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    EC to investigate Premier League rights sales

    2001-10-29T16:47:00Z

    European Commission demands to see rights contracts with broadcasters amid concerns league is freezing out smaller media companies

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    ITC urges industry to see beyond disabilities

    2001-10-29T14:49:00Z

    UK regulator calls for producers and broadcasters to involve more people with disabilities both on and off-screen

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    Heartbeat enjoys healthy return

    2001-10-29T14:26:00Z

    ITV1's Sunday evening success continues as sixties police drama series returns with 11m viewers seeing-off BBC1's Monarch of the Glen

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    Murdoch and Sorrell to launch joint venture agency

    2001-10-29T11:01:00Z

    New company will combine skills of programme makers with needs of big-brand advertisers

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    EchoStar wins DirecTV

    2001-10-29T09:32:00Z

    Ergen beats Murdoch to control of US's largest satellite broadcaster

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    HIT to buy Pingu

    2001-10-29T08:25:00Z

    Bob the Builder and Barney owner to acquire new children's character as year-end profits rise by 53%

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    Peak Practice swamps Victoria Wood

    2001-10-26T12:59:00Z

    ITV's spiced-up drama pulls-in the viewers on its return

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    Del Boy to appear on Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:06:00Z

    David Jason character could get to sit in the quiz hot-seat as BBC plans collaboration over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    Del Boy to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:02:00Z

    David Jason character to sit in the hot-seat as BBC and ITV collaborate over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    ITC appoints deputy chair

    2001-10-26T11:10:00Z

    Baroness Janet Whitaker to take up role in November

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    BBC Radio 2 more popular than ever

    2001-10-26T10:41:00Z

    Station's success story continues as an extra two million listeners are added bringing audience total to over 12m

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    ITV Digital adds subscribers but churn remains high

    2001-10-26T10:28:00Z

    ITV Digital subscriber figures come in at a higher than expected 82,000 but high churn rate for the service means outlook is still grim

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    Willis quits Granada through boredom

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    John Willis, one of Granada's most senior programme executives, has quit the company after becoming bored of his job.The former United Productions chief executive, who was 'acquired' by Granada when it

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    A PRIMETIME SLOT AT LAST

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has confirmed the second series of US drama The West Wing will move out of its graveyard slot when it hits the main channel next year, writes Penny Hughes.

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    'Outdated' Miss World returns on ITV

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    ITV has bought the rights to Miss World 2001, 13 years after it stopped screening the contest amid complaints that it was too sexist, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    BBC in talks about set-top box venture

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is holding tentative talks with technology companies which could see it launch its own digital set-top box as early as next summer, writes Simon Ellery.

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    BBC factual to fall short

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's beleaguered general factual department is 'tens of millions of pounds' under-commissioned after a breakdown in the commissioning system, according to insiders.Sources have told Broadcast there has been a huge

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    BBC sets digital radio date

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    BBC radio will launch all of its new digital radio services by autumn next year, with its first, Network Y, to launch in January, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    BREAKFAST PILOTS ON

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    RDF, BSkyB and Princess, Talkback and Planet 24 will all make pilots for Channel 4's Big Breakfast replacement, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    C4 stake plan slammed by indie Clark

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    One of the authors of a major review into Channel 4's licence three years ago has blasted the broadcaster's proposal to take stakes in indies, claiming the move would make independent production 'a business not worth being in', writes Penny Hughes.