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BT to slash broadband prices
New chief executive Ben Verwaayen expected to cut charges by as much as half to stimulate consumer broadband take up
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Channel 4's You're The Manager binned
Innovative interactive football management programme which was to see fans pick the line-up for Stevenage Borough matches is axed as Football Conference board orders club's withdrawal
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Blood Strangers tops nine million
Drama starring Caroline Quentin gets more than double the audience of BBC 1's best efforts in same slot
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ITV 1 dominates weekend viewing for third time in a row
Penultimate edition of Pop Idol gains 10m viewers clearly outstripping BBC 1's best efforts
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Bennett appointed BBC director of television
Executive vice president of The Learning Channel to take up one of the BBC's top jobs
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Bennett appointed as BBC director of television
The Learning Channel general manager to fill one of BBC's top jobs left vacant by Mark Thompson
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ITV 1 dominated weekend viewing for third time in a row
The penultimate edition of Pop Idol gained 10m viewers clearly outstripping the BBC 1's opposition
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More viewers find Clocking Off a turn-off
BBC 1 drama's audience falls again for second series running but 5.6 million is enough to see off ITV1 opposition
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Barb hits back at Carat research
Ratings body says its method of measurement is far more accurate than 'a one-off question asked by telephone'
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RATINGS - ITV 1 has best ratings weekend in six months.
BBC 2's docu-drama about the Nazi planning of the 'final solution' in 1942 attracted twice the channel's normal audience share this week, writes Jon Rogers.
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Sky to offer interactive F1.
Sky Sports is to challenge ITV's dominance of Formula One by offering live interactive pay-per-view Grand Prix weekends, writes Simon Ellery.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC Broadcast division aims for #100m.
Pam Masters, managing director of the BBC's latest commercial division BBC Broadcast, has unveiled plans for the venture's new broadcast centre which could deliver around #100m to the BBC, writes Barbara Marshall.
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CHANNEL 4 NEWS GETS BIGGEST 16 TO 24 SHARE.
Channel 4 News this week claimed it had the youngest profile of all broadcasters' news programmes. According to Barb figures based on 2001 weekly averages, 24 per cent of the audience
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R2 CELEBRATES BEATLES AT 40.
Howlett Media Productions is producing a four-part series for BBC Radio 2 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles. The series has been commissioned by R2 controller Jim Moir and
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WHAT NOT TO WEAR RETURNS TO BBC 2.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has ordered a second 10 x 30-minute series of fashion show What not to Wear. The new series, which will again feature writers Susannah Constantine and
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RATINGS: 2001 ROUND-UP - Is digital television just a phantom menace?
Another week without Barb's gold standard data - so another opportunity to cast a retrospective glance at 2001, concentrating this time on the performance of multichannel television with a top 60
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Prebble calls for 2006 switch-off.
ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble has attacked media secretary Tessa Jowell for dragging her feet over plans to switch the UK over to digital television.Speaking at the Commons media select committee
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Thompson does about face on BBC 3.
Channel 4 has launched a bitter attack on the BBC's revised plans for new youth channel BBC 3 with a strategy that is understood to have been greenlit by former BBC director of TV and incoming C4 chief executive Mark Thompson, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Pact and C4 join row over indies' status.
Producers' alliance Pact and Channel 4 have joined Endemol UK and Cafe Productions to heap further pressure on the government to readdress the rules affecting independent producers owned by foreign companies.Pact