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    UK Gold seeks indie ideas for archive shows.

    2003-07-17T16:12:44Z

    UK Gold is asking indies to come up with new ways to package its library of drama, comedy and entertainment shows in a bid to shed its video jukebox image, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    SKY NEWS ALERT FOR PC.

    2003-07-17T16:12:44Z

    Sky News this week launched a desktop news service called Sky News Alert. The free service

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    Programming - LWT ups current affairs output.

    2003-07-17T16:12:44Z

    LWT is beefing up its current affairs coverage this autumn by turning The London Programme into a series and ordering 40 editions of political show The Week, writes Paul Revoir.

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    RATINGS - ITV1's Saturday night faces grim judgement.

    2003-07-17T16:12:44Z

    ITV1's new look Saturday peaktime programming failed to get the broadcaster out of its viewing slump this weekend, writes Jon Rogers.

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    TOUCHDOWN MOVE.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Action Time head of sales Yvonne Pilkington has quit the Carlton-owned company after five years to

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    MPs to view ITV regional news on web.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Carlton and Granada this week embarked on a public relations exercise in support of the regions with the launch of a new interactive service for MPs, writes Paul Revoir.

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    GRIMSDALE TO YAHOO!

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    New media giant Yahoo! Europe has hired former Channel 4 head of cross-platform development Peter Grimsdale

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    Friendly TV in ITC porn probe.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Interactive entertainment channel Friendly TV is being probed by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) just two months after launch, after viewers complained it was screening unencrypted pornography, writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    EWART GETS ITV SPORT.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    ITV News has appointed its Africa correspondent Tim Ewart as its new sports editor. He will

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    SKY CLEARED BY OFTEL.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Oftel has thrown out a complaint from digital channel network Simply TV, which claimed that BSkyB's

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    Carter sets Ofcom staff ceiling.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    OFCOM chief executive Stephen Carter has pledged to cut the head count of the five regulators his new department will replace by 200 people, scotching suggestions that staff numbers would increase, writes Colin Robertson.

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    PREMIERSHIP BIDS IN.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Channel 4 has pitched itself against ITV and the BBC with a bid for the Premiership

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    ITV TO SEND THE 'BAD LADS' TO BOOT CAMP.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    A group of 30 young offenders is to be sent to 'boot camp' and put through

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    SM:TV faces axe as pitches roll in.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    ITV has started to hear pitches for a new Saturday morning kids show, heightening speculation that

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    News Special: BBC Annual Report - Critical Issues ... Minority appeal.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    The governors said it was 'disappointing ... that the BBC is not attracting more people from

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    C4 show to lampoon reality TV.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a spoof TV pilot show that it hopes 'will do for entertainment formats what Brass Eye did for current affairs', writes Penny Hughes.

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    C4 News puts northern operation up for grabs.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Channel 4 News has put its Leeds-based northern news operations out to tender for the first time, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Reality show up for C4 Rise slot.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    Channel 4 is considering replacing its ailing breakfast show Rise with a long-running reality TV show.Executives

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    S4C appoints new programming chief.

    2003-07-17T16:12:43Z

    S4C has hired a new director of programmes just weeks after announcing its programming budget was to be squeezed for 2004, writes Penny Hughes.

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    ITN looks at LNN takeover.

    2003-07-17T16:12:42Z

    ITN has submitted plans to Carlton and Granada to absorb London News Network (LNN) and the London regional news service into its operation, if the merger of the ITV giants is successful, writes Paul Revoir.