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    The choice is there

    2003-02-11T09:55:44Z

    An LWT board member says advertisers won't be squeezed by a Carlton-Granada merger ...

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    Young watch with 'Auntie'

    2003-02-11T09:56:13Z

    The BBC is winning the battle for young viewers on Saturday mornings for the first time since 1999. ...

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    BBC3 is a turn-off for the digital generation

    2003-02-11T09:56:15Z

    BBC3 attracted an average audience of 147,000 digital viewers on its launch night ...

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    Dyke switches his Labour donation to new running mate

    2003-02-11T09:56:38Z

    BBC director general Greg Dyke has pledged financial backing to Alastair Campbell's participation in the London Mar...

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    Jackson footage of Bashir 'backs hypocrisy claim'

    2003-02-11T09:56:58Z

    Michael Jackson is to challenge Martin Bashir by releasing video footage that he believes will prove that the ITV1 ...

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    BBC ban on marchers

    2003-02-11T09:57:33Z

    Senior BBC journalists and presenters were ordered by their bosses yesterday to stay away from the anti-war march i...

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    BBC3 opens with audience of 154,000

    2003-02-11T09:58:00Z

    BBC3 was watched by an average of only 154,000 viewers on its opening night on Sunday ...

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    Coming soon: Who wants to be a billionaire?

    2003-02-11T09:58:33Z

    The world's first billion-dollar game show is being planned by the American producers of ...

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    I have quit to get fit says EastEnder Phil

    2003-02-11T09:58:33Z

    Steve McFadden has revealed he's leaving EastEnders - because he fears it will kill him. ...

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    BBC's new digital channel peaks with 260,000 viewers

    2003-02-11T09:59:06Z

    The BBC's latest digital channel attracted a peak audience on its launch night of more than 260,000 ...

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    Channel flop

    2003-02-11T09:59:27Z

    There is no need for the creation of BBC3, as viewers in their 20s and 30s are already over-catered for ...

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    ITV drama comes second

    2003-02-11T12:01:46Z

    ITV 1 drama The Second Coming, which swept all before it on Sunday night with an audience of 6.3 million, failed to maintain its appeal last night (10 February), losing nearly a million viewers on its way to defeat at the hands of BBC 1 drama In Deep, ...

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    ITN bags Al Jazeera archive deal

    2003-02-11T12:08:05Z

    ITN has clinched a deal to sell the archives of Arabic channel Al Jazeera - including the controversial speeches of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - around the world, writes Paul Revoir

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    BSkyB carriage charges targetted by MPs

    2003-02-11T12:15:36Z

    MPs have thrown down an open challenge to the House of Lords to force BSkyB to cut the£29m a year it charges terrestrial broadcasters for carriage on its satellite platform, writes David Rose

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    ITN promises profits

    2003-02-11T13:23:23Z

    ITN has vowed to remain in profit this year despite a£10m black hole in its ITV contract, writes John Plunkett

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    Return of the Hairy Cornflake

    2003-02-11T14:22:27Z

    Ten years after he famously quit the BBC live on air, Dave Lee Travis is returning to the corporation he once reviled - with a Sunday morning local radio show, writes John Plunkett

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    Cox calls for BSkyB bundling investigation

    2003-02-11T15:37:40Z

    Channel 4 deputy chairman Barry Cox is to argue that one of Ofcom's first tasks should be to embark on a detailed scrutiny of satellite broadcaster BSkyB's practice of channel bundling, writes David Wood

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    Jones calls for Ofcom to review conditional access charges

    2003-02-12T09:12:20Z

    ITV managing director Clive Jones has called for Ofcom to review the current system for conditional access charges incurred by public service broadcasters (PSBs) for carriage on BSkyB's satellite platform, writes Luke Satchell

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    Ministry of Sound launches pocket digital radio

    2003-02-12T09:40:12Z

    The Ministry of Sound has launched a new generation of pocket digital radios just months after pulling the plug on its own digital broadcast operation, writes John Plunkett.

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    Jowell soothes ownership fears

    2003-02-12T10:05:26Z

    Culture secretary Tessa Jowell reiterated key planks of the communications bill - including rules on foreign owners...