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    ITC decides against altering sports code

    2000-02-06T09:30:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has withdrawn a proposal to alter its sports and listed events code to allow ITV, Channel 4, BBC 1 and BBC 2 to occasionally show extended coverage

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    Radio 1 Leeds sets summer date for love parade

    2000-02-06T09:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 1 has announced plans for a Leeds-based annual summer street music festival. Love Parade UK will be based on the Berlin Love Parade festival, which has been taking place

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    Capital lures Francis from Invicta

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    Capital Radio 95.8 has poached DJ Neil Francis from its sister station, Invicta FM, to front a new evening show between 22.00 and midnight. Francis, who hosted Invicta's breakfast show, will

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    Bland defends Dyke

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    BBC chairman takes Times to task over anti-Dyke campaign

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    Timothy returns for BBC daytime drama

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    BBC Production's drama serials department has lined up Christopher Timothy (All Creatures Great and Small) and Jacqueline Leonard (EastEnders) to head the cast of new BBC daytime drama Doctors. Known by

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    Carlton Productions bags Commuter Wars commission

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    Carlton Productions has won a 60-minute commission from ITV for a documentary on the daily life of commuters travelling into London, writes Paul Donovan. Commuter Wars is being produced by Carlton's

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    Arena plans $1 million Kurosawa film

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    BBC 2 arts strand to profile Japanese film-maker

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    BBC 1 orders primetime satire

    2000-02-05T09:30:00Z

    Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year

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    Ball and Hall in headline bout over News 24

    2000-02-04T15:47:00Z

    BBC News chief squares up to Sky counterpart over future of 24-hour rolling news service

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    Mansfield and Nelmes step up in ITV reshuffle

    2000-02-04T14:58:00Z

    Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime boss Dianne Nelmes is successor

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    Sky Box Office and FilmFour flick digital switch

    2000-02-04T14:55:00Z

    Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April

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    This week's quotes

    2000-02-04T11:15:00Z

    'I was never in television. I was a political lobbyist for Channel 4. If I was going to miss it I wouldn't have left.'Michael Grade, formerly of Channel 4, now non-executive chairman of Octopus Television

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    Government to reform broadcast and telecom laws

    2000-02-04T04:00:00Z

    Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution

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    TX

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    NATURE BOYProducer: BBC DramaBroadcaster: BBC 1Start: 21.30, 14 FebruaryLength: 4 x 60-minutesExecutive producers: Hilary Salmon, Michael WearingProducer: Catherine WearingDirector: Joe WrightWriter: Bryan ElsleyBy Martin JacksonThe expression 'having too much

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    Trade Talk - Tony Stoller

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    With radio licensees now come of age, their regulator is listening more keenly but won't be a soft touch.

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    Worldwide sets up US joint-venture

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has struck a $100 million (£61.7 million) deal with a US merchant bank, as media secretary Chris Smith prepares to deliver his verdict on the future funding of the BBC, writes Steve Clarke.

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    Szabo joins Red Post to work new Spirit

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Red Post Production has bought a Philips Spirit Datacine with a Pandora MegaDEF secondary colour corrector, and hired telecine colourist Gary Szabo (left) to lead the team working with the system.

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    Jazz unveils plans for net only station

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Jazz FM revealed plans to launch an internet-exclusive radio station this week as it announced a sharp fall in pre-tax losses for the second half of last year, writes John Plunkett.

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    Mansfield, Nelmes step up ITV ladders

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Granada Television has picked ITV Network Centre controller of documentaries, features and arts Grant Mansfield to be its new director of programmes in a move that sees ITV daytime chief Dianne

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    Postcard from ... Isabelle Repiton in Paris

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    France is gripped by convergence mania, just like the rest of the world, and there is no greater champion of this phenomenon than Vivendi chief Jean Marie Messier, who has been