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BBC extends HD service
The BBC HD channel has upped its output to nine hours a day - the maximum allowed under its current BBC Trust service licence.
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Top Gear signs Czech deal
Top Gear is racing into the Czech Republic for the first time, after BBC Worldwide secured a deal with terrestrial broadcaster Prima TV.
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Pardew apologises for rape comment
BBC Match of the Day 2 pundit Alan Pardew has issued an unconditional apology for comparing a tackle by Chelsea's Michael Essien on Sunday (15 March) to a rape.
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GMG opposes C4-BBCW merger
The proposed bailout of Channel 4 via a tie-up with BBC Worldwide would have a 'damaging effect' on the commercial market, GMG has warned.
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BBC journalists plan strikes
More than a thousand BBC journalists have voted to hold two one-day strikes against compulsory redundancies at the corporation.
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BBC Trust warns against licence fee freeze
The BBC Trust has warned that any move to freeze the licence fee will put BBC services at risk and would 'not be in the interest of licence fee payers'.
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Grade demands apology from The Times
ITV and Michael Grade have demanded an apology from The Times after it ran an opinion piece from Greg Dyke attacking the executive chairman and his strategy.
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Cameron calls for licence fee freeze
Tory leader David Cameron has heaped pressure on chancellor Alistair Darling to freeze the cost of the BBC licence fee for a year.
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Cineflix signs first US primetime network deal
Distributor Cineflix International has picked up the global rights to ABC series Border Security USA, marking the first time it has acquired a US primetime network programme.
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BBC1 plots County Durham sitcom
BBC1 has commissioned pilot scripts for a comedy set in a County Durham hamlet.
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Ex-BBCW exec joins DRG
Distributor Digital Rights Group (DRG) has appointed a former BBC Worldwide exec to the newly created post of chief creative officer, entertainment.
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Concerns over S4C's English ambitions
Campaigners have raised concerns about S4C's ambitions to take over English language news services on ITV, warning that any bid should not distract the broadcaster from its core purpose of providing Welsh programmes.
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Senior promotions at Fireworks
Fireworks International, the TV distribution arm of ContentFilm, has promoted Jonathan Ford to executive vice-president, digital acquisitions and distribution as part of a senior-level shake-up.
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Survivors moving to Birmingham
The second series of post-apocalyptic BBC1 drama Survivors will be made in Birmingham, relocating from its previous base in Manchester.
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Global Radio rejects Ofcom warning
Global Radio has rejected the ‘yellow card' it was handed by Ofcom after one of its stations was adjudged to have played the wrong style of music.
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Deadline draws near for Broadcast Digital Awards
There are just two weeks left to enter the Broadcast Digital Awards 2009.
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BBC pulls Horne & Corden gun sketch
The BBC has pulled a sketch from repeats of the first episode of Horne & Corden in which the duo perform a spoof anti-gun crime dance, in the wake of the shooting of 15 children in a German school this week.
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RTL slashes Five value to£232m
RTL Group has written down the value it places on Five by more than 50% as a result of the plunging ad market.
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BSAC adds voice to product placement criticism
The British Screen Advisory Council has joined the myriad voices criticising the government for retaining the ban on product placement, branding its decision an act of “fundamentalist nostalgia”.
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Harries slams product placement decision
TV Drama Forum: Bafta winning producer Andy Harries has blasted the government for failing to lift product placement restrictions in the UK.