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No Big Finish for M2
The proposed deal by Soho-based facility M2 to acquire a majority share in the Big Finish group, which includes commercials facility Peach and post facility Pepper, has fallen through. The chairman of M2, Bill Cullen, told Broadcast that 'after proper due diligence on the Big Finish group, we failed to ...
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Kodak cuts 18 jobs at Cinesite
Kodak has announced the closure of its digital imaging service at Cinesite Europe in London with the loss of 18 jobs, writes Sam Espensen.
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NewsMurdoch given Telepiu go-ahead
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has received regulatory approval to buy Italian pay-TV company Telepiu from Vivendi Universal, boosting its aim to become a global satellite broadcasting network, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsLineker and Gower quit BBC1 quiz
Gary Lineker and David Gower are to leave BBC1 sports quiz They Think It's All Over after eight years as team captains, writes Luke Satchell
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X-ratings TV plea
TV programmes should carry cinema-style classifications which warn of violence, sex and swearing, broadcasting watc...
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Winner or cheat? Judge sums up Millionaire case
An Army major was either a genuine winner of a fraudster when he left the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hot seat w...
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Commons to debate TV issues
The relationship between football and television will be debated in the House of Commons this morning, a move that ...
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TV news could have cost us two world wars, says Straw
The First and Second WorldWars might never have been won if they have been won if they had been covered on 24-hour ...
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Manchester United seeks to score overseas television deals
Manchester United is hoping to sell the overseas broadcasting rights to is Premiership games from next year as it s...
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BBC1 to screen full-length ballet after criticism of arts coverage
The first ballet to be seen on BBC1 in almost a decade will be Matthew Bourne's colourful production of Tchaikovsky...
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NewsInaugural SportelAsia cancelled
The inaugural SportelAsia, the planned Hong Kong-based event for TV executives working in sport, has been cancelled due to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Asia, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsDigital TV to increase 14% in Europe
The number of households in Europe with digital TV is expected to rise 14 per cent this year to 30.7 million from 26.9m at the end of last year, according to this year's European Television report from Informa Media Group, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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Round-the-clock news may undermine public morale, says Straw
Jack Straw warned the media yesterday against making ''snap judgements' as they report the dramatic but often confu...
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Quiz show jury set for vital answers
A jury at Southwark Crown Court must decide whether an Army officer who claimed the£1million jackpot on the Who Wa...
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Cable poised to replace Wallace
Cable and Wireless chairman richard Lapthorne is on the verge of appointing a new chief executive to replace the ou...
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Sopranos maker to muscle in on the UK
Sex and the City and The Sopranos could be coming to the UK on a separate channel, if plans by cable company HBO ar...
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When less definitely means more
Television has had, so far, an odd sort of war. It rehearsed and waited, and then rehearsed a little more and waite...
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NewsITC turns down CNBC appeal
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has turned down an appeal by CNBC Europe against a ruling that it violated sponsorship rules by taking money from the European Commission to make a programme about the Euro, writes Luke Satchell
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Leader - TV faces mother of all battles
A week into the war and already the conflict looks a lot different to the last time we sent our troops to the Gulf. This time around war is an altogether bloodier, less predictable and more difficult proposition - from a journalistic as well as a military perspective - a ...