All News articles – Page 4633
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Yeo's TV-licence idea stinks, but at least he's had an idea
There's a little game doing the rounds of us journalistic types at the moments. It's called Name Me a Policy of th...
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Vivendi dives 23% despite Water sale to Deutsche Bank
Shares in the French media group Vivendi Universal took a pasting yesterday even though the company started selling...
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Telewest unsure over Liberty Media offer
Telewest's board yesterday said it did not have enough information to decide whether it could recommend Liberty Med...
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Investors' fears put Martha Stewart in a spin
Martha Stewart, the American home-making queen at the centre of an insider-trading probe, saw shares in her busines...
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Vivendi chief under fire as shares slump
Murdoch move blows Messier balance sheet rescue plan off-course. ...
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Martha Stewart shares slip
Martha Stewart, America's answer to Delia Smith, saw shares in her media empire slump by another 20 per cent yester...
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Renegotiation may delay News Corp's Italian pay-TV plan
The News Corporation, the international media group, last night faced a potential threat to its plans to expand its...
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Everyone's a winner
Out-of-home World Cup viewers boost advertiser's value. But that's fine with ITV ...
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Dancing to an older tune
Buoyed by the success of is over-50s far in the West Midlands, Saga Radio is now hoping to oust the analogue Libert...
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Dreaming in digital
Put to the test: two cheap set-top boxes. Will they kick-start digital take-up? ...
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Lord Puttnam presides
The chief scrutineer of the Comms Bill aims to bolster the UK's defences. The joint scrutiny committee overseeing t...
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Siemens given 3G go-ahead in China
The Chinese government has given Siemens, the German technology group, and Datang, its Chinese partner, the go-ahea...
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AOL to cede control of users to Advance
AOL Time Warner will cede control of about 2.1m cable subscribers to Advance/Newhouse, the magazine and newspaper p...
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Pressure rises on Messier as investors quake
There is no respite for Jean-Marie Messier, chief-executive of Vivendi Universal. Shares in the indebted French me...
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Dyke looks to market forces
Greg Dyke, BBC director general, yesterday admitted that subscription television channels - some from BBC's own com...
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Steve acts the goat
Snooker star Steve Davis plays a silly billy as he films a TV role with his co-star ' a goat. ...
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It's all change, chucks
Blind Date is changing its selection process as part of a major revamp to boost flagging ratings. ...
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Hugh & Cry
A new BBC television series is shaping up to be one of the most controversial of the year. ...
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Hungry ITV has the stomach for a fight
ITV Sport is responding to its huge ratings defeat in head-to-head England matches against the BBC with an aggressi...
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Anna saves blast-off for the Beeb
Anna Kournikova was branded 'pathetic' after throwing a temper tantrum on television and threatening to walk out of...