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    Making Waves pulled after failing to make a splash

    2004-07-29T07:50:02Z

    ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard has pulled the channel's ambitious£6m naval drama Making Waves from peaktime after disappointing ratings.

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    EPG criteria to be made public

    2004-07-29T07:50:00Z

    BSkyB and other electronic programme guide (EPG) publishers were this week told by Ofcom that they must make public the criteria they use to decide where channels are placed.

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    A tale of two controllers

    2004-07-28T15:04:04Z

    Although BBC1 and BBC2's controllers have unveiled two very different autumn schedules, both are relying heavily on popular factual programming to draw peaktime audiences

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    Family tree show heads BBC2 line-up

    2004-07-28T10:30:01Z

    New BBC2 controller Roly Keating this morning (Wednesday) unveiled his first autumn schedule since replacing Jane Root last month - although he admitted he couldn't take any of the credit for the programming.

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    Porn channel fined£50k

    2004-07-28T09:59:41Z

    Media watchdog Ofcom has imposed its first fine since setting up in January, by ordering a satellite channel to pay£50,000 for broadcasting unencrypted hardcore sex in the early evening.

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    Virgin's Pete and Geoff stay put

    2004-07-28T09:49:28Z

    Virgin Radio has ended speculation that breakfast duo Pete Mitchell and Geoff Lloyd could be poached by BBC Radio 2 by extending their contract to 2007.

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    Dirty Bomb leads BBC1 autumn push

    2004-07-28T09:30:09Z

    BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled her£221m autumn schedule with one of its highlights - a dramatisation of a dirty bomb exploding in London - immediately courting controversy.

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    BBC arts producer dies

    2004-07-28T09:26:05Z

    BBC creative director Alan Yentob has led the tributes to documentary maker Nick Rossiter, who died suddenly on Friday (23 July) at the age of 43.

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    Live action heads Disney autumn line-up

    2004-07-27T10:38:30Z

    Disney Channel has unveiled its line-up of shows for the autumn including a raft of live action series from the US.

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    Heggessey: I won't quit

    2004-07-27T10:13:28Z

    Under fire BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey today fended off criticism that she should resign following a critical report of her channel by BBC governors.

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    Turner promotes Kilgarriff

    2004-07-27T10:10:34Z

    The head of Turner Broadcasting's kids channels Richard Kilgarriff has been given responsibility for the company's entire portfolio of entertainment channels as part of a Europe-wide restructure.

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    Norton US show sets up camp on BBC3

    2004-07-27T09:39:45Z

    BBC3 has acquired Graham Norton's US chat show in a move that will keep the camp comic exclusively on the BBC.

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    C4 locks in Ramsay

    2004-07-26T10:19:27Z

    Channel 4 has locked Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay into an exclusive three-year UK deal.

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    UBC lifts sales

    2004-07-26T10:11:04Z

    UBC Media, the group that is developing Channel 4's first radio venture, has reported a 78% rise in sales at its commercial division in the first quarter.

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    Yentob expense inquiry to end this week

    2004-07-26T09:58:53Z

    The investigation into alleged expenses abuses by BBC creative director Alan Yentob is expected to report by the end of the week.

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    S4C prepares for analogue switch-off

    2004-07-26T09:56:54Z

    Welsh channel S4C is to reposition itself as a provider of live-events, including music sport and rural programming ahead of its switch to a digital only Welsh-language service.

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    S4C report: BBC should increase Welsh output

    2004-07-23T10:49:47Z

    The BBC should increase its supply of programmes to Welsh channel S4C, a new report from the department of culture media and sport has argued.

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    BBC Technology strike set for Olympics opening

    2004-07-23T10:20:38Z

    Managers could be drafted in to keep BBC services on the air after broadcasting union Bectu announced it would take strike action over the weekend of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

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    Capital's 'Flying Eye' touches down

    2004-07-23T10:13:54Z

    Capital Radio's 'Flying Eye' traffic reporter, Russ Kane, is hanging up his chocks after 20 years at the station.

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    Jowell moots 2012 analogue switch-off

    2004-07-23T10:11:27Z

    The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV signals to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.