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NewsTime Warner in talks with Shed
Hollywood media giant Time Warner is in talks to take over Footballers’ Wives and Supernanny television producer Shed Media.
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RatingsEngland game scores 21m for ITV
England’s crunch match in the 2010 World Cup scored a peak audience of over 21m for ITV on Friday night.
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NewsEarle: ITV supplied me with 400 tickets
Football pundit Robbie Earle has claimed ITV had supplied him with 400 World Cup tickets and was aware they were for a third party.
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RatingsBrazil game peaks with nearly 10m
Brazil’s second match of the 2010 World Cup delivered an average audience of over 7m to the BBC last night.
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NewsAbraham unveils major C4 shake up
Channel 4 is embarking on a massive restructure that will cut 25% of senior management positions and see Kevin Lygo and Julian Bellamy’s roles combined under a single chief creative officer position.
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NewsC4 Jackson doc libel case dropped
A former bodyguard to Michael Jackson and his family has dropped his libel claim against a Channel 4 documentary the day before High Court proceedings were due to begin.
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NewsRadio 1 order social docs
BBC Radio 1 is to air three documentaries focussing on major issues which affect youngsters including the dangers of social networking and youth prostitution.
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RatingsDoctor tackles ITV football
The penultimate episode in the latest series of Doctor Who managed to beat ITV’s World Cup coverage on Saturday evening.
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NewsReal Hustle nabbed in Eastern Europe
DRG has sold BBC series The Real Hustle to broadcasters across Eastern Europe.
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NewsUBC sells multiplex share to GMG
UBC Media has offloaded its 7.5% stake in digital radio multiplex MXR to Guardian Media Group to focus more tightly on content production and interactive services.
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NewsGlobal to close half of local Heart stations
Global Radio is reducing the number of Heart network stations it operates by 50% as it invests £7m into 15 “centres of broadcasting excellence”.
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NewsITV World Cup site nets 1m
More than 1m users have visited World Cup online interactive service ITV Live in the first week since its launch.
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RatingsBBC aces Wimbledon launch
The BBC served up its first helping of Wimbledon yesterday and netted a peak audience of nearly 2.5m during Roger Federer’s dramatic opening match.
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NewsYentob defends Bleakley decision
The BBC’s creative director Alan Yentob has defended its decision to withdraw its offer of a new contract to Christine Bleakley - saying it did not want to become a “patsy”.
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NewsC4 orders daily religion strand
Belfast-based Waddell Media has won a nightly religious slot on Channel 4 – part of more than £1.5m worth of new commissions from Northern Ireland.
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NewsC4's King on leave to pursue mayoral bid
Channel 4 head of diversity Oona King has agreed to take unpaid leave from the broadcaster while she pursues her bid to become Labour’s candidate for London Mayor.
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NewsCall for more women's sports coverage
Women’s sporting events should be screened more often on television to inspire girls to get active, the Government was urged today.
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NewsToday wins Lord Ashcroft Ofcom case
A complaint that Radio 4’s Today programme treated Lord Ashcroft unfairly has been rejected by the broadcasting watchdog.
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NewsGreenpeace orders Glasto shorts
Indie Raw Cut is producing a series of film shorts about the Greenpeace Field at the Glastonbury Festival later this week.
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NewsRussia takes BBCW dramas
BBCW has sold two drama series to a major broadcaster in Russia, ahead of this week’s Discop market.