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Will Strauss

Will Strauss is technology editor for Broadcast.

  • What north-west skills gap?

    27-Oct-2011

    The north-west of England has more than enough television skills and production talent to cope with its current media boom and the expansion of BBC North, writes Will Strauss.

  • The next twist in Lime's tale

    14-Jul-2011

    Whilst TOWIE’s runaway success has proved convincingly that Lime Pictures can create a strong offer alongside Hollyoaks, the indie has a lot more up its sleeves.

  • Does red tape have a stranglehold on TV?

    23-Jun-2011

    Broadcast’s online survey on compliance revealed fears over the impact on creativity, and a trend towards self-censorship. Will Strauss reports.

  • Thompson dispels Salford "myths"

    10-May-2011

    BBC director general Mark Thompson has moved to dispel some of the “myths” surrounding the corporation’s move to Salford, including the misconception that it will cost £800m in taxpayers’ money.

  • Exile, BBC1

    27-Apr-2011

    Part psychological drama, part crime thriller and part family character piece, Paul Abbot’s Exile is a difficult one to pigeon-hole. Will Strauss goes on set to meet the cast and crew

  • ITV Studios appoints Boyle director of post

    24-Feb-2011

    3Sixtymedia head of post-production David Boyle has been promoted to director of post- production, resources for ITV Studios.

  • How to manage your assets

    20-Jan-2011

    Leading broadcasters and MAM service providers share their tips and insider knowledge on how to implement a system for efficiently organising digital media files in a multiplatform world. Will Strauss reports

  • Review of the Year 2010: Post-production

    22-Dec-2010

    A tough first six months of 2010 saw some well-established businesses sold or closed down. But things improved in the second half as commissioning picked up.

  • More job cuts on the way at BBC S&PP

    3-Dec-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) is to axe 123 jobs following the corporation’s decision to move its children’s and sport production departments to Salford.

  • Peel and SIS secure 10-year BBC North deal

    17-Nov-2010

    SIS and Peel Media are to jointly provide BBC North with studios, post and technical services at MediaCityUK in Salford after securing a 10-year deal.

  • Hullabaloo Studios to close

    28-Oct-2010

    Manchester post-production facility Hullabaloo Studios is to be wound up resulting in the loss of eight jobs.

  • 3D TV faces ‘cultural limitations’

    28-Oct-2010

    A professor of graphics and imaging from Cambridge University has warned that despite the current push, 3D TV could still have too many cultural and technical limitations to go mainstream in the UK.

  • London’s loss is the north-west’s gain

    28-Oct-2010

    The BBC’s move to MediaCityUK in Salford is expected to have a galvanising effect on the region’s TV industry. Will Strauss reports on the issues raised at Broadcast’s roundtable of northern indies

  • TSL and Mediasmiths lined up for Salford Uni contracts

    26-Oct-2010

    Overbury is expected to award systems integration contracts to TSL and Mediasmiths after securing an £18m deal to fit out Salford University’s new MediaCityUK building.

  • Jacobs joins Air as head of post

    26-Oct-2010

    Former The Mews facility manager Frankie Jacobs has joined Shoreditch-based Air Post Production as its new head of post-production.

  • Media firms back 2012 broadcast centre plan

    19-Oct-2010

    Three technology and facilities companies have given public backing to proposals to turn the 2012 Olympic Broadcast and Press centres in Hackney into a ‘district’ for creative companies after the games.

  • Bennett promoted to MD of ITV resources

    19-Oct-2010

    ITV director of Northern resources Paul Bennett has been promoted to managing director of resources for ITV Studios (ITVS), a new position that will see him head up all production, technical and facilities operations for ITVS across the whole of England.

  • Warden quits Pepper

    19-Oct-2010

    Pepper joint-managing director, senior online editor and former owner Shane Warden has resigned with no job to go to after more than 10 years at the Soho post house.

  • HRA upgrades in-house storage capabilities

    19-Oct-2010

    Fireman Sam animation studio Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA) has increased the amount of central storage at its D’Arblay Street facility as it looks to better deal with an increased workload and the move to HD.

  • Rental firms count cost of fraudulent hires

    14-Oct-2010

    A host of London broadcast equipment rental companies are out of pocket to the tune of thousands of pounds following a spate of thefts through fraudulent hires.

  • Boom named best TV mix facility at Conch Awards

    14-Oct-2010

    Soho’s Boom was the big winner at last night’s Conch audio post-production awards, winning in three categories including best TV mix facility.

