left 35 people dead and
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Airey takes on festival role
Two of the broadcasting industry's most high profile bodies have appointed new chairs, with Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey taking the helm at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and Granada managing director of content Simon Shaps taking over at the Royal Television Society (RTS), ...
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Cosgrove Hall up for grabs
Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down its investment and allow the company to regain its independent status, writes Jane Marlow