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BBC club aims to unite readers across the globe
The BBC World Service chose Garrison Keillor's novel ...
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NewsSlump costs indies£600m
The UK's richest independent producers have had more than half a billion pounds sliced off their fortunes during the past year, according to Broadcast's third annual Rich List of the top 100 broadcasting millionaires, writes Katy Elliott
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NewsBBC 3 delay hits DTT plan
The BBC's digital plans were dealt a hammer blow this week following confirmation that the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has once again delayed its decision on the corporation's BBC 3 proposal, severely disrupting the relaunch of the BBC's DTT platform, write Leigh ...
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Vivendi's credit rating junked after£8bn loss
Vivendi Universal saw its credit rating cut to junk status by Standard & Poor's yesterday after the company reporte...
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Wessexes are the only Royals to talk on Edward's TV series
The Earl and Countess of Wessex will talk about aspects of their lives as members of the Royal Family on an America...
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Vivendi to sell US publisher
Vivendi Universal's chief executive, Jean-René Fourtou, yesterday hoisted a 'for sale' sign over Houghton Mifflin t...
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Fourtou calls time on stars and stripes
Is France lowering the flag? The decision by the management of Vivendi Universal to sell Houghton Mifflin, the dist...
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UPC plans to file for bankruptcy protection
United Pan-Europe Communications, the heavily indebted European cable group, intends filing for protection from its...
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Interactive TV drags News Corp into the red
Rupert Murdoch yesterday sounded a cautious note on future investments as further charges from an ill-timed foray i...
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AOL Time may have overstated revenues
AOL Time Warner yesterday admitted it might have inappropriately accounted for $49m worth of advertising revenues a...
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NTL on track to emerge from bankruptcy
NTL yesterday affirmed it was on track to emerge from bankruptcy in September though heavy losses in its subscriber...
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Vivendi shares plunge 25% after debt downgrades
Shares in Vivendi Universal fell 25 per cent to 15-year lows yesterday after Standard & Poor's, the rating agency, ...
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Watchdog attacks 'humdrum' BBC TV
The BBC is showing too many programmes that are 'humdrum, over-familiar and formulaic', the head of the broadcastin...
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NewsE4 nabs second Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under, the darkly comic Californian drama which has become the surprise hit of the summer, will get its second series UK debut on E4 next month, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsITV drops ads for 9/11 programme
ITV has for the first time decided to axe commercial breaks in a peaktime programme, writes writes Penny Hughes
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Ancient combat to inspire C5 history series
Channel 5 is launching a major new history series that hopes to do for the middle ages what Channel 4's 1900 House series did for Victorian times, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Local indies hit by ITV cash jam
Scores of small regional indies could be forced out of business if ITV does not give them the extra programme cash it promised as consolation for cutting regional hours, according to producers' alliance Pact, writes Steve Aston
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NewsITC to consult on DTT transmission
The Independent Tele-vision Commission has launched a consultation on plans by the BBC and Crown Castle to change the transmission model of digital terrestrial television (DTT), writes Leigh Holmwood
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Nickelodeon poised to pull out of NTL Eire
Nickelodeon is set to pull its service from NTL's Irish platform with the loss of 400,000 viewers after the cable giant demanded 'unfair terms' for a new deal, according to executives, writes Paul Revoir