That becomes harder if channels like E4 are available for nothing.". The office of Fair Trading (OFT) is expected to mount a detailed examination of a bid for Somerfield by Asda, according to leading competition lawyers, who believe there could be a strong case for a referral to the Competition Commission. We also want our brand available in as many homes as possible."E4's programming budget has been ramped up to £60m, from £40m last year. Mr Duncan said that although E4 had got to the point of break-even last year, the increased investment now being made meant it was back in the red.Adam Smith, of Zenith Optimedia, the media buying group, said: "If Sky has saturated the demand for movies and sport, it leaves general entertainment to go for.

E4 will be launched on Freeview at the end of May, sooner than expected, to coincide with the next series of the Big Brother reality television series. In October, More4 will launch on Freeview, which will offer factual programming, drama and films.To make E4 a free-to-air channel, it is being withdrawn from Top-Up TV, the pay-TV service that uses digital terrestrial technology and provides a limited pay package for Freeview viewers. Analysts said the presence of E4 on Freeview could dent viewing figures for ITV2, which is aimed at the 16-34 age group. Andy Duncan, Channel 4's chief executive, said: "We have now reached the tipping point where we gain more in advertising than we lose in subscriptions by making E4 free-to-air.

Some analysts have suggested that Freeview's growth rate will make it much more difficult for Sky to meet its target of being in 10 million homes by 2010, up from the current 7.4 million.Over the Christmas quarter, 1.2 million Freeview decoder boxes were sold That compared with 371,000 gross customer additions at Sky. However, Sky believes that its family package, which offers many more channels but at a monthly cost of £19.50, appeals to a different group of consumers than Freeview. The satellite group pointed out that its Sky One channel remains the most popular digital station in multi-channel homes and that this is not on Freeview.ITV will start its ITV4 male-orientated channel on Freeview later this year, to add to ITV2 and ITV3, which are already available on the platform. Channel 4 is to make its E4 youth-orientated channel available for free on Freeview, boosting the attractiveness of the digital terrestrial platform. E4 will join a growing list of general entertainment channels that are either already available on Freeview or will be launched soon.Freeview, which is free to use once a digital box has been acquired, is available in more than five million homes and sales are continuing to accelerate. Mendocino allows us to deliver more value to the many customers who use Microsoft and SAP products today and promises to put the power of enterprise systems at the fingertips of every information worker.".

Daya Ratnayake said.The train was travelling from the capital Colombo to the temple city of Kandy when the accident took place.. Microsoft and SAP, the world's leading software companies that held abortive merger talks last year, announced plans for a new joint product initiative yesterday that will tighten their grip on the business software market. Seriously injured victims were being brought to National Hospital in the capital, Colombo, he said."There are bodies here and there," Perera said.Sri Lankan army soldiers were being deployed to the scene to help with rescue work, military spokesman Brig. "We have to be careful."The risk is real enough for the Tolo TV studio to be behind a blast barrier and to employ a small army of armed guards.Jahid Mohseni, who works as a lawyer in Australia, said the station enjoys the furore over its youth shows. But it is the journalism that they are really proud of.He said: "The style in Afghanistan has been to go to minister's press conferences and listen attentively, but we want to cover the real stories - the ones that other people won't.". An intercity passenger train collided with a bus in north-western Sri Lanka today, killing at least 50 people and injuring 40 others, police said. He said: "Look at the demographics of this country, it has one of the youngest populations in the world The old conservatives fear becoming irrelevant.

A few years down the line and they will have lost most of their power."The station is particularly proud of its investigative journalism, which is starting to ask questions of Afghanistan's elite.The channel has aired programmes on paedophilia, the power of the warlords, illegal logging, miners stealing from a state-run emerald mine and the return of the Taliban.Tolo TV's investigators got their first real scalps this month when two junior ministers were jailed for corruption in a scandal over ripping off pilgrims to the Haj after the station had doggedly followed the story.Mr Mohseni said the journalists love nothing better than making waves "It takes courage to do this kind of thing," he said. This is the new Afghanistan and they are not a part of it."Mr Mohseni believes the conservatives feel threatened by a youth culture they don't understand. We showed the Bosnian war film No Man's Land a few days ago."However, the show that has made the most fuss is Hop. The shows are popular with a young generation hungry for entertainment.