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NewsC4 pushes ahead with Popworld radio
Channel 4 and UBC Media are pushing ahead with plans to launch a digital radio station based on the Popworld music format after taking a stake in the Simon Fuller-owned company.
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NewsJobs go as Sky hands music channels to rival
The running of BSkyB's three music channels are to be handed over to a rival company in a bid to make them more profitable, leaving 13 staff redundant.
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NewsBBC orders Angela Cannings drama
Actress Sarah Lancashire is to portray Angela Cannings, the mother wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, in a new BBC1 docu-drama.
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Ofcom sets day for analogue switch-off
Ofcom has set 31 December 2012 as the official switch-off date for analogue TV signals.
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NewsPact calls for more BBC film cash
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is facing pressure from indies to force the BBC to invest more in British films as a condition of charter renewal.
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RatingsSilent Witness manages 6.1m
BBC1's Silent Witness managed a relatively poor 6.1 million (25.4%) last night, representing a fall of 1 million viewers week on week.
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NewsCelador diet show set for US launch
Channel 4's hit factual entertainment show You Are What You Eat is set to transfer to the US.
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NewsHorse of the Year rides to Sky
Sky Sports is to broadcast the Horse of the Year Show next month - giving the event its first TV slot for five years.
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NewsTWG trials Talksport TV
Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting programmes next month on Sky.
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NewsBBC set for criticism over accounting
The BBC is set to face renewed criticism today (Wednesday) over its opposition to the National Audit Office (NAO) being given full access to its books.
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Ratings3.7m see The Brighton Bomb
BBC1's documentary The Brighton Bomb which detailed the events of the notorious IRA bomb attack in 1984 drew a respectable 3.7 million (17.3%).
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Leopard to make second money spinners
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has commissioned Leopard Films to make a second series of consumer show Money Spinners. The 15 x 60-minute series deconstructs family finances and puts heavy spenders through a month of gruelling saving, earning and selling to raise an ...
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NewsKeating makes first big orders
New BBC2 controller Roly Keating has greenlit two major factual projects from BBC Birmingham worth£7m, including one that will challenge people to pay off their mortgages early.
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C4 agrees to carry Einstein docudrama
Darlow Smithson, the producer of Bafta-winning film Touching the Void , is developing a $2m (£1.1m) drama about Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific equation E=mc2 for Channel 4.
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McKerrow departs Maverick
Richard McKerrow has quit as managing director of Maverick Television and is planning to launch his own indie.
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Dimbleby takes over from Yentob to front arts show
Question Time presenter David Dimbleby is set to front BBC1's major new arts series A Picture of Britain , after BBC creative director Alan Yentob finally decided not to take the job.
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Optimistic moves into format development
The Optimistic Network, the company behind producer-broadcaster Nation 217, is launching a format development arm to create content for other channels.
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Talkback lifestyle formats sell to US
Talkback Productions' new lifestyle shows Too Posh to Wash and The Sex Inspectors are to be remade for US audiences.
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Village people's gay test
Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.
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CanWest enters bid for FM licence
Canadian media giant CanWest is looking to take a slice of the UK radio market with a bid for an FM licence in Manchester.