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    Mint and Maverick play cupid

    2009-02-11T19:05:53Z

    Mint Digital has teamed up with All3Media-owned Maverick for a web reality show that offers a new twist on dating.

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    CBBC under pressure to reverse web slide

    2009-02-11T19:09:17Z

    Fewer people have been using the CBBC website over the past two years despite a relaunch in September 2007.

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    Pay freeze for ITV execs

    2009-02-12T09:16:39Z

    ITV's employees earning more than£60,000 a year will receive no pay increase in 2009, to help the commercial broadcaster weather the economic downturn.

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    ITV's plea: let us have product placement

    2009-02-12T09:21:03Z

    ITV commercial boss Rupert Howell has admitted the broadcaster is “scrapping for its life” as part of an impassioned eleventh-hour plea for product placement to be permitted in the UK.

  • Ratings

    England defeat gives ITV1 a victory

    2009-02-12T11:39:18Z

    ITV1's live coverage of England's 2-0 defeat against Spain in took the top prize last night with a match average of 7.7m (31.9%) from 9pm.

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    C4 defends Boys and Girls Alone

    2009-02-12T12:36:23Z

    Channel 4 head of factual entertainment Andrew Mackenzie has defended the “stimulating and happy experience” of the children featured in the controversial show Boys and Girls Alone.

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    RTS TV Journalism Awards: Nominees

    2009-02-12T12:49:24Z

    Nominees for the Television Journalism Awards 2007/08, due to be held on 26 February at the London Hilton.

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    BBC1's Ladies move to March

    2009-02-13T08:01:00Z

    BBC1 is to pull forward the broadcast of new drama series The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency to March.

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    Telesgop wins commissions worth£1.8m

    2009-02-12T16:06:22Z

    Welsh indie Telesgop has secured contracts worth more than£1.8m including a new series for Discovery Channel and a recommission of long-running S4C farming series Ffermio.

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    Classic FM is top commercial station

    2007-10-25T14:56:05.910Z

    Classic FM has increased its audience by 140,000 and now averages 5.84 million listeners per week.

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    Poker Channel deals out live stream

    2009-02-12T16:36:57Z

    Pan-European broadcaster The Poker Channel has launched a free live stream on its website and expanded its on-demand video catalogue.

  • Ratings

    Film 4 forges ahead

    2009-02-12T16:50:20Z

    Film 4 made a strong start to the year with a share of 1.06% in January, a rise of 14% year-on-year.

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    BBC leads RTS TV Journalism nominees

    2009-02-13T08:00:00Z

    The BBC is leading the way in this year's RTS Television Journalism Awards with 18 nominations.

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    Wogan's C4 quiz to return

    2009-02-13T08:00:20Z

    Terry Wogan is to test contestants' powers of memory in a third series of quiz show Wogan's Perfect Recall.

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    Cotton to present Oscar coverage for Sky 1

    2009-02-13T08:00:40Z

    Sky 1 has commissioned indie Giant Film & TV to produce live coverage, hosted by Fearne Cotton, from this years Academy Awards.

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    BBC4 to take technology back in time

    2009-02-13T09:43:45Z

    A family is to swap their Wii and iPod for a black and white TV and record player in a BBC4 series that charts the rapid pace and social impact of technological change.

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    Most creative TV channels

    2007-10-26T12:01:23.430Z

    A rundown of the top 25 most creative television channels in the UK.

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    ITV launches new Tarrant gameshow online

    2009-02-13T11:56:51Z

    ITV.com has launched an online version of Chris Tarrant-fronted gameshow The Colour of Money a day ahead of its TV debut.

  • Ratings

    Piers Morgan fails to bask in glamour

    2009-02-13T11:59:00Z

    The finale of ITV1’s factual shows featuring Piers Morgan failed to grab the limelight at 9pm as his look at Hollywood could only interest 3.5m viewers (14.3% share), losing out to both BBC1 and BBC2.

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    Broadcast Awards 09: Rob Brydon

    2009-02-13T12:19:41Z

    Rob Brydon, comedian and host of the awards, talks about picking up the prize for Gavin & Stacey, future 'projects' and what it means to win accolades.