  • 66 London appoints creative director

    12-Oct-2010

    The Visual Effects Company’s post arm 66 London has appointed Francois Cassin as its creative director.

  • Red Vision opens 3D studio inside Sharp Project

    11-Oct-2010

    Red Vision VFX has opened a stereoscopic 3D studio inside Manchester digital content hub the Sharp Project.

  • BDA appoints creative duo

    11-Oct-2010

    Creative agency BDA has appointed two new creative directors as it looks to “raise the bar” on the services it provides for contracted broadcast clients.

  • The Mews first with Isis 5000

    11-Oct-2010

    Soho’s The Mews has become the first London post house to install Avid’s new Isis 5000 storage area network.

  • Former home of The Bill set for major overhaul

    7-Oct-2010

    The new owners of the South London studio complex that was previously home to ITV’s The Bill have set their sights on turning the four-acre site into a production facility to equal any in the country.

  • Prime Focus shares suspended

    5-Oct-2010

    Shares in Prime Focus London plc have been suspended as the visual entertainment services company looks to embark on a worldwide restructure.

  • Mediasmiths plans Australasia expansion

    4-Oct-2010

    Mediasmiths is opening an office in Sydney as it looks to take advantage of increasing interest in its consultancy services from the Australia and Asia Pacific region.

  • Dinamo opens new animation studio in Treforest

    4-Oct-2010

    Welsh animation company Dinamo Productions has moved from its Mount Stuart Square base in Cardiff to a new 30,000 sq ft facility in Treforest, near Pontypridd.

  • The Mews reduces DVD headcount

    4-Oct-2010

    Soho’s The Mews has reduced the size of its DVD authoring department from nine staff to three following a round of redundancies.

  • Meaney backs post-2012 plan

    1-Oct-2010

    Media hub expert Danny Meaney has backed the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s proposal to turn the broadcast and press centres in Hackney into a district for the creative industries after the 2012 games – but has warned that it will need to be patient.

  • Sky 3D: From NAB to where?

    28-Sep-2010

    As Sky prepares to launch its in-home stereo 3D channel, Will Strauss talks to director of product development Brian Lenz and chief engineer Chris Johns about how they got here and where they go next.

  • Sumners plumps for MatrixStore

    28-Sep-2010

    Manchester’s Sumners has bought a MatrixStore pre-production archive and data management system as it looks to find new ways to cope with the storage demands created by tapeless acquisition technology.

  • BBC to include 3D in Super Hi-Vision tests

    28-Sep-2010

    BBC R&D is to carry out stereo 3D tests as part of the live Super Hi-Vision (SHV) transmission trials it is conducting with NHK this week.

  • Legacy Company calls for interest in 2012 broadcast centre

    24-Sep-2010

    The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) is hoping to tempt broadcasters and creative industries companies to move to Stratford after announcing that it is calling for expressions of interest for the future use of the London 2012 broadcast and press centres

  • 2012 broadcast centre gets legacy backing

    23-Sep-2010

    The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) is confident it will find post-2012 tenants for its broadcast and press centres as it prepares to begin marketing the scheme.

  • S&M looks to speed up grading process

    21-Sep-2010

    Smoke & Mirrors is hoping to speed up the grading process for its film and TV producer clients by adopting a new workflow that makes use of BlackMagic Design’s latest version of the Da Vinci Resolve colour corrector.

  • Milne quits Molinare for film finance start-up

    21-Sep-2010

    Molinare director Steve Milne has left the Soho post house almost seven years to the day after he and fellow director Mark Foligno bought it from the TV Corporation.

  • Vision3 makes 3DTV move

    21-Sep-2010

    Stereo 3D company Vision3 has appointed senior producer Natalie Samson to the newly created role of head of TV.

  • Sharp Project phase 2 sells out

    21-Sep-2010

    Phase 2 of Manchester’s Sharp Project is now fully let after three new tenants signed up for office space at the digital content production hub.

  • SoundField unveils stereo-to-5.1 upmix plug-in

    21-Sep-2010

    Yorkshire-based microphone manufacturer SoundField has launched a software plug-in version of its UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processor.

  • YouView reveals first tech requirements

    21-Sep-2010

    YouView, the project formerly known as Canvas, has published the first technical requirements for the set-top boxes that will work with its open standard PSB-backed connected TV service.

