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BREAKFAST NEWS JOB RISK
BBC Breakfast News is understood to be facing budget cuts, with the possibble loss of several jobs. The BBC 1 breakfast programme is being relaunched this year, with a 'rolling news'
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VIEWERS WATCH MORE TV
The long-term decline in TV viewing has levelled off and is even showing a small increase. According to a new study from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), the public
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OPENNESS AT THE ITC
As part of its policy of openness the Independent Television Commission is, for the first time, publishing a document on its agenda for the year. Looking Forward, which will appear in
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ITN TO MAKE NEWS DOC
Channel 4 has commissioned ITN's factual department to make a 60-minute history of News at Ten. C4 head of news and current affairs David Lloyd ordered the one-off documentary, which is
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DIGITAL RADIO UP FOR GRABS
Three digital radio services have been put out to tender by Digital One, the GWR Group-led consortium that runs the sole national commercial digital radio licence. The channels include a 'soft'
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TALK SIGNS F1 DEAL
Talk Radio has signed a one-year deal for live coverage of Formula One motor racing. Under the terms of the agreement, the station will be restricted to 12 minutes of live
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Eyre bullish about hitting 1999 target
ITV chief executive Richard Eyre has said the network is on track to meet its target of a 39 per cent peaktime share in 1999.Speaking after his annual presentation to advertisers
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RDF looks at Common people for C4
Indie RDF Television is making a documentary highlighting homosexual activity on Clapham Common for Channel 4's Cutting Edge strand, writes Jason Deans.The show, coming in the wake of the Ron Davies
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Microsoft takes 5% stake in NTL
The UK cable industry was given a shot in the arm on Monday (25 January) when US software giant Microsoft shelled out $500 million (£302.7 million) for a 5 per cent stake in NTL, writes Alice Macandrew.
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TalkBack scoops BBC 2 series
TalkBack has been commissioned to make a new series about personal finance, Your Money or Your Life, for BBC 2, writes Liz Shackleton.
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BBC SATISFIES INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION QUOTA
The BBC comfortably met its 25 per cent independent production quota for the 12 months to 31 March 1998, according to the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) fifth statutory report. The
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ITC PUBLISHES REVISED CODE ON SPORTS EVENTS
The Independent Television Commission has published its revised code on sports and other listed events, following Media Secretary Chris Smith's review of terrestrial TV's 'crown jewels' list of sports. Smith created
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CLAYPOLE TAKES ON PR ROLE AT MEDIALINK WORLDWIDE
Former APTV managing director Stephen Claypole has been appointed international broadcast adviser at broadcast public relations consultancy Medialink Worldwide Incorporated. Claypole, who masterminded the launch of APTV - the video news
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HALL TO QUIT REUTERS AT EASTER TO SET UP CONSULTANCY
Reuters International media marketing manager Mervyn Hall is leaving the news organisation at Easter to set up his own consultancy company.Hall, 50, joined Reuters as sales director from ITN three years
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WORLD SERVICE INCREASES ALBANIAN COVERAGE
The BBC World Service added an extra 15-minute bulletin to its Albanian language service on Monday (25 January) because of the growing crisis in Kosovo. It is the second time in
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SOPEL REPLACES EDWARDS AS NEWS 24 POLITICAL CHIEF
BBC political correspondent Jon Sopel is to replace Huw Edwards as chief political correspondent for BBC News 24. Sopel will lead the 24-hour news channel's coverage of the Scottish, Welsh and
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BBC COMPLAINTS UNIT MEETS RESPONSE TARGET
The BBC's Programme Complaints Unit (PCU) has for the first time reached its target of dealing with 80 per cent of complaints within 20 working days. Between October and December 1998,
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C4 INTRODUCES DISABLED TALENT DATABASE
Channel 4 is launching a new disability talent database as part of an effort to offer disabled people a fast-track route into programmes and programme-making. The database, comprising actors, presenters, journalists,
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RAPTURE WIDENS ACCESS
Teen channel Rapture has secured access to another 700,000 homes with the conclusion of a carriage deal with the UK's third-largest cable company, NTL.The Norwich-based channel, which launched just over a
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BSKYB HAILS BOX PROGRESS
BSkyB has announced that all four manufacturers of its digital set-top boxes are now in production. Panasonic UK last week became the fourth and final company to ship the Sky Digital