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SKY REVIEWS ITV BENEFIT.
BSkyB is re-evaluating the benefit of having ITV on its Sky Digital platform. The company argued that because of ITV's weakened audience share since Sky Digital launched in 1998, it is
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BBC's output rejig may hit in-house producers.
BBC commissioning will work on a rolling basis, rather than via quarterly commissioning rounds, and put 25 per cent of production in each genre up for competition between independents and in-house
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MPs support BBC children's digital channel plans.
MPs from all political parties are backing BBC proposals to introduce children's digital channels as part of the planned BBC 3 and 4 channels, writes John Lewis.
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Disney joins fight to curb BBC services.
Disney Channel UK has become the latest commercial voice to join the chorus of concern over the BBC's proposed new digital services, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC WINS LEWIS FIGHT.
The BBC has signed a deal with Lennox Lewis to broadcast the fight to defend his world heavyweight title in April. This is the first time one of Lewis' fights will
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Whish to review BBC fair trading.
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has announced the terms of reference for the independent review of the BBC's fair trading policies, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC COMMISSIONS POP PROGRAMME DUO.
BBC music entertainment has been commissioned to produce BBC 2 Sunday lunchtime show Top of the Pops Plus (left) for a spring and summer run. Another 22 episodes have been ordered
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GREG DYKE AT THE BBC - One year of Dyke's rule.
Programme-makers cheered in a director general who promised to demolish Birtist bureaucracy and put the BBC's money back into production. But dissenting voices in the corporation remain unconvinced that Dyke will deliver the golden age they were hoping fo
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OFF THE RECORD - Lythgoe watch: a bad hair day.
We love you too much to expect you to manage without your weekly Lythgoe fix, so here's a snippet from The Look (Sunday Mirror) in which our Popstars hero talks readers
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Avid chief Davies quits for new media venture.
Avid technologies international product marketing director Simon Davies has quit the company to set up a 'facilities house for new media', writes Will Strauss.
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Just TV starts Bristol arm for local orders.
Investigative specialist indie Just TV is setting up a new Bristol-based company to expand its range and pull in regional commissions, writes Ashley Davies.
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Pukka Web speeds up approvals.
Pukka group managing director John Gordon-Saker has outlined how the launch of his new strand - Pukka Web - could improve the lives of UK TV producers, writes Will Strauss.
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DIGITAL RADIO BUREAU APPOINTS FIGUREHEAD.
The Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB) has appointed Angel Trains managing director Haydn Abbott as its chairman. Abbott will now look to appoint a new chief executive for DRDB, which will
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Contract killer?
Sky has been battling against ITN's hold on television news for nearly two decades. But the announcement from Sky News last week that it has four TV players on board for the next bid marks a new seriousness to the challenge.
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ANALYSIS - INDIE FINANCE - From a Chrysalis to a butterfly.
Chrysalis has its fingers in a number of pies, besides TV production, such as music, media products and new media - but its radio interests, which have enjoyed phenomenal growth, are the stars of the show.
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FREE TO AIR - It's the programmes.
By a simple twist of fate, the first anniversary of the New Regime at Broadcasting House coincides with the publication of an interview in The Spectator with the sacked former BBC
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BBC explores ad-funded sites.
The BBC has confirmed that it is exploring the idea of commercially funded websites aimed at overseas users but the corporation's governors have not yet given final approval to the scheme, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC web activities put under House spotlight.
The BBC's expansion of its commercial activities on the web came under the spotlight again this week, at the first of the culture, media & sport select committee's sessions taking evidence
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TRADE TALK - The TV activist.
One of the broadcaster's longest-serving staffers, Channel 4 editor of nations and regions Alan Hayling, is going back into documentary-making.
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Government to act on agent payment abuse.
The government is to impose new rules on agents to ensure that production staff and talent are paid on time, writes Simon Ellery.