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    Endemol puts weight behind interactivity.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Endemol UK has poached Freeserve marketing director Peter Cowley to fill the newly created board-level role of director of interactive media, writes David Wood

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    Carlton Cinema pins hopes on Sky.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Loss-making movie channel Carlton Cinema will be forced to close unless it can get carriage on the Sky Digital platform, writes Paul Revoir

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    Wall heads list for top Five job.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Five shareholders have kicked off their search for a new chief executive and hope to make an appointment by Christmas, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    Steinberg set to take Fox Kids role.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Former BSkyB pay-TV chief Bruce Steinberg is poised to be named as the new chief executive of Fox Kids Europe (FKE), writes Paul Revoir

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    Joe Public to live like royals in ITV show.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Television viewers are to be offered the chance of living like royalty in a new gameshow being developed by Granada for ITV 1, writes Steve Aston

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    ITV 'manipulating' regional output.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    ITV regional producers have expressed concern that Carlton and Granada are manipulating the definition of their regional output requirements by making programmes in which only certain presentation elements are based in the regions, writes Steve Aston

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    Channel 4 considers own history channel.

    2002-11-18T12:50:43Z

    Channel 4 is looking at jumping on the history TV bandwagon by launching its own factual/history channel, writes Paul Revoir

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    Radio sector set to win '3 plus 1' battle.

    2002-11-18T12:50:34Z

    The commercial radio industry was this week optimistic that the government's controversial 'three plus one' local

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    Sky One Mix launches for Christmas

    2002-11-18T10:50:10Z

    Sky One Mix, the new time-shift channel from BSkyB, is set to launch in time for the Christmas schedule which kicks off on 9 December, writes Paul Revoir

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    Radio groups rules out hostile bids

    2002-11-18T10:13:36Z

    Clear Channel, the US radio group expected to pounce on the UK market to once media ownership laws are relaxed next...

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    A closer watch on all channels

    2002-11-18T10:13:05Z

    The European Commissioner's review of the directive on television may seek to extend the law to all kinds of networ...

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    On the other hand, gestures make TV easy to understand

    2002-11-18T10:12:39Z

    Magnus Pike, Peter Snow, Andrew Marr and other well known gesticulators are better communicators than their peers w...

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    Dyke under fire from peer tipped to join TV watchdog

    2002-11-18T10:12:13Z

    Greg Dyke, director - general of the BBC, has come under attack from a close associate of Tony Blair for being over...

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    Wizard Idea

    2002-11-18T10:11:46Z

    After the withdrawal of caprice form celebrity big brother, Edward Docx finds a late replacement - Harry Potter. ...

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    ITV duo in final effort to run ITN

    2002-11-18T10:11:07Z

    Carlton and Granada, the broadcasting companies that dominate ITV, are making a late attempt to allow them to take ...

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    Politicians and Paxman get flak from TV satire

    2002-11-18T10:10:43Z

    The biggest revival of satirical television since the heady days of That Was The Week That Was in the Sixties has b...

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    Survival of the fittest

    2002-11-18T10:10:07Z

    Plans to relax radio ownership rules in the forthcoming communications bill, could help kick start a revival in the...

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    ITV's Russian front

    2002-11-18T10:09:40Z

    Next week ITV screens its remake of Dr Zhivago. It had an Italian director, a British scriptwriter and a trilingua...

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    I didn't run away

    2002-11-18T10:09:19Z

    Michael Jackson tells Mark Lawson how he sees Channel 4's prospects, what he thinks of his successor's criticisms, ...

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    The price of fame

    2002-11-18T10:08:59Z

    Thirty contestants;£1000,000 up for grabs. To the young hopefuls who jacked in everything for the chance to take ...