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Millionaire show 'cougher' admits obsession with TV quizzes
The alleged cougher in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating case admitted yesterday that he was obsessed wit...
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BBC admits failings in football case
The BBC admitted a failure of policy when it named a Premiership footballer player whose identity was being protect...
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Evans's binge 'just last straw for Virgin'
Chris Evans's show at Virgin Radio was so bad his bosses wanted him out long before he went on a drinking binge and...
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Peers fight to prevent press barons buying TV channels
Lord Puttnam, the film producer, is heading a drive by peers to force the Government to ban newspaper proprietors, ...
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Carlton escapes early effects of the war
Carlton Communications, the ITV broadcaster proposing a£2.7bn merger with Granada, has said it is too early to gau...
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Missing ITN cameraman 'was taken injured to Basra'
The cameraman of dead ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was taken injured to a hospital in Basra, it was reported last night...
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Carlton hangs on in fight with investors
ITV broadcaster Carlton Communications survived a shareholders' rebellion yesterday when some powerful City investo...
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NewsBBC's Adams blasts bosses over bias
BBC defence correspondent Paul Adams has slammed the corporation for what he has called its 'one-sided' coverage of the war with Iraq, writes Luke Satchell
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RatingsNews 24 viewers 'lost' by Barb
The BBC has claimed that viewing figures for its rolling news service BBC News 24 is being under-represented by Barb, the organisation that monitors viewing habits, writes Jon Rogers
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RatingsViewers show no news loyalty
Terrestrial viewing habits with regard to the Iraq war are beginning to take shape, with the latest figures suggesting viewers are fitting news updates in around their favourite programmes, and have no particular loyalty to the BBC or ITV1's bulletins, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsThompson re-fuels BBC/Ofcom debate
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has reiterated his call for the BBC to be brought under the new regulator Ofcom, claiming the new regulator will lack vital public service knowledge if the corporation is left to govern itself, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsRichards lands Ofcom role
Prime Minister Tony Blair's top media advisor - one of the key architects behind the communications bill - has been awarded a principle role in Ofcom, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsShare gloom for Capital
Capital Radio shares fell 6% today after it predicted first-half radio revenues would be down 5% and said the short-term advertising market was 'uncertain', ahead of the company's interim results due on 15 May, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsSky/BBC encryption row hits stalemate
The row over the BBC's decision pull out of Sky's encryption services appeared to have deepened this week when a meeting between the two parties ended without any agreement, writes Paul Revoir.
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Barcud buys Picardy Media
Welsh TV and film group Barcud Derwen has paid a six-figure sum for the ownership of Scotland-based Picardy Media Group, which went into receivership at the end of January, writes Sam Espensen.
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Sony and Panasonic make staff cuts
Two of the industry's biggest kit manufacturers, Sony and Panasonic, have been forced to make a small number of job cuts in their UK operations as a result of the struggling broadcast technology market, writes Sam Espensen.
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Framestore CFC turns Japanese
Framestore CFC was invited by its client PMC to pitch ideas to Wowow, Japan's biggest satellite channel, for a 10-second channel ident, with a completely open brief. Designer Adam Parry came up with two, both of which have been adopted by the channel. The first ident is called Wave and ...
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Clear doubles in size
Clear Post Production has spent£650,000 on doubling the size of its Soho premises. According to managing director Greg Caplan, most of the money has gone on building new suites, restructuring the offices and buying kit. Clear bought more space in its Great Marlborough Street office in September last year.
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UTV buys OB truck
UTV has taken delivery of a£2m OB truck for use on light entertainment and sports shoots. The unit is built on a Mercedes Atego chassis, and has 12 cameras, a Thomson mixer and an Aston Red character generator to enhance its new graphics department. Work for the truck will include ...