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    BBC to up foreign coverage

    2002-05-22T17:00:02Z

    The BBC is to increase its commitment to primetime foreign affairs programming as media secretary Tessa Jowell comes under pressure to force broadcasters to give added emphasis to the genre through the communications bill, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Production Show news: Kaufman slams Communications Bill

    2002-05-22T09:14:40Z

    Gerald Kaufman MP, Chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has attacked the new Communications Bill, writes Peter Keighron

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    MPs to examine Ofcom and the BBC

    2002-05-21T09:52:41Z

    Parliament is to reopen the controversy of whether the BBC should be brought under the control of Ofcom like other broadcasters as the joint committee of peers and MPs this week began their three-month-long examination of the draft Communications Bill, writes David Rose

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    Liddiment raps plans for Ofcom.

    2002-05-20T08:27:11Z

    ITV director of channels David Liddiment has criticised the government's plans to establish super-regulator Ofcom, claiming

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    Equity slams standard of drama at C5.

    2002-05-20T08:27:11Z

    Actors' Union Equity has slammed Channel 5 over its 'dismal level of drama', writes Georgina Lipscomb.The

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    ITV pushes for 'psychic' TV.

    2002-05-20T08:27:10Z

    ITV and Granada are understood to be lobbying the Independent Television Commission to change the rules

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    Sky bolsters case in competition row.

    2002-05-20T08:27:10Z

    BSkyB has handed its written representations to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), defending charges that

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    Joint committee begins examination of bill.

    2002-05-20T08:27:10Z

    The industry has until 2 August to submit written evidence to the joint committee examining the

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    BBC defends school record.

    2002-05-20T08:27:10Z

    The BBC has moved to scotch suggestions that it is risking the future of schools programming

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    Bectu lobbies DCMS for ITV Digital staff.

    2002-05-20T08:26:56Z

    Further pressure was heaped on the government this week to intervene in the ITV Digital debacle

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    ITC receives interest in DTT platform

    2002-05-17T11:29:00Z

    The ITC has announced that it has received expressions of interest over the digital terrestrial television multiplexes that have been re-advertised following the collapse of ITV Digital. But the watchdog in keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the applicants, who have to submit their final detailed bids by 30 May, ...

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    ITV drops 'On Screen Nexts' from drama

    2002-05-13T14:41:26Z

    ITV's experiment of trailing programmes on screen before the current programme has finished has been axed from drama after complaints from viewers, writes Steve Aston.The Independent Television Commission (ITC) received a

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    LEADER - TV needs a successor to S&L.

    2002-05-10T17:16:31Z

    The government is this week rubbing salt into producers' wounds still smarting from the abrupt removal

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Cheff to launch a unified spec.

    2002-05-10T17:16:31Z

    The Chief Engineers of Facilities Forum (Cheff), the UK facilities trade body, is to launch a

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    SOAPS MORE VIOLENT.

    2002-05-10T17:16:30Z

    Violence in soaps and light entertainment programmes has increased over the past few years, according to

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    BBC kicks off rejig of board of governors.

    2002-05-10T17:16:30Z

    The BBC has taken the first step in the shake-up of its board of governors, unveiling plans to publish separate reports from its two programme complaints bodies for the first time and appointing former BBC production chief executive Ron Neil as an editori

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    TELETEXT WINS LICENCE TO RUN C5 TEXTING.

    2002-05-10T17:16:30Z

    Teletext has been awarded the licence to run text services on Channel 5, the Independent Television

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    Government to help TV exports.

    2002-05-10T17:16:29Z

    Representatives of the television and radio industries are to sit on a new government body set up to help boost the export of British creative work abroad, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    End of ITV Digital saga.

    2002-05-10T17:16:29Z

    The future of pay-television services available via digital terrestrial television was thrown into doubt this week

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    MPs put pressure on BBC to bring board into open.

    2002-05-10T17:16:29Z

    MPS have challenged BBC chairman Gavyn Davies to admit the press and public to all future meetings of the board of governors, writes David Rose