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Public accountability key says Davies
Newly appointed BBC chairman says that in order to escape Ofcom's clutches the BBC 'will need to be more directly accountable to the public than ever before'
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Granada calls-off search for Lythgoe replacement
Beleaguered media company abandons search for new controller of entertainment and re-shuffles staff instead
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Tapscott urges greater kids input
New Paradigm Learning president Don Tapscott says broadcasters and producers should listen more to children now 'for the first time in history they are an authority on something interesting'
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Viewers bombarded by technology and information overload
Henley Centre chairman says 'time-poor' viewers are beign hit my too many channels, too much information and too much technology
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Cambridge Comment by Katy Elliott
As the story of the terror in America and its potential consequences unfolded, fuelling the biggest TV news story of all time, there was a strange irony in the fact that
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Over-regulation blamed for UK's global failure
Delegates at RTS convention in Cambridge told 'archaic' cross-media ownership rules and political fears of large media companies have held back UK global ambitions
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Overseas ownership threat to regional production
Granada chief Steve Morrison says he 'could not see production from the regions sustained if we are bought by an overseas company'
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Elstein leads calls for 40% in-house limit
Former Channel 5 chief says broadcasters should limit their current 70 in-house production quotas to boost UK independent productions
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Programme brands stronger than channels
Wall To Wall managing director Alex Graham welcomes era when 'programme brands? have a stronger identity than the channels which are broadcasting them'
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NewsChorion to co-produce Chandler pilot
Chorion is partnering with US production company LivePlanet and the production arm of Disney's Touchstone to make a pilot featuring Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe.
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RTS: Who said what
Granada chairman Charles Allen: 'I'd like to have heard what John Malone had to say because he sounds like a good person to work for'
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Endemol drops out of Big Breakfast race
Big Brother producer says it has 'really hot idea' but show is too expensive
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Jowell to publish 'digital action plan'
Media secretary promises plan to drive digital take-up as she admits industry faces 'challenging timetable' for analogue switch-off
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New BBC digital radio stations get mixed reception
Commercial radio outfits welcome boost to digital but express competition concerns as consortium of commercial TV companies abandons plans to seek judicial review
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NewsTwoFour hires I'm a Celebrity producer
Cruise with Steliosproducer TwoFour has hired ITV producer Simon Horne to spearhead a push into quiz show development.
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ITV1 deadline set for digital satellite launch
Carlton channels chief Clive Jones says channel will begin broadcasting on digital satellite by the end of November 'come hell or high water'
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RTS Cambridge 2001
Television's big hitters gathered in Cambridge last weekend despite events in the United States and the withdrawal of the convention's 'dream ticket' BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Liberty chief John Malone. Despite this delegates debated many of the c
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NTL acts to calm investor nerves
Cable company forced into action for second time in three months after shares crash to new low in New York