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Chris Smith's former spin-doctor to head BSC
Civil servant brought in to defend outgoing Culture secretary against 'lightweight' allegations to guide TV watchdog through to creation of single regulator Ofcom
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BT and Deutsche Telecom pact on 3G
Mobile arms of UK and German telecommunications giants join forces in bid to reduce third generation costs
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Survivor tide turns
ITV reality show pulls second best audience yet though Big Brother audiences remain strong
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UKTV acts to replace Lowrey
BBC/Telewest joint venture moves in replacements as editor of factual channels quits for Sky One
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Granada and BBC score at Banff
Short drama and children's program awards goes to ITV shareholder, while BBC secures comedy and animation gongs at 22 ndBanff Rocky Awards
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Nokia loses a fifth of its value after surprise profit warning sends shares into free fall
Long time sector darling sees shares nosedive after it halves sales growth estimates in second quarter warning
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Granada braced for job cuts as media group splits into two
Restructure into content and platform divisions expected to result in significant job cuts as media group bids to slash extra£60m from operating costs by 2003 and to become 'slimmer.. more focused'
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RTL eyes US move
Chief executive Bellens says media group will push to become 'clear European leader before mounting drive to develop 'US presence'
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C5 News at Breakfast axed
ITN confirms Channel 5 News as Breakfast will go as part of wider news re-structure at fifth terrestrial broadcaster
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Post Impressions set to merge with Snell & Wilcox
Two of the UK's leading developers of high-definition technology to merge in venture-capital backed deal
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C4 rethinks regions
Nations and regions head of programmes Stuart Cosgrove mulls new strategy to help creative firms outside the capital
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Bland lays into Kaufman
BBC chairman accuses Commons media select committee chairman of being 'headline obsessed'
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TV faces 24-hour summer black-out
Plans to boost coverage for digital terrestrial transmissions could see analogue television signals go off air
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100 executive jobs to go at Granada
Allen seeks to slash£60m from operating costs by 2003 as digital costs and lacklustre ad revenues combine to force media group into red
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Madonna grants BBC access
Crew granted exclusive admission to star's inner sanctum on Drowned World Tour for Only One Madonna documentary to air on BBC 1 in July
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OpenTV buys Static
$59m deal sees interactive TV platform provider branch out into content development
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ONdigital makes call to Mother
Advertising agency that helped launch Channel 5 brought in to oversee rebranding to ITV Digital next month
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Go Racing deal heads for the knacker's yard
Broadcaster-led consortium admits 10-year media deal 'likely to founder' on race-data impasse as consortium leader Arena Leisure suspends shares
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Channel 5 lines up 'counter-reality' show
Channel 5 has lined up a counter-reality show from ITN factual that attempts to paint a more accurate picture of survival on a desert island, writes Georgina LipscombThe Real Castaway features
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SMG TV to produce Shirley Bassey biog for C4
Channel 4 deputy commissioning editor for history, arts and religion Tim Kirby has commissioned SMG TV Productions to produce an unauthorised biography on Shirley Bassey, writes Simon ElleryThe 60-minute programme is