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BBC 1 romps home with Grand National coverage
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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