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RATINGS - BBC 1 leaves the field open to ITV's The Swap.
BBC 1 slumped to its lowest Sunday peaktime audience on record earlier this week, writes Jon Rogers.
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Bennett to rejig commissioning.
BBC director general Greg Dyke has conceded the commissioning system in the general factual department is failing and has charged new director of television Jana Bennett with reviewing it as soon as she joins in April, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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News 24 back under govt microscope.
MEDIA SECRETARY Tessa Jowell is set to re-ignite the government's much-delayed review into the BBC's rolling news channel, BBC News 24, writes David Wood.
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August launch for Network Z.
BBC radio is expected to launch its spoken-word digital radio channel, Network Z, at the end of August, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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MORNING JAZZ SHOW.
Jazz FM 100.4 is launching a new breakfast show, Jazz FM's Morning Therapy. The show will be introduced from Manchester by former CBBC presenter Andy Crane, who replaces Mike Read and
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AIB HOSTS CONFERENCE.
The Association for Inter-national Broadcasting (AIB) is holding a conference examining the key issues facing international TV and radio broadcasters. Due to take place on 30 April at the Crowne Plaza
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RA RAPS TALKSPORT.
Two complaints against national radio station TalkSport relating to taste and decency were upheld by the Radio Authority in its latest programming and advertising review. For the three months ending 2001,
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ITC SLAMS TELEVISION X.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has slammed adult channel Television X over a mistake that resulted in NTL customers in Surrey being given access to unencrypted pornographic programming. In its latest
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BAFTA TO GO GLOBAL.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2002 is to be distributed worldwide by Endemol UK after previously only being broadcast in the UK. The awards have already been bought by a
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CLEAR GUNS FOR OXFORD.
US radio operator Clear Channel has lodged a bid for the Oxford analogue licence as part of a consortium with Town & Country - the outfit set up by former Wireless
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Digital uptake sees slowdown.
The number of consumers wanting pay-TV services appeared to have almost peaked after BSkyB and ITV Digital this week revealed around a 50 per cent slump in new subscribers during the
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BBC LAUNCHES TALENT SEARCH.
The BBC is launching its third Talent initiative next month with an extra six categories, writes Barbara Marshall.
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
After its failure to buy United Business Media's stake in Channel 5, Bertelsmann is now eyeing ITV. The last time Bertelsmann chief executive Thomas Middelhoff met with Granada chairman Charles Allen and his counterpart at Carlton, Michael Green, was in J
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Zenith heads to Sesame St for kids chief.
Zenith Entertainment has hired Sesame Workshop vice-president, European operations Julian Scott as its new head of children's drama and animation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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C4 GOES BACK FOR MORE NO GOING BACK.
Ricochet Films has been commissioned to produce a second series of Channel 4 show No Going Back. The 6 x 50-minute series, which looks at families who have 'downshifted', will be
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MADMAC TO MAKE GARDENING TIPS SHOW.
UK Style channel editor Nick Thorogood has commissioned a new horticultural tricks of the trade show from indie Madmac Productions. The 15 x 23-minute series Garden ER features a team of
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ITV COMMISSIONS GOODBYE MR CHIPS REMAKE.
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned SMG TV Productions to create a two-hour remake of classic school film Goodbye Mr Chips. The new version, set to star Men Behaving
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CLOSURE SET FOR SECOND RUN ON BBC CHOICE.
BBC Choice entertainment series Closure, in which people get the chance to say sorry for things they have done in the past, has been recommissioned for a second series by channel
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BANNISTER TO FRONT FIVE LIVE NEWS SHOW.
Former BBC Radio 1 controller Matthew Bannister is to present a new weekend two-hour news programme on BBC Radio 5 Live along with presenter Caroline Feraday. The Weekend News, ordered by
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CBBC ORDERS NET DRAMA AND BOGEYMAN.
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a new comedy drama about a teenager hoping to make a fortune from the internet. Rude Boy will air later this year. Meanwhile, Raymond Briggs'