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India turns off World Service
A collapse in the BBC World Service's Indian audience was the main reason for a three million fall in its listeners...
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Dyke looks west for new drama
Greg Dyke denied claims that he plans to 'dumb down' the BBC's political coverage but said that the a drama like ...
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BBC spends too much on its digital channel
The BBC was accused by MPs yesterday of spending too much on digital services that most people cannot receive, and ...
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NewsBBC faces indie rage over quota shortfall
Accusations that the BBC is letting down the independent production sector gained further weight this week as the corporation revealed it had failed to hit its 25 per cent minimum indie quota for the first time, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Liberty pulls out of bond tender
Liberty Media, the investment vehicle of media mogul John Malone, yesterday shocked debt markets by withdrawing its...
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MPs attack BBC over digital spending
BBC executives were forced on to the defensive yesterday as MPs attacked heavy increases in license fee spending on...
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NewsEx-ITV Digital staff launch tribunal actions
More than 150 former ITV Digital employees will this week launch employment tribunal cases against the administrator of the defunct DTT broadcaster in a bid to secure pay-off cash of around£1.5m, writes Paul Revoir
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On the Record stays on air
BBC 1's heavyweight Sunday political discussion show, On the Record, will not be axed and will continue to play an important role as a 'serious political' programme in the BBC schedule, according to the head of the BBC's political review Sian Kevill, ...
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ITV turns to short-run drama to lift ratings
ITV is looking to order more shorter-run mainstream drama series to reclaim its dominance in peaktime, writes Steve Aston
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Lion focuses on entertainment
Lion TV has appointed its first head of entertainment, hiring former Endemol controller of entertainment, international Adam Wood, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Choice gives drama a boost
BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has ordered two dramas, described as his 'most ambitious' yet, which will form the centrepiece of BBC 3 if it is approved by the government later this month, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC to celebrate life of Attenborough
The BBC is to screen a special programme marking the golden anniversary of David Attenborough's television career as part of a raft of new specialist factual programmes paid for by a doubling in investment in the genre over the next three years, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBBC Ventures stems losses
BBC Ventures, the proposed holding company for the corporation's commercial business-to-business activities headed by Roger Flynn, almost halved its losses at£5.4m in the 2001/2 financial year, writes Barbara Marshall
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ITV to air Blake's glacial odyssey
ITV has bought the rights to screen TWI's ambitious self-funded documentary based on the last Antarctic expedition of late explorer Sir Peter Blake, writes Steve Aston
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Granada and WGBH tackle UK role in US war
Granada Bristol and WGBH Boston are to co-produce a BBC 2 historical series making a 'radical reappraisal of the British role in the American war of independence', writes Jon Rogers
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C5's unique talent show
A woman with no brain who went on to gain three A levels is just one of the unique people lined up for a new Channel 5 science-based primetime strand, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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BBC poaches ITV pop pundit
Pop plugger turned TV face Nikki Chapman is to front three new BBC daytime shows after signing a deal with the corporation, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Evans returns to Channel 4 on new terms
Channel 4 has cut a deal with Chris Evans for two weekly entertainment strands believed to be worth£500,000 an hour. The former Virgin
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BBC recommissions reliable drama series
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have ordered new runs of a raft of popular series. Merseybeat, starring Jonathan Kerrigan, returns for a third series in the autumn, while Waking the Deadand ...
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Spire Tells flower market story for Style
Oxford-based Spire Films has been commissioned by UK Style channel editor Nick Thorogood to produce a 15 x 30-minute series on London's Columbia Road flower and plant market. Presented by Sven Wombwell, the series, Columbia Road Gardens, will look at the history of the market ...