  • Arqiva eyes global sales for SeeSaw technology

    16-Sep-2010

    Arqiva is to license the technology behind its SeeSaw video-on-demand platform to third parties around the world.

  • Quantel showcases web-based sQ editing at IBC

    16-Sep-2010

    Quantel is developing a cloud-based technology that will allow rushes, edits and live recordings on an sQ server to be viewed and edited from anywhere in the world.

  • Presteigne adds £250,000 of Sony 3D rental kit

    16-Sep-2010

    Presteigne Charter has significantly boosted its stereo 3D rental fleet with the purchase of £250,000 worth of Sony kit.

  • Evolutions and Prime Focus deal falls through

    16-Sep-2010

    Talks between Prime Focus and Evolutions about an acquisition that would have resulted in the creation of a £25m London postproduction giant have ended.

  • SGO teams with 3ality

    14-Sep-2010

    SGO has formed a strategic alliance with 3ality Digital Systems that will see the two companies work together to develop and deliver stereoscopic 3D services and technology.

  • Sony starts work on ‘Red killer’

    14-Sep-2010

    Sony is to introduce an “affordable 35mm camera” as it looks to move in on the market currently dominated by Red Digital Cinema’s Red One.

  • Ioko secures Samsung web-TV accreditation

    14-Sep-2010

    Sky Player and SeeSaw developer Ioko has announced that it is teaming up with Samsung to develop direct-to-TV web applications for its TV sets.

  • Autodesk boxes up Lustre and Smoke with Flame

    14-Sep-2010

    Autodesk is bundling its Flame, Smoke and Lustre systems into a new, single product called Flame Premium that will run on a single workstation and cost less than buying all three applications individually.

  • Megahertz sold to Czech IP company

    14-Sep-2010

    British systems integrator Megahertz Broadcast has been sold to Kit Digital, a Czech Republic based company that develops video management technology for IP delivery.

  • Freeview HD system picks up IBC award

    14-Sep-2010

    The DVB-T2 transmission system has been honoured with the IBC Innovation Award for Content Delivery technology.

  • Avid unveils software-only DS

    14-Sep-2010

    Avid has developed a software-only version of its DS finishing and effects system.

  • AJA shrinks the Ki Pro

    14-Sep-2010

    AJA Video Systems has introduced the Ki Pro Mini, a smaller, lighter version of its portable tapeless recorder that captures to the Apple ProRes 422 codec directly from a camera.

  • Arena expands OB fleet and buys Panasonic 3D camcorder

    9-Sep-2010

    Arena Television is spending £1.7m on a 10th outside broadcast truck as it looks to capitalise on a recent surge in work enquiries.

  • Glasses-free 3D technology on show at IFA

    9-Sep-2010

    A Dutch start-up founded by four former Philips engineers was this week showcasing glasses-free 3D technology at the IFA consumer electronics trade show.

  • Post specialists form alliance

    9-Sep-2010

    De Lane Lea, Coach House Studios and The Look have formed a strategic alliance to offer their specialist services to long-form producers as part of a post-production package deal.

  • ITFC targets global growth after Deluxe deal

    9-Sep-2010

    West London-based subtitling and content management facility ITFC is being primed for a global expansion after being added to Deluxe’s Entertainment Services Group.

  • BBC orders £270k of kids content from the North

    8-Sep-2010

    The BBC has revealed the first companies to benefit from its @North initiative, launched last year to generate interactive content for children’s channels CBBC and CBeebies.

  • FM&T appoints Microsoft’s Danker to iPlayer role

    7-Sep-2010

    BBC Future Media & Technology (FM&T) has appointed Microsoft’s Daniel Danker as general manager for programmes and on-demand, a role that includes responsibility for the iPlayer.

  • ATG snares BSkyB systems contract

    6-Sep-2010

    BSkyB has chosen systems integrator ATG Broadcast to install, test and commission the studios and post-production facilities for its new £77m broadcasting facility in Osterley, west London.

  • Mwnci adds Baselight

    6-Sep-2010

    Cardiff post house Mwnci has bought a Baselight HD colour-grading system and Baselight Kompressor from FilmLight.

  • MOG and Object Matrix form ingest alliance

    6-Sep-2010

    Object Matrix has teamed up with MOG Technologies to develop a new system for ingesting and protecting file-based content.

  • Deluxe plans post super-group with deal for Ascent UK

    2-Sep-2010

    Deluxe is in talks to buy the UK division of facilities giant Ascent Media - a deal that would almost certainly create the biggest single player in the UK facilities market.

