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ITV 1's Sunday night dominance continues
Heartbeat and The Forsyte Saga help channel to its second highest peaktime share this year
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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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BBC 1 RECOMMISSIONS OPEN MIKE SERIES.
Open Mike Productions has received two recommissions from BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey. Friday Night with Jonathan Ross has been extended to 20 x 40-minutes with eight shows set to air
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RADIO 1 TO THROW OPEN DOORS TO UNKNOWNS.
BBC Radio 1 is to dedicate a whole day of output to supporting unsigned UK acts from all sorts of music genres. OneMusic Day will take place on 6 May to
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11/9 FILM FOR C4.
Controversial writer Ronan Bennett has been commissioned by Channel 4 to write a docu-drama focusing on five of the hijackers who took part in the 11 September terrorist attacks, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC 4 shows to air on BBC 2.
The BBC is looking to screen the best programmes from new digital cultural channel BBC 4 on BBC 2 in response to criticisms that few viewers have access to the new service, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Flextech orders 20 new shows.
Flextech television has unveiled its biggest slate of new orders yet with a number of series greenlit across its own channels.The commissions, which represent a 30 per cent rise in original
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Dyke slams C4 over criticism of BBC 3.
BBC director general Greg Dyke has slammed Channel 4's criticism of proposed new digital channel BBC 3, saying C4 was 'awash with money' and should not suggest the new youth service
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4 VENTURES ADDS CHIEF.
Channel 4 commercial arm 4 Ventures has poached Deloitte & Touche UK director of strategy Sue Ford as its first finance chief. Ford, who joins this month reporting to 4 Ventures
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More football extras for C4.
Channel 4 has increased the next run of its Football Stories strand from six to 10 outings and has also commissioned a two-part series on football hooliganism, writes Penny Hughes.
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C5 to make drama with Southern Star.
Channel 5 has signed a #3m co-production deal with Australian producer Southern Star for a new children's drama series, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NTL bondholders act to kickstart business.
Debt-ridden cable giant NTL has been thrown a lifeline after an unofficial committee of bondholders this week called on the firm to withhold interest payments totalling $96m (#67m), writes Simon Ellery.
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Trade talk - Action woman.
Action Time has trebled its international revenues since sales specialist Caroline Beaton joined. What's next for its new joint managing director?
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RUSHES ADDS TO FX TEAM.
Rushes has added to its visual effects team with the appointment of Inferno artist Emir Hasham who joins from VTR. Recent credits include daytime idents for Channel 4 and Planet Funk
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Advertisers fear for ITV's future.
ITV is likely to emerge from the advertising recession in worse shape than Channel 5, BSkyB and the radio industry, according to advertisers.Despite recent forecasts from radio group GWR and investment
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FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR ITV'S ZHIVAGO.
Production is underway in Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Granada's multimillion pound ITV drama Zhivago, writes Steve Aston.
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Free to air - ITV must learn from failure.
As the administrators struggle to keep ITV Digital afloat, and the inevitable mudslinging reaches levels rarely heard in the UK outside the Palace of Westminster, the British communications industry can only