All Multiplatform articles – Page 213

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    ITV News Channel sees Freeview hours cut in half

    2005-11-03T07:50:02Z

    The ITV News Channel has been given a last-minute reprieve on the Freeview platform but has had its hours slashed in half.

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    ITN anchor joins CNN International

    2005-10-31T15:41:32Z

    CNN has poached ITN's news anchor Isha Sesay as the network beefs up its international arm.

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    ITV News Channel clings on to Freeview

    2005-10-31T14:03:27Z

    The ITV News Channel has been given a last minute reprieve on the Freeview platform but will have its hours slashed in half.

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    Pubs concerned over Premiership rights

    2005-10-31T07:59:40Z

    8am: Pub landlords are worried that they will have to fork out money for multiple pay TV subscriptions after the next auction of Premiership football rights.

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    Schools warm to Teachers TV

    2005-10-31T07:59:15Z

    8am: A fifth of teachers with multichannel TV have tuned in to the government-backed Teachers TV channel.

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    Sky angers Oxford students over price hike

    2005-10-31T07:59:00Z

    BSkyB has incurred the wrath of Oxford students as colleges are told they are no longer allowed to suspend their subscriptions during holidays.

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    Trouble snaps up Warner sitcoms

    2005-10-27T08:30:00Z

    Flextech youth channel Trouble has picked up the rights to two US primetime comedies from Warner Bros, Freddie and Twins.

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    Shield for Hallmark

    2005-10-27T08:30:00Z

    Hallmark has signalled a change in direction for its late-night programming block, buying Fox's hard-hitting cop series The Shield. The traditionally female-skewing network will pair series one of the show (13 x 60-minute episodes) with fellow US acquisition Law and Order SVU, which currently airs at 9pm and 10pm on ...

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    MTV plans HD channel in the UK

    2005-10-27T08:30:00Z

    MTV is preparing to launch a high definition channel in the UK and is in talks with BSkyB about launching on the satellite broadcaster's new platform next year.

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    BBC3 drops news

    2005-10-27T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 is axing its nightly news bulletin and ploughing the money saved into factual programmes. The 7 O'Clock News will be taken off air from 2 December, after Secretary of State for culture, media and sport Tessa Jowell gave the channel permission to drop it. The channel's hourly 60 Seconds ...

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    Growing up in public

    2005-10-27T08:00:00Z

    BBC3 has had its fair share of critical and popular successes, notably in comedy, yet it continues to struggle with its PSB brief - leaving a fine line for Stuart Murphy's successor to tread.

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    Sky News to air video clips from viewers

    2005-10-27T07:50:12Z

    The identity of prolific complainant Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells could soon be revealed though a new Sky News service that lets viewers vent their spleens by videophone.

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    Sky One revs up motoring show

    2005-10-27T07:50:08Z

    Sky One has commissioned the team behind its award-winning science show Brainiac to make a light-hearted, magazine-style series for petrolheads.

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    Future of ITV News Channel hangs in balance

    2005-10-27T07:50:04Z

    ITV executives are in eleventh-hour talks over whether to dump the ITV News Channel from Freeview, a decision that may spell the end for the three-year-old service.

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    World Service moots Persian TV

    2005-10-27T07:50:00Z

    BBC World Service director Nigel Chapman has suggested that he may launch more foreign-language TV channels and has targeted a Persian offering as the most likely contender.

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    Sky viewers to miss ITV4 launch

    2005-10-27T07:49:00Z

    Sky digital subscribers are set to be locked out of the 1 November launch of ITV4 after it emerged the satellite broadcaster will not get the channel up and running until a week later.

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    BT poaches Sky staffer

    2005-10-26T11:24:21Z

    BT has poached James Soames, BSkyB's head of marketing, DTH to help launch its TV over broadband service.

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    Sky delays ITV4 launch

    2005-10-25T11:47:06Z

    ITV4 will not be available to Sky viewers until 7 November, a week after its official launch date on Freeview and NTL.

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    BSkyB shareholders remain uneasyat News Corp buyback

    2005-10-25T10:27:07Z

    10.30am: BSkyB faces a tense annual general meeting next week as the broadcaster failed to convince some of its biggest UK shareholders over plans for News Corporation to increase its holding in the satellite company.

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    Hallmark goes late night with The Shield

    2005-10-25T09:39:54Z

    Hallmark has signalled a change in direction for its late night programming block by purchasing hard hitting cop series The Shield.