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Inquiry to decide on ITV merger
The future of the UK television industry was placed in the hands of the competition commission yesterday. ...
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Television viewers want more news
Television viewers want more news despite attempts by broadcasters to push bulletins out of prime-time slots, accor...
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Royal correspondent Jennie Bond gives up BBC job
Jennie Bond, the doyenne of BBC royal correspondents, is hanging up her microphone to spend more time with a less ...
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Real Story was BBC's humiliation
Yet more embarrasment for the BBC in its attempts to modernise its tired political coverage. After the failure to f...
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Murder on the Leyton Orient Express
ITV is adding 'Hello! magazine glamour' to Agatha Christie in a move which may have perplexed Hercule Poirot. ...
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ITV pair shrug off merger doubts
Broadcasters Carlton and Granada yesterday moved to reassure investors about their proposed merger after Trade Secr...
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Oscar stars nervy but the show will go on
Organisers of this year's Oscars are growing increasingly worried that Hollywood's most glitzy awards ceremony will...
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Cavemen's producers deny dumbing down
The producers of Walking With Cavemen, the BBC's latest attempt to bring prehistory to television, have denied tha...
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BBC royal reporter quits her post
The BBC royal correspondant Jennie Bond is to step down to spend more time with her family and pursue a new televis...
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Hewitt orders probe into Granada-Carlton tie-up
A full-scale competition probe is to be launched into the planned merger between ITV companies Granada and Carlton....
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Kicked out as she lets it all out!
Ulrika Jonsson's attempt to win celebrity Fame Academy by displaying her naked ambition backfired last night when s...
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Don't tolerate TV's abuse of our children
Tonight, for the strong of stomach, BBC 2 offers its much-fancied new drama Real Men. I saw a preview and watched w...
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NewsPact honoured for indie campaign
Producers' alliance Pact's recently successful campaign to force broadcasters to offer better rights deals to independent producers has won it an award, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsIndustry gong for Have I Got News For You
BBC1's satirical quiz Have I Got News For You, which was left reeling in October last year when it lost presenter Angus Deayton following tabloid revelations about his private life, today won a top prize at an industry awards ceremony, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsITV merger referred
The proposed merger between ITV giants Carlton and Granada has been referred to the Competition Commission by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsCarlton and Granada merger referred
The merger of ITV giants Carlton and Granada has been referred to the competition commission. MORE FOLLOWS...
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Thomas scares kids off trains
Thomas the Tank Engine could scare kids off trains, apsychologist claims. ...
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Radio breakthrough signals cheap digital
How do you design a digital radio? You lock your electronics engineers in a room and keep them there until they hav...
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Di seance is TV's sickest stunt ever
Psychics have sparked outrage by claiming to have contacted Princess Diana in the afterlife for a sick TV show. ...