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John Willis's Royal Television Society Speech
I had fully expected to be standing here as Vice President in charge of National Programmes at WGBH in Boston, not as the BBC's new Director of Factual and Learning, just eight days into a new job.
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NewsBBC's Willis keeps up US offensive
John Willis, who last week took over as the new director of factual and learning BBC factual after a year spent in the US, has launched a withering attack on American news and current affairs television, writes Conor Dignam
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Top Gear 'hooligans'
Fury as TV boy racers go joyriding in historis£1m Jaguar which won Le Mans. ...
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GWR departure prompts takeover talk
GWR, the radio company that owns Classic FM, yesterday announced the surprise resignation of its chief executive, P...
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New deadline in Carlton and Granada talks
Carlton and Granada will have to wait another two months befor elearning if they can merge, after the Competition C...
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Chief executive of GWR steps down
The chief executive of Classic FM owner GWR resigned yesterday - less than a month after the radio group was force...
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ITV companies win two-month stay of merger judgement day
The competition commission extended its investigation intop the merger between Carlton and Granada yesterday after...
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NewsHenwood to head up Premium TV
NTL Europe, the continental cable business spun off by troubled NTL earlier this year, is set to appoint Rod Henwood as chief executive of its Premium TV subsidiary, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsTop-level changes at MTV Networks
MTV Networks UK and Ireland has made two senior level appointments, with Steve Shannon joining as VH1's director of programmes and James Dearlove being promoted to a new role as MTV head of non-music talent.
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NewsSimpson to speak of 'friendly fire' attack
Veteran BBC war correspondent John Simpson will discuss his recent brush with death in Iraq in a new Radio 4 series on synthetic materials, writes Michael Rosser
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NewsBroadcast figures honoured in Queen's list
The Queen's birthday honours list this year included nine figures from the broadcasting industry, more than ever before, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsRose D'Or leaves Montreux
The Rose D'Or television festival, held for the last 43 years in the sleepy Swiss town of Montreux, is to move to the bright lights of the city of Lucerne in order to expand the event, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsGovernment promises gradual switch-off
The process of switching off analogue TV transmissions will be done on a region by region basis, the government has pledged, writes Michael Rosser
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QVC - and the rest
Running a teleshopping channel calls for a whole new set of retail skills - and taking on one tough incumbent. ...
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A new dawn for the twilight zone
Broadcasters are waking up to the fact that poor daytime figures seriously affect overall ratings, writes Steve Cla...
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Funniest man you've never heard of
Writer and producer Henry Normal helped to create Mrs Merton and the Royle family; then he brought decent comedy ba...
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The right vs the right-on
Right wing crazies rule talk radio in America. So can a $10m plan to put liberal shock jocks on air ever work? ...
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Let's skip the ads
Peter Bazalgette, the broadcasting executive who brought reality television to Britain, tells Ian Burrell why the c...