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Huff blows Telewest rescue off course
Telewest's painstaking restructuring of its debt laden balance sheet was thrown into chaos yesterday after bondhold...
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BBC camera teams are a 'men's club'
The BBC routinely refuses to employ female camera operators on its highest profile programmes, an employment tribun...
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Children who 'can't live without' constant TV
Television has become the 'background noise' for a generation of children who no longer regard radio as required li...
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Children prefer Eastenders to Blue Peter
Most of the television watched by children is intended for adults, with Eastenders their favourite show, according ...
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NewsFreeview take-up gathers pace
Freeview is now in around 1.6 million homes, with 800,000 new customers since its launch in October last year adding to the 800,000 who had the now defunct ITV Digital, the BBC has confirmed, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsTelevision revision with BBCi
Children studying for their GCSE's will now be able to do so through their television sets after the BBC decided to extend its successful online Bitesize service to interactive TV, via any BBC channel on SkyDigital.
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NewsChase to kill off The Sopranos
The next series of HBO's mafia drama The Sopranos will definitely be the last, the show's creator David Chase has confirmed, writes Colin Robertson in Banff
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NewsMaconie in for Walker
Music journalist Stuart Maconie is to stand in for BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker throughout his fight against cancer, writes Michael Rosser
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NewsFrench broadcasters snap up C4 docs
Channel 4 documentaries Virgin Soldiers - made by award-winning film-maker Dodge Billingsley - and Dying for Drugs, an investigation into the global pharmaceutical industry, have been sold to broadcasters in France, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsAd agency BBH creates TV role
Advertising agency BBH has appointed a director of content to develop the company's relationships with broadcasters and independent production companies, in what it claims is a first for the industry, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsSMG urges caution
SMG bosses have issued a warning to shareholders that a reversal in the beleaguered advertising market is unlikely to kick in before 2004, writes Michael Rosser
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Muslims fail to halt episode of Spooks
The BBC is to press ahead with the screening tonight of an episode of the spy drama Spooks which has attracetd crit...
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Invest in sport to tackle couch potatoes, minister urges business
Businesses should help fight obesity by investing money and ideas in sport, Tessa Jowelll will say today. ...
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US mogul and Apax work on bid for ITV firms
David Elstein, former head of Channel 5, and Haim Saban, the US billionaire behind the Power Rangers cartoons, are ...
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Household names
Telly babe Melinda Messenger, ex-Boyzone pin-up Keith Duffy and Coronation Street's Bruce Jones (Les Battersby) wil...
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JM Roberts - Historian whose venture into television was a popular success
JM Roberts, the former Warden of Merton College, Oxford, who has died aged 75, was best known as the presenter of t...
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The BBC's secret weapon
Alan Yentob is a collector's item: a genuinely famous television executive. Famously bearded, famously well connect...
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NewsWood to take the helm at ITN
ITN chairman Mark Wood is to take over as chief executive of the news provider when Stewart Purvis steps down later this year, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsHillary Clinton gets biopic treatment
The British production team behind the recent biopic of Rudy Guiliani starring James Woods, is making a new film about another controversial US politician - Hillary Clinton, writes Colin Robertson