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    Is Rise next to go at C4?

    2003-06-16T10:08:16Z

    Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson this week sounded the death knell for the Chris Evans

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    Gay parents focus of RDF series for C4.

    2003-06-16T10:08:16Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a 2 x 60-minute series from RDF Media about gay couples who are trying or in the process of having children, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Governors back Parfitt despite poor R1 ratings.

    2003-06-16T10:08:16Z

    BBC governors have given their seal of approval to Radio 1's ongoing strategy despite a massive plunge in ratings for the station, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Noel Edmonds pioneers the 'video studio'.

    2003-06-16T10:08:15Z

    Noel Edmonds, the king of light entertainment TV in the 1980s, is planning to launch a nationwide network of 'mini-studios' designed to allow broadcasters to put viewers on screen without the cost of studio interviews, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Airey looks for reality event.

    2003-06-16T10:08:15Z

    Sky is planning a two-week reality show due to be launched in the autumn and marketed as 'event television for Sky One', writes Rosemary Gallagher.

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    Granada goes to Oz for C4.

    2003-06-16T10:08:11Z

    Granada has secured its biggest ever one-off commission for Channel 4 with a 'reality-soap' series which traces the journey of eight British families who move to Australia, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Five spends 2003's budget in 6 months.

    2003-06-16T10:08:02Z

    Five this week said it had exhausted its programme budget for the whole of 2003 -

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    BBC governors re-appointed

    2003-06-16T10:07:46Z

    The government has re-appointed two BBC governors and extended the term of office for another, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Taking on Trevor

    2003-06-16T10:00:39Z

    Richard Sambrook has coped with critics, aggressive politicians and war. Now the BBC's newss chief has ITV's flagsh...

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    Why Mr Power Ranger eyes ITV

    2003-06-16T09:58:32Z

    Zap? Kapow? Zonk? I'm trying hard to remember exactly how Power Rangers did their stuff. I know they were distressi...

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    Keeping it real

    2003-06-16T09:54:55Z

    The blue and yellow NUJ press card flashed by chief reporter Cal McCaffery in the BBC conspiracy thriller State of ...

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    BBC scrap public vote on its programmes

    2003-06-16T09:52:47Z

    Monkey is said to report that one of the BBC's most entertaining interactive initiatives seems to have been nipped ...

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    Ofcomical

    2003-06-16T09:49:33Z

    As the countdown continues to the day Ofcom finally opens its doors for business a disturbing advert appears in the...

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    When you're in a hole...

    2003-06-16T09:46:03Z

    Channel 4's The Big dig, asking us all to become archeologists, seemed a great wheeze - until the professionals got...

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    Media monkey

    2003-06-16T09:45:30Z

    As the countdown continues to the day Ofcom finally opens its doors for business a disturbing advert appears in the...

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    TV Wives jodie gets a new job...as Jordan!

    2003-06-16T09:44:00Z

    Footballers' Wives is to get a new character based on glamour girl Jordan - and bosses want sexy Jodie Marsh to pla...

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    Holby Horror

    2003-06-16T09:41:17Z

    TV nurse fights for life after plunging 40ft off balcony. ...

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    The station masters

    2003-06-16T09:39:20Z

    Relaxation of radio ownership laws means that foreign companies will soon be able to control more British stations....

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    BBC News 24 strives to be different

    2003-06-16T09:35:41Z

    The BBC's 24-hour news channel is to be extensively revised in the coming year to make it more distinctive from suc...

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    How to make a royal documentary

    2003-06-16T09:21:37Z

    The lightning of flash-bulbs was so intense when the Prince of Wales first kissed Camilla Parker Bowles in public t...