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NewsPact: freezing online services a 'car crash' for suppliers
Pact has launched a blistering attack on the BBC Trust’s “shocking” decision to freeze the budgets for three of the corporation’s online learning services – claiming it will be a “car crash” for indie suppliers.
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NewsYouTube moves to tackle piracy
YouTube executives have hit back at UK critics by revealing their technology is analyzing an increasing amount of content each day in a bid to tackle piracy.
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NewsITV axes Kingdom
ITV has axed Norfolk based drama Kingdom, after three series on the commercial broadcaster.
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NewsCat Deeley to host US dance show import
The BBC’s forthcoming version of US show So You Think You Can Dance is to be hosted by Cat Deeley when it airs in January.
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NewsiPlayer guidance restricts viewing
The BBC has revised its editorial guidelines in a bid to stop children watching inappropriate programmes on its online iPlayer.
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NewsBBC recommissions Missing drama
The BBC has recommissioned the critically acclaimed drama Missing for 10 new episodes to be screened next year, making it twice the length of season one.
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NewsToday programme tops broadcast list
The best of British broadcasting has been named as BBC Radio 4’s Today by the influential viewers’ group Voice of the Listener and Viewer.
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NewsDallas soap mooted for TV comeback
Dallas, the 1980s TV soap opera of everyday rich Texas oil folk, may be about to make a comeback on the small - and big - screen.
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NewsSetanta collapse blamed for FA woes
Lord Triesman, chairman of the Football Association, has blamed the collapse of Setanta for difficulties with the development of the National Football Centre in Burton.
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NewsForsyth apologises for race row gaff
Veteran presenter Bruce Forsyth has been forced to backtrack in a formal BBC statement after he said the nation should get a “sense of humour” about the Strictly Come Dancing race row.
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NewsBBC 'breached charter' over FA Cup
The BBC Trust has criticised the corporation for the way it secured radio rights to FA Cup matches.
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NewsC4 stands ground over ads in 9/11 doc
Real-time 9/11 documentary 102 Minutes that Changed America proved to be Channel 4’s most divisive programme last month, with controversy raging over the level of advertising within its broadcast.
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NewsCBS to revive Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is set to follow Knight Rider and the Bionic Woman as the latest classic TV franchise to get a US remake.
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BBC Trust freezes three learning services
The BBC Trust has frozen the budgets of three of the BBC’s online learning services following complaints from the British Educational Suppliers Association – one of the organisations that sealed the fate of BBC Jam.
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NewsAnimal baby series to kick off BBC Bristol partnership
BBC1 has unveiled plans for an “emotionally charged” natural history series about the attempts to save some of the rarest animals on earth.
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NewsDarroch: pay TV review could be bad for football
BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch has claimed Ofcom’s plans to intervene in the pay TV industry will have “serious, potential consequences for football and sport in general”.
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NewsBBC censured over FA Cup radio rights
The BBC has been censured by the BBC Trust for its aggressive pursuit of exclusive radio sports rights, following a successful appeal by TalkSport.
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NewsNow Casualty will clash with X Factor
First it was Strictly Come Dancing - now BBC1’s Saturday night drama Casualty will move to a Sunday to go head to head with ITV1’s The X Factor next weekend.
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NewsBishop in pole position for ITV chairman job
Sir Michael Bishop, former chairman of Channel 4 and airline BMI, has become the frontrunner to take the chairman’s role at ITV after Sir Crispin Davis pulled out of the running.
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NewsShine to revive fortunes of brass band for BBC2
BBC2 hopes to do for local brass bands what Strictly has done for ballroom dancing with a three-part Shine Television series fronted by Sue Perkins.