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NewsBBC inks O2 content deal
BBC Worldwide is to make clips from Doctor Who, Little Britainand I'm Alan Partridgeavailable on mobile phones as part of a deal with O2.
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NewsHigh School Musical 2 breaks US records
The sequel to Disney's hit TV movie High School Musicalhas premiered to record audiences of over 17m in the US. [ALL]
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NewsFive hires BBC newsreader
Five News' recently appointed editor David Kermode has made BBC London and BBC breakfast presenter Matt Barbet his first new signing. [ALL]
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NewsSurvey: Can viewers trust what they see on TV?
The controversy surrounding 'Queengate' and Paul Watson's Alzheimer's film has pushed issues of trust in TV to the fore. But do they reveal an industry in crisis or one under unfair media scrutiny? Have your say.
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NewsHuntingford named Virgin Radio chair
Virgin Radio has drafted in the former chief executive of the Chrysalis Group, Richard Huntingford, as non-executive chairman. [ALL]
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NewsF-word dropped from Thatcher film
The BBC has removed a swear word from a new television docudrama about the young Margaret Thatcher in a bid to avoid offending the former prime minister. [ALL]
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NewsITV1 has The X Factor with viewers
The X Factormade its strongest debut yet with the first episode of the fourth series attracting an impressive 9.5m viewers (45%) at 7.40pm on Saturday (18 August). [ALL]
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NewsBlog: Give the workers some credit
Malcolm Treen demands to know why closing titles are squeezed so that no one can read them, depriving the people that make the shows of hard earned and merited credit. [ALL]
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NewsNuts TV to share Freeview space
Nuts TV is to share a Freeview channel with Thomas Cook TV when it launches next month. [ALL]
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NewsThompson urged not to 'emasculate' Storyville
The Directors' and Producers' Rights Society has written to BBC director general Mark Thompson voicing 'deep concern' over the 'threatened emasculation' of documentary strand Storyville. [ALL]
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NewsRead the DPRS's letter to Thompson
Dear Mr. Thompson, Storyville I am writing to voice the deep concern of the membership of the DPRS to the threatened emasculation of the BBC's Storyvillestrand.We understand that while the BBC's internal spending review is not yet complete, ...
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NewsRussian radio axes BBC content
A third FM Russian radio station has been forced to drop BBC World Service content from its schedules by the country's licensing authorities. [ALL]
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NewsBroadcast Letters - 17 August 2007
Letters to the editor from issue of Broadcast dated 17 August.
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NewsTories defend C4 in Dispatches mosque row
The Conservative party has said that the West Midlands Police's inquiry into the Channel 4 Dispatchesdocumentary, Undercover Mosque,raises serious questions about media freedom. [ALL]
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NewsGCap shares fluctuate after poor Rajars
The price of GCap Media shares rose 2.9% to 231.5p in early morning trading today (Friday 17 August) as the radio group started its recovery from a poor performance in yesterday's Rajars. [ALL]
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NewsElvis performs for ITV1
ITV1 documentary Young Elvis in Colourattracted 3.7m viewers (16.8%) at 9pm last night, an audience that was slightly up on the slot average of 3.5m (16.1%). [ALL]
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NewsNo more junk food for SpongeBob
Nickelodeon has pledged to limit the amount of junk-food consumed by its cartoon characters such as SpongeBobSquarepantsand Dora the Explorer. [ALL]
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NewsBlog: Top Five Tips to Save The Planet
Richard Kilgarriff explains how television people can save the planet without having to camp outside an airport or wear hand-loomed Hessian pants. [ALL]
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NewsBBC axes Inspector Lynley
The BBC has axed detective series The Inspector Lynley Mysteriesafter six years, a decision greeted with bafflement by its star Nathaniel Parker. [ALL]
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NewsSky to air Arabic entertainment channel
Middle East entertainment network Rotana TV is launching a free-to-air Arabic language entertainment channel on Sky. [ALL]