  • S&PP plans Studio Six upgrade

    1-Sep-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) is upgrading Studio Six at Television Centre in White City to what is thought to be the UK’s first 1080p50-capable studio.

  • ITFC sold to Deluxe

    31-Aug-2010

    Deluxe Digital has snapped up the business and assets of West London subtitling and content management facility ITFC in a pre-pack administration deal.

  • New MD for Fifty Fifty

    31-Aug-2010

    Fifty Fifty has promoted facilities director Cara Kotschy to the role of managing director.

  • FORScene gets HTML5 support

    31-Aug-2010

    Forbidden Technologies has added HTML5 video publishing capabilities to its Cloud-based video platform FORscene.

  • Object Matrix teams MatrixStore with Vidispine

    31-Aug-2010

    Object Matrix has teamed up with Vidispine to develop a ‘frictionless’ media asset management and digital asset archiving system.

  • SGO signs up Tyrell as reseller

    31-Aug-2010

    Tyrell CCT has been appointed as an official UK reseller for SGO’s stereo 3D-capable finishing system Mistika.

  • Anthony Horowitz: Outspoken star of TV drama

    26-Aug-2010

    The hugely successful author and writer of ITV hits such as Foyle’s War and Collision discusses the impact of reality TV and why he’s unlikely to work for the BBC again.

  • Audio experts blast Auto-Tuning

    25-Aug-2010

    Using Auto-Tune technology to improve the singing on TV talent shows has been lambasted by the sound engineering and production fraternity.

  • ILab Facilities appeals Rocket Post staff verdict

    25-Aug-2010

    Lawyers representing ILab Facilities have lodged an appeal against the verdict by a pre-hearing industrial tribunal (Broadcast, 17.07.10) convened to investigate the employment entitlements of 10 former Rocket Post staff who areclaiming unfair dismissal.

  • ITFC overhauls storage set-up with DIVArchive deal

    24-Aug-2010

    ITFC is hoping to improve its digital asset workflow with a major overhaul of its storage set-up that includes technology from Front Porch Digital, TransMedia Dynamics (TMD) and Quantum.

  • Strike called off as Bectu asks S&PP to re-offer original deal

    19-Aug-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) has agreed to Bectu’s request to re-offer an original transitional payments proposal for EastEnders staff working in Elstree.

  • Trio to launch IPTV platform

    19-Aug-2010

    Capablue, TV Genius and Brightcove have come together to develop a new online video platform, with STV lined up to become its first broadcast client.

  • Bectu calls off latest EastEnders strike action

    18-Aug-2010

    Bectu has called off this week’s planned EastEnders strike and claims that it is to resume talks with BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) management over expenses and travel time for staff working in Elstree.

  • The Mews appoints Bhatti

    18-Aug-2010

    Soho post house The Mews has appointed former ITV series producer Lubna Bhatti to the role of senior creative producer.

  • Andrew Christie 1957-2010

    17-Aug-2010

    Soho pays tribute to former Complete Video owner and chairman Andrew Christie who passed away at his home on Sunday following a battle with cancer.

  • Ocean Blue to tackle standby power problem

    17-Aug-2010

    Digital TV software company Ocean Blue Software has developed an intelligent, “deep hibernation” software system for digital TVs and set-top boxes to reduce standby power consumption. 

  • EastEnders crew strike over expenses

    13-Aug-2010

    Production of EastEnders was disrupted yesterday (12 August) after a handful of BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) staff took strike action in a dispute over travel time and expenses.

  • VTR North adds motion graphics division

    13-Aug-2010

    Leeds based post house VTR North has launched a new motion graphics, stereography and visual effects division.  

  • EastEnders crew strike over expenses

    13-Aug-2010

    Production of EastEnders was disrupted yesterday (Thursday 12 August) after a handful of BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) staff took strike action in a dispute over travel time and expenses.

  • Iridas adds stereo 3D worflow for Alexa

    10-Aug-2010

    Iridas has developed a native stereoscopic 3D workflow for films and TV programmes being shot using the Arri Alexa digital film camera.

  • Salford Uni unveils MediaCityUK course options

    5-Aug-2010

    The University of Salford will run courses in Digital Broadcast Technology and Audio Production at MediaCityUK when its new facility opens there in time for the academic year 2011/12.

