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    Capital and UBC plan pay-as-you-go radio

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Capital Radio, the UK's biggest radio group, has entered a joint-venture with UBC Media to develop interactive services and pay-as-you-go radio, writes Michael Rosser.

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    RTE reality show cast plan to sue

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Rescued contestants from RTE's Cabin Feverreality TV boat are expected to sue the station for damages after the boat on which the show was based sank off the Irish coast last week.

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    Churchill Restored

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    London facility house The Machine Room has restored, treated and edited both old and new footage for three one-hour programmes that chart the life of former British prime minister Sir Winston

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    Cicada to look at pre-roman civilisation

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Indie Cicada Films is making a 50-minute programme about a new archaeological site in northern Italy that reveals how the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilisation, funded their hedonistic life. The Etruscans, for Discovery Channel and Welsh language broadcaster S4C, is executive produced by Frances Berrigan and directed by Ian Denyer for ...

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    Discovery health reorders Slimming Club

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Health has ordered a second series of Slimming Club from Yorkshire TV's factual department. The 15 x 30-minute show, which follows the trials and tribulations of people in a diet support group, will air later this year.

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    Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade to return

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 2 head of programmes Lesley Douglas has commissioned radio indie Wise Buddah to produce a fifth series of Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade. Featuring new jazz releases, special guests and news, the 8 x 60-minute series is scheduled for broadcast in December and will be produced by Sarah Cropper.

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    Superbike star gets his own documentary

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Granada Men & Motors has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute fly-on-the-wall series from indie Octagon following the UK's top superbike rider Neil Hodgson as he attempts to win the 2003 Superbike World Championship. Airing from 21 August, Superbiker goes behind the scenes from the paddock to the testing grounds to ...

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    Fremantle exec joins Presentable

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Cardiff-based indie Presentable has poached an award-winning entertainment executive from Fremantle Media to head a new factual entertainment department, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Idol win for Marberger

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    Tobias Marberger, a 29-year-old Swedish composer, romped home in the voting for this year's inaugural Extreme Idol, the Broadcast magazine and Extreme Music search for a new production music superstar. Dubbed

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    ITV lines up mother-in-law reality show

    2003-06-26T08:30:00Z

    ITV's new controller of factual Bridget Boseley has marked ITV's new push into edgier factual programming with her first commission - a show which forces people to take their mother-in-law into their homes for a week, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Gardam quits C4, Lygo tipped to take over

    2003-06-26T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam has resigned from the channel after months of intense speculation about his future, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Bloomberg to provide content for CBM channel

    2003-06-25T17:28:16Z

    Financial news provider Bloomberg is set to get a window on the Freeview platform by providing content for the new CBM channel, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Cleaver takes on BBC controller of learning role

    2003-06-25T10:16:37Z

    The BBC's new director of factual and learning, John Willis, has made his first appointment since taking on the role two weeks ago, promoting Liz Cleaver to controller of learning, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Bye Bye Boys

    2003-06-25T09:44:51Z

    Wonderbra ads and telly shows like Men Behaving Badly and Footballers' Wives face being banned under the latest bar...

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    Big Sister is watching you

    2003-06-25T09:40:46Z

    Feminist Eurocrat who wants to ban 'sexist' TV shows and adverts. ...

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    Brussels considers ban on raunchy TV images

    2003-06-25T09:38:02Z

    Sexist or raunchy images on television or in advertising could be banned across the European Union under a directiv...

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    Game, set and match to BBC1

    2003-06-25T09:34:19Z

    A peak of 4.1 million viewers watched BBC1's coverage of Greg Rusedki's victory in the first round of the Wimbledon...

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    Digital viewers free-wheel

    2003-06-25T09:31:12Z

    A fifth of all households with digital television receive free to air channels rather than pay TV, according to the...

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    ITV merger worries

    2003-06-25T09:29:13Z

    Advertisers are concerned that the Competition Commission will allow the merger of ITV companies Granada and Carlto...

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    The night the music died

    2003-06-25T09:27:36Z

    Jean-Marie Messier had created a French corporate powerhouse but his love of self-promotion and risk were to delive...