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Another fine Messier: French giant in freefall amid whiff of scandal
Doubts raised about Vivendi accounts in echo of Wall St crisis ...
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Don't fine us, we'll fire staff, says BBC chief
BBC chairman enraged staff yesterday when he said the corporation should be able to fire employees for lapses in pr...
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Yet another warning as Pace gets boxed in on Sky deal
Pace Micro issued its fifth profits warning in a year after it was forced to renegotiate a supply contract with BSk...
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Universal as Vivendi crumbles
Europe's investors feel shockwave as an American-style scandal hits French media group ...
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Accounts fears hit Vivendi shares
Allegations of financial irregularities sent the company's share price into freefall yesterday ...
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Party bores
Institute for Public Policy Research told by journalists that rules demanding impartiality in news broadcasts shoul...
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Group denies irregularities
Vivendi Universal yesterday denied leaning on its auditors to account for the complex monetisation of a stake held ...
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News Corp slashes offer for pay-TV arm
News Corporation has slashed one-third off its original $1.4bn offer to buy Vivendi Universal's Italian pay-TV plat...
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Unifying vision evaporated along with credibility of its architect
With the chief gone, the betting among senior company executives as well as investors and bankers is that a break-u...
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Messier era ends with junk downgrade
The Messier era has ended in financial crisis after a rating agency downgraded Vivendi Universal's debt to junk sta...
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Pace profit alert blamed on BSkyB set-top box deal
Shares in Pace Micro Technology fell to a four-year low yesterday after issuing its third profit warning in four mo...
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Season when no news is bad news
Reporters may be on holiday, but war, terror and famine do not take breaks ...
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Broadcasting rivals differ on how to switch viewers on to digital television
As ITV Digital's licences are reissued, the choice between free-to-view and pay TV seems unavoidable ...
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Messier's departure fails to quell fears
Vivendi's shares sharply down despite denial that its results were flattered ...
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Breast op live on TV
Millions of viewers watched in amazement yesterday as the first ever breast operation was shown live on TV. ...
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TV Amanda quits£3m home over raid fear
Telly's Les Dennis and wife Amanda Holden have put their£3.5 million home up for sale after being burgled. ...
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EastEnders star is hurt in holiday crash
EastEnders actress Kim Medcalf has narrowly escaped death in a head-on car crash in France. ...
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BBC 'to cut Deayton's£50,000-a-show salary' in wake of sex scandal
Angus Deayton is under pressure to take a pay cut to save his job as host of Have I Got News For You after sordid r...