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Commercial radio groups link up for radio licences bid
GWR, the Wireless Group and Scottish Radio in tie-up for digital radio multiplex submission
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Dyke lines up candidates for new media director
Chapman, King, Everett and Billinger tipped for BBC post
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Scottish Media Group gives up distribution
Scottish Media Group (SMG) has this week confirmed it is to close international distribution arm Cascade, transferring its catalogue to Minotaur. The six Cascade staffers will be offered other jobs within
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NewsNesbitt returns for Murphy's Law
Undercover cop Tommy Murphy will return to BBC1 in a fifth series of the drama Murphy's Law.
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C4 to shrink producers' logos on air
Redesign of end credits reduces on-screen space for indies
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Bragg shuns Dyke and decides to stay at LWT
LWT has signed up Melvyn Bragg, its controller of arts, for a further three years from 2001 after he was approached by BBC director general Greg Dyke. Dyke had been courting
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Frontrunners emerging to replace Horrocks
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - Watchdog editor Mark Killick and Panorama senior producer Kevin Sutcliffe are being touted by BBC insiders as possible contenders for the Panorama editorship. The vacancy came about following
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BBC Union members vote for 3 per cent rise
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - Bectu members at the BBC have agreed to accept a three per cent pay offer. In a ballot of BBC staff which went out on 23 June, members
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BSkyB given OK to acquire Sports Internet Group
Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers has cleared the acquisition of Sports Internet Group by BSkyB without referring the deal to the Competition Commission. Sky announced its intention to buy the
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Grimsdale back to run C4 Broadband
Channel 4 has finally succeeded in luring BBC ICG head Peter Grimsdale back on board as head of its soon-to-launch Broadband Lab.Grimsdale will leave the BBC at the end of July
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Jackson's fate is in balance
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson's fate hung in the balance this week as he held talks about his future role in the restructured drama, entertainment and children's division, writes Tara Conlan.
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C4 cycling gets slating
Hundreds of angry viewers have complained to Channel 4 over its decision to relegate coverage of this year's Tour de France, writes Steve Clarke.
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ITV to drop OK!TV show
ITV has pulled the plug on its forthcoming OK!TV series after failing to agree a deal on programme rights with publisher Northern & Shell, writes Colin Robertson.
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Bectu ballots BBC
BBC director general Greg Dyke faces the first challenge to his plans to restructure the BBC with Bectu preparing to ballot its members over 262 job cuts in BBC Resources, writes Tara Conlan.
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ZIG ZAG SETS UP IN LEEDS WITH PRINCE NASEEM DOC
Zig Zag Productions, the Yorkshire Television-backed indie, has set up a new department in Leeds, opening its doors with a commission from Channel 4. Simon Howley joins from Rapido to run