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Choose your favourite ITV characters
Broadcastthis week launches its readers' poll to discover who are the most popular and iconic ITV characters of all time. Readers are invited to vote from a selection of more than 50 well-loved characters including hard-man of television detectives Taggart; The Saint's ...
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Edinburgh festival hosts Question Time
Salman Rushdie, Dr David Starkey, and MPs Dianne Abbott and George Galloway have been added to the Edinburgh TV Festival Question Time Special. Shadow culture spokeswoman Theresa May and former director general Greg Dyke are also on the panel, chaired by Andrew Neil. The special will be held on Sunday ...
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Kirkham moves from C4 to BBC1
A senior figure on Channel 4's Richard & Judyprogramme has been poached to fill a new post in BBC daytime. Alison Kirkham has been associate editor on the C4 show for the past year but has defected to the BBC to take the newly created role ...
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Network rollout for Capital FM's seven
GCap Media is to roll out its 95.8 Capital FM Sunday night Sevenentertainment show across its The One Network stations. The three-hour show, presented by Justin Wilkes and Sam Mann, looks at the week's celebrity news and has exclusive interviews. It is the first time GCap ...
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Schoonmaker leads Swansea radio bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker is heading a UK radio bid backed by Australian investment bank Macquarie. The bid is for a new 12-year FM licence for Swansea, under the name Diamond FM, a mainstream classic rock proposal. The new station will reach approximately 300,000 adults, depending on ...
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NewsLost attracts 6.1m
Channel 4's publicity campaign for its latest US drama series Lostpaid-off last night with the first episode attracting a massive audience of 6.1 million (26.8%) from 8.30pm.
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NewsSecond Ashes test gets DVD release
Indie Sunset + Vine has taken the term 'fast turnaround' to extremes, turning out a DVD of England's Test Match cricket success in just five days.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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NewsFive ventures into multichannel world
Five has announced its first venture into mulitchannel TV with a joint venture with interactive media group YooMedia.
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NewsC4's cricket dominates daytime again
Viewers don't seem to have tired of Channel 4's cricket coverage with the afternoon's first day's play of the third test dominating viewing with 2.4 million (28.7%) over five hours.
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NewsNotts council lodge Ofcom complaint
Nottingham City Council has complained to Ofcom after Channel 4's Best and Worst Places to Live in the UKnamed the city the second worst place to live in the country.
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NewsBazalgette pockets£4.3m
Endemol UK head Peter Bazalgette received a payout of£4.3m last year, part of a multimillion-pound bonus scheme which contributed to the company reporting a pre-tax loss.
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NewsAvalon buys Liberty Bell
Avalon, the production company behind Harry Hill's TV Burp, has bought the makers of Grumpy Old Menfor an undisclosed amount.
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NewsElson: content becoming 'more valuable'
Telewest's intentions over Flextech were muddied further yesterday by the cable company's acting chief executive Barry Elson who argued that content is becoming 'more valuable' to media groups.
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NewsBBC NI backs three-year globetrot
Belfast-based indie Imagine Media Productions has secured a three-year deal from BBC Northern Ireland to follow a journalist as he travels the world.
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NewsBBC hits back over pro-Israeli claims
The BBC has hit back at allegations that a Panoramaprogramme on Muslim extremism has a 'blatant pro-Israeli' bias.
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NewsHit appoints ex-Disney chief
Hit Entertainment has taken on Disney's former European sales chief Alison Homewood to become its key TV distribution executive.
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NewsCity investors 'nearly sacked Charles Allen'
The investors who clubbed together to oust Michael Green from ITV were within one vote of firing chief executive Charles Allen, it was claimed today.
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NewsEC considers legal action against Premier League
The European Commission is considering legal action against the Premier League as negotiations to end BSkyB's 13-year monopoly of football rights stall.