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Steve Clarke
On how BBC 2's Newsnight has outlasted the Birt regime to celebrate its 20th birthday.
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NewsPuttnam out of race for BBC chair
Lord David Puttnam has not applied to replace Michael Grade as BBC chairman, despite declaring at the weekend that he had been approached about the post.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Heading for a fall?
After losing Friends and ER to Channel 4, Sky One is set to beef up its schedules with programming that had been destined for Sky Premier. But do execs need to press the panic button, asks John Plunkett.
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OPINION - Time to open up BBC's finances
Has Greg Dyke brought shame on the BBC, falling guilty to accusations of deception over his personal finances? He was certainly hounded by the national press last week with revelation upon
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BIRT'S BBC - Thirteen turbulent years
While most industry insiders regard John Birt's BBC management as a disaster, a consensus is beginning to emerge over his achievements. Steve Clarke looks back at the highs and lows of Birt's reign.
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NEWSNIGHT AT 20 - The awkward squad
This week, the BBC celebrates Newsnight's 20th birthday with a special programme featuring highlights from its first two decades. Tara Conlan looks back at the corporation's sole surviving daily current affairs show.
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INTERVIEW - Open all hours
Simon Pollock has built up Open TV's business rapidly, but it won't always have the interactive TV field to itself. Can the software supplier keep ahead of the competition?
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OFF THE RECORD - Sloping off
Senior BBC execs were in an abstemious mood at Sir John Birt's new year drinks t'other week. Director general imminent Greg Dyke bowed out early to play footie with his son.
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NewsRajars: BBC widens gap with commercial radio
The BBC has widened the gap between itself and its commercial rivals despite losses for both Radio 1 and Radio 4.
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OFF THE RECORD - Party on down
But boozing or not, there's certainly something of a party atmosphere at the BBC these days. Even the corporation's director of technology Philip Langsdale was up for it at Sir John's
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OFF THE RECORD - The art of the matter
Just who can the BBC persuade to take on the poison chalice that the post of head of arts has become? No arts producer worth their salt will go near the
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OFF THE RECORD - Salmon grilled
And so to Rules' eaterie where everyone's favourite prankster Noel Edmonds put on a serious face last week as he puffed his indie Unique's move into pastures new media. But there
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NewsRajars: London commercial stations given boost
London's commercial radio stations enjoyed a boost in the latest Rajar results, with GCap's Choice FM and smaller stations such as Sunrise Radio and Kismat Radio enjoying large increases.
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OFF THE RECORD - Blown off course
You have to be made of stern stuff to work on BBC 1's Vets in Practice, as the latest series demonstrates. One item involved filming at an animal rescue centre in
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OFF THE RECORD - Technological breakdown
With much razzmatazz the BBC revealed its latest waste of licence fee money this week - FutureWorld. The corporation has spent£5 million on a technology exhibition which will tour the
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OFF THE RECORD - Skinning up
And finally (surely that's another section, ed) here's a shot of funny man Frank Skinner (below), snapped at last week's Broadcast Awards do scanning the winners supplement - no doubt to