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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NewsHytner quits ITV
ITV has lost one of its key executives after high street bank Barclays poached the broadcaster's marketing director Jim Hytner.
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NewsBig Brother contestant slams Endemol
Big Brother contestant Emma Greenwood has slammed producers Endemol for making money out of her distress
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NewsUBC lifts profits
UBC Media, the group that is developing Channel 4's first radio venture, has posted encouraging results for the year to 31 March.
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NewsAcquisitions boost Ten Alps profits
Bob Geldof's indie Ten Alps Communications acquisition strategy has lifted profits by almost 70%.
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NewsAll3Media clinches Lion deal
All3Media, the media group run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, has closed its deal to buy Lion TV.
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NewsCops probe Big Brother
The police are today investigating the outbreak of violence at the Big Brother house following complaints from members of the public.
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NewsStrike action looms at BBC
Broadcasting union Bectu and the National Union of Journalists are set to call for an industrial action ballot against the BBC after the unions rejected a 2.7% pay offer.
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NewsNew editor for This Morning
Granada has appointed a new editor for its This Morning , promoting Debra Davidson to the job.
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NewsPEER POLL: Indie quota
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the 25% independent quota be scrapped?
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NewsC4 publishes its terms of trade
Channel 4 today became the first broadcaster to publish its new terms of trade, which set out the standard terms of business for the broadcaster's commercial negotiations with the independent production sector.
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Sky's free market move
BSkyB's decision last week to launch a free satellite offer is largely about the refuseniks, who up to now have proved impervious to Sky TV's multichannel charms.
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BBC2 adds twist to anthropology
A former special forces soldier is to live with some of the world's most remote tribes for a BBC2 series in one of a brace of new shows from BBC senior commissioning executive Richard Klein.