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Media leaders rally against Tory attack on 'TV tax'
A range of media figures, from the culture secretary Tessa Jowell, to rightwing commentator Andrew Neil, united in ...
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Rising star died of rare illness
Christopher Price, the rising BBC presenter, best known for hosting Liquid News, died after contracting a rare brai...
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BBC team falls foul of Queen at Royal Ascot
The BBC has apologised after members of one of its camera crews at Royal Ascot were spotted by the Queen looking un...
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Wi-Fi can bring broadband for all
Anybody in the UK can now have always on, high-speed broadband internet access, and a lot of people should be able ...
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September Films bags first BBC series order
September Films has expanded its trademark programming on the world of showbiz, bagging its first series for the BBC, writes Steve Aston
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Radio Authority may relax local news rule
The Radio Authority is considering dropping rules that force local radio stations to produce and broadcast news from within their own catchment areas in order to allow news operations to consolidate, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Press gang reunited
Press Gang, the Bafta-winning cult kids show that launched the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, could soon return to screens as a special one-off epilogue, writes Colin Robertson
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Planet 24 plots new course
Planet 24, the former indie that did for TV in the early 1990s what the Sex Pistols did for music in the 1970s, is set to be restructured following the loss of its crucial£11m Big Breakfast contract earlier this year, writes Colin Robertson
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CRCA U-turns on changes
The commercial radio companies are set for a head-on collision with their regulator, the Radio Authority, when they appear before the joint committee examining the communications bill on Monday (24 June), writes Lucy Rouse
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Cosgrove Hall up for grabs
Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down its investment and allow the company to regain its independent status, writes Jane Marlow
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Airey takes on festival role
Two of the broadcasting industry's most high profile bodies have appointed new chairs, with Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey taking the helm at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and Granada managing director of content Simon Shaps taking over at the Royal Television Society (RTS), ...
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BBC drama investigates Hatfield train disaster.
The events surrounding the train crashes at Paddington and Hatfield which left 35 people dead and
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ITV KIDS CHIEF GOES SOLO.
Former Granada director of children's Dan Maddicott has resurfaced with his own production company, Indie Kids, writes Steve Aston
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Row brews over DTT bids.
A row has broken out between the BBC and ITV after the corporation threatened to withhold support for digital terrestrial television if ITV's bid to take over the former ITV Digital multiplexes succeeded, writes Paul Revoir
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Radio Authority may relax local news rule.
The Radio Authority is considering dropping rules that force local radio stations to produce and broadcast news from within their catchment areas in order to allow news operations to consolidate, writes Leigh Holmwood
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CRCA U-turns on changes.
The commercial radio companies are set for a head-on collision with their regulator, the Radio Authority, when they appear before the joint committee examining the communications bill on Monday (24 June), writes Lucy Rouse
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PRESS GANG REUNITED.
Press Gang, the Bafta-winning cult kids show that launched the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, could soon return to screens as a special one-off epilogue, writes Colin Robertson
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Cosgrove Hall up for grabs.
Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down
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Tiger Aspect chief hits out at youth 'obsession'.
Broadcasters are wasting some of the country's best creative talent with their 'over-obsession' with the under-35s, according to the head of one of the UK's biggest indies, writes Colin Robertson
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Planet plots new course.
Planet 24, the former indie that did for TV in the early 1990s what the Sex Pistols did for music in the 1970s, is set to be restructured following the loss of its crucial #11m Big Breakfast contract earlier this year, writes Colin Robertson