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    Wogan costs Radio 2£800,000 a year

    2006-04-18T10:06:26Z

    10am: Sir Terry Wogan is top of the BBC Radio 2 salary tree, pulling in£800,000 a year for his two hour weekday morning breakfast show.

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    Rising budgets for new media advertising

    2006-04-18T07:59:30Z

    8am: New media such as the internet are continuing to see a rise in advertising budgets at the expense of traditional commercial broadcasters, a new report has found.

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    Happy Easter

    2006-04-14T08:00:30Z

    Broadcastnow.co.uk is taking a festive break and will return on 3 January.

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    Saga wins FM radio licence for the north east

    2006-04-13T17:37:41Z

    Saga has won the new FM radio licence for the north east of England, beating applications from all the major UK radio groups.

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    Queen to re-open Broadcasting House

    2006-04-13T15:37:59Z

    The Queen is to meet two of the BBC's biggest radio loud-mouths, Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, when she officially re-opens Broadcasting House in London later this month.

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    Heart FM dumps Burns

    2006-04-13T10:45:33Z

    10.45am: Greg Burns, a seven year veteran of Heart FM, has been axed from the London station.

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    ITN launches mobile weather channel

    2006-04-13T10:29:46Z

    Vodafone TV customers should never be caught out by the rain again, as from today ITN will provide them with a weather channel.

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    NUJ halts ITV strike action

    2006-04-13T10:03:24Z

    The National Union of Journalists has called off 24-hour strike action at ITV's regional newsrooms planned for next Tuesday.

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    GCap considers closing Capital Disney

    2006-04-13T08:39:21Z

    GCap Media is in negotiations with Disney over the future of digital radio station Capital Disney, which could see the station change hands or close.

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    PEER POLL: BBC pension scheme

    2006-04-13T07:45:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the BBC keep its existing pension scheme for staff?

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    Sue Lawley to spin her last disc on Desert Island

    2006-04-12T12:03:10Z

    Sue Lawley is to stand down as presenter of BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs.

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    ITV gets up close to Prince Charles

    2006-04-12T11:42:33Z

    Sir Trevor McDonald has carried out an exclusive 'frank and wide-ranging interview' with Prince Charles for a major ITV documentary to air next month.

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    I've Won the Lottery claims 4.1m

    2006-04-12T11:29:15Z

    The winning numbers for ITV1's documentary I've Won the Lotterydidn't come up at 8pm with 4.1 million (18.4%).

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    UBC trials service

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    UBC Media is to trial a service allowing consumers to buy music they hear on the radio over their mobile phones, in partnership with BT Movio, the Carphone Warehouse, and Chrysalis Radio. Using Chrysalis' Heart network, the trial with 100 people will last two months, starting in June. It will ...

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    North One secures popular science task

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    North One Television has won its first commission from National Geographic Channel (NGC) for a Brainiac-style popular science series.

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    MTV software

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    MTV Networks has launched on-air creative software to allow designers and editors from various parts of the world to work on projects simultaneously. Creative Hub software, based on Apple's Final Cut Studio, is designed to enable numerous systems to connect to form a Storage Area Network (SAN) to allow creative ...

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    Noack moves west

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Granada Bristol has appointed September Films head of specialist factual Dunja Noack as an executive producer overseeing history, science and specialist factual programmes. Noack's credits include the Emmy award-winning CGI project Virtual Historyfor Discovery International and Britain's Sexual Fantasiesfor Five ...

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    Star makes Indian Housewives

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Hit US drama Desperate Housewivesis set to be remade in India by Rupert Murdoch-owned cable broadcaster Star TV.

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    Houlihan signs for Twofour

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Former RDF LA boss Joe Houlihan has been hired by factual entertainment indie Twofour as creative director.

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    New Leopard exec

    2006-04-12T08:30:00Z

    Leopard Films has hired Sea of Soulsexecutive producer Nadine Marsh-Edwards as an executive producer within its drama division Leopardrama. Marsh-Edwards joins from BBC Scotland, where she spent seven years working on programmes such as Two Thousand Acres of Sky and Tinsel Town. She will be ...