All Broadcast articles in 3 September 2015
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News
A brief history of broadcast innovation
In the latest of a series of articles looking at how Britain’s broadcasting technologies grew up alongside its IT development, Fujitsu has been investigating its common ancestry of innovation with the BBC
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Features
Fact Ent: In-house facilities come to the fore
Quick turnaround times and a keen eye on the budget often mean that productions prefer to post in-house
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Features
Factual: Flexibility the key to success
Complex workflows and variety of cameras used in factual shows means post-production companies need to be as versatile as possible
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Features
Scripted Comedy: Specialised post firms lead the way
Despite the popularity of all-in-one deals for drama, those in comedy still favour separate audio and pictures post facilities
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Features
Drama: Technicolor tops facilities charts as DS dominates
Avid’s finishing system is still the go-to software, but post houses are starting to seek alternatives as the sector enjoys a boom time
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News
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The 50th anniversary episode of the Doctor Who TV series set a new record for the largest simultaneous TV simulcast, having aired in 21 languages across 94 countries.
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Video
UK@Kidscreen 2015
In February 12015, 39 companies joined the UK@Kidscreen delegation to the Kidscreen Summit children’s content market in Miami. Click to view a selection of the content they took to the market.
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Video
Creativity Is GREAT: UK at Kidscreen
From Peppa Pig to the Clangers, many of the world’s most memorable characters hail from the UK. Meet some GREAT minds from the UK Creative Industries at the 2015 Kidscreen conference in Miami.
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Features
UKTI supports Title Role’s Australian expansion
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) helped Title Role to capitalise on a long distance opportunity with a high-profile client in Australia.
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Features
Doing business in Canada: trade and export guide
Canada is the UK’s 16th largest export market for goods.
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News
Freeview connected TV service to launch in October
Freeview’s connected TV service, featuring iPlayer, ITV Player, All 4 and Demand 5, is to launch in October.
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Ratings
Cradle to Grave brings success for BBC2
THURSDAY: BBC2’s new brace of comedies began solidly as its Danny Baker biopic became the highest-rated comedy origination of the year.
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News
London Live strikes boxing deal
London Live has the acquired the rights to 20 hours of live boxing to beef up its Friday and Saturday night schedules.
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Video
VIDEO: An Inspector Calls, BBC1
Watch the trailer for the Drama Republic adaptation of JB Priestley’s classic play
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Features
Dan'l Hewitt, Maker Studios
With 55,000 channels, 11 billion video views and a £340m sale to Disney, Maker Studios is a serious online player - but its sights are now set on traditional TV.