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    TWG DOES UBC DEAL.

    2003-11-05T10:25:16Z

    The Wireless Group has signed a 12-month deal with UBC Media to take a daily showbiz

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    BBC RURAL REPORTER.

    2003-11-05T10:25:16Z

    BBC News has appointed its first rural affairs correspondent in a bid to enhance its coverage

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    KIDS' VIEWING HABITS.

    2003-11-05T10:25:16Z

    Eighty-six per cent of children under six watch up to six hours of TV a day,

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    MacKenzie set for court battle.

    2003-11-05T10:25:16Z

    Kelvin MacKenzie has confirmed he will launch legal action against radio industry body Rajar 'within a

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    BLUE PETER'S MARSON STEPS UP TO EDITOR.

    2003-11-05T10:25:15Z

    The BBC has appointed a new editor for Blue Peter - only the fifth appointment in

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    BBC INVITES TENDERS FOR HORSE-RACING.

    2003-11-05T10:25:15Z

    The BBC is to commission out production of its horse-racing coverage to the independent sector in

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    BLAIR MAY LET TV BROADCAST PRESS BRIEFINGS.

    2003-11-05T10:25:11Z

    Broadcasters are poised for a big breakthrough after Tony Blair signalled he is prepared to allow

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    BBC admits to error over Kelly.

    2003-11-05T10:25:10Z

    The BBC has admitted it wrongly inflated the importance of Dr David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's source in a statement issued after the BBC governors' emergency meeting in July, it emerged this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Debbie Harry fronts rock doc for Discovery.

    2003-11-05T10:25:08Z

    Debbie Harry, the princess of new wave, has been recruited by the Discovery Channel to present a series on rock and roll for the autumn, writes Gavin Stamp.

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    BBC renews faith in docu-soaps.

    2003-11-05T10:25:08Z

    The BBC has given a new lease of life to the docu-soap - which went out

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    Mentorn sets up drama division.

    2003-11-05T10:25:08Z

    Television Corporation subsidiary Mentorn is launching a drama division on the back of a number of factually based projects, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Voluntary redundancies at YTV.

    2003-11-05T10:25:07Z

    The entire production team at Yorkshire Television's documentaries and factual department have been invited to apply

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    TV's top chiefs share RTS stage.

    2003-11-05T10:25:07Z

    Carlton chairman Michael Green is to take a rare step into the limelight after agreeing to sit on a panel alongside his Granada counterpart Charles Allen at this month's Royal Television Society (RTS) Cambridge Convention, writes Colin Robertson.

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    BBC unit to monitor 'hate speech'.

    2003-11-05T10:25:06Z

    BBC Monitoring, the corporation's government-funded arm that tracks the world's media, is to turn cyber-spy and monitor internet chat sites in a bid to pick up 'hate speech' that could point to new areas of ethnic unrest around the globe, writes Leigh Hol

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    Comment - Fox in the henhouse.

    2003-11-05T10:25:06Z

    What's the logic for Fox launching a rival to Sky One in the UK? asks Conor Dignam Editor.

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    Chambers lands Five job.

    2003-11-05T10:25:06Z

    Dan Chambers, Five's factual programming head, took over from former director of programmes Kevin Lygo this

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    Radio 4 chief sets sights on baby boomers.

    2003-11-05T10:25:05Z

    Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has told programme-makers to put aside stereotypes of the station's listeners as stern octogenarians and inject more 'informal irreverence' into their ideas, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Fox rivals Sky One with new channel.

    2003-11-05T10:25:05Z

    Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television is planning to launch a UK entertainment channel on Sky Digital in

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    OFF THE RECORD - THE POWER OF THE BEEB.

    2003-11-05T10:24:53Z

    BBC executives weren't too happy when they saw there was a session at Edinburgh about BBC

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    Off the record - No takers for dinner.

    2003-11-05T10:24:53Z

    Meanwhile, the satellite broadcaster was left in the rather embarrassing position of having to cancel its