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JML TV SHOP TO LAUNCH.
A new 24-hour shopping channel, based in Nottingham, is set to launch in the autumn backed
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CARLTON PROFITS FALL.
Carlton will lose almost #100m by closing ITV Digital, according to interim results released on Tuesday
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HEALTH GOES 24 HOURS.
The Discovery Health Channel will begin broadcasting 24 hours a day from Saturday (1 June) on
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Doubt hangs over League rights.
Rights to broadcast Nationwide League football matches may be sold off game by game following the collapse of ITV Digital, according to a media lawyer, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC launches reverse billing for World Cup.
The BBC is to launch its first reverse-billing mobile phone service to coincide with the World Cup - charging users premium rates for updates, scores and opinion with some revenues going to charity, writes David Wood
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NTL plans assault on BSkyB position.
NTL is attempting to challenge BSkyB's supremacy in the digital TV market by adding 30 new
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Govt favours bidders in free spectrum promise.
The Government has assured bidders for the three multiplexes formerly used by ITV Digital that they
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NewsGovt favours bidders in free spectrum promise
The government has assured bidders for the three multiplexes formerly used by ITV Digital that they will not be charged to use the spectrum but has controversially not extended the guarantee to existing multiplex holders, including the BBC and ITV, writes Barbara Marshall
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NewsSport Channel shows to broadcast on ITV 2
Carlton and Granada are to boost the output of digital channel ITV 2 by adding programmes left over from the defunct ITV Sport Channel to its schedule, writes Steve Aston
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NewsDoubt hangs over League rights
Rights to broadcast Nationwide League football matches may be sold off game-by-game following the collapse of ITV Digital, according to a media lawyer, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC launches reverse billing for World Cup
The BBC is to launch its first reverse-billing mobile phone service to coincide with the World Cup - charging users premium rates for updates, scores and opinion with some revenues going to charity, writes David Wood
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NTL plans assault on BSkyB position
NTL is attempting to challenge BSkyB's supremacy in the digital TV market by adding 30 new channels to its TV offering and snapping up the customer database from defunct ITV Digital, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC 4 not ratings-driven
BBC 4 is 'defiantly not a ratings-driven channel', according to controller Roly Keating speaking at the Production Show last week, write Lucy Rouse and Peter Keighron
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Newsattheraces strikes overseas deal
attheraces, the interactive digital TV channel owned by Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure, has secured a deal to provide live pictures and audio to a number of overseas jurisdictions, in a move which will finance the payment of the annual rights fees to its contracted courses, ...
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NewsKingston reports sharp profit increase
Hull-based telecoms and media firm Kingston Communications today said it was well placed for further revenue growth as it reported a sharp increase in underlying profits in its final results, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsEU gives BBC's new digital services the all-clear
The European Commission has given approval to the BBC's new digital radio and television services after ruling they were not anti-competitive, writes Leigh Holmwood
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MAN UTD RUSSIA TV DEAL.
Granada/BSkyB joint-venture MUTV, the official TV channel for Manchester United, has signed an exclusive deal to
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SKY NEWS HIRES WELLS.
Sky News has poached BBC TV news planning editor Adrian Wells as its new head of
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ITV DIGITAL LOSES C4.
Former ITV Digital customers will be able to tune in to the launch of Big Brother
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Freeco gears up to bid for DTT licences.
The prospect of the terrestrial broadcasters' much-vaunted Freeco consortium taking over the former ITV Digital licences