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Radio First soccer station to air
Radio First is launching its first radio station dedicated to football fans this weekend to coincide with the start of the football season, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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FREE TO AIR - Digital needs proper funds
There's not a commercial broadcasting organisation in this country that is escaping the hardship prompted by the advertising slump. And digital niche players are bearing the real brunt of this, surrounded
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Alias explains cancellation at Siggraph
Alias Wavefront blamed 'severe economic restraints' for the cancellation of its user group conference at Siggraph this year following unsuccessful attempts to charge attendees a $200 (£140) fee, write Jo Scott and Barbara Marshall.
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LEADER - Is a new Saturday night all right?
ITV's decision to run 75 minutes of Premiership football highlights from 19.00 on Saturdays is either a bold move that demonstrates broadcasters can still innovate in these straitened, competitive times -
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BBC property plan approved
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell has approved the BBC's plan to hand over its central London properties to a private-sector developer in a£500m deal, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NEW EDITOR FOR APTN
News agency APTN has appointed MyMovies.net editor Nick Thomas as its entertainment editor. He is charged with overseeing the editorial content of the news agency's entertainment bulletins and programmes and will
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BBC set for top autumn drama
BBC 1 Controller Lorraine Heggessey launched a heavy autumn drama schedule this week, promising to 'take more risks' with the channel.Yet she also revealed that Steven Speilberg's new drama Band of
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BBC prepares to axe documentary posts
The majority of the creative directors in the BBC's documentaries group are expected to lose their jobs when more than 100 posts are axed next month, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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RATINGS - Coronation Street loses head-to-head battle
BBC 1 came out on top in the first head-to-head battle of the country's favourite soaps, writes Jon Rogers.
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Jowell should rethink BBC channels BBC
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is being urged to consider the plight of the entire commercial sector where ad revenues are falling as she decides whether to approve the BBC's digital TV and radio plans, writes Katy Elliott.
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Diversity drive at BBC news
BBC News has recruited a new co-ordinator to develop and implement policies to better reflect audience diversity both on screen and behind the scenes, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC strengthens ethnic output
BBC multicultural commissioning executive Maxine Watson has unveiled a raft of new programmes for BBC 2 as part of her brief to develop original strands intended to reflect 'real diversity'.The programmes,
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BBC Resources boosts training
BBC resources is fighting the industry's technical skills shortage with a second wave of traineeships following the success of a similar scheme introduced last year.Twenty-one young people will join in mid-September,
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Big Brother storms out but fails to beat last year
Remember how ITV wanted to move News at Ten to 23.00, so that it could run movies uncut from 21.00? And how BBC 1 moved its news from 21.00 so that
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NIGELLA GETS BITE AT US
Channel 4 International has sold cookery show Nigella Bites to US cable network E! Entertainment for a 'high six-figure sum'. The first two series have been bought to air from 17
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Standards body to be created
Broadcasters and unions are to form an unprecedented joint company to oversee standards and grading in safety critical employment areas such as special effects, rigging and stunts, writes Barbara Marshall.
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EXTRA TIME AT BORO
NTL has launched an extension to Boro TV its cable service for Middlesbrough fans. For the first time Boro fans will be able watch the full 90 minutes of all their
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RENTAL BUSINESS SALE
Granada is considering selling its Box Clever TV rental business. The sale of the joint-venture with finance company Nomura would raise around£1bn. Box Clever was formed in 1999 as a
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CABLE COMPANY LOSSES
Shares in United Pan European Communications (UPC) rallied earlier this week after the indebted European cable company reported a reduction in second quarter operating losses. Before interest tax, depreciation and amortisation,
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Carlton set to freeze pay rises
Carlton has responded to the toughening TV market by freezing staff pay across the company from this autumn, writes Steve Aston.