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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.
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C5 shifts news and adds chat.
Channel 5 is shifting its main evening news programme to 17.30 from the start of the forthcoming general election campaign, despite the fact that the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has not
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C5 GLADIATOR TRIUMPH.
Channel 5 has won the British terrestrial television first-run rights to the multi-Oscar nominated film Gladiator after a 'keenly contested' battle with other broadcasters, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NEW DEAL FOR C5.
Channel 5 is to take an 11.5 per cent stake in internet pets product company Petspyjamas.com after agreeing to give the firm£2m worth of on-screen advertising in its latest equity
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C5 presenter heads indie Sponge.
Channel 5 presenter Marc Crumpton and actor Ed Sanders, star of Sky One football soap Dream Team, have set up their own entertainment production company, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C5 hikes 'quality' factual output.
Channel 5 senior controller of arts, features and documentaries, Chris Shaw, has commissioned a raft of new factual programmes, as part of a drive to promote quality documentaries in primetime, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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JELLY GOES HARD AT C5.
Jelly Television has created the titles for Channel 5 documentary Hard Bastards. Presented by Ronnie Kray's widow Katy, the series examines the lives of Britain's toughest men. Designed and directed by
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Homegrown hits still eluding C5.
Channel 5's audience share is obstinately stuck at about 5 per cent, with sport and Hollywood movies getting viewers rather than UK produced shows, such as The Mole, even though they have been well-publicised. Katy Elliott reports.
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C4's Bender to freelance.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, night-time, Darren Bender has quit, writes Steve Aston.
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Emap/C4 teen portal scrapped.
Emap Digital and Channel 4's planned teen portal, Slam.com, has been shelved after the two companies admitted they had drastically rethought the project, writes Steve Aston.