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NewsBBC entertainment sets up regional fund
The BBC has created a new£100,000 fund to help boost entertainment programming from regional indies.
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RatingsBBC1 dominates weekend football with 8.7m
BBC1's coverage of the latest Euro 2004 matches brought over 8 million to the corporation on Saturday and Sunday night.
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NewsLRC builds North West presence
The Local Radio Company, the recently floated group run by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatly, has spent£1.2m doubling its stake in a Lancashire radio operator.
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NewsBack of the net for ITV1's Champions League match
ITV1 continued to benefit from its Champions League coverage last night as 8.4m people tuned in for the game between Liverpool and Arsenal from 7.45pm.
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NewsPoliakoff scripts three films for BBC
Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the sweeping history of the 1980s and 90s.
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NewsRowland resurfaces at Red Fig
Mark Rowland, the former managing director of Television Corporation International, has joined interactive service provider Red Fig to spearhead a strategy of global expansion.
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NewsCentral staff to lobby Blair
ITV Central workers will go to 10 Downing Street today and handover a 20,000-name petition to Tony Blair, calling on him to save the region's TV studios.
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NewsThompson to cut BBC management board
New BBC director general Mark Thompson is today expected to unveil radical changes to the corporation's executive committee management board which could see its membership cut in half.
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NewsThompson unveils new BBC management
New BBC director general Mark Thompson has unveiled radical plans for the re-organisation of the corporation in a speech to all 28,000 staff.
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NewsLighting: Five could buy Flextech
Five chief executive Jane Lighting has signalled an interest in buying Telewest's content business Flextech.
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NewsTWG attacks Rajar measurement claims
The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has attacked radio audience board Rajar for 'scaremongering' over its claim that introducing electronic measurement would cost up to£25m a year.
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NewsThompson overhauls BBC top tier
New BBC director general Mark Thompson yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled his blueprint for the future of the corporation, with a radical overhaul of the way it is structured and a warning that it must not be so 'arrogant'.
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NewsBBC to set up journalism college
The BBC is to set up its own multi-million pound journalism college as a consequence of the Hutton inquiry, it confirmed this morning (Wednesday).
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Ratings3.5m see Henman struggle
Tim Henman's first round Wimbledon game against Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo drew daytime viewers to BBC1 as the match peaked at 3.5 million (40.8%) at 16.05.
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BBC joins Russia for Space Race
The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.
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Popstars back in fresh guise
Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.
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ITV picks off-peak chief
ITV has poached the BBC's daytime scheduling chief, Stephen Price, to join its newly created off-peak unit.
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Curwen quits Folio to set up own indie
Folio head of programmes Nick Curwin has quit to set up a factual indie and has already secured a development retainer from Channel 4 and a number of commissions.
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Pact challenges budget squeeze
Producers' alliance Pact is complaining to Ofcom that the BBC and Channel 4 are trying to cut indie production budgets to claw back money lost as a result of rights changes.
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BBC lays out news academy plan
BBC star reporters such as Andrew Marr and John Simpson are to help train fledgling news recruits as part of plans for a multimillion pound BBC journalism college.