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    BBC digital plans yet to mature.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Greg Dyke officially took over as director general of the BBC a full year ago. In the time since his predecessor, John Birt, finally left the building, Dyke has made the

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    FREE TO AIR - Here comes Suburban TV.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The scheduling of the main evening news bulletins on ITV and BBC 1 has become, for most people, almost as boring as having to watch them.To hear the respective sides smarming

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    ANALYSIS SPECIAL - BBC unveils proposed new services.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's plans in full and in its own words, plus the DCMS test criteria.

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    MULTICHANNEL FILMS - Drowning by numbers.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    New film channels on non-terrestrial television are launching all the time, yet even established players such as Sky Premier and Moviemax are reaching less than half a per cent of viewers in multichannel homes and Channel 4 's FilmFour, with a large marke

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - What's on the breakfast menu?

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The BBC reformatted Breakfast News and GMTV changed its sofa, yet early morning TV for the two main channels has again reached an impasse, with C4's The Big Breakfast still mopping up youth viewers. Adrian Edwards reports.

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    TX - Nero's alchemists.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Seventh Art Productions sets out to dispel the myth that Nero fiddled while Rome burned in this Timewatch documentary by ambitiously reconstructing the extravagant Domus Aurea, the Golden House that the

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    INTERVIEW - Retuning Virgin Radio.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Let it be crystal clear: Chris Evans will never play a Billie track on his breakfast show again.Unlike Evans' public and pecuniary support for Ken Livingstone last year, which led to

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    Heartbeat still regular winner for Sunday nights.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    There was a not-quite-back-at-work feel to the first week of 2001, with the end of the holidays, running into preliminary skirmishes over the new season.Sunday night (7 January) was the most

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    AND FINALLY ...

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Annie Miles, managing director Fox Kids UK, on a major faux pas in a posh restaurantWhat was the biggest lie you've ever told?I'm just popping down to Bond Street to have

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    OFF THE RECORD - Tweenies tread on hallowed toes.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The weird felty things for children, also known as the Tweenies, have apparently outsold Robbie Williams on their whirlwind tour of the UK.Their first single, Number One, outsold Madonna last year,

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    Off the Record

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The next time you see BBC 2 czarina Jane Root she may be very different, following a six-week stint in the US. Before jumping to conclusions, she's not there for a

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    OFF THE RECORD - Testcard art draws a crowd.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    OTR has been inundated with desperate correspondence after mentioning the exhibition of testcard paintings coming up from David McKeran. Thousands of you begged to know where and when it was happening.

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    OFF THE RECORD -

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches us of the most horrific story of fakery to date. But fortunately, the wages of the sin were high. While filming a charity arts auction for Focus, the Artsworld

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    OFF THE RECORD - Edward, prince of pornography.

    2001-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has unwittingly played a part in Prince Edward being named Hero of the Month by that bastion of freedom of speech, Hustler. In a recent edition, the porno mag

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    ETV targets 'streamies' as Dinner Party kicks off

    2001-01-25T16:39:00Z

    Interactive dining soap launches first two-weekly schedule

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    NTL forecasts increased earnings

    2001-01-25T15:26:00Z

    Says rising revenues, better margins and falling capital expenditure will lead to pre-charge earnings of£825 million next year

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    BSkyB signs distribution deal with Digital Island

    2001-01-25T13:48:00Z

    Sky.com internet content will now be streamed across DI's global Footprint Network

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    Live athletics returns to Sky

    2001-01-25T13:09:00Z

    Sky Sports signs two seasons deal with IAFF covering seven international track and field meetings

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    RTL defeats C5 partner UBM in High Court struggle

    2001-01-25T11:47:00Z

    European broadcaster wins more funds for Channel 5 programming

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    Woolwich ousted from Twenty Twenty Television

    2001-01-25T08:57:00Z

    Current affairs veteran 'removed 'from indie directorship after boardroom battle