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ALL CHANGE IN CLASSIC FM SENIOR LINE-UP.
GWR-owned Classic FM has announced a number of senior management changes following last month's GWR restructure which saw Classic FM managing director Roger Lewis appointed chairman of the GWR commercial board
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EastEnders to air four times a week.
The BBC has finally confirmed plans to increase ratings banker EastEnders from three to four episodes a week.As exclusively predicted in Broadcast, the BBC is to up the number of weekly
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ITC FINDS FOR MILLIONAIRE AFTER COMPLAINTS.
Celador Productions, producer of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has been cleared by the Independent Television Commission of any wrongdoing over the first episode to produce a£1m winner. The
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CURRENT AFFAIRS - Blurring the boundaries.
Undercover investigation is the only area of current affairs journalism able to maintain a place in primetime. But the undercover approach has led to damaging interference in the judicial process, a confusion of roles between the police and reporters, an
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STAFF ACTION AT MTV?
Employees at MTV's broadcast services division are to be balloted on industrial action from 22 January. The ballot is the latest development in an ongoing dispute over proposed cuts to paid
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C5 News gets new format.
Channel 5 is revamping its early morning news programme, 5 News at Breakfast, and has appointed a new editor, Greg Orme, for the show writes Rebecca Evans.
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OFF THE RECORD - Channel 5 keeps on trucking.
Crikey, if we didn't already love Channel 5, we do now, after learning of its plans to broadcast an endurance game show called Touching the Truck last week (instructions: to be
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C4 loses regions head to indie.
Channel 4 editor of nations and regions Alan Hayling has quit to join Mentorn Barraclough Carey as the indie restructures its factual department, writes Ashley Davies.
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C4 claims E4 customers not confused.
Channel 4 has said it is confident its marketing for E4 is now sufficiently 'clear and loud' to avoid recent customer confusion about how to access the digital entertainment channel, writes Ashley Davies.
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C4 planning celebrity Big Brother.
Channel 4 is in talks with Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis and Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Bazal about broadcasting a celebrity version of Big Brother for Comic Relief in March, writes Ashley Davies.
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FREE TO AIR - Is E4 really a good idea?
The residents of Horseferry Road can put their brown corduroy trousers away - Sky Digital and E4 have signed a deal. With the news only announced on Monday afternoon it was
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4MC PROMOTES TEAM.
Another Liberty company, 4MC, has promoted five staff and plans further recruitment in the coming months. Danny Martin has been promoted to operations manager of the main duplication facility in Golden
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E4 BREAKOUT.
The Moving Picture Company has completed the first four in a series of 10 channel idents for Channel 4's new channel E4. Inspired by E4 creative director Brett Foraker, the 3D
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Christmas Day audience peak neared 30 million.
Christmas Day ratings battles hinge on how you look at the figures - in this case, using the 19.00 to 22.30 primetime period, ITV edged ahead with 41.5 per cent to
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3sixtymedia gets go-ahead.
BBC Resources and Granada Media joint-venture 3sixtymedia has been given the go-ahead by media secretary Chris Smith, following the Department of Trade & Industry's decision not to refer the proposal to
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Union 175 JV hires drama head.
Union 175, the Union Pictures and West 175 Media joint-venture TV production outfit, has hired Claire Hirsch as its head of TV drama, writes David Wood. Hirsch, whose producer credits include
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Endemol's plans for return of indie status could threaten UK production quotas
Leading media lawyer warns that big European broadcasters could be poised to upset 25% indie rule by swapping quotas between countries
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Avid takes control of iNews
Editing and effects company buys out Grass Valley Group's 50 per cent share
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Autocue boosts management ahead of NAB relaunch
Former BBC News Resources and Omnibus Systems director Wragg joins as head of US subsidiary
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Victoria Real to develop new BBC children's interactive service
Digital media producer Victoria Real has been commissioned by BBC Children's education department to develop an interactive entertainment service for Children's BBC Xchange programme - designed to keep kids busy during