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    Kirby seeks£2bn of savings at BBC

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The man brought in by the BBC to help slash£2bn in costs over the next three years said he has identified four main areas where savings can be made.

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    Flora funds IWC to make C4 health show

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Indie IWC Media has entered the world of advertiser-funded programmes for the first time with a five-part series for Channel 4.

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    Mandabach targets UK

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Caryn Mandabach, the veteran US producer behind The Cosby Show and Roseanne , is scoping out opportunities in the UK after quitting US indie Carsey Werner Mandabach (CWM).

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    BBC3 to stage live opera in railway station

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.

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    Ofcom raps today

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 4 show Today has been rapped by Ofcom after it ran a story about defence contracts which claimed that doing business with the Saudi Arabian government required offering sweeteners for diplomats and staff. Saudi embassy officials in London complained that the piece was ...

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    New chart battle

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Virgin Radio is launching a download chart three days before BBC Radio 1. The SMG-owned station has signed a deal with online music service Napster to provide a rundown of its 20 most popular tracks. It will launch the new chart at 7pm on Sunday (29 August). R1's chart, based ...

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    Galaxy to air Mobo

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The Galaxy Network has secured live broadcast rights to the urban music Mobo Awards for the fifth year running. The commercial youth dance network, owned by Chrysalis, will report the winners as they are announced at the Royal Albert Hall on 30 September. Galaxy will also sponsor the best single ...

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    ITV's UEFA cup coup

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    ITV has signed an agreement with Newcastle United to show exclusive live coverage of the team's Uefa Cup home games this season. The games will air on either ITV1 or ITV2 when the competition begins with two first-round matches from 16 September. ITV has rights for all the home games ...

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    Can Dawn light up Sky?

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    James Murdoch is relying on a revived Sky One to help drive take-up and the pressure is on for Dawn Airey.

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    Next Faking It series to debut on T4

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a 3 x 60-minute series of Faking It , from RDF Media, which will debut on its youth strand T4 before being shown again in peaktime. The new shows, skewed to a slightly younger audience, were commissioned by head of T4 ...

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    Hunt is on for Boaden's successor

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The hunt for a successor to BBC Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden begins next week following the deadline for applications on Tuesday (31 August). BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has told friends he will put his name forward, while other possibilities include BBC head of television news Roger Mosey, ...

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    BBC Technology sale to go ahead

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    The sale of BBC Technology to German firm Siemens is expected to be completed by the end of next month after the main areas of contention with broadcasting union Bectu were resolved. Bectu had threatened strike action over the sale but now says that, despite still being opposed to it ...

  • Ratings

    NY-LON ratings squeezed by Olympics

    2004-08-26T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4's heavily promoted new drama NY-LON lost out to the BBC's Olympic juggernaut on Wednesday night when it pulled in just 1.8 million viewers, a 10% share, for its debut at 10pm. Touchpaper Productions' seven-part series about a transatlantic romance reached a high of ...

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    Sky rivals Elstein with Hallmark bid

    2004-08-26T08:32:42Z

    BSkyB has tabled a bid to buy the Hallmark Channel in the UK. If successful it would be the first time in the satellite giant's 15-year history it has bought, rather than built, a channel.

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    Olympics dominate a night of sport with 6.8m

    2004-08-26T11:58:39Z

    BBC1's Olympics coverage came out on top with 6.8 million (32.1%) in a night that was dominated with sports coverage.

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    The power of speech

    2004-08-26T12:17:04Z

    When John Humphrys steps up to the McEwan Hall lectern to deliver the MacTaggart lecture - the centrepiece of the Edinburgh Television Festival - few expect him to mince his words.

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    PEER POLL: Edinburgh TV festival

    2004-08-27T08:00:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is the Edinburgh TV festival relevant to the industry as a whole?

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    BBC considers formal protest

    2004-08-27T08:00:00Z

    The BBC is considering making a formal protest to the Iraqi government after local police forced its team in the beleaguered city of Najaf to leave their hotel at gunpoint.

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    Profits at Pinewood studios double

    2004-08-27T08:51:21Z

    Pinewood Shepperton film and television studios has seen its profits double in the first half of the year helped by movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the fourth instalment of Harry Potter.

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    WPP and Green in running for MPC

    2004-08-27T08:54:44Z

    Martin Sorrell's WPP firm and former Carlton chairman Michael Green have emerged as likely bidders for the post-production group The Moving Picture Company (MPC), which ITV plc are trying to sell.