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Kirch negotiator defends World Cup price hike
Prisma Sports and Media head says criticism of huge increase in charge for rights was 'misplaced'
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Johnny Vaughan makes inauspicious start
BBC1's expensive new signing could be heading for his second successive turkey but Channel 4's£10m Shackleton gamble pays off
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BBC creates new training role
Corporation appoints Nigel Paine as first head of training in bid to improve employee skills
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Barb to post first ratings of 2002
Board finally ready to release data covering the first week of January but problems with new system persist
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ITV1 Sky Digital carriage fails to boost audience share
Deal to give channel access to Sky Digital's 5.5m subscribers has no significant impact on channel's viewing figures
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ITV1 in dock over Boy George interview
ITC upholds complaints against broadcaster following graphic references to gay sex on Frank Skinner show
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BBC wins five year 3G contract with Hutchison
BBC Technology's multi-million pound deal marks the commercial subsidiary's first wireless win and biggest external contract to date
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IPC's Ryle departs in TV strategy rethink
The exit of head of TV development Nick Ryle from the publisher of NME and Loaded signals a reappraisal of TV projects
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EU GIVES #500,000 TO WELSH PRODUCERS.
Six Welsh TV companies have been awarded a cash boost of almost #500,000 from the European Union Media Plus programme to develop new programming and distribute existing productions. Recipients include Opus
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More plugs for BBC on Radio 1.
BBC Radio 1 is to be given more high-profile BBC branding in an attempt to reconnect the corporation's younger audiences - many of whom don't realise the station is a BBC
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XMAS HIT RED CAP TO GET FULL BBC 1 SERIES.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a full series of EastEnders' actress Tamzin Outhwaite's army drama Red Cap, after a one-off special scored well in the festive ratings. Outhwaite, who
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DJEM PRODUCTIONS' THE ROOM TO AIR ON VH1.
London-based formats house Djem Productions, established by former Top of the Pops presenter Tony Dortie, has licensed a music reality gameshow to US music channel VH1. The programme, The Room, is
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BBC 1 ends the year with the primetime honours.
BBC 1 pronounced its seasonal joy to the newspapers as it edged ahead of ITV in the year-to-date ratings. The figures bear closer examination because while there is no doubt that
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12 Yard quiz for Sky One.
The Indie set up by The Weakest Link creator David Young, 12 Yard Productions, has landed its first commission with a daytime quiz show for Sky One, writes Simon Ellery.
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RATINGS: WEEKS ENDING 9 AND 16 DECEMBER.
BROADCAST/BARB TOP 50 WEEK ENDING 9 DECEMBER Title Day Start Viewers % Share Broadcaster/
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SWEENEY FRONTS BBC 2 SERIES ON THE THEATRE.
Former Brookside actress Claire Sweeney - who found fame on Celebrity Big Brother and recently took to the London stage in the musical Chicago - is to present a new series
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OFF THE RECORD - 2002 resolutions.
A secret document has been leaked to Off the Record that reveals details of the broadcast community's new year's resolutions. From Wayne Garvie's vow to stop being linked with vacant positions
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C4 asks viewers to write sitcom.
Critics of television's often dismal sitcom output will be given the chance to shape a major Channel 4 comedy project, with the launch later this year of a new interactive scriptwriting initiative, writes Penny Hughes.
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C4 revamps animation.
Channel 4 is overhauling the way it orders animation, dumping its dedicated animation department and devolving commissioning duties to genre heads, writes Penny Hughes.
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C4 BEATS THE BLUES.
Channel 4 is distributing a free 68-page magazine featuring ways to overcome the winter blues in Saturday's Guardian newspaper and the Sunday Times this weekend. The Good Book, part of a