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    10 Alps nets Sky project

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T17:18:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T16:32:00Z

    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%

    2001-08-02T14:13:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T14:08:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T13:33:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T12:50:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T11:53:00Z

    Media group to rename its format shop The Hothouse and roll it out across Granada Content

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    Capital Radio restructures

    2001-08-02T11:39:00Z

    Radio group to re-align geographically divided businesses around four key brands

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    Sportsworld to make Indian Popstars

    2001-08-02T10:42:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T10:42:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:55:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:49:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:49:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:49:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:49:00Z

    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

    2001-08-02T09:30:00Z

    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'