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    EC to investigate Premier League rights sales

    2001-10-29T16:47:00Z

    European Commission demands to see rights contracts with broadcasters amid concerns league is freezing out smaller media companies

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    ITC urges industry to see beyond disabilities

    2001-10-29T14:49:00Z

    UK regulator calls for producers and broadcasters to involve more people with disabilities both on and off-screen

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    Heartbeat enjoys healthy return

    2001-10-29T14:26:00Z

    ITV1's Sunday evening success continues as sixties police drama series returns with 11m viewers seeing-off BBC1's Monarch of the Glen

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    Murdoch and Sorrell to launch joint venture agency

    2001-10-29T11:01:00Z

    New company will combine skills of programme makers with needs of big-brand advertisers

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    EchoStar wins DirecTV

    2001-10-29T09:32:00Z

    Ergen beats Murdoch to control of US's largest satellite broadcaster

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    HIT to buy Pingu

    2001-10-29T08:25:00Z

    Bob the Builder and Barney owner to acquire new children's character as year-end profits rise by 53%

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    Peak Practice swamps Victoria Wood

    2001-10-26T12:59:00Z

    ITV's spiced-up drama pulls-in the viewers on its return

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    Del Boy to appear on Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:06:00Z

    David Jason character could get to sit in the quiz hot-seat as BBC plans collaboration over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    Del Boy to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:02:00Z

    David Jason character to sit in the hot-seat as BBC and ITV collaborate over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    ITC appoints deputy chair

    2001-10-26T11:10:00Z

    Baroness Janet Whitaker to take up role in November

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    BBC Radio 2 more popular than ever

    2001-10-26T10:41:00Z

    Station's success story continues as an extra two million listeners are added bringing audience total to over 12m

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    ITV Digital adds subscribers but churn remains high

    2001-10-26T10:28:00Z

    ITV Digital subscriber figures come in at a higher than expected 82,000 but high churn rate for the service means outlook is still grim

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    Straight TV set to revive Planet Pop

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Straight TV is to revive its former Channel 4 music format Planet Pop after securing an eight-part commission from Flextech-owned channel Trouble, writes Penny Hughes.

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    PECK WINNER

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Freelance cameraman Talal Abu Rahmeh was awarded the new Sony International Impact Award at last week's Rory Peck Awards 2001 (Thursday 18 October).His film Death of Mohammel El Durah was singled

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    PLAYJAM TO OPEN IN US

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Interactive broadcaster Static 2358 has launched its interactive gaming service PlayJam in the US through New York cable service Cablevision. PlayJam is currently on BSkyB, NTL and Telewest in the UK

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    OCTOPUS TV SOLD

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Octopus TV parent company Octopus Publishing Group has been bought by Hachette-Livre, part of the French Lagardere Media Group. Operations director Laura Banford said TV operations would remain unaffected and Nick

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    Rapture pay-off 'miserly'

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Staff at dance music channel Rapture are being offered redundancy packages of£240 per year of service as owner United Business Media gears up to close the channel next month, writes Simon Ellery.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Mettle for sex

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    As much as OTR likes to expose and reveal television's naughtier side (see above), it's just possible that E4 has gone a little too far with its new interactive Sex Bots

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    Survivor makes it to second series

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    ITV HAS decided to run a second series of its ratings flop Survivor, writes Steve Aston.

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    A PRIMETIME SLOT AT LAST

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has confirmed the second series of US drama The West Wing will move out of its graveyard slot when it hits the main channel next year, writes Penny Hughes.