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BBC 1 makes up some ground
Healthy 7.2m for DIY SOS helps corporation to peaktime share victory
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Study suggests no hope of analogue switch-off by 2010
Research from Informa Media Group says only 71 per cent of TV households will have switched to digital by government's target date
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ITV 1 Premiership was 'badly made'.
The Premiership, ITV 1's equally hyped and criticised football highlights show, did not work in its original 19.00 slot because it was badly made, not badly scheduled, according to the head of the world's biggest sports producer, writes Steve Aston.
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RATINGS - BBC 1 leaves the field open to ITV's The Swap.
BBC 1 slumped to its lowest Sunday peaktime audience on record earlier this week, writes Jon Rogers.
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ITV 1 exposes workplace sins.
ITV controller of documentaries and features Dianne Nelmes has commissioned a six-part series in which various professionals reveal workplace scams, writes Steve Aston.
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POP IDOL BOOSTS ITV 2.
The final of Pop Idol on Saturday (9 February) helped drag ITV 2 out of the multichannel wilderness, with overnight ratings showing that its exclusive coverage was the most popular non-terrestrial
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Gritty northern drama for BBC 2.
The writer of gritty 1998 Scottish film Looking After Jo Jo has been signed up to write a new four-part, hard-hitting drama series for BBC 2.Real Men, ordered by BBC 2
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BBC 2 backs new chefs.
Not content with Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith and the Food and Drink team dominating her schedule, BBC 2 controller Jane Root has ordered yet another cookery show, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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News 24 back under govt microscope.
MEDIA SECRETARY Tessa Jowell is set to re-ignite the government's much-delayed review into the BBC's rolling news channel, BBC News 24, writes David Wood.
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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