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ITC's report soft on ITV.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) delivered its final annual performance review of commercial terrestrial channels this week and immediately faced accusations that it had gone soft.Despite a relatively turbulent year, in
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LAST EVER PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: REGIONAL ITV AT A GLANCE.
Anglia - First-run regional material was higher than ever before at 10 hours 15 minutes a week. Supplied 300 hours of programming to the network, including Trisha - its second highest
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ITV starts TV drive.
ITV will next week start a TV campaign to raise awareness of digital TV, writes Simon Ellery.
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Digital radio must lower costs.
Media Secretary Chris Smith this week conceded that digital radio has yet to capture the imagination of customers, and called for more to be done to bring down the cost of receivers, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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RATINGS - Raw Spice peps up Wednesday night on ITV.
ITV's much-vaunted documentary on the gestation of the Spice Girls was the programme viewers were hollering for last week, writes Jon Rogers.
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KEY HIRE FOR BBC WALES.
BBC Wales controller Menna Richards has appointed acting head of resources Toby Grosvenor as head of operations for BBC Wales. Grosvenor, a member of the BBC Wales management board, takes up
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WEST 175 PURCHASE.
Media outfit West 175, which produces Master Chef in conjunction with joint-venture outfit Union 175, has bought the rights to European cookery event the World Cook Book Fair from Madrid-based Strategic
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APTN IN TRIBE TIE-UP.
APTN has struck a deal with Australian youth content developer Tribe to jointly develop 'youth-centric television news material'. Subjects will include music, clubbing, fashion, film and lifestyle aimed primarily at 20
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BBC IN PROPERTY DEAL.
BBC governors have appointed Insight, the Land Securities Trillium bid, as its preferred property bidder. Negotiations are still taking place to form the partnership by this summer. The BBC announced its
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HEAD OF SPEECH FOR R3.
BBC Radio 3 has appointed arts unit editor Abigail Appleton to the post of head of speech programming. Appleton, 35, who currently edits flagship programme Night Waves, will be responsible for
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DISNEY FREE-TO-AIR DEAL.
Walt Disney Television International is in talks with UK broadcasters over a deal to sell a wholesale package of its key titles for the first time to free-to-air UK broadcasters. Called
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TELEWEST UP 11 PER CENT.
Cable outfit Telewest has reported better than expected full-year results with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation up 11 per cent to£247m. News that revenues from the consumer division
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AD SLUMP HITS CAPITAL.
Capital Radio's share price has taken a hammering after the group warned its profits for 2001 may be at least 10 per cent down on last year's figure of£41.3m. The
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GWR STAYS UPBEAT.
Radio group GWR, owner of national station Classic FM, has tried to calm nerves about the advertising downturn in the radio sector by forecasting continued growth. The group said it expected
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SMG GROWS AT HOME.
Virgin Radio-owner SMG has again upped its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings, owner of Radio Clyde and Radio Forth - by a further 0.5 per cent taking it to 28.5 per
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PROFITS UP FOR ULSTER.
Ulster TV has reported year-end results showing a group operating profit for the year ending 31 December up 20 per cent to£14.3m. The broadcaster also reported a£800,000 loss for
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Lion rules out a share disposal.
Lion TV, producer of the award-winning Castaway 2000, has shelved plans to sell a minority stake in the company.Directors Jeremy Mills, Nick Catliff, Richard Bradley and Shahana Meer this week claimed
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RTL increases pressure on UBM to sell C5 holding.
Channel 5 shareholder RTL Group has challenged minority shareholder United Business Media (UBM) to sell its stake in the station to anyone who will pay the asking price, write Lucy Rouse
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Wark Clements to set up kids division.
Glasgow-based independent Wark Clements is launching a children's and youth division and has hired BBC drama executive producer Richard Langridge to head it, writes Penny Hughes.
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Premier League deal falls short of expectation.
The Premier League will receive at least£150m less than expected for its pay-per-view (PPV) football rights package, after agreeing a block deal with BSkyB, On Digital, Telewest and NTL, writes Simon Ellery.