All News articles – Page 4501
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BBC man dies after stepping on mine
A cameraman working for the BBC was killed in northern Iraq yesterday when he stodd on a landmine as he climbed out...
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Arena's attheraces unit continues to incur loss
Arena Leisure, the race-course owner, fell£6.9 million into the red last year after absorbing the losses from its ...
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C&W recruits Italian to lead revamp
Cable & Wireless, the toubled international telecoms company, ended its two month search for a chief executive yest...
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BBC film maker killed by landmine
A BBC cameraman was killed and a producer injured yesterday when they stepped on landmines while filming near the f...
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Spam and cold knees as C4 tests 1950's schooling
The days when education was characterised by firm discipline, bracing cross-country runs and in-depth clause analys...
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C&W fills vacuum at the top
Cable & Wireless yesterday appointed Italian telecoms veteran Francesco Caio as chief executive on a cash and share...
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Sky unlimited as Murdoch wins at Telepiu and Hughes
Rupert Murdoch's News corporation yesterday won approval for the $1.1bn (£700m) acquisition of Italian pay-TV busin...
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Channel 4 rescues Blair-Brown drama
Channel 4 is to screen a dramatisation of the infamous dinner at the Islington restaurant Granita over which Gordan...
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Rebels vote to force TV sell-off by Berlusconi
Supporters of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government gave their leader a slap in the face yesterday when 17 of th...
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Murdoch close to clinching 'transforming' US satellite deal
Rupert Murdoch yesterday moved close to acquiring Direc TV, a deal that would give him US television distribution f...
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C&W welcomes Signor Caio with£750,000 golden hello
Richard Lapthorne, chairman of Cable & Wireless, has finally got his man, or rather two of them. Instead of one chi...
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NewsLords rally to block ?Murdoch clause'
The government looks set to be defeated in the House of Lords over its cross-media ownership plans, which would allow Rupert Murdoch to buy Five, after two influential peers agreed to oppose the proposal, writes David Rose
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Losses at Tv joint venture push Arena into the red
Arena Leisure expects a massive increase in revenues from its horseracing TV joint venture after the business racke...
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C&W names Caio as chief executive
Cable and wireless took a step towards recovery yesterday with the appointment of Francesco Caio, a Motorola board ...
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C&W leads Footsie gainers after tax settlement
London's blue-chip FTSE 100 posted solid gains yesterday as US troops advanced towards Baghdad, reawakening hopes f...
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NewsMurphy to cut BBC3 indie orders
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy wants to commission fewer programmes from independents, after revealing his channel's indie commissions for 2002/03 stood at 52% - more than double its statutory target, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsGranada to make US reality series
Granada has been commissioned to make a six-part reality TV series for US broadcaster NBC, which follows 10 American women who come to England to learn to live as a princess, writes Paul Revoir
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Kodak cuts 18 jobs at Cinesite
Kodak has announced the closure of its digital imaging service at Cinesite Europe in London with the loss of 18 jobs, writes Sam Espensen.
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Reborn treasure hunt gets full BBC2 run
BBC2 controller Jane Root and controller of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush have commissioned a full run of the resurrected Treasure Huntseries, following the success of a pilot last year. A 5 x 30-minute series, which will be presented by Dermot Murnaghan and Suzi Perry, will ...
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No Big Finish for M2
The proposed deal by Soho-based facility M2 to acquire a majority share in the Big Finish group, which includes commercials facility Peach and post facility Pepper, has fallen through. The chairman of M2, Bill Cullen, told Broadcast that 'after proper due diligence on the Big Finish group, we failed to ...