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    Pay TV chief tipped to take over at Five

    2003-01-28T10:07:09Z

    Jane Lighting is expected to be named as the new chief executive of Five, formerly Channel Five, as early as this w...

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    TV show is Evans and hell

    2003-01-28T10:06:57Z

    It'll all end in tears on Chris Evans' new telly show - copntestants are to be branded 'babes or mingers' as they f...

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    BBC challenge withdrawn

    2003-01-28T10:06:43Z

    A High Court challenge to the BBC's plans to provide free material to schools as part of its 'digital curriculum' b...

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    Love is in the air for Millionaire

    2003-01-28T10:04:57Z

    Contestants will get the chance to win cash and love in a special Valentine's Day version of telly quiz Who Wants T...

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    Broadband take-up rises

    2003-01-28T10:03:50Z

    Households and business have accelerated their take-up of high-speed internet services. Figures from Oftel release...

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    Merger of Telewest and NTL postponed

    2003-01-28T10:03:04Z

    Investors in cable groups Telewest and NTL have ruled out a long-awaited merger of the two companies for at least o...

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    FA Cup second rate, says BBC chairman

    2003-01-28T10:03:04Z

    The Football Association's hopes of another big-money TV contreact for the FA Cup have been crushed after BBC chair...

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    'I'm not the new Nigella'

    2003-01-28T10:02:33Z

    The TV producer Daisy Goodwin is making her screen debut on a show that aims to make poetry sexy. So is she the ne...

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    The new politics

    2003-01-28T10:02:03Z

    It's not dumbed down, Jeremy Vine doesn't wear a jumper. But is the new BBC politics show different enough? ...

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    Tina Brown is talk of the town again as she fronts TV chat show

    2003-01-28T10:01:38Z

    Tina Brown, the British editor whose magazine talk collapsed last year, is making a comeback as television talk-sho...

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    BBC licence fee must be axed, says Blair aide

    2003-01-28T10:00:28Z

    one of the Government's key advisors has called for the BBC's licence fee to be axed. ...

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    Evans help us!

    2003-01-28T09:57:15Z

    Chris Evans is to launch a show that boasts it is ''humiliation TV in its strongest form'' during which contestants...

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    Docherty's new YooMedia role

    2003-01-28T09:02:19Z

    Former Telewest managing director David Docherty has been appointed as a non-executive director of interactive entertainment and technology company YooMedia, writes Paul Revoir

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    Howells slams moaning broadcasters

    2003-01-28T08:55:25Z

    Broadcasting minister Kim Howells has called on broadcasters to stop 'bleating' about unfair competition and concentrate on producing better quality programmes, writes David Rose

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    SRH posts strong start to year

    2003-01-27T15:35:34Z

    Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) today defied market conditions to post like-for-like radio revenues up 6.5 per cent in the first quarter of the financial year, writes Luke Satchell

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    BBC replaces Pickard and Scholey

    2003-01-27T15:20:04Z

    The BBC has moved to fill its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming Dorothy Prior as CBBC controller and Natural History Unit (NHU) editor Neil Nightingale as NHU head, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Off the Record - A basket case.

    2003-01-27T12:51:35Z

    Sky chief Dawn Airey seems to be adapting well to the realities of life in the

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    Off the Record - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on shopping channel.

    2003-01-27T12:51:35Z

    Who says that Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is a scatter-brained toff posing as an 'it' girl - it's

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    Off the Record - Cross infection.

    2003-01-27T12:51:35Z

    One skiving OTR spy who was recently seeking a sick note at the doctor's surgery reports

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    Off the Record - And finally ...

    2003-01-27T12:51:35Z

    Vittorio Giannini, Rushes telecine producer, would like everyone to think he has mafia connectionsWhat's the biggest