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RATINGS ANALYSIS - No score draws?
Despite the assertions of media commentators that football is coming home, a closer look at the figures reveals remarkably little change in the number of people watching.
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Albury leaves United for film-making return
United Broadcasting and Entertainment (UBE) director of public affairs Simon Albury is leaving the company, writes Tim Dams.Albury, a founding member of Meridian, a former head and founder of the Campaign
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Airey rules out move to BBC
Dawn Airey has ruled out a move to Greg Dyke's BBC - saying she intends to remain as Channel 5 director of programmes, writes Steve Clarke.Speaking at the station's autumn launch
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OFF THE RECORD - Airey fairy nonsense
And so to the rarefied atmosphere of the Royal Television Society, where OTR hears that next month Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey (above right), is to 'reveal her most
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BBC AND ITV AGREE FEE FOR LYNAM TRANSFER
The BBC and ITV have settled their Des Lynam 'transfer fee' dispute, in an agreement which will see ITV pay the BBC a six-figure sum for poaching the sports presenter mid-contract.
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GRAY LEAVES WRITERS' GUILD AFTER SIX YEARS
General secretary of the Writers' Guild Alison Gray is to leave the organisation after six years. During her time at the guild, Gray is credited with overseeing a radical restructuring and
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CNTS GOES ONTO THE NET AFTER SIGNAL INTERRUPTIONS
Central European Media Enterprises' (CME) Czech subsidiary CNTS has begun transmitting nightly Nova TV news bulletins on the internet, following the interruption of the terrestrial broadcast signal it was supplying to
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Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans
Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans.
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NET MOVE FOR 5 LIVE
£BBC Radio 5 Live has launched a new online service offering listeners the chance to tune into programme highlights via the internet. The initiative allows users to download certain shows from
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ASA UPHOLDS COMPLAINTS AGAINST SKY DIGITAL AND C5
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the body which enforces standards in non-broadcast ads, has upheld two complaints against BSkyB's Sky Digital campaign and one protest against a Channel 5 promotion.One complainant
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MERGED FIRMS TO TAKE MAJOR SHARE IN TV5
Arte and La Cinquieme are to become the largest shareholders in international French-language satellite channel TV5. The two channels - which will officially merge their operations when France's new broadcast law
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Aka Pizazz has created the titles for BBC Wales' history of rugby union The Union Game. Designed by Ashley Potter and produced by Angela Cocker, the 40-second sequence features graphic elements
Aka Pizazz has created the titles for BBC Wales' history of rugby union The Union Game. Designed by Ashley Potter and produced by Angela Cocker, the 40-second sequence features graphic elements
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S4C and BBC Wales launch joint channel
Welsh language broadcaster S4C is gearing up to launch a joint-venture digital channel with BBC Wales to provide coverage of the Welsh Assembly, write Alice Macandrew and Wale Azeez.The new channel,
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RADIO 4 ORDERS PLAY TO ACCOMPANY BLITZ SERIES
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned independent Martin Wietz Associates to produce Dear Gerald, a play about a 12-year-old evacuated during the blitz, to coincide with its documentary series about the blitz,
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C4 ignites old flames
Channel 4 has ordered a six-part education documentary that traces and brings together former partners, writes Wale Azeez.Scheduled for a peaktime slot, The Ex Files is a 6 x 30-minute series
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C4 commissions child support doc
Channel 4 head of news and current affairs David Lloyd has commissioned a three-part series about the Child Support Agency (CSA) from Brook Lapping Productions and Evans Wolfe, writes Wale Azeez.Can't
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C4I celebrates Stack deal
Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed a worldwide distribution deal with Emmy award-winning US documentary-maker Jonathan Stack.C4I will have exclusive distribution rights to documentary series and films made by Stack through
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3DD SELLS ROBBIE WILLIAMS CONCERT PACKAGE
Music distributor and packager 3DD Entertainment has finalised a deal which will see Robbie Williams' Slane Castle concert broadcast live with simultaneous transmissions on Sky One, Sky Box Office, Sky's new
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ITV2 SECURES RIGHTS TO READING ROCK-FEST
ITV2 has secured the exclusive broadcast rights to The Reading Festival, held over the August bank holiday weekend. The general entertainment channel, aimed at a younger audience than the ITV network,
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GWR READING STATIONS RECEIVE£2M FOR NEW COMPLEX
GWR Group is to pump£2 million into its two Reading-based radio stations, 2-Ten FM and Classic Gold 1431/1485. The extra funding is to be ploughed into a new purpose-built complex