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Former ITV Digital customers flock to BSkyB
BSkyB added a massive 214,000 subscribers in the last quarter of its financial year as tens of thousands of former ...
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US Justice Department launches investigation of AOL's accounts
The troubles at AOL Time Warner deepened still further yesterday after the company confirmed that the US Justice De...
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Debt-laden Telewest agrees£1.2m pay-off for ousted Singer
Telewest Communications, the debt-laden cable company, yesterday forced out its chief executive, Adam Singer saying...
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Trio charge over major's win on 'Millionaire' show
A major who scooped£1m on ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, his wife and a third person were charged yesterday...
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Paper retracts fake TV claim
The Sunday paper the News of the World admitted yesterday that its articles claiming the investigative television r...
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Zomba deal pushes Bertelsmann over debt limit
The chairman and chief executive of Bertelsmann has warned that the German media group would exceed 'a self imposed...
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Profitable BSkyB on track for 7 million
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the satellite television provider, said yesterday that it returned to net profita...
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Major charged over TV quiz show
An army officer and his wife were charged yesterday with deception and conspiracy relating to an alleged swindle on...
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Fury as ministers dismiss doubts over media Bill
The Government was on a collision course with MPs as peers last night after announcing that it would push through p...
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Liberty set to buy Casema
France Telecom is expected to announce today that it has reached an agreement to sell Casema, its Dutch cable busin...
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Justice officials launch AOL accounting probe
The US Department of Justice has opened an investigations into AOL Time Warner's accounting practices, a week after...
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Underlying lift at BSkyB
British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's leading pay-television company, yesterday reported a 20 per cent increase in und...
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Telewest chief ousted before balance sheet revamp
Adam Singer has been ousted as chief executive of Telewest in a boardroom coup at the heavily indebted UK cable ope...
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Bertelsmann draws strength from depth of its rural roots
The ancient values of provincial rural life still lie at the heart of media giant's philosophy, says Tobias Buck. ...
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NewsUKTV drafts DIY channel plans
Executives at UKTV are seeking planning permission from shareholders BBC Worldwide and Flextech to build a new pay-TV channel for do-it-yourself enthusiasts, writes Paul Revoir
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'Millionaire' cops charge major and wife
An Army major and his wife were last night charged with cheating to win the jackpot on telly's Who Wants To Be AMi...
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Axed Telewest boss walks away with£1.2m package
Telewest chief executive Adam Singer has been forced to quit by the independent directors after a raft of criticism...
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Thousands of Digital viewers opt for BSkyB
'Tens of thousands' of former ITV Digital customers signed up for pay-TV with BSkyB last quarter, said chief execut...
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Labour snubs its own man over TV shake-up
Labour pledged last night to press ahead with opening up the media to U.S. buyers after dismissing objections from ...