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    UBC Media confirms Classic Gold acquisition

    2000-09-20T12:01:00Z

    GWR Group sells AM formats following purchase of Daily Mail & General Trust radio assets in June

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    Microsoft plays down Liberate's UPC win

    2000-09-20T10:20:00Z

    MS TV platform group director Graczyk warns software giant will 'fight the battle with solutions'

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    'TV on the PC' won't work say Atom Films boss

    2000-09-20T10:13:00Z

    Online content sites must re-appraise approach says Comish

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    Don't 'do TV on the PC' Atom Films boss warns

    2000-09-20T10:10:00Z

    Comish urges online to rethink approach to content and not to try and beat TV at it's own game

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    Memoirs in focus as BSkyB and A&E launch new channel

    2000-09-19T17:16:00Z

    Gates, Pele, Escobar and McCartney among celebrities under the spotlight for new Biography Channel

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    Canada splashes out on UK soaps

    2000-09-19T16:04:00Z

    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation acquires over 800 episodes of Emmerdale and Coronation Street

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    Radio 2 signs Docherty

    2000-09-18T14:22:00Z

    Comic lines up for new Saturday night chat-show

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    Big Brother gives Channel 4 best Friday ever

    2000-09-18T13:56:00Z

    Climax of summer phenomenon peaks with 10 million viewers according to unofficial overnights

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    Rights and marketing costs hit Wireless group

    2000-09-18T11:37:00Z

    MacKenzie says outlook bullish despite more than doubling losses in first interim's since flotation

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    Heggessey in as Salmon nets sport

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is expected to announce within days that Lorraine Heggessey will become BBC 1 controller, following Peter Salmon's surprise decision to become BBC director of sport.Salmon's move ends months of

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    Thompson announces retirement

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC head of children's commissioning Roy Thompson has decided to retire from the corporation at the end of the year, writes Tara Conlan.

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    Granada splits factual brief

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Granada Television has restructured its factual department and created two separate controller roles for current affairs and documentaries, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Sky and Fox clash over kids move

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    A row is brewing between BSkyB and sister channel Fox Kids following Sky One's decision to make an aggressive move into children's programming, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Brown gets control of 4Learning

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 deputy director of programmes Karen Brown is giving up direct responsibility for most of her commissioning departments, after being offered a more dedicated job in charge of 4Learning, writes Ashley Davies.

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    UDEN PREPARES SEX FIVE-PARTER FOR LIVING

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    TV indie Uden Associates has been commissioned by Flextech's Living Channel to produce a 5 x 60-minute series Women Talk Sex (working title). Commissioned by Flextech vice-president, channel programming Lisa Opie,

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    T4 TO TRANSMIT 100TH EDITION FROM BIG BROTHER HOUSE

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 Sunday morning youth strand T4 is to broadcast its 100th edition live from the east London Big Brother house this Sunday (17.9.00). During the show, items from the Bazal

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    C4 orders late-night dramas

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Attaboy TV is producing a new 5 x 30-minute drama/factual crossover project for Channel 4 deputy commissioning editor, night-time Zizi Durrance, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Pressure mounts on ITV's new autumn schedule

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    ITV's hopes of hitting its self-imposed peaktime target by the end of the year all but evaporated this week, following news that it now needs to achieve an unprecedented 43 per cent share for the rest of the year, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Neal christens new indie

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Outgoing Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal's new indie will be christened Box TV Productions, and is developing three new dramas with leading writers for the channel, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Beat 106 md goes to Scottish Media Group

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Beat 106 managing director Bobby Hain is leaving the Scottish radio station to become Scottish Media Group (SMG) business development director of its radio division, writes Georgina Lipscomb.