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FREE TO AIR - PSB debate badly needed.
With NTL's debt mountain soaring to Himalayan levels, no end of the ad famine in sight and zero prospect of the government meeting its self-imposed targets for digital switchover, you'd think
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TRADE TALK - Bean machine.
Tiger Aspect's new head of animation, Claudia Lloyd, wants nothing less than her projects Bean and Bosom Pals to be up there with the toon greats.
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IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps, managing director, Granada Content.
On how rows over TV's dramatic treatment of Bloody Sunday missed an important point.
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ON THE BOX - Giving TV a bad rep.
Chrysalis Entertainment executive producer Tony Moss wished Club Reps would stop shagging, but was charmed by Ant and Dec.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Daylight robbery.
Liam Hamilton, the new controller of ITV daytime, has his work cut out if he is to undo the programming blunders and rows which have led to the network's slide in the daytime ratings over the past couple of years.
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BBC STRUCTURE - Dyke's tonic for the troops.
As Greg Dyke embarks on his third year in charge at the BBC, Leigh Holmwood asks whether despite an increase in talk-to-the-troops touchy-feelyness unthinkable under predecessor John Birt, his aim to create 'One BBC' has been a success.
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INTERVIEW - Mixing it at Virgin.
It was a case of plus ca change at Virgin Radio last week as the station grabbed the headlines yet again, but for all the wrong reasons.On Friday DJ Steve Penk
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CITY WATCH - Finding the right Pace for growth.
The share price of the set-top box maker may have fallen after its latest results, but its prospects for the future look sound. The company is innovating with cheap plug-in decoders and PVR technology. James Curtis reports.
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TX - Nightmare scenario.
Surprisingly, BBC 2's Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon, a starkly realistic docu-drama examining the likely consequences of a major bio-terrorism attack in the US, was made before 11 September 2001.'It seemed ironic
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RATINGS: 2001 ROUND-UP - Is digital television just a phantom menace?
Another week without Barb's gold standard data - so another opportunity to cast a retrospective glance at 2001, concentrating this time on the performance of multichannel television with a top 60
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OFF THE RECORD - Beeb exec pigs out in Cornwall.
Ever wondered what execs get up to once they leave the Beeb? Well, although it doesn't keep us awake at night, we do. So we thought we'd check up on former
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OFF THE RECORD - Perfect mismatch.
How's this for the perfect mismatch - Graham Norton and Kelvin MacKenzie. Unfortunately for the world at large, these two ego worlds are about to collide. At the beginning of February
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OFF THE RECORD - In the Penk. Not Time for commiserations.
The DJ Off the Record loves to hate, Steve 'Penky' Penk, has unfortunately been relieved of his duties on the Virgin Radio breakfast show, meaning we can't take the piss out
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OFF THE RECORD - The dregs of fame.
A German radio station seems to have been left with the dregs, so to speak, when it comes to self-promotion. According to the Daily Star, DJs from the Elins Live radio
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Dyke Towers - The occasional diary of a BBC Director General.
MONDAYYippee-kay-ay. Can you Adam and Eve it?! Bruce Willis is gonna be working for me. Bloody hell. I know I told Thommo down at BBC films to ditch any arty bollocks
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AND FINALLY ...
Peter Good, Channel 4 head of enhanced TV, on what not to say in interviews for jobs in banks.
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Granada kids chief asks public for ideas
Kids director of programmes Steven Andrew advertises for 'fresh and distinctive' pre-school ideas in national press
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BBC ups radio share
Corporation extends lead over commercial sector with Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio Five Live all returning record figures
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Report says ITV1 will bounce back
Channel set to win back daytime ratings as BBC 1 is warned against becoming 'less varied and predictable'
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Digital target may be too low
NCC says governments target of 95 per cent coverage could leave 1 million homes unable to receive a signal after switch off