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New indie to use links with sports stars
A former Goldman Sachs executive has launched a television production company to provide new revenue streams for high-profile sporting clients of his -financial services business.
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NewsFresh Freeview slot draws bids
Another Freeview slot is up for grabs and owner National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle) has asked for minimum bids of£5.5m a year.
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ITV News Channel sees Freeview hours cut in half
The ITV News Channel has been given a last-minute reprieve on the Freeview platform but has had its hours slashed in half.
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NewsITN anchor joins CNN International
CNN has poached ITN's news anchor Isha Sesay as the network beefs up its international arm.
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NewsITV News Channel clings on to Freeview
The ITV News Channel has been given a last minute reprieve on the Freeview platform but will have its hours slashed in half.
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NewsPubs concerned over Premiership rights
8am: Pub landlords are worried that they will have to fork out money for multiple pay TV subscriptions after the next auction of Premiership football rights.
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NewsSchools warm to Teachers TV
8am: A fifth of teachers with multichannel TV have tuned in to the government-backed Teachers TV channel.
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NewsSky angers Oxford students over price hike
BSkyB has incurred the wrath of Oxford students as colleges are told they are no longer allowed to suspend their subscriptions during holidays.
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BBC3 drops news
BBC3 is axing its nightly news bulletin and ploughing the money saved into factual programmes. The 7 O'Clock News will be taken off air from 2 December, after Secretary of State for culture, media and sport Tessa Jowell gave the channel permission to drop it. The channel's hourly 60 Seconds ...
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MTV plans HD channel in the UK
MTV is preparing to launch a high definition channel in the UK and is in talks with BSkyB about launching on the satellite broadcaster's new platform next year.
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Shield for Hallmark
Hallmark has signalled a change in direction for its late-night programming block, buying Fox's hard-hitting cop series The Shield. The traditionally female-skewing network will pair series one of the show (13 x 60-minute episodes) with fellow US acquisition Law and Order SVU, which currently airs at 9pm and 10pm on ...
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Trouble snaps up Warner sitcoms
Flextech youth channel Trouble has picked up the rights to two US primetime comedies from Warner Bros, Freddie and Twins.
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Growing up in public
BBC3 has had its fair share of critical and popular successes, notably in comedy, yet it continues to struggle with its PSB brief - leaving a fine line for Stuart Murphy's successor to tread.
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NewsSky News to air video clips from viewers
The identity of prolific complainant Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells could soon be revealed though a new Sky News service that lets viewers vent their spleens by videophone.
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Sky One revs up motoring show
Sky One has commissioned the team behind its award-winning science show Brainiac to make a light-hearted, magazine-style series for petrolheads.
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NewsFuture of ITV News Channel hangs in balance
ITV executives are in eleventh-hour talks over whether to dump the ITV News Channel from Freeview, a decision that may spell the end for the three-year-old service.
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World Service moots Persian TV
BBC World Service director Nigel Chapman has suggested that he may launch more foreign-language TV channels and has targeted a Persian offering as the most likely contender.
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NewsSky viewers to miss ITV4 launch
Sky digital subscribers are set to be locked out of the 1 November launch of ITV4 after it emerged the satellite broadcaster will not get the channel up and running until a week later.
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NewsBT poaches Sky staffer
BT has poached James Soames, BSkyB's head of marketing, DTH to help launch its TV over broadband service.
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NewsSky delays ITV4 launch
ITV4 will not be available to Sky viewers until 7 November, a week after its official launch date on Freeview and NTL.