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July 31, 2006
Tragedy plus timing (The Age)
July 30, 2006
BBC Scotland funds underpaid by £90m, SNP claims (The Scotsman)
BBC SCOTLAND is losing out on £90m of licence payers’ cash, the SNP has claimed.
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July 28, 2006
ABC’s Dempster released from hospital (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
The host of ABC TV’s NSW current affairs program Stateline, Quentin Dempster, has been discharged from hospital after treatment for a heart condition.
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July 27, 2006
ABC TV targets youth (News Interactive)
AUSTRALIA’S music-loving youth is the target of a landmark television enterprise by the ABC.
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July 26, 2006
Shock Wye spy claims (GeelongInfo)
WYE River hotel workers have made shock allegations that a hidden camera was set up to secretly film them showering and changing.
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July 25, 2006
Gideon Haigh: Rooney is only half the story (Guardian Unlimited)
Wayne Rooney’s life story might be about as interesting as a brick, but try telling that to the money-men squeezing his considerable bulk for all it’s worth, says Gideon Haigh.
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July 24, 2006
Remote control (News Interactive)
The SEVEN Network has its nose in front of Nine in the TV ratings war.
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SNP demands meeting over BBC job cuts (The Herald)
BBC Scotland has denied that a further round of cuts is being imposed by the corporation from London which could jeopardise its flagship television and radio output.
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July 22, 2006
PAKISTAN: TV channels ordered to stop airing carnage (AsiaMedia)
Islamabad — Private television channels have been told to stop showing gruesome footage of accidents, bomb blasts and scenes of violence, the chairman of the government’s regulator said on Thursday.
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July 21, 2006
TV channels ordered to stop airing carnage (Dawn)
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Private television channels have been told to stop showing gruesome footage of accidents, bomb blasts and scenes of violence, the chairman of the government’s regulator said on Thursday.
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