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NewsGSB's Ovens made redundant
Granada Sky Broadcasting managing director Rob Ovens has been made redundant and will leave at the end of March.
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NewsITV1 falls to lowest peaktime share this year
ITV1 slumped yesterday to its lowest peaktime share this year with just 18.8% as the first half of its new series First Love, Second Chanceaveraged just 2.2 million (12%) at 10pm.
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Kuraishe takes factual role at C4
Channel 4 has appointed Ruby Kuraishe as editor of factual entertainment. Kuraishe moves from the C4 entertainment team, where as deputy commissioning editor she worked on Friday night projects and upcoming dating series Playing It Straight. In her new role she will work across C4 and ...
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TV news protest over hunt ruling
News broadcasters have applied for a judicial review over a court ruling forcing them to hand over footage from last September's violent pro-hunt demonstrations to a police watchdog.
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Interviews start for BBC1 head
Interviews are underway for the new controller of BBC1, with an announcement on the successful candidate expected shortly after Easter.
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O'Hara victim of GWR merger
John O'Hara, programme director of Capital Radio's regional network, has become the latest casualty of the groups£711m merger with Classic FM-owner GWR.
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World of Wonder puts price on Jacko trial
World of Wonder is to investigate exactly how much money the Californian town of Santa Maria is making out of the Michael Jackson trial with a film for Sky One.
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Jackson plans UK outfit
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson is looking to set up his own production outfit in the UK after his plans to buy up indies fell through.
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Ant & Dec to front classic ITV gameshows
Ant and Dec are being lined up to host a series of classic gameshows such as Bullseye, The Golden Shotand Blockbusters, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary plans.
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ITV sheds 95 staff across regions
Nearly 100 jobs have been cut by ITV following Ofcom's decision to allow the broadcaster to halve its non-news regional output.
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NewsBBC braced for more job cuts
BBC staff are bracing themselves for the second swathe of major job cuts, with director general Mark Thompson expected to announce on Monday that at least another 1,200 jobs will go over the next three years.
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NewsChannel 4 bans F words from The F Word
Ofcom can breathe a sigh of relief - Gordon Ramsay's new cookery show, The F Word, will have to be subjected to the swear bleeper because Channel 4 wants it for a pre-watershed slot.
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NewsITV and C4 look at taking UKTV stake
ITV and Channel 4 have held separate talks with UKTV's owners, the BBC and Flextech, about taking a stake in the multichannel network.
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NewsSpringer lined up for Trisha slot
Controversial US TV talk-show king Jerry Springer is set to front a new ITV daytime show being lined up to replace Trisha.
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NewsRDF looks at April float
RDF Media has hired stockbrokers Investec to prepare the company for flotation on the London Stock Exchange as early as the end of April.
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NewsProducers warn on rise of super-indies
The rise of the super-indie is a growing concern for smaller independent producers who fear their increasing domination of the sector, according to this year's BroadcastIndie Survey.
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The self-shooting survival guide
Self-shooting directors, APs on second camera and researchers with a handheld are now commonplace in factual programme-making. In a special report, Gareth Watkins
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Which way forward for indies?
As investors eye the TV production sector, new routes to growth have opened up for indies. Belinda Archer
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Losing on appeal
The BBC pulled Bafta-nominated legal drama Outlaws after one series, despite reviewers' plaudits. Its creator Steve Coombes says the BBC's digital strategy is largely to blame