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Turner u-turn over Freeview
Turner Broadcasting, which runs channels such as Cartoon Network and CNN, is still interested in taking up a slot on the Freeview platform, despite its most senior UK television executive last week appearing to rule it out, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBBC satellite move to cost Sky£85m
The BBC radically changed the game in digital satellite this week by announcing plans to move all of its channels onto a new satellite, saving£85m in encryption charges to Sky over the next five years, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsEndemol puts comedy into 3G mobile phones
Endemol UK is to offer advice to users of third-generation (3G) video mobile phones on how to dance, flirt and even pass wind after signing a deal with telecoms company Hutchison 3G, writes Penny Hughes.
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News100 jobs axed as BBCi tightens belt
The bursting of the dotcom bubble has finally caught up with the BBC, which is axing around 100 jobs in its new media department BBCi and refocusing on interactive television, write Leigh Holmwood and Jane Marlow
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NewsBBC hits Sky with satellite move
The BBC has announced a shock move to broadcast its channels via a new satellite - saving£85 million in encryption charges to Sky over the next five years, writes Conor Dignam
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NewsTurner spurns Freeview slot
Time Warner's most senior UK television executive has ruled out Turner Broadcasting putting its own channel on Freeview, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC invests£3/4 million in HD finishing kit
The new 'EQ' set up, which will allow BBC Resources to colour grade, up convert and generally finish both in-house BBC HD programmes and jobs from external clients is to be delivered this week and will be operational within days.
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Consumer interest is key to HD adoption says BBC
The BBC's production modernisation guru Andy Quested has revealed that he thinks that consumer interest in better quality television pictures will help to drive the amount of production done in HD by the broadcast sector.
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NewsFreeview sales rocket
Freeview has been selling at more than four times the rate of its doomed ITV predecessor - with 500,000 boxes sold in just four months, writes John Plunkett
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NewsViewers desert BBC3
New BBC digital service BBC3 is failing to catch the imagination of the nation's prized youth demographic, with latest viewing figures showing it is less popular than BBC Choice, the channel it replaced, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsNTL man takes helm at Freeview
NTL product marketing director for Matt Seaman has been appointed as general manager for DTV Services, the operating company of digital terrestrial television service Freeview, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsSky prepares to turn the screw
BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball has threatened to put the squeeze on MTV, Paramount Comedy, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, when their channel fees come up for renewal this year, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsSky on a roll with upbeat results
Sky Digital looks set to ease past its target of 7 million subscribers by the end of 2003, after adding a quarter of a million new customers in the last quarter, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsMurphy orders BBC3 alien night
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has greenlit the channel's first theme night, based around UFOs as his channel posted promising ratings in its launch week, write Jon Rogers & Leigh Holmwood
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NewsUKTV risks backlash with new channels
UKTV is set to risk a further backlash from its commercial rivals - already smarting over its growing portfolio - with plans to launch two new major pay-TV channels covering natural history and comedy, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsSky in challenge to BBC
BSkyB has thrown down the gauntlet to the BBC to convince it that it deserves to pay less for its satellite carriage - as the BBC prepares to renegotiate its carriage deal, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsITV joins interactive revolution
ITV has signed a major agreement with BSkyB to develop a range of interactive services for its three channels in a move that will finally see it catch up with its competitors, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsFull BBC services on Freeview from Friday
The BBC is to put the remainder of its national radio stations onto Freeview this Friday (14 February), taking the total of BBC radio channels available on the new DTT platform up to 11, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsCox calls for BSkyB bundling investigation
Channel 4 deputy chairman Barry Cox is to argue that one of Ofcom's first tasks should be to embark on a detailed scrutiny of satellite broadcaster BSkyB's practice of channel bundling, writes David Wood
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NewsBSkyB carriage charges targetted by MPs
MPs have thrown down an open challenge to the House of Lords to force BSkyB to cut the£29m a year it charges terrestrial broadcasters for carriage on its satellite platform, writes David Rose