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C4 announces list of pledges.
Channel 4 has made its first ever commitment to gay programming after pledging to screen a range of 'intelligent' gay programming as part of its 2002 statement of promises.Series such as
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Channel 4 agrees deal with Starkey.
Channel 4 is poised to sign an exclusive deal with the historian and presenter responsible for some of its most successful factual output - Dr David Starkey, writes Steve Aston.
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C4 GOES BACK FOR MORE NO GOING BACK.
Ricochet Films has been commissioned to produce a second series of Channel 4 show No Going Back. The 6 x 50-minute series, which looks at families who have 'downshifted', will be
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Technology & Facilities - Inspiring BBC 4.
BBC Broadcast is behind the launch campaign for the corporation's new cultural digital channel BBC 4, writes Barbara Marshall.
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ITC MULLS C5'S FUTURE.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has begun a consultation on the methodology for the renewal of Channel 5's 10-year licence in 2007. The ITC is seeking views on issues such as
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Channel 5 follows up on arts promise.
Channel 5 is attempting to live up to its pledge of increasing its public service output with a raft of new arts commissions, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Technology & Facilities - #9.7m media park to be built in Wales.
South-west Wales is the location of Hartham Park's latest media park, a #9.7m development from the property group behind Wiltshire's Corsham Media Park (Broadcast, 14.9.01).Historic Welsh mansion Gelli Aur, near Llandeilo
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BBC bids to rebuild free Afghan media.
The BBC is in talks with the Department for International Development (DFID) to secure rolling financial support to re-build Afghanistan's national media - a project that could last up to five years, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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INDIE FINANCE - Staying ahead of the avant garde.
Illuminations, set up in 1982 to win commissions from the newly founded Channel 4, has under co-founder John Wyver stayed at the cutting edge of the visual media with series about video art and the internet. Meg Carter reports.
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AIB HOSTS CONFERENCE.
The Association for Inter-national Broadcasting (AIB) is holding a conference examining the key issues facing international TV and radio broadcasters. Due to take place on 30 April at the Crowne Plaza
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Free to air - Execs who want to be idols.
Apart from the obvious disappointment of simpering middle class Will and his annoying Jamiroquai-a-like crooning winning, Pop Idol was about as close to a perfect piece of light entertainment television as
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TX - A man for all seasons.
Special effects in a gardening programme? Now there's a blooming good idea. Time-lapse photography and composite shots take centre stage in How to be a Gardener. They're accompanied by funky music
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Barb allays new data fears.
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) this week moved to calm fears that the new system for TV audience measurement was wildly under-reporting key demographic groups, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Radio body to consult over future of AM.
The Radio Authority has launched a consultation on the future of the AM (medium wave) frequency in a move expected to change the way stations are regulated and licensed, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - A falling market.
According to BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, the end is nigh for know-nothing celebrities - is it now the turn of 'credible' presenters, such as Robert Winston and Simon Schama or even Sam Neill, to be in the ascendant?
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August launch for Network Z.
BBC radio is expected to launch its spoken-word digital radio channel, Network Z, at the end of August, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITV's Pop Idol hit machine blows away competition.
The weekly audience data for the week ending 27 January brings the regular analysis back in line with the publication schedule we used to operate in the good old days before
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AXA TO SPONSOR BBC GIG.
The BBC is to stage a concert in Cardiff the night before the FA Cup final in the first deal from its new sponsorship unit. The event, which will feature stars
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BAFTA TO GO GLOBAL.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2002 is to be distributed worldwide by Endemol UK after previously only being broadcast in the UK. The awards have already been bought by a
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BANNISTER TO FRONT FIVE LIVE NEWS SHOW.
Former BBC Radio 1 controller Matthew Bannister is to present a new weekend two-hour news programme on BBC Radio 5 Live along with presenter Caroline Feraday. The Weekend News, ordered by