Brookside creator's Channel 4 bid
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The creator of TV soap opera Brookside writes to the culture minister to offer to buy Channel 4.
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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell paves the way for the BBC to pay up to Â£14m to Channel 4's digital switchover.
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By JANE WARDELL  LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing Web site Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google Inc.-owned portal.
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Ofcom must act to prevent subs-service domination Broadcasters the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five, along with manufacturers Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Alba, and Dixons owner DSGI have begun lobbying UK regulator Ofcom to guarantee bandwidth on the Freeview digital TV system for HD broadcasts. And they want consumers to help.â¦
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A ruling on BSkyB's controversial purchase of a stake in ITV is expected to be published on Thursday.
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One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale.
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THE British Basketball League yesterday signed a pounds 2.5million, ten-year deal with fledgling cable TV channel MKTV.   The cash-starved league has been without TV coverage for four years, but the new deal means that 40 games a season will be broadcast.
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When billionaires attack It emerged over the weekend that media bounder Rupert Murdoch had bought up a slice of ITV, putting the kybosh on Richard Branson's dreams of moguldom.â¦
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Pay-TV company BSkyB said it had signed  up more than 1 million customers to its broadband service,  drawing new subscribers to its overall offering and making it  the UK's fastest growing provider.
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Tyler BrÃ»lÃ© is to present a new media magazine show on BBC Four.  Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Channel 4 has failed in its bid to keep live cricket coverage on terrestrial TV after 2006, as the England and Wales Cricket Board finally awarded Sky Sports with blanket live rights in a four-year deal worth Â£220m today.
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Media watchdog Ofcom proposes a new TV channel to broadcast public service programmes in the UK.
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Not one who likes to lose News International broadcaster BSkyB is in talks to acquire 365 Media Group according to a report in The Times - also owned by News International.â¦
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Business & money: Â· Proposal would create Britain's biggest pub group Â· Other predators circling after finance debacle
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Cable firm NTL  has dropped plans to bid for ITV  after its 4.7-billion-pound ($9.3 billion) proposal was rejected by the British broadcaster and rival BSkyB  swooped to take a blocking stake in ITV.
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A trio of media tycoons are plotting a possible takeover bid for the ITV television network.
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Â· Reality shows axed in C4's 'creative renewal' Â· Network promises ambitious projects