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NewsFive Life and Five US open door to Barnes
Five has appointed Sky's Kate Barnes as channel editor of digital offshoots Five Life and Five US.
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Living hungry for Yo-Yo Diets
Living has built on the success of its Extremestrand by ordering the 60-minute Extreme: Celebrity Yo-Yo Diets.
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NewsCapital loses out to Heart in London
Rajars:Heart's Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott have reclaimed the London commercial breakfast show crown from Johnny Vaughan as Capital Radio slumped to its lowest-ever share of the audience. [ALL]
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Springer to host Sky One gameshow
Sky One has lined up Jerry Springer to host new gameshow Nothing But the Truthand is bringing Noel Edmonds back to host an old Christmas favourite.
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NewsBBC3 appoints 'teen guru'
BBC3 has hired a 'teen guru' to concentrate on commissioning shows that will attract a younger audience.
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NewsIncrease in listening boosts commercial radio
Rajars:Between March and June of this year 45.6m people, or 91% of the UK's adult population, tuned into the radio. This figure was up 600,000 on the previous quarter, a 1.3% increase. [ALL]
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NewsHazlitt defends Capital performance
Rajars:GCap Media managing director Fru Hazlitt has defended Capital Radio's poor performance in the Rajars by saying the station is adding younger listeners. [ALL]
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NewsBBC defends business coverage
The BBC management has rejected claims made in an independent report that its business coverage often results in the audience 'not receiving the full story'. [ALL]
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NewsThe Jazz launch bodes well for digital radio
Rajars: The UK's newest national digital radio station, The Jazz, was one of the winners in the Rajars with 334,000 people tuning into the station every week. [ALL]
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NewsBBC Radio share dips
Rajars:BBC Radio saw its market share drop from 56% to 54.3% in the second quarter as the UK's commercial radio stations stepped up the pressure, with Radio 3 recording its lowest weekly reach since Rajars began. [ALL]
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NewsBBC axes Inspector Lynley
The BBC has axed detective series The Inspector Lynley Mysteriesafter six years, a decision greeted with bafflement by its star Nathaniel Parker. [ALL]
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NewsSky to air Arabic entertainment channel
Middle East entertainment network Rotana TV is launching a free-to-air Arabic language entertainment channel on Sky. [ALL]
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NewsFame Academy duo sing for CBeebies
CBeebies has commissioned an interactive music show for kids fronted by singing coaches Carrie and David Grant. [ALL]
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NewsBlog: Top Five Tips to Save The Planet
Richard Kilgarriff explains how television people can save the planet without having to camp outside an airport or wear hand-loomed Hessian pants. [ALL]
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NewsNo more junk food for SpongeBob
Nickelodeon has pledged to limit the amount of junk-food consumed by its cartoon characters such as SpongeBobSquarepantsand Dora the Explorer. [ALL]
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NewsElvis performs for ITV1
ITV1 documentary Young Elvis in Colourattracted 3.7m viewers (16.8%) at 9pm last night, an audience that was slightly up on the slot average of 3.5m (16.1%). [ALL]
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NewsGCap shares fluctuate after poor Rajars
The price of GCap Media shares rose 2.9% to 231.5p in early morning trading today (Friday 17 August) as the radio group started its recovery from a poor performance in yesterday's Rajars. [ALL]
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NewsTories defend C4 in Dispatches mosque row
The Conservative party has said that the West Midlands Police's inquiry into the Channel 4 Dispatchesdocumentary, Undercover Mosque,raises serious questions about media freedom. [ALL]
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NewsBroadcast Letters - 17 August 2007
Letters to the editor from issue of Broadcast dated 17 August.
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NewsRussian radio axes BBC content
A third FM Russian radio station has been forced to drop BBC World Service content from its schedules by the country's licensing authorities. [ALL]