  • SIS to relocate London operation to Salford

    5-Aug-2010

    Satellite Information Services (SIS), the owner of outside broadcast company SIS LIVE, is to relocate its London operation to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays in a phased move that will be completed by 2013.

  • The X Factor in production revamp

    5-Aug-2010

    ITV’s The X Factor has been given a technical production overhaul for series seven, with the auditions, bootcamp and judges’ houses stages of the show being shot in HD using a flypack OB-type set-up and fibre connectivity.

  • Future plans £1m Pepper fund

    5-Aug-2010

    Financing and production company Future Films will invest £1m in Pepper Post after acquiring the business and assets of the Soho firm in a pre-pack administration deal.

  • Sharp Project secures Shine kids show

    3-Aug-2010

    Manchester digital content hub The Sharp Project has been chosen as the production base for a new BBC children’s series being made by Shine TV.

  • SGO teams Mistika up with LightSpace

    3-Aug-2010

    SGO has integrated Mistika with Light Illusion’s LightSpace Colour Management System in order to create an on-set grading combination to rival TrueLight or CineSpace.

  • AP secures TV-am archive deal

    3-Aug-2010

    AP Archive has secured an exclusive worldwide deal with Moving Image Communications to manage the archive for iconic 1980s breakfast show TV-am.

  • PMSE to get compensation for Channel 69 only

    3-Aug-2010

    Wireless microphone technology owners will only get compensation for 6% of the programme making and special events (PMSE) frequencies that are being cleared as part of Ofcom’s Digital Dividend Review, the government has revealed.

  • Avid unveils budget Isis

    3-Aug-2010

    Avid has launched a lower cost version of its Isis shared storage system designed specifically for smaller broadcasters and facilities.

  • Technicolor to set up vfx unit

    3-Aug-2010

    Technicolor will launch a dedicated graphics and visual effects department at its Soho facility next month as it looks to extend its reach in the broadcast market.

  • CBeebies returns to TVC with new workflow

    28-Jul-2010

    The presentation operation for CBeebies is returning to BBC Television Centre for the fi rst time in three years as production of the channel gets a new tapeless workflow.

  • WRN sets sights on media hub to rival Soho

    28-Jul-2010

    WRN Broadcast is hoping to cultivate a media village that will rival Soho after making office space adjacent to its Vauxhall playout centre available for rent.

  • Grass Valley sold to technology investors

    27-Jul-2010

    Technicolor is to sell its Grass Valley Broadcast and Professional business to Francisco Partners, a US-based technology investment company.

  • Turner returns as Rushes telecine director

    27-Jul-2010

    Rushes has appointed former Mill and Framestore colourist Matt Turner as its new director of telecine, replacing Adrian Seery who is heading to the US.

  • Heavenly hires two for Lambie-Nairn team

    22-Jul-2010

    Branding agency Heavenly is ramping up efforts to build a new broadcast team around creative director Martin Lambie-Nairn, after appointing two key creative staff.

  • ITFC for sale as owner calls in administrators

    22-Jul-2010

    Subtitling and content management services facility ITFC has been put up for sale after its holding company appointed an administrator.

  • Arena and SIS LIVE grab ESPN contracts

    20-Jul-2010

    SIS LIVE and Arena Television have snared the contracts to provide outside broadcast facilities for ESPN’s coverage of top-flight English football and rugby union matches

  • GlobeCast extends fibre network

    20-Jul-2010

    GlobeCast is extending its international fibre network with the addition new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Africa and South America.

  • FX houses opt for MARI

    20-Jul-2010

    Double Negative, Framestore and BaseBlack have all added The Foundry’s MARI to their CG capabilities.

  • BBC opens up to small suppliers

    15-Jul-2010

    BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has vowed to make it easier for small companies to supply systems and equipment to the corporation.

  • BBC to relocate more FM&T roles to Salford

    15-Jul-2010

    The BBC is to move 75 more jobs in its Future Media and Technology (FM&T) department to MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Staff claim first round in RKT employment tribunal

    15-Jul-2010

    An employment tribunal’s preliminary judgement has ruled in favour of 10 former employees of Rocket Post Production (RKT) and ILab, who are pursuing claims of unfair dismissal and non-payment of wages and statutory redundancy pay.

  • PSBs want compatibility between 3D and 2D

    15-Jul-2010

    More than half of Europe’s public service broadcasters would like to adopt a version of stereo 3D TV that is backwards compatible with 2D TV, according to a new report.

