http://www.mediauk.com/ Tv news feed en-gb This compilation copyright 1994-2009 Media UK; individual stories with contributors Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:49:25 +0100 Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:49:25 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/article/4733 Media UK wizardry admin@mediauk.com (Not At All Bad Ltd) 10 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75036?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:03:16 +0100 BBC chiefs rack up '£14m pensions funded by taxpayer' http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75036 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75035?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:00:05 +0100 Britain's Next Top Model evictee Ashley Brown has opened up about getting drunk on the reality TV show. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75035 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75032?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 06:20:14 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75032 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75029?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 06:20:09 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75029 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75027?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:40:17 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75027 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75026?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:40:16 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75026 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75025?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:40:14 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75025 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75023?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:00:01 +0100 As Andy Roddick left Centre Court following his epic victory over Lleyton Hewitt late on Wednesday evening, Pat Cash was pointing out to BBC television viewers that what he needed now, before giving a thought to a semi-final against Andy Murray, was a good session of "stretching and icing". As a former Wimbledon champion, even from a less scientific age, Cash knows all about priorities in those circumstances. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75023 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75024?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:00:01 +0100 At last week's Henley Regatta, gentlemen in the Members' Enclosure were allowed to take off their jackets for the first time in 33 years, so intense was the heat. Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell may have allowed himself a wry smile. Six months ago he was trekking across Antarctica in the first race to the South Pole since Scott and Amundsen in 1911. It must have been tempting to tip the champagne bucket over his head as he mopped his brow with a sweaty slice of smoked salmon. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75024 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75018?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:22:38 +0100 Licence rebel prosecuted as BBC finally tackles TV fee 'refuseniks' http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75018 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75020?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:41:37 +0100 Channel 4 has begun quietly sounding out potential successors to Andy Duncan, its chief executive, increasing speculation that he may step down later this year. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75020 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75015?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:42:13 +0100 Irish households face the prospect of paying more for their TV licence to help offset potential losses of €68 million at RTÉ. The broadcaster also wants a crackdown on the estimated 14% of households who do not pay the licence fee, describing the percentage of defaulters as “high by international standards”. RTÉ has urged the Government [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75015 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75009?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 4 Jul 2009 01:45:54 +0100 Mark Thompson’s comments have been taken as an admission that the growing use of new technology to watch programmes will make the licence fee obsolete. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75009 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75007?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:50:07 +0100 British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in "atrocious conditions" in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza Strip. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75007 http://www.mediauk.com/tv/news/go/75000?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:40:09 +0100 Just as football clubs get rid of their under-performing players in the summer, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has shut down Rivals.net, a network of fansites covering all 92 Football League clubs and part of the Football365 group of sites it bought in 2007. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/75000