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Virgin Media has delayed the sale of its £353 million stake in UKTV on the open market.

ITV1’s Murderland and BBC One’s Life battled it out for the top spot during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak hour last night.

The former BBC director general Greg Dyke is thought to be in the frame for the Channel 4 chairman role.

Richard Eyre, the former chief executive of ITV, is understood to be in the running for Channel 4’s chairman role.

The X Factor and its BBC One rival Strictly Come Dancing both stepped up the pace this weekend.

BSkyB has reported a 39.5% rise in pre-tax profits to £180 million in the three months to the end of September.

A massive 8.1 million viewers tuned in to see BNP leader Nick Griffin on last night’s Question Time, a bigger figure than the 7.7 million who watched Coronation Street in its prime-time ITV1 slot.

ITV is set to run a major marketing campaign to promote its new-look national news programmes.

ITV1’s UEFA Champions League Live coverage scored a high of 5.2 million viewers during the prime-time evening slot yesterday.

There appears to be no immediate let-up in the difficult times for commercial stations, with September figures showing revenue intake falling across the board for the ninth month in succession.