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NewsLiving TV buys Boston Legal 2
8am: Living TV has picked up exclusive rights to the second series of David E Kelley's Boston Legal, in which actor Michael J Fox guest stars.
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NewsKate Winslet to judge TCM Classic Shorts
8am: Kate Winslet and Dame Helen Mirren are returning to judge the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Classic Shorts competition, as part of a 16-strong panel.
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NewsBT look to end cross-promtion of Sky
BT is set to dump its promotion of BSkyB following the broadcaster's£211m aquistion of BT rival Easynet.
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NewsBSkyB can buy over 80%of Premiership games
The European Commission will allow BSkyB to buy over 80% of Premier League football matches for the 2007 to 2010 seasons.
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NewsBBC3 news gets the chop
BBC3 is axing its nightly news bulletin and ploughing the money saved into factual programmes.
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NewsBBC launch rival service to al-Jazeera
The BBC's World Service is to launch an Arabic language TV news channel that will put it into competition with al-Jazeera.
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Living TV clinches six figure sponsorship deal
2pm: Living TV has struck a six-figure sponsorship with Sheilas Wheels, a new car insurance brand for women.
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NewsSky and Easynet agree terms
BSkyB has confirmed it has agreed terms to buy telecoms company Easynet in a deal worth£211m, in what some analysts believe will be the satellite giant's first acquisition in the broadband market.
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NewsSky News to be 'more informal and more flexible'
Head of Sky News Nick Pollard has said he wants the 24-hour rolling news channel to be known for more than just big events and breaking news.
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Second signing for Setanta from Sky
Setanta Sports has poached a second executive from Sky Sports. Simon Green, general manager, Sky Sports Online, follows Trevor East, former Sky Sports deputy managing director, who joined Setanta in July as director of sport. Green will start next month and work mostly on business outside the UK. He could ...
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Nat Geo prog head
National Geographic Channel UK has poached UKTV scheduler Jamil Ahmed to fill the newly created position of head of programming. Reporting to NGC UK's general manager Simon Bohrsmann, Ahmed, who has already joined, will head NGC's scheduling, presentation, reversioning and UK acquisitions teams. At UKTV Ahmed was launch scheduler for ...
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FX takes on Fuel TV for weekday outing
FX has struck a deal with sister companies Fox Entertainment and Fox Sports in the US to bring the Fuel TV brand to the UK men's channel. Fuel TV is a sports and lifestyle brand that exists as a cable and satellite channel in its own right in the US. ...
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Sky Movies contact
Sky Movies has appointed its first ever dedicated member of staff to deal with film production companies to develop and improve relationships with the independent sector. Lucy Criddle, former programme manager for Sky Box Office, has been promoted to the new role of acquisitions manager, pay and pay-per-view, and will ...
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Sky Premiership exclusive draws to close
BSkyB's monopoly of live Premiership football rights inched closer to an end this week as the Premier League moved towards an amicable agreement with the European Commission. After 'constructive' talks with Richard Scudamore, the league's chief executive, the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said she would give herself until Friday ...
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New Dublin channel
A new channel dedicated to the city of Dublin has launched on NTL. City Channel offers local news, sport and family programming 24 hours a day to the city's 450,000 cable subscribers. The service is set to be the first of several launched in the Irish Republic, with similar offerings ...
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Rejigged Sky News begins with Sunrise
BSkyB kicks off its new-look Sky News on Monday (24 October) at 6am with new signing Eamonn Holmes and Lorna Dunkley presenting Sunrise. The channel will unveil a new multimillion-pound studio and revamped programming schedule. Other new signings include James Rubin, the former chief spokesman for Bill Clinton, who will ...
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Sky faces a new game
The EC's competition commission has made it clear it wants a second pay-TV broadcaster to take a share of Premiership football rights. But just how damaging will losing exclusivity be to Sky?
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Sky One probes world's oldest profession
Sky One is delving into the world of courtesans and call girls with a three-part series on prostitution.
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NewsHow Homechoice got ahead of the curve
Sky is making a£150m bid for Easynet and is also understood to be casting its eye over west London on-demand TV business Homechoice. Susan Thompson reports on why the cutting-edge company could be a target.
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NewsTalks fail to pacify Sky shareholders
4.45pm: Preliminary talks between BSkyB and its major UK shareholders, aimed at preventing a potential rebellion over proposals to increase the stake News Corp has in the satellite company, have ended in deadlock.