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BBCi search engine takes on Google.
The BBC is to launch its own ad-free 'family friendly' internet search engine in a concerted challenge to the dominance of established international players such as Google and Ask Jeeves, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Collapse frees up money to make better ITV shows.
Carlton and Granada are expected to pour further cash into ITV's programming budget and remaining ITV commitments after finally freeing themselves from the costly ITV Digital platform, writes Steve Aston
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Davies scripts Casanova for ITV.
Russell T Davies, the writer of Channel 4's controversial Queer as Folk and ITV's Bob and Rose, is dramatising the life of the world's biggest womaniser, Casanova, writes Steve Aston
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Channels reveal Jubilee surprises.
The Discovery Channel is set to air a potentially controversial documentary around the Queen's Jubilee, featuring people who believe they have a more rightful claim to the throne than Elizabeth II, writes Penny Hughes
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End of ITV Digital saga.
The future of pay-television services available via digital terrestrial television was thrown into doubt this week
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Government to help TV exports.
Representatives of the television and radio industries are to sit on a new government body set up to help boost the export of British creative work abroad, writes Leigh Holmwood
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ORGAN TO FLASHBACK.
Flashback Television has hired Sam Organ, formerly BBC Bristol deputy head of features and executive producer
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Forsyte maker slams TV rivalry.
ITV and the BBC are ruining British drama by continually scheduling their best work against each
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LITTLEJOHN REPLACED.
New BBC Radio 5 Live recruit Jonathan Pierce is to take over the flagship football phone-in
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OLIVER RETURNS.
Ubiquitous chef Jamie Oliver is finally on the verge of signing a new TV contract with
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Choice the DCMS still has to make.
Given that BBC Choice is lagging far behind E4 and Sky One in the ratings, is the government playing it too safe by not approving BBC 3?
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Off the record - High barnet.
Crying and pissed, John Peel stepped up to receive his lifetime achievement award and thanked many
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TX - Height of their careers.
Why did the soap star climb the mountain? To raise money for charity, of course. The
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Off the record - Competitive spirit.
Is there no end to BBC light entertainment grand fromage Jonathan Glazier's generosity? OTR only asks
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Off the record - On the frontline.
And finally, happy birthday to Frontline Television which has just turned 22 years of age. For
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Off the record - Wogan survives a hairy moment.
And so the Off The Record party wagon rumbled onto the Sony awards. The night reached
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OPINION - Where did it go wrong for DTT?
With limited coverage, a weak signal, greedy and overhasty politicians and an unrealistic analogue switch-off target, ITV Digital never had a chance
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INTERACTIVE TELEVISION - Is interactivity worth it?
In spite of all the recent new technology upsets, interactive TV is still with us, and with the BBC's ambitious World Cup coverage and better audience measurement systems on the way, has its time come at last?
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The wrecking crew.
The BBC's raid on ITV's Forsyte Saga viewers with Auf Wiedersehen, Pet demolished the network's viewing figures and seemed to some to be a new scheduling low in the ratings war. Is it time broadcasters called a truce?