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    BBC1 rebuilds houses after acts of God

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 has commissioned a new twist on the home makeover show, with a series following families' attempts to rebuild homes destroyed by floods, fires and even runaway coaches.

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    Thompson stamps authority on BBC

    2004-06-24T07:51:05Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson moved swiftly to establish a new regime this week, tearing up Greg Dyke's management structure and launching a series of internal reviews.

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    ITV pumps extra£36m into digital brands

    2004-06-24T07:50:35Z

    ITV is pumping an extra£36m into its digital channel strategy in a bid to triple its income from multichannel broadcasting.

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    C4 experiment tests steroids on athletes

    2004-06-24T07:50:30Z

    Athletes are to be injected with anabolic steroids for a Channel 4 programme that will attempt to measure the impact of performance-enhancing drugs.

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    All3Media eyes Shameless indie

    2004-06-24T07:50:25Z

    All3Media, the media group run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, is understood to be eyeing Company Pictures, the producer of Channel 4's Shameless , as its next acquisition target.

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    BBC lays out news academy plan

    2004-06-24T07:50:20Z

    BBC star reporters such as Andrew Marr and John Simpson are to help train fledgling news recruits as part of plans for a multimillion pound BBC journalism college.

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    Pact challenges budget squeeze

    2004-06-24T07:50:15Z

    Producers' alliance Pact is complaining to Ofcom that the BBC and Channel 4 are trying to cut indie production budgets to claw back money lost as a result of rights changes.

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    Curwen quits Folio to set up own indie

    2004-06-24T07:50:10Z

    Folio head of programmes Nick Curwin has quit to set up a factual indie and has already secured a development retainer from Channel 4 and a number of commissions.

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    ITV picks off-peak chief

    2004-06-24T07:50:05Z

    ITV has poached the BBC's daytime scheduling chief, Stephen Price, to join its newly created off-peak unit.

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    Popstars back in fresh guise

    2004-06-24T07:50:00Z

    Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.

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    BBC joins Russia for Space Race

    2004-06-24T07:49:55Z

    The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.

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    BBC to set up journalism college

    2004-06-23T10:31:49Z

    The BBC is to set up its own multi-million pound journalism college as a consequence of the Hutton inquiry, it confirmed this morning (Wednesday).

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    Thompson overhauls BBC top tier

    2004-06-23T09:36:40Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled his blueprint for the future of the corporation, with a radical overhaul of the way it is structured and a warning that it must not be so 'arrogant'.

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    TWG attacks Rajar measurement claims

    2004-06-23T09:22:35Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has attacked radio audience board Rajar for 'scaremongering' over its claim that introducing electronic measurement would cost up to£25m a year.

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    Lighting: Five could buy Flextech

    2004-06-23T09:11:19Z

    Five chief executive Jane Lighting has signalled an interest in buying Telewest's content business Flextech.

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    Thompson unveils new BBC management

    2004-06-22T15:53:28Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson has unveiled radical plans for the re-organisation of the corporation in a speech to all 28,000 staff.

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    Thompson to cut BBC management board

    2004-06-22T10:25:21Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson is today expected to unveil radical changes to the corporation's executive committee management board which could see its membership cut in half.

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    Central staff to lobby Blair

    2004-06-22T10:19:37Z

    ITV Central workers will go to 10 Downing Street today and handover a 20,000-name petition to Tony Blair, calling on him to save the region's TV studios.

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    Rowland resurfaces at Red Fig

    2004-06-22T10:17:49Z

    Mark Rowland, the former managing director of Television Corporation International, has joined interactive service provider Red Fig to spearhead a strategy of global expansion.

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    Poliakoff scripts three films for BBC

    2004-06-22T09:42:49Z

    Award-winning playwright Stephen Poliakoff has been commissioned to make three epic feature-length films for BBC1 set against the sweeping history of the 1980s and 90s.