Viewers look after their own Ofcom report ITV has previously claimed that viewers just aren't interested in regional output anymore apart from news and sport, hence it has wound down much of the old regional ITV infrastructure; the end result...
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BBC scraps sports show Grandstand BBC.co.uk Oh, the wacky world of broadcaster reasoning. "BBC executives believe that in the new digital on-demand world, in which people consume news, sport and entertainment on computers and mobile phones as well as radio...
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Flamboyant TV chief who was drawn to conflict dies You've got to love UK libel laws. They're sufficiently nutzo that people from around the world flock to the UK in order to sue their enemies, knowing that it is easy...
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Media Guardian: Broadcasters get green light for more pay-TV There's much regulation in the TV market in the UK - indeed tight regulation made the UK TV market what it is today. However you sometimes have to ask, is there...
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ITV Play Website Friends get to play on ITV ITV Play launched at midday today, and watching it was a thoroughly depressing experience for anyone who still believes that commercial television should at least be of "merchantable quality". Its Freeview...
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BBC trumpets new visual feast for viewers. Always at the forefront of technology, the BBC has announced that it is to begin trials of a new line standard. Since 1985, television in Britain has been on the 625-line "standard definition"...
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