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NewsTop Up eyes E4 replacement
Top Up TV has drawn up a short-list of channels to replace E4 on its premium Freeview offering, with comedy channel Paramount said to be the preferred choice.
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NewsAmazing Race heads to Flextech
Flextech has picked up the exclusive UK rights to Jerry Bruckheimer's Emmy award-winning CBS reality show The Amazing Raceas part of a trio of deals with Buena Vista International Television.
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NewsCommunity Channel goes interactive
The Community Channel is launching a new interactive service to mark the Year of the Volunteer.
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NewsHolmes joins Sky News
Former GMTV anchorman Eamonn Holmes is joining Sky News to host its breakfast show Sunrise.
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Rowden rises at Sky
Sky One has promoted Sam Rowden to head of acquisitions and co-productions (factual) as the channel looks to work more with UK and inter-national programme-makers. Formerly head of reality and daytime acquisitions in charge of drama and comedy genres, Rowden will now focus on developing co-production opportunities with British, Canadian, ...
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Telewest and NTL inch closer to merger
Telewest and NTL moved a step closer to a long-awaited merger, this week after it emerged that Telewest has appointed a financial advisor for negotiations.
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Challenge ups stakes with poker series
Challenge has acquired PartyPoker.com: The Poker Den, the channel's first live card game series for its new casino strand Players. Made by indie Matchroom in association with website PartyPoker.com, the 12 x 180-minute series will be broadcast from a basement in east ...
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NewsSky One kicks off sports doc series
Sky One is to inject more sports programming into its schedule with a new long-running documentary strand, which will include profiles of some of sport's biggest stars.
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Five weighs up multichannel options
Five is looking to launch a crime channel or a female-skewed lifestyle channel, as it gears up to make its first step into multichannel television.
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BBC creative director takes over at Community Channel
The Community Channel has hired the former creative director at BBC learning, Nick Ware, as its new channel controller.
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Sky poaches Discovery exec for factual role
Sky One has poached Discovery Channel executive Emma Read to become commissioning editor for specialist factual.
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NewsEmap launches FHM TV
Lads' mag FHM is to launch a music TV channel on Friday featuring the sexiest female bums in music and videos for viewers to air-guitar along to.
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Pitching chance for new channels
Budding entrepreneurs are being invited to pitch their channel start-up idea to an industry panel at next month's Broadcast Digital Channel Conference.
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NewsNTL takes all Flextech and UKTV content
NTL has strengthened its relationship with rival Telewest after signing up to carry all 27 channels from Flextech and UKTV arms.
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NewsSky to make job cuts
BSkyB is to make job cuts after weekend reports suggested it was to shed up to 1,000 staff.
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NewsNew channel to showcase Yorkshire talent
A new digital satellite channel promoting the TV and film work of people from Yorkshire and Humber, is set to be broadcast across the UK and Ireland after securing a slot on the Sky Digital platform.
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NewsC4 buys feted Hitler biopic
Channel 4 has boosted its line-up for its soon-to-launch digital channel More4 by snapping up the first-run rights to celebrated German film Downfall.
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NewsTelewest buys Sit-Up TV
Telewest has bought TV retailer and movie channel operator Sit-Up TV, in a deal worth over£194m.
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NTL in bid to woo Freeview customers
NTL is putting more channels into its cheapest TV package to help it compete with BSkyB and Freeview for low paying customers.
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Baker: 'ratings not top of mind' for Sky One
James Baker has defended his performance as Sky One controller after the channel's ratings performance was publicly criticised by chief executive James Murdoch.