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BBC digital plans yet to mature.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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.
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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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.
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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Open loses Pollock to A&E
Interactive middleware provider faces European roll-out without trusted European managing director
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Gap narrows but ITV retains lead in news head-to-heads
BBC ratings show steady improvement, but ITV ahead on points as first week of contest draws to a close
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DC Thomson increases stake in Scottish Radio
Beano publisher ups holding to nearly 9.6% as SRH says talks continue with other parties
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ONdigital tipped for PPV football
Digital terrestrial broadcaster understood to be Premier League's favoured choice for 40-game TV package
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TV sex, violence and bad language on rise
Complaints to Broadcasting Standards Commission break records but proportion of offending programmes stays level
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40 jobs to go in BBC research re-shuffle
Reshaping Research initiative is latest move by Greg Dyke to trim BBC costs