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CHANNEL 4 NEWS GETS BIGGEST 16 TO 24 SHARE.
Channel 4 News this week claimed it had the youngest profile of all broadcasters' news programmes. According to Barb figures based on 2001 weekly averages, 24 per cent of the audience
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC Broadcast division aims for #100m.
Pam Masters, managing director of the BBC's latest commercial division BBC Broadcast, has unveiled plans for the venture's new broadcast centre which could deliver around #100m to the BBC, writes Barbara Marshall.
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RATINGS - ITV 1 has best ratings weekend in six months.
BBC 2's docu-drama about the Nazi planning of the 'final solution' in 1942 attracted twice the channel's normal audience share this week, writes Jon Rogers.
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Sky to offer interactive F1.
Sky Sports is to challenge ITV's dominance of Formula One by offering live interactive pay-per-view Grand Prix weekends, writes Simon Ellery.
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Granada kids chief asks public for ideas
Kids director of programmes Steven Andrew advertises for 'fresh and distinctive' pre-school ideas in national press
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BBC ups radio share
Corporation extends lead over commercial sector with Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio Five Live all returning record figures
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Report says ITV1 will bounce back
Channel set to win back daytime ratings as BBC 1 is warned against becoming 'less varied and predictable'
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Digital target may be too low
NCC says governments target of 95 per cent coverage could leave 1 million homes unable to receive a signal after switch off
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Industry weighs up media plans
PACT calls for Code of Practice on Broadcasters' Commissioning of Content while broadcasters agree ownership rules should be relaxed
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Home & Leisure focuses on men
Discovery Home & Leisure has ordered 130 hours of programming to help shore up its position in the men's lifestyle market, writes Simon Ellery.Commissioned by Discovery Home & Leisure director of
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BBC NI lines up Catholic drama
BBC Northern Ireland head of drama Robert Cooper has ordered a controversial film for BBC 1 examining the attitude of the Catholic Church towards unwanted pregnancies during the 1960s, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Sky to offer interactive F1
Sky Sports is to challenge ITV's dominance of Formula One by offering live interactive pay-per-view Grand Prix weekends, writes Simon Ellery.From the beginning of the new F1 season in March, Sky
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BBC claims 40% of digital viewers have used BBCi
8.1 million people alleged to have accessed the service last year
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Richard Harris to explore Arthur myth
The team behind the BBC's award-winning Son of Godseries are to turn their attention to King Arthur and his legendary court of Camelot, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Snoopy rights deal
Cartoon Network has secured rights to air The Charlie Brown Show and Peanuts for its classics service Boomerang, writes Simon Ellery. The channel has bought the 18 x 30-minute series of
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UK horizons to make illegal boxing doc
UK Horizons has commissioned Flame TV to make 15 x 30-minute boxing series Born to Fight. Described as a 'gritty, real-life documentary', the series is fronted by model and boxing enthusiast
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Disney TV to go on after lights out
Playhouse Disney Channel extends broadcasting hours to 23:00
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C5 to air wise and wonderful animal stories
Pilgrim Productions Canterbury, co-producer of ITV series Ultimate Questions, has bagged a 13 x 10-minute children's animation series for Channel 5. Ordered by commissioner for daytime, arts and religion Kim Peat,
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Pesky wins online children's commission
Indie Pesky has been commissioned by CBBC controller Nigel Pickard to produce a 10 x 2.5-minute children's animation for the forthcoming digital channel CBBC and online. The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, which
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Endemol's Initial to film tenor Watson
Endemol UK production arm Initial is to film the open-air concert performed by British tenor Russell Watson on 6 February in New Zealand for PBS in the US and TVNZ in