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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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NewsBSkyB shareholders remain uneasyat News Corp buyback
10.30am: BSkyB faces a tense annual general meeting next week as the broadcaster failed to convince some of its biggest UK shareholders over plans for News Corporation to increase its holding in the satellite company.