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NewsBlair beaten over Ofcom role
Tony Blair suffered his first broadcasting setback this week when Lord Puttnam succeeded in putting the interests of the 'citizen' at the heart of the duties of new media regulator Ofcom, writes David Rose
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Now the commercial breakdown
Thirty second ads are no longer enough - companies are paying for entire TV shows. Martin Jacson asks: is this a st...
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Classic Gold hits digital high note
UBC Media said strong growth at its Classic Gold Digital station, which broadcasts a breakfast show hosted by Tony ...
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Watch out, pop-pickers
Every Friday in the early Sixties, Derek Chinnery would stop at a newsagent on his way to work at the BBC's gramaph...
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A fairytale beginning for Vivendi
Jean-Marie Messier dreamed of creating a global media corporation to rival AOL Time Warner. The first of three extr...
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UBC is on the right wavelength
UBC Media, a tiny radio company, yesterday reported results no better than forecast, yet its shares leapt a quarter...
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Digital radio manufacturers tune in to 170 per cent rise in sales.
Digital radio has become a 'mass market proposition,' the BBC and the radio industry said yesterday as the corporat...
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Football's bosses lack vision on Hawkeye
Sport's top gadget-master last night vowed to turn his laser beam away from football until the authorities emerge f...
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Long queue of bidders for Vivendi auction
As the nominal deadline for bidding on Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets passed yesterday, at least five med...
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TV Wives will score with Laila
Sultry striker laila Rouass shows us why they call football the beautiful game. ...
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Obituary - Guy Lux
The populist and popular presenter and producer Guy Lux dominated French television throughout the Sixties and Seve...
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£2m boost for BBC's digital radio network
The BBC is to spend£2 million upgrading its network of digital radio transmitters after it emeregd one third of th...
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I'll strike it lucky in Kiwi land
Fallen funnyman Micheal Barrymore is bidding for a comeback Down Under - and pinning his hopes on a new show called...
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Lords defeat Government on duties of TV regulator
The Government was heavily defeated in the Lords after peers backed a cross-party move to ensure the interests of '...
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Constant vigilance
A small UK company has come up with a way to track whether TV channel are actually playing ads when and where they ...
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Digital driving force
Jenny Abramsky might well smile: she has blazed a trail for digital radio, won over her rivals...and argues that ra...
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NewsPuttnam moves to appease ministers
Ministers renewed talks with rebel peer Lord Puttnam this week to head off a Labour rebellion over moves that would allow large newspaper groups like Rupert Murdoch's News International to buy Channel 5, writes David Rose
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'More valuable than the sum of its part'
Critics see RTL as an odd mix of partially owned channels but its new chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, prefers to p...
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NewsC4 orders series on NI marching season
Channel 4 has ordered a fast-turnaround event directed by Bafta award winning director David Modell, that will document the marching season in Northern Ireland this summer, writes Penny Hughes
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Two plus one equals not much
Big radio deals could well be blocked by the Competition Commission despite Ofcom's radical proposals. This could r...