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NewsITV ratings slump to all-time low
ITV1 slumped to its worst ever all-hours weekly audience share last week as BBC1 capitalised on its World Cup and Wimbledon coverage.
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NewsHawken joins indie Outline Productions
Helen Hawken, the former Endemol UK senior producer who was instrumental in launching Big Brotheron Channel 4, has joined Outline Productions as an executive producer on the indie's growing batch of new reality commissions.
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NewsFremantle Media first to launch download service
Talkback Thames owner Fremantle Media is to become the first producer to enter the burgeoning UK on-demand market, launching a broadband service by the end of the summer that will allow consumers to pay to download its content direct from the internet.
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NewsBBC chiefs defiant over 'super salaries'
In a tumultous week, the corporation faced a backlash from the press, politicians and unions.
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NewsBBC puts new Chris Langham series on hold
BBC2 has shelved plans for a second series of Bafta-winning comedy Help, while actor Chris Langham faces 15 charges of making indecent images of children.
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NewsEvans' struggling indie joins up with Outline
Chris Evans is folding his loss-making indie, UMTV, into another producer after a string of high-profile flops such as The Terry and Gabby Show, Boys and Girlsand OFI Sunday.
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NewsITV moves to cut children's hours
ITV is to start discussions with Ofcom about massively reducing its children's programming on ITV1, with one of the options being to cut kids output from eight hours a week to just two.
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NewsGrade answers pay rise critics
BBC chairman Michael Grade has hit back at accusations of 'fat cat' salaries at the corporation, as he once again defended above-inflation pay rises for its executive board.
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NewsLove Island continues to lose viewers
ITV1's Love Islandcame off the worse for wear in its first head-to-head confrontation with Big Brotherat 10pm with just 2.1 million (10.6%) tuning in.
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Comment - Last of the big spenders?
The BBC has shown a lack of judgement in paying top whack for toptalent and execs - and will lose out in licence fee cash, writes ConorDignam, Editor.
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NewsThe new radio four
C4's plans for radio and how the broadcaster was received at the Radio Festival
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NewsMade in Manchester bags Wisdom for Laurel and Hardy show
Made in Manchester Productions has secured veteran British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom as the presenter for its first national radio commission.
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NewsNollywood movie channel prepares launch
Americans have Hollywood, Indians Bollywood, and Nigerians in the UK will soon have Nollywood Movies, a channel dedicated to Nigerian films.
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NewsNew boss for BBC People
BT executive Stephen Kelly has been named the new director of BBC People, the corporation's recently restructured human resource division.
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NewsBBC1's EastEnders slumps to 3.9m
BBC1's flagship show EastEndersfell to its lowest ever audience last night with just 3.9 million (23.1%) viewers at 7.30pm, losing out to an extended Emmerdaleon ITV1.
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NewsScott quits Pact for indie
Pact's director of nations and regions, Margaret Scott, is quitting the producers' body to join Glasgow-based producer MnE.
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NewsJoe Public to pitch to TV execs
Members of the public will be given the opportunity to pitch their ideas for new TV shows in a Pop Idol-style live event next week.
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NewsAl Jazeera makes jailed reporter bureau chief
Al Jazeera has appointed a reporter currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for collaborating with Al Qaeda as the chief of its planned Madrid office.
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NewsAyre appointed to Ofcom content board
Richard Ayre, the former deputy chief executive of BBC news, has been named as one of five people appointed as non-executive members on Ofcom's content board.
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NewsBBC strikes put on hold
Broadcasting unions have put on hold the threat of strikes at the BBC, after a last-minute meeting with the corporation's management.