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New low for ITV peaktime
ITV'S peaktime audience has hit an all-time low, according to the Institute of Practitioners of Advertising's latest Trends in Television report, writes Steve Aston.
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LNR SWAPS WITH LBC
London News Radio station ITN News Direct is to switch its service from FM to AM. The station will switch frequencies with LBC 1152. The move is being made to boost
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Ratings - Uncle Silas' victory over The Way We Live Now
ITV 1 easily got the better of BBC 1 in the head-to-head battle of literary adaptations this week, writes Jon Rogers.
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MULTICHANNEL SPURNED
Only 5.8 per cent of terrestrial TV homes are planning to acquire multichannel TV, according to a study conducted into digital television by Continental Research. The figure gives a potential market
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PFA VOTES FOR STRIKE
Members of the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action that could lead to them boycotting televised games. Over 99 per cent of PFA members voted for action,
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PINNACLE RESELLER
Pinnacle Systems has appointed Altered Images as reseller of its broadcast products. Two Deko-Cast demonstration units have been installed at Altered Images' Soho site and the company has already made a
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UPC SUSPENDS SHARES
Shares in the pan-European cable company UPC were suspended this week as it emerged that the debt-laden outfit has had a negative value since September. The suspension followed UPC's latest third-quarter
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TX - A walk on the wild side
Sixteen million years after dinosaurs became extinct, a strange collection of beasts roamed the earth. It was a time when whales were still on land and giant birds preyed on miniature
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TV takes on the consoles
Adrian Pennington examines TV's embryonic challenge to the hitherto impenetrable might of the dedicated video games consoles
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Bazalgette withdraws from C4 race
Endemol Entertainment UK creative director and industry favourite rules himself out as candidate to replace Michael Jackson
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Top Gear drives over to C5
One of BBC2's longest running series to become Fifth Gear when it airs on C5 next year
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The war on the web
Peter Keighron looks at how the internet has come of age during the current Afghan crisis
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Internet video: bootleg to billing
Richard Dean looks at how some of the latest compression, digital watermarking and fingerprinting technologies are being used by content owners to protect valuable online content
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ITV Digital: now and next
ITV Digital is struggling with huge losses, disgruntled shareholders and no clear short term path to breakeven. With UK broadcasters such as the BBC hatching plans to shore up the platform with a free-to-air DTT option, we ask the industry what the prospe
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Broadband Britain: it's the content, stupid
Magic Latern and Pact interactive head Anthony Lilley urges the government to 'be practical, find solutions and be responsive' if its plans for Broadband Britain are to have any chance of success
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The long and the short of short code
Andrew Jones, managing director of wireless marketing specialist Aerodeon, says operators refusal to implement short codes is hampering broadcasters' wider use of SMS
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Millionaire too much for Link
ITV1's perennial ratings banker pulls nearly three times as many viewers as BBC1's rival quiz The Weakest Link as shows go head-to-head
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TV freelance pay 'soul destroying'
First freelance survey in eight years shows freelancers paid less than£20,000 per year - well below average earnings
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Telewest up 18% after Q3 profits rise
Shares in debt-laden UK cable group shoot up after company reports 12 per cent rise in core earnings
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Editor chosen for BBC 4 news
Amanda Farnsworth appointed ahead of March launch of highbrow arts channel