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FREE TO AIR - Promises, promises.
Having missed out on my rightful place on the content board of Ofcom, despite excelling in
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TRADE TALK - Summers' day.
At It has signed its biggest deal in taking over Sunday teen slot T4. Head of programmes Tamsin Summers is the woman with her finger on the pulse.
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IN MY VIEW - John Willis.
UK TV is in thrall to the cult of youth, while the US reaps the benefits of valuing maturity.
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ON THE BOX - Bring home the bacon.
Endemol UK creative director Tim Hincks bucks the trend by loving I'm a Celebrity and advocating Richard Bacon's rehabilitation.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Taking the mickey.
Influential US academic Professor Michael Tracey has become the latest to argue that the government's plans to deregulate broadcasting will spell disaster for the quality and diversity of UK news, drama and documentary.
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INTERVIEW - Daytime hits its peak.
The BBC's daytime schedule used to be all cheap quiz shows and imported soaps but now, under Alison Sharman, it is thriving on a diet of news, original drama, events and big name stars.
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THE BROADCAST DEBATE - Redefining Reithianism.
What will be the role of public service broadcasting after analogue switch-off? And how will the BBC continue to justify the licence fee in the digital age? Broadcast assembled a group of leading industry figures round a table to thrash out the issues.
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NEWS SPECIAL - The news gets personal.
As audiences switch off from news and current affairs in growing numbers, broadcasters are constantly searching for innovative ways to make news more relevant - from interactive coverage to the use of personality journalists. Is relaxing rules on impartia
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NEWS SPECIAL - Talking the talk.
With its listeners slipping away, London talk radio station LBC switched from AM to FM and shipped in a raft of 'celebrity' presenters. But can this radical retune help it rule the capital's airwaves once again?
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NEWS SPECIAL - Frontline kit.
The war in Iraq gave a push to advances in newsgathering technology, with equipment such as videophones and store and forward devices enabling immediate reports to be delivered from the remotest of locations
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NEWS SPECIAL - Bringing insight to current affairs.
Indie producer Insight News has specialised in international news programming, but founder Ron McCullagh fears for the future of his company as public service values fade from the television landscape.
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TX - Catching them young.
'Newsround was launched as an experiment,' says editor Ian Prince, 'and as far as I know,
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OFF THE RECORD - MTV needs to crank up the amp.
Those party animals at MTV held a bash to celebrate VH1's sponsorship of the Big Chill
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OFF THE RECORD - Vegetable pickle.
Tesco on the busy Cromwell Road - which divides the none-too-salubrious Earl's Court and Olympia -
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OFF THE RECORD - Grass up the BBC.
A great debate is raging at BBC Television Centre. No, not whether or not to attend
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UK History has ordered its first ever commission - a one-off documentary arguing that the first manned flight was made nearly half a century before history books would have people believe, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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Stake in DirecTV examined
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of The News Corporation, parent company of The Times, told a House of ...
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Sex and swearing help Radio 4 to reach new heights
The head of BBC radio 4 has turned her back on 'Miss Tweedy-skirt of Tunbridge Wells' as the station that once defi...
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A triumph of hard graft over stardom
We have so few marks of quality these days. Even a Roller looks like a Merc, while a Merc, depending on the model r...