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NewsSky's Wakeling to stay until 2008
Vic Wakeling, managing director of Sky Sports, has signed a new contract that will see him remain at the pay-TV broadcaster until 2008.
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NewsDCMS strategist takes BBC governors role
BBC chairman Michael Grade has appointed the corporation's first director of governance in a bid to enhance the independence of the board of governors.
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NewsITV director resigns
ITV plc has announced that non-executive director Etienne De Villiers has resigned with immediate effect.
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NewsITV to air Prince Harry doc
ITV has lined up a documentary devised and partly filmed by Prince Harry about the plight of AIDS-stricken African country Lesotho.
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NewsBBC exposes UK airport's 'shocking security'
The BBC is set to expose more malpractice in major institutions this week with an undercover investigation into security at Manchester airport.
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NewsHollick to quit UBM
Clive Hollick, chief executive of Five shareholder United Business Media, is to quit the company fuelling speculation of a merger or break-up of the business.
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NewsCommunity Channel gets breakfast slot
The Community Channel is to begin broadcasting in a prime breakfast slot on Freeview for the first time after being bumped up from its previous night-time graveyard shift.
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NewsJordan in line for new reality show
ITV is considering another reality show from Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell starring glamour model and I'm Celebrity?Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Jordan.
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NewsPEER POLL: Channels of the year
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Did BBC2 and BBC4 deserve to win channels of the year at Edinburgh?
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RTL chief still wants 4/5 merger
Gerhard Zeiler, the chief executive of Five owner RTL, is still considering a merger with Channel 4 as part of plans to expand the broadcaster.
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NewsJust a Grumpy Old Man
For his MacTaggart lecture John Humphrys chose to vent his considerable spleen on the 'coarsening' effects of reality TV, but do his arguments amount to anything more than Mary Whitehouse-lite?
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ABC1 unveils key shows for Freeview launch
Disney's new Freeview channel ABC1 will launch this month with two flagship dramas from US parent network ABC. Long-running soap General Hospital will be making its UK debut alongside relationship drama Once and Again (pictured). Produced by The Bedford Falls Company with Touchstone Television, Once and Again stars Sela Ward ...
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Hotbed sells 100 Worst to South Africa
Birmingham-based production company Hotbed Media has licensed its 100 Worst Britons format to South African broadcaster MNET.
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Parkinson given 3sixty vision
3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...
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BBC3 into therapy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has said he wants to create a new portfolio of programmes dealing with issues such as therapy and bereavement as he seeks to build his channel's factual output. Murphy has already commissioned one new show, Row Tactics , looking at domestic ...
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C4 orders eighth Scrapheap Challenge
Channel 4 has ordered another series of Scrapheap Challenge from RDF Media before the latest series, which airs this month, has even gone out. C4 head of science Simon Andreae has just commissioned series eight of the popular format, which will be broadcast next year. ...
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Park picked to spearhead C4 radio venture
Richard Park, the former Capital Radio programming chief, is to build a national digital radio station for Channel 4 which could include a weekly show from Richard and Judy.
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C4 unveils autumn
Channel 4 this week unveiled its autumn headed by sex slavery drama Sex Traffic and homegrown comedies Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , a Phoenix Nights spin-off, and Green ...
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ITV orders drama about hangman Pierrepoint
ITV looks set to commission a one-off drama telling the story of one of Britain's last hangmen, Albert Pierrepoint, who executed Ruth Ellis along with around 400 other people.
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CBBC to adapt adventure yarn
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale Kidnapped is to be dramatised with an all-star cast as part of a raft of new CBBC dramas.