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Watch out, pop-pickers
Every Friday in the early Sixties, Derek Chinnery would stop at a newsagent on his way to work at the BBC's gramaph...
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A fairytale beginning for Vivendi
Jean-Marie Messier dreamed of creating a global media corporation to rival AOL Time Warner. The first of three extr...
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UBC is on the right wavelength
UBC Media, a tiny radio company, yesterday reported results no better than forecast, yet its shares leapt a quarter...
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Digital radio manufacturers tune in to 170 per cent rise in sales.
Digital radio has become a 'mass market proposition,' the BBC and the radio industry said yesterday as the corporat...
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Football's bosses lack vision on Hawkeye
Sport's top gadget-master last night vowed to turn his laser beam away from football until the authorities emerge f...
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Long queue of bidders for Vivendi auction
As the nominal deadline for bidding on Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets passed yesterday, at least five med...
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TV Wives will score with Laila
Sultry striker laila Rouass shows us why they call football the beautiful game. ...
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Obituary - Guy Lux
The populist and popular presenter and producer Guy Lux dominated French television throughout the Sixties and Seve...
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£2m boost for BBC's digital radio network
The BBC is to spend£2 million upgrading its network of digital radio transmitters after it emeregd one third of th...
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I'll strike it lucky in Kiwi land
Fallen funnyman Micheal Barrymore is bidding for a comeback Down Under - and pinning his hopes on a new show called...
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Lords defeat Government on duties of TV regulator
The Government was heavily defeated in the Lords after peers backed a cross-party move to ensure the interests of '...
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Constant vigilance
A small UK company has come up with a way to track whether TV channel are actually playing ads when and where they ...
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Digital driving force
Jenny Abramsky might well smile: she has blazed a trail for digital radio, won over her rivals...and argues that ra...
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NewsPuttnam moves to appease ministers
Ministers renewed talks with rebel peer Lord Puttnam this week to head off a Labour rebellion over moves that would allow large newspaper groups like Rupert Murdoch's News International to buy Channel 5, writes David Rose
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'More valuable than the sum of its part'
Critics see RTL as an odd mix of partially owned channels but its new chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, prefers to p...
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NewsC4 orders series on NI marching season
Channel 4 has ordered a fast-turnaround event directed by Bafta award winning director David Modell, that will document the marching season in Northern Ireland this summer, writes Penny Hughes
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Two plus one equals not much
Big radio deals could well be blocked by the Competition Commission despite Ofcom's radical proposals. This could r...
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EU targets sex bias in media and insurance
A law to ban sex discrimination, with implications for the media, advertising and insuarance industries, is in the ...
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Digital radio sales boosted by BBC station
The BBC's new comedy and drama radio station helped drive a fifth of all sales of digital radio sets between Decemb...