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NewsWhy Gavin decided it was time to go
Rupert Gavin's decision to quit as chief executive of BBC Worldwide is closely linked to the increased likelihood of the privatisation of the company
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Commissioner's Q&A: Richard Woolfe
Bravo's director of programmes wants the channel to become the alternative home of sports in a bid to hold the attention of young men for more than three minutes
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Music therapy to fill gap left by Simpsons
BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has begun the task of replacing The Simpsons , by ordering a 20-part series featuring Fame Academy judges Carrie and David Grant.
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Five lures Sky One's Razaq
Five has poached Sky One commissioning editor Amina Razaq to join its factual entertainment department.
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Sit-up TV in£5m deal
Sit-up, the company behind bid-up.tv, price-drop.tv and Screenshop, will hand over large chunks of its schedule to infomercial broadcaster Vector Direct until 2008 in a£5m deal. Under the terms of the deal Vector will broadcast 24 hours a day on Screenshop and from 01.00 to 08.00 every night on the ...
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Red minorities help
Red Production Company has launched a training scheme aimed at developing more jobs for black and Asian people. Working in partnership with Media Training North West, the indie has taken on five trainees for the filming of its drama Blue Blood. All are on ...
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BBC1's Saturday night paradise
ITV's new line-up of Saturday evening entertainment shows largely struggled to make their mark last weekend as BBC1 continued to dominate.
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NewsTV's 50 most influential shows
This was never going to be an easy task: 13 television executives, three media journalists, a list of over 100 programmes and a mission to pick the 50 most influential programmes in British television history.
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Tackling a taxing issue
When Michael Grade was recently asked whether he was prepared to become unpopular with BBC staff by pushing through real, radical and painful reform, his answer was succinct: 'We have to be popular with the licence fee payer.'
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Five favourite to bag Joey in bidding war
A bidding war has begun for Friends spin-off Joey after Channel 4 failed to capitalise on its first-look deal. C4, which aired all nine series of Friends , did have a first look window with ...
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Mirren in frame to play queen in Diana film
Prime Suspect star Helen Mirren is being lined up by Granada to play the Queen in an ambitious new cinema film charting the death of Princess Diana from the view of the royal family and Tony Blair. The film is due to go into ...
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Capital and GWR rumours intensify
Capital Radio and Classic FM-owner GWR remained tight-lipped this week over speculation that they are in merger talks to create an£800m radio giant. Share prices have soared amid the rumours, with Capital seeing an increase of 51p and GWR growing by 20p since 8 July. The rumours stemmed from a ...
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Celador fails in bid to appeal ruling
Celador's application for permission to appeal against a High Court ruling which leaves it liable to potential damages of $40m (£23m) has been quashed. A judge ruled in May that Celador International had no grounds for breaking its licence contract with Arief, Indonesian producer of ...
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Duncan canvasses C4 staff for views
Andy Duncan kicked off his first week as Channel 4 chief executive by encouraging its entire staff to share their ideas on the future of the broadcaster and the way it is run. Duncan hosted a drinks reception on Tuesday evening (20 July) for the entire channel, during which staff ...
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Bectu to confirm technology strike date
Bectu is expected to confirm the dates for BBC Technology's industrial action this Friday (23 July). BBC sources maintained that the strike will not affect output or the TV schedule and claimed to have a contingency plan in place, details of which were not disclosed.
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RatingsSupernanny sets the standard with 6.8m
Channel 4 outperformed BBC1 in peaktime for the second Wednesday running as Supernanny ended its run with a peak of 6.8 million (32.l%) at 21.50.
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NewsSambrook to head World Service
BBC director of news Richard Sambrook - one of the few key protagonists from the Dr David Kelly affair still in his job - is to make a side-ways move to run the BBC World Service in September.
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NewsJowell moots 2012 analogue switch-off
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV signals to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.
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NewsCapital's 'Flying Eye' touches down
Capital Radio's 'Flying Eye' traffic reporter, Russ Kane, is hanging up his chocks after 20 years at the station.
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NewsBBC Technology strike set for Olympics opening
Managers could be drafted in to keep BBC services on the air after broadcasting union Bectu announced it would take strike action over the weekend of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.