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    Top-Up TV wins battle over EPG.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Top-up TV, the company launching a pay-TV service on DTT, has won its battle to have

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    SEPTEMBER APPOINTS EX-FISHER PRESIDENT.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    September Films has hired former Fisher Entertainment president Alan Winters to lead its US division following

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    SKY HIRES SEGAL TO WORK WITH AMERICA.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Sky has hired former BBC senior vice-president of programme acquisition Rebecca Segal as senior vice-president of

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    Ex-BBC man in at C4 day time.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Channel 4 has appointed former BBC1 head of planning and scheduling Adam MacDonald to reinvigorate its

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    COOKE LEAVES RADIO 4.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Veteran BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Alistair Cooke is retiring after 70 years at the BBC. The

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    C4 PROMOTES HILSUM.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Channel 4 News has promoted Lindsey Hilsum to the position of international editor. Hilsum, who has

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    WALTERS RISES AT S4C.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    Welsh distributor S4C International has promoted Huw Walters to the newly created role of head of

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    ITV News struggles at 10.30pm.

    2004-03-05T16:29:02Z

    ITV1's revamped late evening news is struggling to deliver strong audiences in its new slot, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Moffatt and Gatiss to pen Doctor Who.

    2004-03-05T16:29:01Z

    Stephen Moffatt, the creator of hit sitcom Coupling, and League of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss have joined the writing team for the revival of Doctor Who, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Five big hitters rule post world.

    2004-03-05T16:29:01Z

    Five companies claimed over a third of all money spent at the top 50 UK television

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    BBC plans Broadwater drama.

    2004-03-05T16:29:01Z

    The BBC is planning to follow up its controversial BBC2 documentary on the murder of PC Keith Blakelock with a docu-drama on the Broadwater Farm riots that led to the policeman's death, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    German firm sues C4 over film deal.

    2004-03-05T16:29:01Z

    Channel 4 is being sued for£6m by a German-owned film company in a conflict arising

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    Phillis takes All3Media role.

    2004-03-05T16:29:00Z

    All3Media, the company run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, has appointed Guardian Media Group (GMG) chief executive Bob Phillis as non-executive chairman, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Central staff hit out at ITV.

    2004-03-05T16:28:59Z

    Angry workers at Central's Nottingham studios, which are being closed with the loss of 200 jobs,

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    Central MD to be promoted.

    2004-03-05T16:28:59Z

    Central Television managing director Ian Squires, who last week announced 400 job cuts at the franchise, is set to be promoted, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Comment - It'll be a long courtship.

    2004-03-05T16:28:58Z

    Channel 4 and Five can go in for some corporate flirting but it will take years to tie the knot, says Conor Dignam, Editor.

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    ITV parades army wives.

    2004-03-05T16:28:58Z

    The maker of ITV's flamboyant Footballers' Wives has been commissioned to make a new series for the network, this time looking at the lives of men and women in the army, writes Paul Revoir.

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    C4 chief dampens Five merger talk.

    2004-03-05T16:28:58Z

    Channel 4 is playing down reports that it has begun talks to merge with Five, saying it is no where close to a possible deal, writes Glen Mutel.

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    BBC to follow up The Secret Policeman.

    2004-03-05T16:28:57Z

    The BBC is to follow up its Secret Policeman documentary with a series of investigations - several of which are expected to again involve reporters gathering evidence undercover, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Allen promises end to regional job cuts.

    2004-03-05T16:28:57Z

    ITV chief executive Charles Allen this week signalled an end to the strategy of wholesale job