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    BBC 1 romps home with Grand National coverage

    2002-04-08T14:45:00Z

    8.5 million tune in to seen Bindaree run away with for the most heavily backed race in history

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    Kirch Gruppe goes to the wall

    2002-04-08T11:27:00Z

    German media giant declares itself insolvent as creditors backed by Bavarian authorities plot to keep Murdoch out

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    League accuses Deloitte & Touche of conflict of interest

    2002-04-05T11:25:00Z

    Body says second administrator must be appointed to ITV Digital due to accountancy firm's ongoing financial involvement with clubs

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    Ted and Alice ups slot share but Bad Girls takes the spoils

    2002-04-05T11:06:00Z

    BBC 1's new comedy drama improves BBC 1's average for 21.00 slot but fails to get the better of ITV 1's prison drama

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    VIRGIN RADIO RAPPED.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Virgin Radio has been rapped once again by regulators over its late-night show with DJ Jon Holmes. Viewers complained to the Broadcasting Standards Commission after Holmes made a spoof phone call

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    MERIDIAN/LWT REJIG.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    LWT managing director Lindsay Charlton has been moved to the same post at Meridian following Mary MacAnally's decision to quit after six years. Charlton will be replaced at LWT, one of

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    Senior loss at September.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    September films has been dealt a blow following long-standing head of factual entertainment Elaine Gallagher's decision to quit, writes Simon Ellery.

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    KISS TAKES ON SO SOLID.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Controversial garage collective So Solid Crew are to host their own Friday night show on Emap-owned radio station Kiss 100. The group, which has recently seen one of its members imprisoned

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    Off the record - Theroux with monkey jokes.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    UK Horizons is rightly proud of its forthcoming weekend with Louis Theroux - as an avid fan, Off the Record expects great things of the programming stunt. Shame then that Horizons'

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    Liberate sets up interactive lab.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Interactive television software developer Liberate Technologies has launched a development lab to help boost the development of interactive TV applications, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    HOLMES STAYS ON.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    GMTV has signed presenter Eamonn Holmes for another three years, scotching suggestions that he was planning to leave to work for the BBC. Holmes has presented GMTV since 1993.

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    PEPPER HIRES HIT MAN.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Pepper has appointed Iain Cameron to the new role of head of quality control (QC) as part of a push to expand the QC service for producers. Cameron joins from Hit

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    TV HEAT NEEDS SLOT.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Emap, publisher of Broadcast, and Monkey have opened discussions with Channel 5 and Sky to produce a TV version of celebrity magazine Heat after Channel 4 turned down the Monkey-produced pilot.

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    MEDIAARC GOES RACING.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    BBC MediaArc has unveiled a series of idents for what it claimed is the world's first fully computer-generated TV channel, I-Race, writes Simon Ellery.

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    SPIN-DOCTORING FOCUS.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters and politicians will be brought together to look at the art of spin-doctoring at a special lunch hosted by The Media Society. The event, called 'The dog and the lampost

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    TV RECESSION - First green shoots?

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Spring is in the air and there are signs of an advertising recovery. But have commercial TV and radio come through the worst?

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    IRN under fire for obit gaffe.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    As criticism over the BBC's coverage of the Queen Mother's death raged this week, national radio news provider IRN was forced to apologise for failing to notify its 260 customers of the death because someone 'pressed the wrong button', writes Georgina Lip

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    Indie Finance - Who wants to be a one-hit wonder?

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Think Celador and automatically the recent global success of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format springs to mind but during its 18-year history the independent has added many other strings to its bow. Meg Carter Reports.

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    Fast Studio kit gets rebrand.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Californian video equipment manufacturer Pinnacle Systems is to change the name of the Fast Studio colour line of editing products next week at NAB, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    Off the record - Old family tie.

    2002-04-05T00:00:00Z

    OTR was heartened to see media secretary Tessa Jowell speaking at the first in a series of planned talks by leading figures organised by The Media Centre at the end of