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10 Alps nets Sky project
10 Alps, the media company backed by former pop star Bob Geldof, has secured a commission from Sky One and three series orders for BBC radio, writes Lucy Rouse.
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BBC 1 orders celebrity-led charity show
Format creator Thomas Murphy Entertainment has won its first commission for television, with an order for a BBC 1 celebrity-led charity show in the style of former BBC 1 stalwart Jim'll Fix It, writes Penny Hughes.
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ITV floors BBC 1 in Sunday night fight for supremacy
One last gasp for Wimbledon, the final (BBC 1, Monday 11.35) with 4.43 million, before ITV and Channel 4 were once more serving aces with a Coronation Street special and Big
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NTL announces 5,000 jobs to go
Cable Business NTL is planning to more than double job losses to almost 5,000 as it struggles to reduce its£10bn debt.NTL chief operating officer Stephen Carter said last Thursday (26
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Avid sheds 8% of workforce
US software firm, whose products are used to edit and finish TV programmes worldwide, axes 140 jobs in bid to cut costs by $11 million
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Watch footie with mother
ITV director of programmes David Liddiment says network aiming for 'widest possible family audience' with 19.00 slot for new football show, The Premiership
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BBC 1's share plummets to just 21.7%
Connery's return as Bond attracts 6.7m and helps ITV to gun down rival in ratings, according to unoffcial overnights
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Radio 2 extends reach
Former MOR champion confirms position as BBC's and UK's most popular station by adding nearly 1m new listeners
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BBC 1's share plummets to just 21.7 per cent
Connery's return as Bond attracts 6.7m and helps ITV to gun down rival in ratings, according to unoffcial overnights
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Radio 2 extends dominance
BBC Radio 2 today confirmed its position as the UK's largest and most popular radio station by adding nearly 1 million new listeners during the last three months helping BBC radio to maintain an overall lead over commercial rivals, according to the latest
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Granada in format boost drive
Media group to rename its format shop The Hothouse and roll it out across Granada Content
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Capital Radio restructures
Radio group to re-align geographically divided businesses around four key brands
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Sportsworld to make Indian Popstars
TV rights and production outfit Sportsworld has started production on an Indian version of Popstarsin Mumbai as part of a joint commission by Channel 5 and Star Plus.Sportsworld claims
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Foot and Mouth drama for CBBC
The devastating effect that foot and mouth disease can wreak on children in rural communities is to be highlighted in a new hard-hitting drama commissioned by the BBC's kids department, CBBC.Out
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Bazalgette hits out at BBC Online
Endemol Entertainment's UK creative director says producers will suffer if they hand over online rights to 'magnificent and horrid' BBC Online
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Super indies seek reduction in BBC quota
Leading UK independent producers lobby DCMS to lower corporation's indie quota in exchange for bigger share of rights
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Bazalgette hits out at BBC's interactive demands
Endemol Entertainment's UK creative director says producers will suffer if they hand over online rights to 'magnificent and horrid' BBC Online
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Multichannel appeal drops for older viewers
Heaviest consumers of television losing interest in extra choice but viewing among younger age-groups on the increase
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Channel 4's Brown resigns after 14 years
Deputy director of programmes and managing director of 4 Learning leaves with no job to go to
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Telewest's losses widen but earnings, subscribers up
Cable company announces first half losses of£413 million but chief executive Singer says rise in subscribers, earnings and revenues shows company 'in the execution phase of our business plan with financing securely in place'