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NTL bondholders rescue cable giant
Company to split into two as bondholders accept conversion of£7.3bn debt into shares
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Pace predicts loss
Set-top box manufacturer issues profit warning ahead of June end-of-year results as ITV Digital uncertainty hits hard
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ITV Digital given one more week
Administrator Deloitte and Touche wins reprieve for stricken digital platform insisting a deal can be struck with the Football League
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BBC wins Saturday night share as figures fall
Corporation comes out on top as going out becomes the new staying in
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Employee blows the whistle on NDS
Software security consultant Oliver Kommerling says company did order the publication of Canal Plus smart-card codes on the internet
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1,000 miles of cable: Britain's biggest ever OB.
It was all hands on deck on Wednesday (10 April) as broadcasters began clearing up after one of the biggest outside broadcast operations in history - the live broadcast of the Queen Mother's funeral, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Footballers' Wives to make return to ITV1
Shed Productions' sex and silky shorts drama Footballers' Wives is to return to ITV after securing a second series from controller of drama Nick Elliott.The next series, the length of which
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Life of St Paul gets BBC 1 slot.
The BBC is to bring the life of Saint Paul to the small screen using computer-generated effects as part of a trio of high-profile religious programmes featuring major biblical figures, writes Leigh Holmwood
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ITV 1 DAYTIME SLUMP.
ITV 1 is believed to have reached its lowest ever daytime ratings with an audience of just 300,000 for the end of its coverage of British ice hockey and the start
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RADIO 1 COMMISSIONS BOOTLEG PROGRAMME.
Somethin Else has been commissioned by BBC Radio 1 to produce 30-minute programme Get Ur Bootleg On. The programme, to broadcast as part of Lamacq Live at 23.00 on 22 April,
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It's bad but it's not the end of the world for ITV 1.
If Channel 5 were to achieve a consistent 10 per cent primetime share, how different would it make the ecology of television? It's worth posing the question in a week when
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NHS COMEDY FOR BBC 2.
League of Gentleman star Reece Shearsmith is to star in a new black comedy about the NHS for BBC 2. The 6 x 30-minute TLC, to be made by indie Pozzitive
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KASENNA SCOOPS $20M.
Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (#14.4m) in its latest round of funding. Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to
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US TO GO DIGITAL IN 2004.
The US electronics industry this week signed up to the Federal Communications Commission voluntary plan to begin equipping TV sets with digital tuners from 2004. The move could put pressure on
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Big Brother to run until 2005.
Reality show Big Brother is set for an enduring presence on Channel 4, following a deal with producer Endemol UK that will see the show spun out for a further three runs, writes Penny Hughes
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PLANET 24'S LENTON MOVES TO CHRYSALIS.
Paul Lenton, former finance director of Carlton Productions subsidiary Planet 24, has been appointed finance director of Chrysalis TV Group. Lenton, who previously worked for Price Waterhouse, Eurostar UK and Warner
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Thompson tackles Dyke over C4 taunt.
In his first public statement since joining Channel 4, new chief executive Mark Thompson has intensified the war of words with his former boss BBC director general Greg Dyke, claiming the
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C4 HELP FOR STUDENTS.
Channel 4 is launching an online education tool for A-level students. Amazing Grades launches on Monday (15 April) and directs users to the best websites for their subjects. The site has