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Opinion - BBC should treat quotas cautiously
Greg Dyke had a busy first day as BBC director general on Monday.He began his already famous Q&A session with 450 corporation employees with a promise to support in-house production, before
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Soaps - The North-South divide
Coronation Street vs EastEnders has been a key ratings tussle in the UK's TV schedules for the past 15 years. As EastEnders celebrates its fifteenth birthday and Corrie turns 40, Meg Carter asks what it is that makes these stories run and run.
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Interactive Channels - Get ahead, get a niche
New channels are launching all the time. But these days, in addition to good quality content and marketing, interactivity is key to attracting consumers. And if you can also forge yourself a niche, you've got it made.
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Interview - The Jazzman
If it was listening to Jazz FM that once kept him sane, Richard Wheatly has repaid the station as its chief executive by bringing it back from the brink of financial disaster.
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Off The Record - Dirty dancing
The enoblement of Simon Shaps as Granada Media Productions' managing director already seems to have blown away the cobwebs at the company's normally sedate senior management meetings. In place of the
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NewsBuena Vista adds Barwick to distribution arm
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has added to its London-based international distribution arm, with the promotion of Simon Barwick as senior sales manager for UK and Ireland.
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Off The Record - Taking the gloves off
Out-going BBC big kahuna Will Wyatt was doubtless looking forward to his swansong speech to the Royal Television Society last week. Unfortunately for him, he had to follow a 'tribute' speech
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Off The Record - Messing about on a river
But forget Will Wyatt (and you will). The social event of the year was due to take place on a boat on the river Thames this Thursday (3 February), intent on
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Off The Record - Bodily discharge
Imagine the excitement at Off The Record when a free copy of BBC grand fromage David Docherty's eagerly awaited first novel, The Spirit Death, landed with a thump on its desk.
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Off The Record - Ideas above its station
Size does matter if Channel 4 International's presence at last week's Natpe programming bash in New Orleans was anything to go by. The chaps from Horseferry Road outdid themselves with a
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Off The Record - Award-winning
This week's picture features OTR's favourite newsreader Michael Buerk (left), who was snapped moments after putting pen to paper on his new one-year deal to stay at the BBC. If truth
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Off The Record - And Finally
Catherine Houston, MD of 124 Facilities, would love to guzzle tea while watching soft furnishings on TV.
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Government to reform broadcast and telecom laws
Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution
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NewsAlchemy expands London and LA teams
Producer and distributor Alchemy TV has made senior appointments on both sides of the Atlantic as it prepares for the launch of a reality division and expansion of its drama business.
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This week's quotes
'I was never in television. I was a political lobbyist for Channel 4. If I was going to miss it I wouldn't have left.'Michael Grade, formerly of Channel 4, now non-executive chairman of Octopus Television
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Sky Box Office and FilmFour flick digital switch
Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April
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Mansfield and Nelmes step up in ITV reshuffle
Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime boss Dianne Nelmes is successor
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Ball and Hall in headline bout over News 24
BBC News chief squares up to Sky counterpart over future of 24-hour rolling news service
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Capital lures Francis from Invicta
Capital Radio 95.8 has poached DJ Neil Francis from its sister station, Invicta FM, to front a new evening show between 22.00 and midnight. Francis, who hosted Invicta's breakfast show, will