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BBC1 is UK's favourite.
BBC1 is the UK's favourite TV station, according to research undertaken by the Independent Television Commission
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Fresh faces to boost NTL management.
NTL is bolstering its management team with a raft of new senior executives, following its emergence from debt restructuring in January, writes Paul Revoir.
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BBC gears up for charter renewal.
The BBC has set up five internal teams headed by senior executives to look at different areas of its remit as part of the next stage in its preparations for the renewal of its charter in 2006, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Life's still a beach for baywatch babes.
The trials and tribulations of the Baywatch babes, the pneumatic Los Angeles lifeguards who set pulses
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Sit-up tv to set up auction channel.
Retail shopping outfit Sit-up.tv is set to take on 40 extra production staff as it gears up to launch a new-style auction channel which invites viewers to bid for goods as the prices drop, writes Paul Revoir.
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Crossroads fails (again).
ITV's new director of programmes, Nigel Pickard, this week finally pulled the plug on Crossroads, the
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Endemol puts comedy into 3G mobile phones.
Endemol UK is to offer advice to users of third-generation (3G) video mobile phones on how
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BBC new media to axe 100 jobs.
The bursting of the dotcom bubble has finally caught up with the BBC, which is axing
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ITV joint-venture wins daytime BBC1 order.
London News Network (LNN), the news and features joint-venture owned by Carlton and Granada, has scored its first commission for the BBC, with a daytime series, writes Colin Robertson.
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Thompson: C4 must embrace its core values.
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has drawn up a list of what he believes are the channel's original core values and is calling on commissioners to use them to reinvigorate the corporation, writes Penny Hughes.
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Regional indie breaks into BBC1 primetime.
Belfast-based indie Wild Rover has snared a primetime Saturday night BBC1 commission - one of the first times such a slot has gone to an indie outside London, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Competition Commission to probe ITV studios.
ITV's dominance of broadcast studios in the north of England will be investigated as part of the Competition Commission's inquiry into the proposed merger of Carlton and Granada, it was revealed this week.
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BBC satellite move to cost Sky #85m.
The BBC radically changed the game in digital satellite this week by announcing plans to move
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NewsNew executive committee for RTL
Five owner, RTL Group, has unveiled a new executive committee that sees the departure of RTL chief strategy officer Bruno Chauvat, following the appointment of Gerhard Zeiler as chief executive, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsDeayton gets Bafta nomination
Sacked Have I Got News For You presenter Angus Deayton is a surprise nomination at this year's Bafta TV Awards - and will do battle with his nemesis Paul Merton, writes John Plunkett
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NewsBBC misses indie quota - again
The BBC is to endure the wrath of independent producers after the OFT today confirmed that the corporation has yet again missed its 25% indie quota by an even bigger margin than in 2001, writes Colin Robertson
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Comic Relief 2003 broke more than just a fundraising record on Friday night
Comic Relief 2003 broke more than just a fundraising record on Friday night (17 March), holding 11.5 million viewers (45.5% share) for three hours between 19.00 and 22.00, and giving BBC1 its biggest peaktime share of the year, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsITV giants provide more war funds
Carlton and Granada have signed off a further£5.5m for ITV News to help foot the costs of covering the expected war in Iraq, writes Colin Robertson
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Governance call over Carlton and Granada
A leading shareholder lobby group, whose members control more than a fifth of the stock market, has added its voice...
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Historian abandons Hitler TV series
The historian Sir Ian Kershaw has severed all connection with the American producers of a television mini-series th...