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Regional target hit, claims C4.
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam this week claimed the channel will hit its 30 per cent regional programming target for the first time this year, writes Penny Hughes
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BBC 3 GETS LAUNCH DATE.
BBC digital youth channel BBC 3 is finally set to launch on Sunday 9 February with
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250 JOBS AXED AT NTL.
Debt-laden cable company NTL is cutting around 250 jobs as part of its bankruptcy recovery plan
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DJ AGENCY GETS£1M.
Former BBC production chief executive Matthew Bannister has secured a #1m investment from venture capitalists to
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TABLOID TALES SHOW.
Endemol-owned Brighter Pictures has emerged as the producer of new BBC 1 series Tabloid Tales set
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Moss to head Visual Voodoo.
Former Chrysalis TV head Tony Moss has been named as the new head of ITN Factual division Visual Voodoo, writes Paul Revoir
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VIRGIN HIRES TOP DUO.
Virgin Radio has poached Century 105.4 FM Sony award-winning duo of DJs 'Simon James and Hill'
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Zenith Entertainment chief executive stands down.
Zenith Entertainment chief executive Steve Matthews has stood down from his post as a result of a serious illness, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Floella to tackle racism for CBBC.
Veteran Playschool presenter Floella Benjamin has been commissioned by the BBC to make a film about her early life and the racism she encountered on her arrival in England from Trinidad, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BROADCAST EVENT.
There are still a few delegate places available for the Broadcast 'Future of Commissioning' conference that
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Figures herald broadband gain.
Interactive producers received a much-needed shot in the arm this week after it emerged that the
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'No hostile bids', says Clear Channel.
Clear Channel International (CCI) chief executive Roger Parry has moved to reassure the UK radio industry
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Driving School star to get BBC film treatment.
BBC Docusoap Driving School, which made a star out of hapless Welsh housewife Maureen Rees and her long-suffering husband, is to be turned into a comedy feature film written by the co-creator of cult Channel 4 series Spaced, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC BEEFS UP REGIONS.
The BBC has appointed its first devolution correspondent in the English regions as a response to
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BBC restructures entertainment.
The BBC's in-house entertainment production department is to be reorganised into four new groups overseen by separate creative heads to give it more focus and cut down competition between its two bases in Manchester and London, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC 4 splashes out on Graef doc.
BBC 4 has commissioned one of its most expensive documentaries to date after signing off a #500,000 medical investigation two-parter from Films of Record, writes Penny Hughes
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UKTV plans to refresh Gold with drama and LE.
UKTV is planning to refocus its 10-year-old channel UK Gold and is exploring the introduction of key BBC quiz shows, writes Paul Revoir
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Men & Motors takes nudity down a gear.
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has toned down the sexual content of its Men & Motors channel after concerns that it was becoming too racy, writes Paul Revoir
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NHU chief set for new role.
The Head of the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), Keith Scholey, is poised to leave his
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SDN considers pay-TV channel on Freeview.
Freeview viewers are to gain another two channels after it emerged that SDN, which owns one of the service's multiplexes, is in talks with a number of interested parties, writes Penny Hughes