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NewsUKTV secures EuroMillions deal with Camelot
UKTV has signed an exclusive seven-figure deal with National Lottery operator Camelot to air EuroMillions, poaching the rights from Challenge.
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Rolling News - 24-hour battle stations
ITN has finally joined the fray and will launch a 24-hour news channel this summer into an already a competitive market. Tara Conlan takes a look at the runners and riders and their current form as they jostle for space in the UK.
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Factual Output - In development
The last decade saw terrestrial factual output about the developing world fall by nearly 50 per cent. Is this the fault of the broadcasters or a public tired of doom and gloom - and will the tide turn? Katy Elliott reports.
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Interview - Growing pains
As ex-Disney channel executive Joan Lofts takes the helm at ITV2, she says that what the fledgling broadcaster needs is a little understanding and outlines her plans to coax this ITV baby into the world of grown-up TV.
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AND FINALLY ... Anita Land
Unaggressive Anita Land, director of Simpson Fox and television agent, on how she nagged her way up.
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OFF THE RECORD - Crossed wires
Off The Record is well aware of the confusion that transvestites can occasionally cause. Nowhere was this more apparent than Channel 5's very own Tranny of the Year contest. The awards
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OFF THE RECORD - The truth dawns
Channel 5's Dawn Airey didn't seem entirely on top of her game during her much talked-about appearance on the David Dimbleby-chaired windbag show Question Time. The C5 gros legume, defending the
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OFF THE RECORD - Food for thought
The beautiful people of On Digital have come up with an ingenious way of spreading the word about the newly expanded schedule of one of their most popular channels, Carlton Food
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OFF THE RECORD - Fading tsar
Poor old Kelvin MacKenzie. The Talk Sport tsar came over all hot and bothered on the Today programme after the Beeb successfully fought off Talk's bid to snatch the radio rights
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OFF THE RECORD - Asbestos they can
And so to the bewildering world of digital TV, where this week lentil-munchers on OTR were delighted to learn that The Natural Health Channel is to launch later this year. The
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NewsPrimeval finds 6.9m
ITV1's new big-budget drama series Primevallaunched on Saturday evening with 6.9 million viewers (28.9%), an audience that was comfortably above the channel's 2006 slot average.
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NewsChrysalis mulls demerger
Chrysalis is to launch a strategic review of the company which could lead to the sale of its radio arm.
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Telefonica mounts£3.4 billion bid for Endemol
Spanish telecoms group Telefonica has launched a Euro5.5 billion (£3.4 billion) bid for Endemol Entertainment, one of Europe's largest independent TV content producers.The proposed deal would see Netherlands-based Endemol form
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Bertelsmann to offload AOL Europe for $7.7 billion
German media giant Bertelsmann is expected to announce on Friday (17 March) the sale of its 50 per cent stake in AOL Europe to America Online for $7.5 billion (£4.8 billion),
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NewsBBC talks up Salford ahead of move
BBC Radio Manchester will today devote its airtime to promoting Salford and the people who live there, as five of the corporation's London-based departments prepare to move to the new Media City in Salford Quays.