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BBC pay up 3.6%
More than 20,000 BBC staff will get inflation-busting pay rises of 3.6 per cent next month. ...
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NewsDodgy dossier row gave BBC image a boost
The furious row between the BBC and the government over the
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No challenge to Sky for top matches
Broadcasters were this week putting the finishing touches to their bids for Premiership Football rights in time for Friday's deadline (11 July), with Sky expected to face no terrestrial competition for the two key live packages, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsThe Bill cops it from writers
Writers have accused The Billof criminal cheek after series producer Carson Black wrote to them offering just£200 for story ideas, writes Paul Revoir.
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Is this the funniest comedy line ever?
Mincing Mr Humphries' camp call 'I'm free' from the seventies TV sitcom Are You Being Served? was yesterday named t...
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Lygo's glad to be back and causing trouble at C4
Channel Five programming chief Kevin Lygo, who helped transform the broadcasters trashy image by introducing arts p...
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Scientist named as BBC contact
A former senior UN weapons inspector was named yesterdsay as the person said by the Ministry of ddefence to have ha...
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BBC reassures stadff as it reveals£1bn pension black hole
The BBC will reveal a£1billion hole in its staff pension fund when its annual report is issued next week. ...
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Weapons expert is named as BBC mole
The suspected mole at the centre of a row between the government and the BBC was named last night as moicrobiologis...
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BBC tells its staff of£1bn pension shortfall
The BBC is writing to its 27,000 employees warning that new accounts, published next week, will show a deficit of m...
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Channel Four lures director from Five
Channel Four, the free-to-air broadcaster, has headhunted Kevin Lygo, director of programmes at arch rival Channel ...
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BBC accuses No 10 of manipulation as it names source of dossier claim
The identity of a Whitehall official who admitted attending an unauthorised meeting with the BBC journalist Andrew ...
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Church leaders discuss gay bishops on ITV1
CTVC has received a quick-turnaround commission from ITV1 with a 45-minute discussion programme examining the issue of gay bishops within the Church of England. Fiona Foster has been lined up to
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Shriek makes ITV2 idents sing out
Music production outfit Shriek has produced all the music for ITV2's nine new channel idents. Each spot had to be both stylistically and melodically different and signalled the first time the company has taken on a job from storyboard to audio master with no visual intervention as the music was ...
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BBC2 to look at Britain's railway heritage
Leeds-based factual indie True North has secured two commissions from the BBC looking at the nation's railway heritage. The first is a 30-minute documentary for BBC2's England on Filmstrand using archive and testimony to assess the golden age of the train. The second is another ...
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BBC3 gives parents reality check
The craze for reality shows exploring the family dynamic has reached BBC3, which has commissioned a series in which working parents and grandparents have to stay at home and look after kids, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Teenage kicks turn nasty on Channel 4
London-based indie Firecracker Films has received its first order, a film called Backyard Fightingfor Channel 4. The 50-minute piece, ordered by C4 editor, independent film and video Jess Search, looks at the growing phenomenon of backyard wrestling in the UK. The 'sport', which has already ...
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Ad producer starts Soho HD business
A renowned commercials producer has opened an HD facility in Soho after demand for his self-bought kit went through the roof, writes Sam Espensen.
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Render-it addition
Computer graphics and animation render farm Render-it has added Mental Ray software to the list of its capabilities. The support will allow animators working for small to medium-sized CGI companies - those with limited processing power - to make the most of the software as they can outsource the rendering ...