  • John Linwood: driving the BBC's digital revolution

    15-Jul-2010

    The broadcaster’s chief technology officer tells Will Strauss about progress on the Digital Media Initiative and moving to HD and 3D.

  • TV writers say "avoid commissioning briefs"

    14-Jul-2010

    Two of the UK’s top TV drama producers have suggested that the process of responding to commissioning briefs is almost entirely flawed.

  • Parthenon backs new 422 South

    14-Jul-2010

    Bristol’s 422 South has been resurrected thanks to financial backing from the Parthenon Media Group, the parent company of Parthenon Entertainment.

  • TimeSlice Films heads to the US

    13-Jul-2010

    London-based camera effects company TimeSlice Films has set-up a production facility in the US.

  • Shoot Blue picks up switchable DSLR lenses

    13-Jul-2010

    Camera equipment rental and facilities company Shoot Blue has taken delivery of a complete set of Zeiss Compact Prime CP.2 cinematography lenses.

  • Prime Focus adds Datalab services

    13-Jul-2010

    Prime Focus has launched a new Datalab department that will allow it to process and manage data camera assets for delivery within Prime Focus or to other editing houses around the world.

  • Salford Uni appoints new MediaCityUK director

    13-Jul-2010

    The University of Salford has appointed River Media founder Jon Corner as its MediaCityUK director, replacing John Holland who quit last month.

  • Red Bee wins Five HD contract

    13-Jul-2010

    Red Bee Media is providing media management and playout services for Five HD, the high definition version of the main Five channel which launches today (Tuesday 13 July). 

  • Mammoth adds Pie Factory base

    13-Jul-2010

    Ealing Studios’ Mammoth Graphics has opened an office within The Pie Factory at MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Dalet buys Italian software company

    13-Jul-2010

    Media Asset Management company Dalet Digital Media Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gruppo TNT, a privately held Italian company that specializes in advanced broadcast technology.

  • Turner channels want in on the live action

    8-Jul-2010

    Turner Broadcasting’s new chief content officer, Michael Carrington, is making the inclusion of live-action programming a priority for his predominantly animationbased channels Boomerang and Cartoon N

  • BBC Children’s to target teens with extra budget

    8-Jul-2010

    BBC Children’s plans to use some of its recently approved extra budget to try to attract more teenage viewers to its CBBC channel.

  • ITV reveals details of £5m Leeds studios overhaul

    7-Jul-2010

    ITV has revealed how it will spend the £5m set aside to transform its Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds.

  • Salford bids due in two weeks

    7-Jul-2010

    Facilities companies have been given just two weeks to express interest in providing managed post-production and content production services for the various BBC departments that are moving to MediaCityUK in Salford next year.

  • Bectu members to vote on S&PP strike action

    5-Jul-2010

    Bectu members working for BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) are to be balloted on industrial action after no agreement could be reached over potential compulsory redundancies.

  • Visions owner snaps up Barcud OB assets

    1-Jul-2010

    NEP UK, the owner of Visions, is to open a new OB and studio facilities company in Cardiff after securing the assets and staff of Barcud Derwen’s Omni TV from its administrators.

  • IMG Media sets up 24/7 Premier League studio

    30-Jun-2010

    IMG Sports Media is building a £5m studio to produce and distribute 24-hours-a-day Premier League football content for international broadcasters.

  • CTMS picks up Barcud's Arc assets

    30-Jun-2010

    Creative and Technical Media Services (CTMS), the owner of Manchester post house 422, has snapped up the assets of Barcud Derwen’s Arc Facilities in Scotland, potentially saving a host of jobs in the process

  • First UK rental firms get Alexa

    29-Jun-2010

    Movietech, Arri Media, On Sight and Take 2 have been unveiled as the first UK kit rental companies to take delivery of Arri’s new Alexa digital film camera.

  • Hyperactive doubles FCP capacity

    29-Jun-2010

    Hyperactive Broadcast has doubled its inventory of Final Cut Pro systems to 24 following a recent surge in demand for rental kit for live event and sport programming.

  • Alias makes stereo 3D plans

    29-Jun-2010

    Broadcast kit hire firm Alias Smith and Singh is making plans for stereo 3D after spending £100k on new kit.

  • EditShare adds cloud-based editing options

    29-Jun-2010

    EditShare has added cloud-based video editing to its shared media storage capabilities following a partnership with Forbidden Technologies.

