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    Leslie: I'm innocnet of sex charges

    2003-06-19T10:10:25Z

    The television presenter john leslie stood on the steps of an east London police station yesterday to protest his i...

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    BBC is too southern and middle class, says Dyke

    2003-06-19T10:07:34Z

    The BBC's director general, Greg Dyke, reopened the debate about the representation of ethnic minorities at the cor...

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    Labour to back down on media bill

    2003-06-19T10:03:57Z

    Ministers are preparing to make a significant climbdown on their planned relaxation of cross-media ownership rules....

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    Fox News cleared of war bias by ITC

    2003-06-19T09:40:21Z

    Fox News Channel's controversial coverage of the Iraq war has been given the all-clear after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) rejected complaints of bias from British viewers, writes Conor Dignam

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    Daytime TV host charged with assault

    2003-06-19T09:36:13Z

    John Leslie, the television presenter protested his innocence yesterday after he was charged with two offences of i...

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    Leslie in sex trial shock

    2003-06-19T09:29:52Z

    Television star John Leslie vowed to win the battle to clear his name yesterday after he was dramatically accused o...

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    Report slams 'vulgar' TV

    2003-06-19T09:27:42Z

    The Campaign for Quality Television (CQTV) will today submit a hard-hitting report on the state of UK television to the House of Lords, in which Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette is singled out for pedalling vulgarity, writes Rosemary Gallagher

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    Leslie: I'll clear my name

    2003-06-19T09:26:40Z

    Fallen TV presenter John Leslie vowed to clear his name yesterday after he was charged with two counts of indecentl...

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    Wallace went with£4.4m in the pot

    2003-06-19T09:23:56Z

    Graham Wallace, the former chief executive of Cable & Wireless, has amassed a pension pot of£4.4m in his six years...

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    Cablevision highlights irregularities

    2003-06-19T09:20:48Z

    Cablevision, the New York-based media group, yesterday revealed accounting irregualrities at its cable television s...

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    C&W limits ex-chief's pay-out

    2003-06-19T09:17:43Z

    Graham Wallace, former chief executive of Cable and Wireless, will leave with pensions and salary payments worth al...

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    Senate fight begins over new TV curbs

    2003-06-19T09:14:47Z

    The fight in Congress to overturn new, loose restrictions on media ownership will start today, when the Senate comm...

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    BBC governors sharpen up PR act

    2003-06-19T09:12:21Z

    The BBC governors are set to stage a public relations fightback as new regulator Ofcom prepares to launch, with the appointment of two new executives charged with improving their independent advice and raising their profile, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    The Bill goes live to mark 20th birthday

    2003-06-19T09:03:25Z

    ITV is to celebrate the 20th anni-versary of its cop soap The Bill this autumn with a live extravaganza, writes Jane Marlow

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    John Willis's Royal Television Society Speech

    2003-06-18T14:53:05Z

    I had fully expected to be standing here as Vice President in charge of National Programmes at WGBH in Boston, not as the BBC's new Director of Factual and Learning, just eight days into a new job.

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    BBC's Willis keeps up US offensive

    2003-06-18T14:46:42Z

    John Willis, who last week took over as the new director of factual and learning BBC factual after a year spent in the US, has launched a withering attack on American news and current affairs television, writes Conor Dignam

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    Top Gear 'hooligans'

    2003-06-18T10:57:11Z

    Fury as TV boy racers go joyriding in historis£1m Jaguar which won Le Mans. ...

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    GWR departure prompts takeover talk

    2003-06-18T10:55:43Z

    GWR, the radio company that owns Classic FM, yesterday announced the surprise resignation of its chief executive, P...

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    New deadline in Carlton and Granada talks

    2003-06-18T10:54:03Z

    Carlton and Granada will have to wait another two months befor elearning if they can merge, after the Competition C...

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    Chief executive of GWR steps down

    2003-06-18T10:50:04Z

    The chief executive of Classic FM owner GWR resigned yesterday - less than a month after the radio group was force...