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C4 acts on diversity.
Channel 4 has appointed former BBC producer Mary FitzPatrick to oversee cultural diversity at the broadcaster.FitzPatrick,
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TELEWEST£2BN LOAN.
Telewest has organised a new£2.15bn overdraft after securing a 'non-binding agreement' with groups of lenders
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HBO and Shine to make male Sex & the City.
US broadcaster HBO has turned to a British independent in a bid to develop a male version of its award-winning, but ending, New York-based sitcom Sex and the City, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Mentorn chief moves to TV Corp top spot.
Mentorn chief executive Tom Gutteridge is to give up responsibility for the indie he founded 18 years ago in order to take up a new post as group creative director with parent company The Television Corporation, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC 1 tackles traffic chaos.
BBC 1 is to follow up its critically acclaimed Your NHS and Cracking Crime themed programming days with another event - this time examining the state of Britain's transport system, writes Paul Revoir.
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Jowell amends bill to protect indie sector.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has handed independent producers a significant boost by accepting all but two of the recommendations in the Independent Television Commission (ITC) programme supply review, writes Luke Satchell.
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Discovery scoops C4 factual output.
Discovery Networks Europe has sealed a multimillion pound co-production and output deal with Channel 4, giving
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NewsFreeview shifts 300,000 in first two months
Digital terrestrial television was given a shot in the arm today (21 January), as new free-to-air service Freeview revealed it had sold over 300,000 of its adapters in the two months since it launched, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsITV saves millions with set-top box buy-up
ITV has moved to safeguard the cash it receives from broadcasting to digital viewers by forking out£2.8m to buy up all remaining ITV Digital boxes on behalf its former customers, writes Steve Aston
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Industry insider beats rivals to the top job at media super regulator
Former NTL managing director Stephen Carter has won the race to become chief executive of new communications super ...
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They think it's all over for NTL sport
Cable group NTL has admitted that financial concerns may force it to pull a flagship deal to create a nostalgia spo...
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Journalist arrested for vampire victim interview
A Malawian radio journalist was arrested yesterday for broadcasting an interview with a man who claimed to have bee...
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Ex-Digital users can keep boxes for free
Former customers of ITV Digital who faced a£40 bill if they wanted to keep their set-top boxes were told yesterday...
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Michael Jackson scoop for Bashir
Martin Bashir, the television interviewer has persuaded Michael Jackson to lift the veil that covers his unorthodox...
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TV 'has influence on one-year-olds
The behaviour of children as young as one can be influenced by what they see in television, according to a study pu...
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Delia puts club before cookery
After 30 years of teaching the rudiments of cookery to the culinary challenged, Delia has hung up her apron ...
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Delia deserts her kitchen for football
Delia Smith sent the middle classes into panic yesterday by announcing that she was giving up the cookery business ...
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NTL's Carter set to get top job at Ofcom
Stephen Carter, the former managing director of NTL's UK operations, is to become chief executive of Ofcom, the pow...