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NewsTurner goes HD with Cartoon Network
Turner Broadcasting is launching Cartoon Network in HD, its first channel to air in the format.
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RatingsPremier League return scores with viewers
SATURDAY: The return of Premier League football helped Match of the Day to an audience of more than 4.3m as live games scored for Sky and ESPN.
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RatingsOcean Giants nets 5.5m
SUNDAY: A three-part series shedding light on the earth’s largest marine mammals launched with an audience of nearly 5.5m for BBC1.
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NewsC4 defends Comedy Blaps choices
Channel 4 has defended its decision to commission Baby Cow and Objective Productions as part of a comedy shorts project designed to unearth new talent.
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NewsBBC3 to broadcast in daytime for Olympics
The BBC is extending BBC3’s broadcast hours and launching a temporary digital radio stream during next summer’s Olympic Games, as part of a number of measures to optimise the broadcaster’s coverage.
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NewsX Factor final heads to Wembley
ITV has confirmed that The X Factor final will be held at Wembley Arena for the first time.
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NewsNGO publishes filming code to protect tribes
International NGO Survival International has published a code of conduct for film-makers covering tribal peoples, after a documentary was accused of fabrication.
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RatingsConcrete Circus outperformed by competition
MONDAY: Channel 4’s documentary following four of the world’s best urban sports stars was beaten by a film on Channel 5 and BBC2’s Horizon.
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RatingsOnly Connect unites 600,000
MONDAY: BBC4’s audience almost doubled with over 600,000 viewers tuning in for the return of hit gameshow Only Connect.
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NewsSTV news app extended to Android phones
STV has continued the roll out of its news app on to Android-enabled phones.
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NewsBBCW sells magazines business for £121m
BBC Worldwide has sold Radio Times and licenced the rights to a range of programme-branded titles to private equity group Exponent as part of a deal worth £121m.
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NewsITV4 snags more cycling rights
ITV4 is to broadcast live coverage of Spanish road cycling event Vuelta a España as part of its growing commitment to the sport.
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NewsITV1 offers budding cooks a Great British Taste Tour
ITV1 is to send aspiring chefs on culinary mini-breaks around the country for a new daytime show.
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NewsSky Living acquires Gellar drama Ringer
Sky Living has acquired the rights to Ringer, the CBS series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in her first TV show since Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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NewsChildren of 9/11 acquired by NBC
NBC has acquired the Darlow Smithson documentary Children of 9/11, which follows the lives of some of the children who lost a parent in the terrorist attacks a decade ago.
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RatingsNation tunes in to news channels
If you were a Martian landing on Earth and took a look at the Digital Networks Top Programmes list (because let’s face it, you would) you might think we were all news junkies. And if our visitor saw The Borgias too, he/she might also wonder what history narrative we thought ...
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RatingsFish and homes win out
Dragons moved, fish returned, hospitals went, home restoration made its point and all featured in a week of few biggies but where some stalwarts remained, stal (or maybe that’s wart?).
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RatingsRiots leave ratings in a spin
Word has it that the Kaiser Chiefs are quickly penning a sequel to their hit I Predict a Riot to be called ‘I Predict A Calming Down’; it’ll be played on brooms and with hoovers. Well, okay, they’re not. But after one of the more surreal and frankly tragic ...
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NewsSaveBBC4 campaign 'fundamental misunderstanding'
A growing online campaign to save BBC4 from closure comes from “a fundamental misunderstanding” of reports around potential changes to the channel, insiders have indicated.
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RatingsSeven Dwarves sizes up 2.5m
TUESDAY: Channel 4’s new documentary series following the lives of seven dwarf actors during the Christmas pantomime season attracted a sizeable audience.