  • Omni survives Barcud Derwen closure

    24-Jun-2010

    Only one of the companies owned by Barcud Derwen still has a future this week, following the closure of the majority of the Welsh facilities group.

  • Title Role moves to tapeless HD production

    24-Jun-2010

    Britain’s Biggest Heists indie Title Role Productions has upgraded its in-house technology so that it can produce shows in HD and without tape.

  • 3D TV: Living up to the hype?

    22-Jun-2010

    As dedicated 3D channels are launched around the world, Will Strauss looks at whether the new technology will provide a much-needed boost to UK post-production houses.

  • Wise Buddah makes HDTV move

    22-Jun-2010

    Radio production company Wise Buddah is moving into the HDTV and film markets with the launch of a 5.1 dubbing theatre.

  • Grass Valley wins Sky Harlequin 1 contract

    22-Jun-2010

    BSkyB has awarded Grass Valley a contract to provide key live production tools for its new Harlequin 1 broadcast facility in West London.

  • Broadcast manufacturing sector on the up

    22-Jun-2010

    Confidence is returning to the broadcast manufacturing sector according to the results of the latest IABM Industry Trends Survey.

  • LipSync spends £400k on upgrade

    22-Jun-2010

    LipSync Post has added a host of new equipment and upgrades to its audio, VFX and DI departments.

  • 80 jobs go as Barcud Derwen closes

    20-Jun-2010

    The majority of Barcud Derwen is to close after suitable buyers could not be found for the Welsh facilities group and its assets.

  • The Club staff lose jobs after takeover

    16-Jun-2010

    Staff at The Club have been left jobless after a capital investment firm completed an assets only deal for the Covent Garden post house.

  • Buyers circle Barcud Derwen

    16-Jun-2010

    A buyer could be found for at least part of Barcud Derwen this week, staff at the troubled Welsh facilities group have been informed.

  • Barcud Derwen enters administration

    15-Jun-2010

    Welsh facilities group Barcud Derwen has been placed under the control of administrators, resulting in the loss of at least 30 jobs in Caernarfon.

  • BBC wins Ofcom backing on HD DRM

    15-Jun-2010

    Ofcom has backed the BBC proposals to use DRM (digital rights management) technology to protect Freeview HD programming from being copied and sent around the world via the internet.

  • DV takes on Scratch with cut-price grading system

    15-Jun-2010

    Digital Vision is to introduce a sub-£30k colour grading system that it hopes will be a major competitor for Assimilate’s Scratch.

  • The Club for sale as work stalls

    10-Jun-2010

    Covent Garden’s The Club has been put up for sale after the company’s owner decided it was not generating enough work to continue trading in its current form.

  • JV to take over Cryptic Peach

    9-Jun-2010

    Training firms Soho Editors and Amsys have formed a joint venture business to take over the Manchester-based training provider Cryptic Peach, which ceased trading last month.

  • Silverglade updates dubbing theatre for 5.1

    8-Jun-2010

    Silverglade Associates is upgrading its main dubbing theatre to Dolby 5.1 as it completes the move to HD programme delivery.

  • Coach House Studios upgrades for Holby in HD

    8-Jun-2010

    Coach House Studios has bought a new Avid Unity Media Network that will be used to produce BBC1’s Holby City in HD.

  • BDA snares Discovery deal

    8-Jun-2010

    Discovery Networks EMEA has awarded BDA (Bruce Dunlop and Associates) the on-air creative account for a major part of its channel portfolio including Animal Planet and Discovery World.

  • ProMotion continues Canon lens push

    8-Jun-2010

    ProMotion is among the first rental companies in the country to take delivery of Canon’s HJ15ex, a new HD portable lens with built-in Image Stabilizer.

  • Alias Smith and Singh snaps up Canon XF305

    7-Jun-2010

    Alias Smith and Singh has purchased a unit of Canon’s new XF305 camcorder that it will add to its camera hire fleet.

  • MediaCityUK: (What’s the Story) Crowning Glory?

    3-Jun-2010

    With a year to go before BBC North arrives, MediaCityUK is coming along nicely. But the industry is still asking tough questions of the £500m project, writes Will Strauss.

  • Editworks gets Scotland boost

    1-Jun-2010

    London post house Editworks has regained the contract to post-produce BBC2 weeknight quiz show Eggheads after opting to open a facility in Glasgow.

  • S&M overhauls London and NY storage set-up

    24-May-2010

    Smoke & Mirrors (S&M) has added a new organization wide DI and VFX and Petabyte media archive storage environment at its facilities in London and New York.

