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NewsNew editor for BBC World Service
The BBC World Service has promoted long-serving Liliane Landor to become editor for news and current affairs.
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NewsEngland friendly draws 9.3m for BBC1
BBC1's coverage of England's friendly against Hungary was match fit yesterday with a sizeable 9.3 million (39.3%) from 8pm, towering over both ITV1 and Channel 4.
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News130 BBC News staff face redundancy
More than 130 news staff are still facing redundancy at the BBC, prompting threats of a strike by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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NewsTop Up in voluntarily liquidation
Top Up TV has placed itself into voluntary liquidation after undergoing a corporate restructuring and name change.
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NewsAnother GCap exec exits
Capital Radio's marketing director Carl Lyons has become the latest GCap executive to exit.
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NewsColin Firth joins cast of BBC1's drama London
Colin Firth, Anne-Marie Duff and Robert Carlyle have signed up to star in Dominic Savage's new BBC1 drama which tackles the issue of homelessness.
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NewsProfile - Phil Bigwood: Channelling England's hopes
Profile of Phil Bigwood, BBC's executive producer of football
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NewsInterview - Scott Taunton: Still talking tough
UTV Radio's MD Scott Taunton plans to make Talksport the number one national commercial station
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NewsITV tackles BBC's grip
ITV intends to put up a fight over the BBC's traditional dominance of viewers in the World Cup
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Comment - Scoring an own goal
Emily Bell on the need for commercial broadcasters to have decent World Cup sites
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Two Way TV puts money on Deal or No Deal
Endemol UK has licensed Two Way TV the rights to create and run a betting format game based on Channel 4's Deal or No Deal.
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Comment - On the counter attack
C4's Julie Oldroyd believes that the broadcaster can attract viewers with no interest in the World Cup
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Bringing the World Cup back home
Production teams have already been working for months on the forthcoming World Cup coverage
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NewsWanted: the next US hit
The US networks offer plenty of quality shows, but standouts are in short supply. What will the UK buyers bid for?
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NewsUS hit format Unan1mous comes to C4
Channel 4 is to launch a UK version of big money US format Unan1mous, described as a cross between Big Brotherand Deal or No Deal.
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NewsBidding war starts for top US shows
The first bidding war has kicked off just days after the LA Screenings, with UK broadcasters battling to secure hot new 20th Century Fox dramas Vanishedand Shark.
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NewsIMG becomes UK's biggest indie group
IMG Media may not be the best known name in television - but this week it became the UK's biggest single independent production company - after buying Tiger Aspect for a sum understood to be between£25m and£30m.
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NewsRise and rise of super-indies
IMG Media's purchase of Tiger Aspect confirms the continued rise and rise of the super-indie - a top tier of producers dwarfing the scores of companies smaller than them, as shown in Broadcast's annual league table of the independent production sector.
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NewsStars in their Eyes faces axe
Stars in their Eyescould be facing the axe after 16 years with ITV sources this week admitting that the future of the show was being discussed.