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The stunning return of Damon Albarn's animated group presents struggling EMI with an expensive challenge.
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Something about Mark Thompson's Newsnight interview seems to have given Lily "The Fear".
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Whilst 6 Music fights for your love, BBC Three looks like being one of the big winners from the Corporation's overhaul, so Mike thought he’d take a look at one of the channel’s flagship shows, Hotter Than My Daughter.
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Weak-willed BBC management happy to let two radio stations die, for what purpose?
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Nice work from Patrick Foster at The Times, who appears to have a comprehensive take on the BBC strategic review. Not much gets the chop, but it's all well judged politically.
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Who do you believe? Grainge: "I believe that the CD will out-survive me as a format". Lefestz: "F**king clueless. Backward looking new head of Uni".
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What's the difference between the Ministry of Sound and Abbey Road? Both are under threat, but one is actually good. So it won't get any help...
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EMI continues to astound with its masterclass in cluelessness. First the Abbey Road studios are for sale, or at least the British music company allows the story to run for days before choosing a Sunday to
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Last Friday’s post re-released… George Best, playing in that bright red, logo-less shirt, is one of the great symbols of the early 1970s, when colour telly came along. So influential was Best on that Man Utd team, it could be argued that he helped lay the foundations of their success today — just as...
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It was not a good night for Cheryl Cole, I reflected, whilst looking at the manhood of her husband in the aftermath of the BRIT Awards. Those of a squeamish disposition ought to do something else now. The rest can click to
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