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C5 opts for Sky's Sunrise News
BSKYB HAS finally secured a toehold in terrestrial television following Channel 5's decision to ditch the ITN News Channel as its early morning breakfast news feed in favour of Sky News, writes Simon Ellery.
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CHANNEL TV SOLD
ITV shareholder Channel Television has been bought for around£20m by Illiffe News & Media, a company owned by Lord Illiffe of Yattenden. The sale followed the buyout of the company
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NTL SPORT PLAN OFF
NTL content subsidiary Premium TV has shelved plans for a joint-venture sport channel with the BBC because of its financial problems. The BBC was due to provide archive sport footage to
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BRAVO ED PROMOTED
Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice is to become acting controller of Flextech-owned channels Bravo and Trouble when Trouble channel editor Heather Jones takes maternity leave. Trouble programming executive Louise Benham becomes
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C4 UPDATES IMAGE
Channel 4 has updated its on-screen look with the introduction of a narrative aspect to the 'moving bars' theme first introduced in 1999.The idents include vapour trails, flickering tube lights, a
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BBC SHIFTS LICENCES
The BBC has awarded the£500m television licence administration contract to support services group Capita. The contract, held for the past 10 years by Post Office operator Consignia, involves collecting licence
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LNR BUYERS EMERGE
A Chrysalis-led consortium has emerged as the frontrunner to buy London News Radio stations, according to sources. Others who are said to be interested are Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond, The
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NTL broadcast still seeking a£2bn buyer
Debt-ridden cable firm NTL appeared to be living on borrowed time this week after it confirmed it had not found a buyer for its broadcast division - the sale of which would have reduced its debt burden by around£2bn, writes Simon Ellery.
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NewsDyke traces life and times of Reith
Former BBC boss Greg Dyke is to explore the life and times of the corporation's first director general - the idiosyncratic John Reith - for a BBC4 documentary.
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Strong growth for satellite TV
Satellite TV take-up continues to outgun cable, with 1.12 million consumers having opted to take pay-TV services through a dish over the past 12 months compared with 310,000 cable subscribers, according to the latest Independent Television Commission quar
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Wark Clements wins WW1 order
Glasgow-based indie Wark Clements has landed Channel 4's largest ever factual commission outside London with a£2.5m series on the first world war.The 10 x 60-minute run, The First World War,
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Rajar to modernise audience measuring
Radio audience measurement board Rajar has finally bowed to pressure from radio operators to overhaul its service, announcing plans to test a new electronic system next year, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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SAGA RETURNS
ITV has gambled on the success of its costly adaptation of The Forsyte Saga by commissioning a second series of the period drama before the first has even hit the screens, writes Steve Aston.
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RATINGS - C4's Twin Towers doc proves ratings winner
CHANNEL 4'S documentary on the collapse of the World Trade Centre buildings on Thursday (13 December) secured the channel's second highest audience of the year so far, writes Jon Rogers.
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C4 GIVES NEW TALENT A GO
Channel 4 has launched an initiative to foster new talent and enable independent production companies that have yet to work with C4 to make a programme for them. Indies are invited
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ITN REDUNDANCIES
ITN has accepted 75 applications for voluntary redundancy in its bid to axe around 90 jobs. The news provider, which has been consulting staff over job losses since November, met with
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COMEDY AWARD WINNERS
Channel 4 chat show So Graham Norton was named best comedy entertainment programme at The British Comedy Awards on Saturday (15 December). The award for best new TV comedy went to
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BBC GETS OSCAR RIGHTS
The BBC has scooped the rights to the Oscars and the Baftas after current holder BSkyB decided not to bid for them. Sky has had exclusive coverage of the Oscars since
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DISNEY HIRES SMITH
The Walt Disney Company has hired former media secretary Chris Smith as a senior advisor ahead of the planned launch of the BBC's two children's channels. Smith, who started this month,
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Turner's Buckley quits
Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS) Europe executive vice-president news networks and UK managing director Mick Buckley has become the latest senior industry figure to quit his job for a career break, writes Simon Ellery.