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ITC decides against altering sports code
The Independent Television Commission has withdrawn a proposal to alter its sports and listed events code to allow ITV, Channel 4, BBC 1 and BBC 2 to occasionally show extended coverage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
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
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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Timothy returns for BBC daytime drama
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
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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BBC 1 orders primetime satire
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
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
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
Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April
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This week's quotes
'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
Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution
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Trade Talk - Tony Stoller
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
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
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
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
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
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