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    The digital deadline

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?

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    Dyke: what I would have moved north

    2004-09-16T07:50:22Z

    Greg Dyke was planning to move Radio 5 Live, BBC3, CBBC and CBeebies and half of the BBC's new media operation to Manchester before he was forced out of the director general's job in the aftermath of Hutton.

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    Threats fly in format war

    2004-09-16T07:50:20Z

    Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.

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    Troubled EastEnders calls in Holby producer

    2004-09-16T07:50:16Z

    The BBC has drafted in a Holby City producer to deputise for EastEnders ' under-fire executive producer, Louise Berridge, and take over much of the day-to-day running of the soap.

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    Priest Idol show given C4's blessing

    2004-09-16T07:50:14Z

    Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.

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    CanWest enters bid for FM licence

    2004-09-16T07:50:12Z

    Canadian media giant CanWest is looking to take a slice of the UK radio market with a bid for an FM licence in Manchester.

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    Village people's gay test

    2004-09-16T07:50:10Z

    Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.

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    Talkback lifestyle formats sell to US

    2004-09-16T07:50:08Z

    Talkback Productions' new lifestyle shows Too Posh to Wash and The Sex Inspectors are to be remade for US audiences.

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    Optimistic moves into format development

    2004-09-16T07:50:06Z

    The Optimistic Network, the company behind producer-broadcaster Nation 217, is launching a format development arm to create content for other channels.

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    Dimbleby takes over from Yentob to front arts show

    2004-09-16T07:50:04Z

    Question Time presenter David Dimbleby is set to front BBC1's major new arts series A Picture of Britain , after BBC creative director Alan Yentob finally decided not to take the job.

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    McKerrow departs Maverick

    2004-09-16T07:50:02Z

    Richard McKerrow has quit as managing director of Maverick Television and is planning to launch his own indie.

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    C4 agrees to carry Einstein docudrama

    2004-09-16T07:50:00Z

    Darlow Smithson, the producer of Bafta-winning film Touching the Void , is developing a $2m (£1.1m) drama about Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific equation E=mc2 for Channel 4.

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    Keating makes first big orders

    2004-09-16T07:49:50Z

    New BBC2 controller Roly Keating has greenlit two major factual projects from BBC Birmingham worth£7m, including one that will challenge people to pay off their mortgages early.

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    Leopard to make second money spinners

    2004-09-15T16:06:57Z

    BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has commissioned Leopard Films to make a second series of consumer show Money Spinners. The 15 x 60-minute series deconstructs family finances and puts heavy spenders through a month of gruelling saving, earning and selling to raise an ...

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    BBC set for criticism over accounting

    2004-09-15T10:23:13Z

    The BBC is set to face renewed criticism today (Wednesday) over its opposition to the National Audit Office (NAO) being given full access to its books.

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    TWG trials Talksport TV

    2004-09-15T10:19:41Z

    Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting programmes next month on Sky.

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    Horse of the Year rides to Sky

    2004-09-15T09:23:14Z

    Sky Sports is to broadcast the Horse of the Year Show next month - giving the event its first TV slot for five years.

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    Celador diet show set for US launch

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's hit factual entertainment show You Are What You Eat is set to transfer to the US.

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    Pact calls for more BBC film cash

    2004-09-14T12:04:01Z

    Media secretary Tessa Jowell is facing pressure from indies to force the BBC to invest more in British films as a condition of charter renewal.

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    Ofcom sets day for analogue switch-off

    2004-09-14T11:53:41Z

    Ofcom has set 31 December 2012 as the official switch-off date for analogue TV signals.