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Inside TV - Future

The politics of broadcasting future

Catalogue of Woe

BBC catalogue off the air

Future-proofing the BBC

TV must change with the times

Blair's Broadcasting Legacy

Looking back on the outgoing PM’s impact

Still a place for quality TV

ITV1’s decline and the future of TV as we know it.

On Message

Politics, elections and the media

Safe in their hands

Who will keep the BBC running?

Whither ITV?

Andrew Bowden sees a post-analogue future

Public private partnership

What is a ‘public service broadcaster’?

Pay Per View

The loss of a public funded BBC would be a tragedy, says Kif Bowden-Smith

Into the firing line

Broadcasters are under the closest scrutiny they have been under in years

Catch the penny

But Ian Beaumont thinks the broadcasters are missing the pound

Giving up television

Russ J Graham doesn’t watch here anymore

Undoing the inevitable

Carl Ellis wants to unpick the Carlton-Granada tie-up

Love/hate five

David Hastings isn’t sure about Channel Five

A merger too far

One ITV multiplies the business risks, says Ian Beaumont

Five wins

Andrew Bowden on the resurgent Channel Five

Say hello, wave goodbye

James Barrington is shocked at the end of LWT

24 hours too many

Ian Beaumont says 24 hour television is a waste of time

Blank cheque

Malcolm Smith on different ways to police the licence fee

Know future

Stephen Hopkins on the mess ITV has made for itself

Major Merger

James Barrington rues a single English ITV

Monkey business

David Hastings writes on the depressing future for ITV1

Murdoch to the rescue

Murdoch is better than Granada, argues Dafydd Hancock

Qualitycide

Arthur Dungate has given up watching television

Roswell mystery

Carl Ellis on the use and abuse of imported programmes

The end of RTÉ

Richard Logue charts a death by a thousand cuts

Government by spin

Kirk Northrop reports on Michael Brunson’s views of spin

All together now

It’s time for radical change at ITV, says Andrew Bowden

Manifest commitments

Repeal the Broadcasting Act 1990, says Anthony Heathfield

Service Stations

Ian Beaumont asks is public service exists in commercial TV

USP

Dafydd Hancock knows what ITV1 is missing

Unto the wasteland

ITV1 is safe, bland, boring and dull says Anthony Heathfield

With a whimper

Ian Beaumont watches ITV slide out of the running

Words and Pictures

Russ J Graham looks under ‘C’ and finds a rude word

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