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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - Dyke backs Salmon after exit rumours
BBC director general Greg Dyke has given his backing to BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon following rumours that Salmon may quit, writes Tara Conlan.
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - C4 and kids channels balk at BBC proposals
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has vowed to fight the BBC's proposed third channel which will go head to head with C4's entertainment channel E4 (set to launch this
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - Indies need marketing freedom
Mentorn Barraclough Carey chairman Tom Gutteridge has urged broadcasters to give independent producers more control over the way their programmes are marketed, writes Ashley Davies.
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - Shadow to oversee new Ofcom body
The current system of regulation could be replaced by a single body kept in check by a shadow strategic communications authority, according to one of the team formulating ideas for the forthcoming communications white paper, writes Tara Conlan.
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TRADE TALK - Peace junkie
Sorious Samura, freed from a Liberian prison, has gained a reputation as a journalist who treads dangerous ground.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Substance or spin?
Greg Dyke grabbed the headlines with his MacTaggart lecture, but do his plans - and his sums - for the BBC's future add up? Steve Clarke tracks down some dissenting voices in the industry.
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OPINION - Failure to adapt is the real threat
As the dust settles on another Edinburgh Television Festival some have rather unfairly suggested that Dyke's second MacTaggart was a masterpiece of presentation over content.But the truth is that it was
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TOP TV SHOWS - The pick of the TV crop
More than 400 leading industry figures - from those who commissioned, produced and wrote to those who acted in or presented the shows - have voted for their all-time favourite television programmes. Meg Carter analyses the trends behind the winning broadc
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SYDNEY OLYMPICS - Let the show begin
The BBC is planning its most extensive coverage ever of the Olympics, with over 21 hours of programming a day. Naomi Marks talks to those in charge of running this major sporting event from September onwards.
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INTERVIEW - BSkyB grows up
Sky is maturing as a new strategy evolves and Mark Sharman, who is filling the shoes of the high profile Elisabeth Murdoch as head of broadcasting and production, is the man charged with keeping audiences growing.
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OFF THE RECORD - Hop on the bus, Gus
It was a weekend topped and tailed by transport hell for many of those poor lushes in Edinburgh this weekend. Train delays on the way up; out- and-out cancellations on the
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OFF THE RECORD - Gus, mate, was it something we said? Not knowing you
Those culture monkeys at BBC Knowledge would have been forgiven for throwing Alan Partridge-style hissy fits (right) when registering for the festival.Somebody had obviously misheard the name of their illustrious operation:
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OFF THE RECORD - Cagoule crisis
Somebody else who may have been on the verge of making a scene was Michael Grade. Having splashed out thousands on Pinewood Studios-branded anoraks to hand out to delegates, he was
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OFF THE RECORD - Brighter pitcher
Brighter Pictures' shrinking violet Remy Blumenfeld was bouncing about£20,000 richer after winning a programme-pitching competition in which three indies tried to outpitch one another for a hypothetical Channel 4 brief.
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OFF THE RECORD - Teapot diplomacy
Yorkshire TV sultan John Whiston revealed himself as the new Kofi Annan when he visited Beijing to help out with drama Joy Luck Street, touted as the Chinese Corrie but apparently
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OFF THE RECORD - Advisor, my arse
Also on the far Eastern trips front, Star TV czar James Murdoch told of how, when travelling in Japan for his dad's firm, he tried very hard indeed to master a
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OFF THE RECORD - Attachments - geddit?
Please spare a thought for poor Jane Root, whose new Tony Garnett drama, Attachments (the one about dotcom youngsters with, surprise surprise, sex and naked skateboarding in the opening scenes), was
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OFF THE RECORD - Barclay nap
If you have time, please spare another thought for the baby-faced king of cable, Barclay Knapp, whose name this weekend gave a new definition to the old popular rhyming slang fave.
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OFF THE RECORD - You can run, but you can't hide
A message to the Channel 4 executive whose exuberance/clumsiness (delete where applicable) caused an entire tray of champagne to come crashing to the ground at the Guardian party, and who then
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OFF THE RECORD - Porn shop
The same goes for a certain chap who works for an organisation upholding moral standards. Your secret vote at the session about whether hardcore pornography should remain encrypted wasn't secret from