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ITN seeks legal advice over BBC online news
Websites getting content 'courtesy of the licence fee'
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SKY SHARES TUMBLE
Shares in BSkyB fell by more than 9 per cent this week after German pay-TV company Kirch sold 20 million of its shares and Vivendi, which owns 49 per cent of
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OFF THE RECORD - Pig out
And so to Classic FM, where we hear that the regular evening concert slot is going from strength to strength under presenter Nicholas Tresilian (above). But it seems that Nicholas also
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PHILLIPS PONDERS OKTV!
GMTV could be looking for a new female presenter if Fiona Phillips decides to front the company's new early evening OK!TV commission. Confirming the deal, GMTV managing director Christopher Stoddart said:
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ITC to trim ITV quotas
The Independent Television Commission is proposing to make ITV's regional programming quotas more flexible, writes Colin Robertson.
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IPC MAGS REBRANDS
IPC Magazines is to appoint a number of broadcast specialists and rebrand as IPC Media as part of a strategy to exploit its content on television and online. The group, headed
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INTERVIEW - Murch marches on
Hotly tipped for the role of BBC head of current affairs, Correspondent editor Fiona Murch is celebrating the extension of the BBC 2 programme - but still has a cheeky eye on moving it to Panorama's Monday 22.00 slot.
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International news - Pearson in international move
Pearson TV is considering plans to export its UK 'production village' model across the globe in a bid to expand into new territories and develop its production slate into new genres,
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International news
National Geographic Television has commissioned UK indie Flat Dog Films to make 6 x 26-minute series India Diaries, writes Simon Ellery.Commissioned by Nat Geo programme enterprises group executive producer Christine Weber
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New Scene One TV seeks indie ideas
Flextech/Telewest has unveiled details of its new 24-hour interactive entertainment and listings channel Scene One TV and has called on producers to come up with ideas to fill its 30 per
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International news - Postcard from ... Sandy George in Sydney
Oh what a headache it must be to run a public service broadcaster - what with the public's demand for accountability and involvement and the inconsistency of government intervention.The public firmly
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MTV PREPARES FOR GAY WEEKEND IN JULY
MTV is hosting its first Gay Weekend next month and has lined up a day of live and pre-recorded output for the event. Live shows include a 1 x 60-minute Gay
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OMNIBUS SPECIAL FEATURES VINNIE JONES IN HOLLYWOOD
The BBC's in-house Omnibus team is working on a special for BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon about footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones' attempt to break into Hollywood films. Entitled Vinnie Goes to Hollywood,
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NTL spin-offs to fund Euro expansion
NTL is considering plans to spin-off five of its divisions to fund European expansion, in a move that could see its disparate content sections housed in a single company and part-floated, writes Simon Ellery.
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International news - Plantin nets global entertainment role
Granada Creative is to hand new genre-based international roles to a number of its top programming executives, with LWT director of programmes Marcus Plantin taking the first dual job.Plantin adds the