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Channel 4 scales back right to reply
Consumer feedback programming cut from 10 to three hours as viewers' right to reply moves to web
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BBC Radio acts to prevent ideas theft
Corporation's radio arm signs code of practice designed to prevent the theft of ideas proposed by freelancers and independents
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Ex-BBC Resources boss joins LBG
Former BBC Resources director of production services Michael Lumley has joined the Local Broadcasting Group (LBG) in the newly created role of director of broadcasting.Lumley joins two other new management
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Promotion at ITV's Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here producer Kim Robson has been promoted to the role of series producer of the ITV travel series, working alongside executive producer John Longley.Ruth England
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Pop Idol legal threat resolved
Australian producer Screentime and distributor Target settle dispute with Thames and 19TV over ITV's forthcoming Pop Idol series
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Lygo plans more repeats
Channel 5 director of programmes looking to re-air productions such as Driving Mum Crazy that secured less-than-expected ratings first time around, despite extra£26m in budget
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BBC retains Open Golf championship
New deal with St Andrews means the world's oldest golf championship remains free-to-air for the next five years
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BBC 1 plans high-tech Ancient Egypt series
The BBC is to embark on one of its most ambitious history projects to date when it uses Walking With Dinosaurs-style computer effects to bring ancient Egypt alive, writes Leigh Holmwood.Pyramid,
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SMG boosted by£1m talent deal
SMG TV Productions has inked a£1m development deal with The Artists' Rights Group (ARG) to harness talent such as Ross Kemp and John Hannah, writes Steve Aston.The two-year deal will
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Gardeners' World shows up BBC 1 peaktime weakness
What sort of condition did the networks wake up in with no Survivor and no Big Brother? Interestingly, ITV's primetime share for the week was up on the previous week's performance
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GRANADA CUTS 10 JOBS
Granada has axed 10 more jobs from its workforce after introducing a series of cuts at its Anglia franchise. The move will affect newsroom and financial staff. Some of the job
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OPAL CHAIRMAN JOINS CENTURY 105.4 FM
Capital-owned Century 105.4 FM has appointed Opal Telecom chairman Robert Hough as its new chairman. Hough, who is also North West Regional Agency chairman, Liverpool Airport chairman and Peel Holdings deputy
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BBC 2 lifts lid on autumn line-up
BBC 2 controller Jane Root this week unveiled a£96m autumn schedule aimed squarely at her channel's new older audience target.Highlights include Blood of the Vikings, which explores Britain's Viking history,
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TV HOTSHOTS - The ones to watch 2001
DANNY COHEN, 27 CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONING EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES If you're a late-night, niche-TV owl you might have caught Generation E, one of Cohen's more prominent commissions for E4. While the series
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LNN wields axe on 28 news jobs
London News Network (LNN) is to axe 28 jobs as a result of the ongoing recession in TV advertising.The posts will be lost from editorial and other departments such as engineering.
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Einstein signs Take 3 deal
Digital Science channel Einstein.tv has snared a£5m co-production deal with media investor Take 3 to fund future programme output, writes David Wood.The deal will see the investment of up to
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Right to reply reduced on C4
Channel 4 has scaled back its consumer feedback programming from 10 hours to just over three hours a year, while putting viewers' 'right to reply' on the web, writes Penny Hughes.Four
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S4CI puts£6m in cartoon venture
S4C International (S4CI) is pumping£6m into animation following the launch of a children's strategy group chaired by former BBC head of children's television Anna Home, writes Penny Hughes.The Welsh broadcaster