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BBC witnesses an upturn at the start of the week.
The return of football and the two-part drama Silent Witness were the two main changes to the primetime schedule. They brought a change of fortune for BBC 1 as the week's
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Bazal clinches four Indie wins.
Bazal dominated the ninth annual Indie Awards held on Wednesday night at the BBC TV Centre (7 March), picking up four gongs for Big Brother, while Hat Trick's Peter Fincham scooped
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PLAYJAM MAKES BARB.
Static-owned digital channel PlayJam has become the first interactive service to be included in Barb weekly and monthly viewing summaries. The channel hopes the move, which kicks off later this month,
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BBC backs new diversity push.
The BBC Black Forum (BBF) is planning to set up a network of representatives across the UK as part of an initiative to improve ethnic diversity across the corporation.The plan is
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EXTREME IN DEAL WITH SPAIN'S AXN CHANNEL.
London-based channel owner and distributor Extreme International has signed a deal to supply an additional 50 hours of programming to Sony-owned Spanish channel AXN over the next three years. AXN is
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BBC leads field at RTS awards.
The BBC is leading the field in ahead of this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) programme awards with a total of 31 nominations, writes Steve Aston.ITV picked up 17 nominations, while
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CORRECTION: ATTACHMENTS.
Broadcast would like to point out that the BBC elected to re-edit an episode of Attachments following complaints and was not asked to do so by the Broadcasting Standards Commission as
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RTL ATLANTIC SELL-OFF?
Media group RTL is expected to sell its 80 per cent stake in long-wave radio station Atlantic 252 in the next few months and is talking to at least two major
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Gearhouse sells off its assets.
Audiovisual equipment specialist Gearhouse Group, which went into receivership two weeks ago, has been disbanded after the sale of a number of its assets to two different parties, writes Barbara Marshall.
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GMTV ASKED TO REPLY.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has asked GMTV to respond to recent newspaper allegations that presenter Fiona Phillips breached its broadcasting guidelines by mentioning on air charities she had worked with.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - State of the union.
Could Bectu, active in disputes at the BBC, MTV and Carlton, be growing in importance? Membership may be rising but the union must adapt to technological and labour market changes and promote itself better.
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INTERVIEW - Ambassador for TV.
If Carlo Sartori, professor of communications at the University of Rome, did not exist, the late Malcolm Bradbury, scourge of the modern, globetrotting academic, would almost certainly have made him up.The
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DISCOVERY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOW.
Discovery Health is re-versioning a Canadian complementary medicine series and has lined up Toyah Willcox to present it. The 39 x 30-minute series called Beyond Medicine looks at health issues with
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BBC News never went off air - First hand experience.
On Saturday evening, I was in town when a member of my team called me to say there had been a bomb warning and they had been told to evacuate the
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PLAYBOY TO AIR NEW PAY CHANNEL ON SKY.
Playboy TV UK has launched a new pay channel on Sky Box Office called Spice. The launch takes the number of channels Playboy has in the UK to three. It also
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FREE TO AIR - A voice from the BBC's past.
How interesting that one of the most potent arguments against the BBC's plans for digital expansion and restricting the powers of the board of governors should come not from the commercial
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US hotshots to aid BBC's expansion.
The BBC has turned to the United States to aid its expansion plans in two separate moves, it emerged this week.Design group BBC MediaArc has brought in Star Wars producer Gary
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ACTION TIME NET ARCHIVE.
Action Time is to build a digital archive of shows such as Denis Norden's Laughter File for streaming over the internet. The aim is to provide a searchable archive database of
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Oftel may act if ITV/BSkyB fail to settle.
The government may call on the telecoms regulator, Oftel, to force BSkyB to take ITV onto its digital platform if a 'just result' between the two companies is not reached, writes John Lewis.
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Acquisitions head is fresh loss to Hit.
Hit Entertainment head of acquisitions Peter Curtis has joined creative director Kate Fawkes in quitting the indie, writes Steve Aston.