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Radio urged to enter data market
Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley has added his voice to the call for digital radio broadcasters to develop subscription-based data services, claiming the potential market could be worth billions, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Leader - Murdoch enmity has had its day
Some of the steam appears to have gone out of the debate about ensuring the BBC is in some senses regulated by Ofcom in future. A government response to a report
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Kaufman rebukes ministers over decision
MPs on the media select committee have issued a written rebuke to media secretary Tessa Jowell and trade secretary Patricia Hewitt after the pair swept aside their concerns over the future of broadcast regulation, writes David Rose.
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Faking It Upgrades Mentors
Channel 4 has commissioned a fourth run of RDF Media's reality hit Faking It, which will feature more recognisable household names in its cast of professional mentors, writes Penny Hughes.
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TELEWEST FIGURES
Telewest Communications has unveiled record third-quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of£83m, up from£74m the previous quarter. The cable outfit has clocked up a further 5,400 subscribers
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Sky and ITV seek new football terms
BSkyB and ITV are expected to seek legal guidance over whether they can renegotiate their contracts with the Premier League, after members of the Professional Fooballers' Association (PFA) announced plans to boycott all televised matches from next week, w
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Ideal World gets raft of orders
Scottish Indie Ideal World Productions has secured commissions worth£5.5m across terrestrial and non-terrestrial channels.For BBC 1, the company is making Force 10 Rescue, dubbed '999 meets Police Camera Action'. The
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SMG gives Grampian pledge
Grampian TV owner SMG has moved to assure senior Scottish public figures that it will not cut its hours if ITV is allowed to streamline its regional output next year, writes Steve Aston.
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OMNE GOES FOR LIBERATE
UK cable start-up firm Omne Communications has chosen Liberate TV software ahead of a December launch of its interactive services. Former NTL and BT employees formed Omne last summer to provide
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ITV Regions - Saving the regions
Next week TV executives gather in Salford to discuss the state of regional TV. Safeguarding the future of ITV's regional output will be at the top of the agenda. Jane Marlow reports.
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October lines up new team
October Films, producer of the award-winning Staying Lost, has unveiled a raft of new appointments including a leading drama producer from Irish broadcaster RTE who will be charged with spearheading a new push into drama, writes Simon Ellery.
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MERLIN SOLD TO VT
Former BBC transmission business Merlin Communications has been bought by Southampton-based naval shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft (VT) for£95m. The deal is part of VT's strategy of expanding its support services business.Merlin,
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RTS NAMES WINNERS
The Royal Television Society has named the winners of its North West awards with the BBC picking up eight gongs. The corporation's haul included best regional news programme, BBC North West
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Trade Talk - The strategist
Having given teenagers Trouble, vice-president of Flextech channels Lisa Opie is now overseeing marketing for her resilient TV family.
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Bakewell's Taboo lifts BBC2's share
Debut of new series nearly doubles BBC2's share as 3.6m tune in to see former Heart of The Matter presenter front history of nudity doc
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Smith slams Weakest Link
The man behind Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? says BBC rival is a 'flawed format' and berates host Anne Robinson for not 'being genuine'
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C4's Deakin orders Pesky game show
Channel 4 editor, arts and animation Camilla Deakin has commissioned indie Pesky to make a one-off animated game show for C4's Hot Reels: Animation Grand Prix strand, writes Jon RogersFifteen-minute Stress
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October to make peasants doc for Channel 4
October Films has landed a major commission for Channel 4 to be directed by award-winning documentary-maker Angus Maqueen, writes Simon ElleryCommissioned by C4 head of documentaries Peter Dale, the 3 x
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Real World bags commissions worth£5.5m
Scottish indie Ideal World Productions has secured commissions worth£5.5m across terrestrial and non-terrestrial channels.For BBC1, the company is making Force 10 Rescue, dubbed '999 meets Police Camera Action'. The
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Bazal clinches 65-programme deal
Endemol UK production arm Bazal has clinched its first output deal with the Discovery Home & Leisure channel with a 65-programme deal, writes Leigh HolmwoodThe deal, commissioned by Discovery Home &