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UKTV pulls Play in favour of History.
BBC Worldwide and Flextech joint-venture UKTV is set to pull the plug on its Play UK channel three months early in order to concentrate on the launch of UK History on digital terrestrial television, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC deems PBS link-up success.
BBC head of current affairs Peter Horrocks says he is hopeful the corporation will undertake more co-productions with US public service broadcaster PBS after the success of a show based on the recent Earth Summit, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Lib Dems to save BBC from Ofcom.
The BBC is set to be saved from being brought under the immediate control of Ofcom
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Willis says majority of American TV is 'dross'.
Former United Productions chief executive John Willis has hit out at suggestions that the US is leading the way in the creation of quality TV programmes, claiming American TV schedules are a 'cultural desert' filled with a 'huge amount of dross', writes C
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NEW MUSIC CHANNEL.
A free-to-view music channel produced in the same style as the former ITV Saturday favourite The
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ENT RIGHTS RESULTS.
Entertainment Rights, the company that owns the rights to Postman Pat and Basil Brush, has reported
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FREESERVE MAN QUITS.
Peter Wilkinson, one of the original founders of internet service provider Freeserve, has turned his back
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C4'S EMMY TRIUMPH.
Channel 4 scooped three gongs at the 23rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards, held in New
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FOOTIE ON BBC SPORT.
BBC Sport has signed the rights to broadcast England's away games against Slovakia and Liechtenstein in
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SPECIAL: RTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2002 - Hewitt insists laws will be liberalised.
The government is to press ahead with the liberalisation of foreign ownership restrictions, despite Lord Puttnam's
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'No stampede' of US into UK, says AOL chief.
AOL Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons has claimed there is unlikely to be an immediate stampede of US investors into the UK television market when foreign ownership rules are relaxed, writes Jane Marlow
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Dyke issues dire Ofcom warning.
BBC Director general Greg Dyke has labelled industry calls for BBC programming to be overseen by super-regulator Ofcom as 'dangerous', writes David Wood
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Thompson wants protection for C4.
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has called for safeguards to be put in place to protect his channel if UK broadcasting is opened up to foreign ownership, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Ratings - Blackburn victory wins Sunday night for ITV 1.
The final of ITV 1's celebrity version of Survivor got the sort of audience normally expected of the soaps, writes Jon Rogers
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IDEAL WORLD MAY FLOAT.
Ideal World Productions, the TV production house part-owned by the writer and broadcaster Muriel Gray, is
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SHEFFIELD DOC PRIZE.
The Sheffield Documentary Festival, which takes place between 21 and 27 October, is calling on new
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S4C TO LAUNCH WEBSITE.
Welsh public service broadcaster S4C is to launch a new bilingual website to showcase its programmes
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Panorama staff call for new slot.
A host of former Panorama editors and reporters have called on the BBC to restore the
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Ginger production head joins Evans indie.
Former Ginger head of production Clare Barton has joined her former boss Chris Evans at his new indie, UMTV, writes Georgina Lipscomb