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Leader - Vintage year for BBC and BSkyB.
At some point in the future, when every home is a multichannel home and the analogue signal is a distant memory, we will look back at 2002 as the year the UK's digital TV future was carved up between two avaricious players - the BBC and BSkyB
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TELEWEST ADDS CHANNEL.
Charity broadcaster The Community Channel has secured carriage on Telewest following on from its inclusion on
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Review of the Year - That was the year that was.
To some it will be the year TV fouled up football, to others it was the start of a turning point for the indie sector, but, whatever way you look at it, 2002 has certainly been eventful, from Dawn Airey's move to BSkyB or Tony Blackburn's resurrection on
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CAPITAL MAN JOINS MTV.
MTV has confirmed the appointment of former Capital Radio regional programme director Mark Sadler as head
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DIGITAL BOX WARNING.
The Consumers' Association (CA) has advised consumers not to buy refurbished ITV Digital boxes to pick
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NewsThompson joins charity channel
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has added another philanthropic string to his bow after agreeing to join the board of voluntary sector group The Media Trust, writes Colin Robertson.
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Freeview unfazed by predecessor's plans to recover set-top boxes
Freeview, the successor to ITV Digital, has brushed off concerns that its roll-out may be set back by the planned r...
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NewsConsumers told not to monkey with ITVDigital boxes
Consumers have been advised not to buy refurbished ITV Digital boxes to pick up the channels on the newly launched Freeview platform, writes Paul Revoir.
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Free to air - Extra terrestrial TV.
Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach teachers and those who can't teach teachers write snitty columns about how badly everyone else teaches or teaches teachers. Substitute 'teach' for 'make TV programmes' and this begins to describe my predicament
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UKTV'S BRIGHT IDEA.
UKTV's new lifestyle offering for digital terrestrial platform Freeview has been given its third and final
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NewsBSkyB throws analogue switch off into doubt
BSkyB has put a question mark over government plans for analogue switch-off by threatening to axe its free set top box offer and possibly change to a rental model which would demand customers return boxes if they ditch the service, writes Paul Revoir.
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Freeview sellout wrongfoots rivals
Freeview is struggling to keep up with demand from potential new customers ...
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Launch success for free BBC digital TV
The new BBC-backed digital television service, Freeview, has enjoyed on of the most successful launches in broadcas...
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Freeview celebrates buoyant sales of adaptors
Freeview, the new multi-channel TV service backed by the BBC and British Sky Broadcasting, has celebrated its succe...
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NewsLifestyle channel hopes for third time lucky for new name
UKTV's new lifestyle offering for digital terrestrial platform Freeview has been given its third and final name - UK Bright Ideas - after its previous two names ran into copyright problems, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsPace shares fall
Pace Micro shares have fallen over ten per cent today on news that the set-top box maker is likely to miss its earnings for the year, writes John Oates
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FREEVIEW CHANNEL HIRE.
BBC London executive editor Jane Mote has been named as the new channel controller of the
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Figures herald broadband gain.
Interactive producers received a much-needed shot in the arm this week after it emerged that the
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SDN considers pay-TV channel on Freeview.
Freeview viewers are to gain another two channels after it emerged that SDN, which owns one of the service's multiplexes, is in talks with a number of interested parties, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsElstein attacks 'flotsam and jetsam' Freeview service
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has launched another swingeing attack on DTT, dismissing the BBC/Crown Castle's Freeview service as a perverse package full of non-entity channels, writes David Wood