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TV Reporter May Quit the BBC after 34 Years in Move to Another Channel.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2002

By Nadia Cohen, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 28--Television reporter Kate Adie could quit the BBC after 34 years and move to Channel 5.

The station's executives have been wooing her since it became known that she was frustrated at being sidelined in favour of younger women.

They want 56-year-old Miss Adie to head a team of experienced journalists to be grafted on to its youthful newsroom.

Others being courted are said to include the BBC's diplomatic editor Brian Hanrahan and former ITN political editor Michael Brunson. Channel 5 is already using former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell.

Miss Adie, who is paid UKpound 100,000 a year by the BBC, is said to have taken the approach seriously...

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