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NewsFive pulls Tarantino's CSI
Five pulled its much-hyped CSI: Crime Scene Investigationend of series finale last night due to the storyline ringing an unfortunate chord with events in London last week.
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NewsCox: 'Established broadcasters face digital decline'
Barry Cox, chairman of SwitchCo, the government body overseeing digital switchover, last night said the traditional broadcasters moving to turn off the analogue system was like 'Turkeys voting for Christmas'.
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NewsGrade defends bonuses
BBC chairman Michael Grade has stood by a governors' committee decision to award half a million pounds of bonuses, in the face of union calls to give the money back.
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NewsTop of the Pops leaves BBC1 with 1.9m
BBC1's last edition of the long-running music show Top of the Popswas met largely with viewer indifference as the special programme only attracted 1.9 million (11.4%).
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NewsThompson forgoes£135k bonus
BBC director general Mark Thompson has turned down an annual bonus worth around£135,000, claiming 'it wouldn't have felt right' taking the money while he axes nearly 4000 jobs.
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NewsWelsh indies merge
Welsh indies Cwmni Da and Tonfedd-Eryri are set to merge after securing a development budget of£300,000 from broadcaster S4C.
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NewsPoliakoff to hit out at TV execs
Acclaimed writer-director Stephen Poliakoff is gearing up to issue a broadside against TV executives' at this year's Edinburgh TV festival.
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NewsJowell to face Lords BBC grilling
Media secretary Tessa Jowell will face questions in the House of Lords next week over demands that the BBC should surrender some of its£2.8bn-a-year licence fee revenue to help fund ITV's regional news.
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NewsBBC report escapes MP examination
BBC bosses have escaped being grilled by MPs about today's annual report because of the government's delay in setting up the watchdog media committee.
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NewsSky Sports chief joins Setanta
Sky Sports second in command, Trevor East, has left to join Irish sports broadcasters Setanta.
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NewsWW2 anniversary brings 4m to BBC1
BBC1's coverage of the 60th anniversary celebrations marking the end of the Second World War proved to be a hit with the viewers with a peak audience of 4.1 million (37.3%) at 5pm.
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NewsSpeculation grows over Time Warner bid for ITV
Time Warner's involvement in a£6.6bn bid for ITV has once again been the subject of speculation this weekend, amid reports that the US media giant is lining up to take a 30% stake in the broadcaster.
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NewsRadio 1 loses Jones-Donelly
The executive in charge of Radio 1's playlists for the past eight years has left the corporation to join music giant EMI's A&R operations.
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NewsSharman: CBBC must be at vanguard of technology
Alison Sharman, the new controller of Children's BBC has mapped out her vision for the department, pointing to the success of Apple's iPod music player as a potential model for the future of broadcasting.
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NewsArqiva buys Inmedia for£68.5m
Arqiva - the newly rebranded NTL Broadcast - has bought Inmedia Communications from The Carlyle Group for£68.5 million.
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NewsMannion: UK denied information on fatalities
ITV News editor-in-chief David Mannion has attacked the authorities for not releasing up-to-date fatality figures in the aftermath of Thursday's bomb blasts, claiming that people in Australia were better informed than the British public.
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NewsRTL set to take UBM's shares in Five
Five majority shareholder RTL Group is reportedly looking to buy out United Business Media's stake in the broadcaster in a bid to take full control of the channel.
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NewsHow Sky News reported the attacks
Broadcasters rushed to cover the terrorist attacks on London - with news staff themselves caught up in the events as commuters. This is the story from inside Sky News of how the story broke yesterday morning.
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NewsBBC1 Six O'Clock News draws 7m
Millions of extra viewers turned to TV news broadcasts and special reports yesterday in the wake of the London terror attacks - with the BBC Six O'Clock Newspulling in the biggest audience of the day, with almost 7m viewers.