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RATINGS - Evans' magic fails to work on new C5 show.
Chris Evans' return to television production was met with public indifference as Live with Chris Moyles on Channel 5 bombed this week, writes Jon Rogers
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REEVE'S NEW VENTURE.
Former Fusion Radio chief executive Nigel Reeve is setting up a new radio company, Laser Broadcasting,
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THOMSON MOVES IN.
Vivendi Universal has confirmed it has sold conditional access and interactive software business Canal + Technologies
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PUTTNAM UNDER FIRE.
Senior TV executives have lined up to take issue with Lord Puttnam's joint committee's findings on
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Pace renews PVR effort.
Set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology this week moved to breathe life into the flagging personal video recorder (PVR) market by unveiling a device aimed at digital terrestrial television (DTT) viewers, writes Paul Revoir
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VOD operator in rights talks with creditors.
Video-on-demand (VOD) operator Video Networks has been dealt another blow after it emerged this week the firm is understood to be in crunch talks with creditors over its rights deals, writes David Wood
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SVE PROFILES COLLINS.
Sanctuary Visual Enter-tainment, producer of Channel 5's long-running acquired kids drama The Tribe, has bagged its
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CIRJANIC JOINS INDIGO.
Distributor and co-producer Indigo has appointed Film Four International founder Nada Cirjanic as head of factual
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BBC in talks to shift horseracing times.
The BBC is lobbying the British Horseracing Board to have a number of horse races rescheduled
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ITC delivers bad news for pay-lite.
The prospects of a pay-TV option on the BBC and Crown Castle's Freeview digital terrestrial television
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BBC 3 indie quota will not set a precedent.
Independent producers' hopes that the BBC 3 model of allocating 25 per cent of the programming budget to indie projects would be applied across the corporation were swiftly dashed this week when the BBC confirmed the move would be a one-off, writes Jane M
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R2 SCOOPS OASIS STORY.
BBC Radio 2 has ordered a series charting the history of rock band Oasis which will
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Chrysalis Radio set to swap Galaxy 101 for GWR's LNR.
GWR and Chrysalis Radio are poised to sign a multimillion pound deal in which Chrysalis will swap its dance station Galaxy 101 for full control of London News Radio (LNR), writes Georgina Lipscomb
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CRCA steps up '3 plus 1' lobby.
The Commercial Radio Companies Association's (CRCA) campaign to scrap the local radio ownership 'three plus one' rule proposed in the draft communications bill stepped up this week with a new report warning that the rule could weaken commercial radio, wri
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Trevor Dann sets up music indie.
Former BBC head of music entertainment Trevor Dann and former Straight TV managing director Tony Gregory have joined forces to create a new indie and have already secured a terrestrial commission, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TV Corp to distribute Ludus formats.
Ludus, the new format shop set up by former Action Time duo Stephen Leahy and Trish Kinane, has agreed an exclusive distribution deal with The Television Corporation, writes Penny Hughes
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ITV cools on chief executive post.
ITV has backtracked on plans to appoint a chief executive to run the Network Centre after Dawn Airey's shock move to BSkyB, writes Steve Aston
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Hooper Ofcom role cheers radio sector.
The radio industry has received a significant fillip from the government after it an-nounced this week that two senior Radio Authority members have been appointed to the board of Ofcom, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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BSKYB/ITV DEAL LEAVES BBC IN THE COLD.
ITV's tortuous relationship with football showed signs of improvement this week after the network beat off
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Sky execs quiver as Airey gets free rein.
Staff at BSkyB were this week braced for sweeping changes after learning new Sky Networks managing