  • Soho audio talent wins Baftas

    24-May-2010

    Soho post houses Boom and Molinare are celebrating after their senior audio talent was recognized with Bafta Craft Awards.

  • Tektronix gets Mixed Signals

    24-May-2010

    Tektronix, the test and measurement technology developer, has acquired Mixed Signals for an undisclosed fee.

  • Giant TV adds Smoke for Mac suites

    24-May-2010

    Giant TV is kick starting an expansion of its current facilities operation by adding two online editing suites offering Smoke for Mac.

  • French Open tennis gets 3D treatment

    24-May-2010

    GlobeCast is to broadcast stereo 3D coverage of the French Open Tennis in Paris live via satellite to Panasonic 3DTVs in participating retail stores across the UK and Ireland.

  • Pace shoots to top of STB sales charts

    24-May-2010

    Yorkshire manufacturer Pace has become the world’s largest supplier of set-top boxes to the pay TV industry according to findings released today.

  • DV halves the price of Phoenix and DVO

    24-May-2010

    Digital Vision has more than halved the price of its restoration technology Phoenix and its DVO software toolset.

  • ITV shoots Coronation Street titles in 3D

    20-May-2010

    ITV has completed a stereoscopic 3D test shoot on the set of its flagship soap, Coronation Street.

  • Sharp Project powers up data centre

    20-May-2010

    Work has started on a major new Tier2/Tier3 data centre inside Manchester digital content hub The Sharp Project.

  • GlobeCast gears up for World Cup coverage

    19-May-2010

    GlobeCast is to provide a raft of services to both rights holders and non-rights holders at next month’s football World Cup in South Africa, including unilateral feeds for ITV.

  • Prime Focus establishes new exec board

    19-May-2010

    Prime Focus has created an executive management board as part of a restructure of its UK business.

  • The Bridge unveils Editing Academy

    17-May-2010

    The Bridge Training is launching a two-year editing training course that will see successful graduates gain a place on the books of freelance agency The Crewing Company.

  • NMR secures Smoke for Mac status

    17-May-2010

    NMR has been appointed as an Advanced Systems Reseller (ASR) for Autodesk’s Smoke for Mac and unveiled its first installation of the software.

  • ITV completes Coronation Street HD upgrade

    17-May-2010

    ITV’s Northern Resources has completed the upgrade of Coronation Street from an SD tape based set-up to an HD filed-based system ahead of the 50th anniversary of the flagship soap.

  • Prime Focus makes stereo 3D investment

    17-May-2010

    Prime Focus is splashing serious cash on expanding its global stereoscopic 3D production pipeline.

  • Sumners promotes Peppiate

    17-May-2010

    Manchester’s Sumners has promoted Paul Peppiate to general manager as it looks to capitalise on the demand for post-production that is expected to hit the region with the opening of MediaCityUK next year.

  • Rocket dispute reaches tribunal

    13-May-2010

    An employment tribunal hearing is taking place this week at which 10 former Rocket Post employees are claiming they were denied any form of consultation or redundancy payment after losing their jobs at the post house.

  • Presteigne boosts 3D production capabilities

    13-May-2010

    Broadcast hire firm Presteigne Charter has added to its portable stereoscopic 3D production options with a batch of new kit from Sony.

  • BDA upgrades for tapeless HD

    13-May-2010

    Creative agency BDA is adding to its technical armoury with new edit suites and storage infrastructure as it moves to a file-based HD production environment.

  • New Smokes for VTR North

    11-May-2010

    VTR North is adding two Autodesk Smoke systems to its Leeds post-production facility.

  • On Sight opens stereo 3D demo facility

    11-May-2010

    HD facilities company On Sight has opened a new stereoscopic 3D demo facility at Shepperton Studios.

  • Dalet secures BBC news automation deal

    11-May-2010

    The BBC has signed a four-year framework agreement with Dalet Digital Media Systems for the provision of TV news automation systems.

  • The Farm adds 3D grading suite

    11-May-2010

    The Farm Group is adding two new grading suites to its Home facility in Soho including one configured specifically for stereoscopic 3D work.

  • JCA launches digital QC department

    11-May-2010

    Media management services facility JCA is launching a file-based quality control (QC) department based around Tektronix Cerify.

  • Stichbury follows Cimelli to Ascent

    11-May-2010

    Ascent Media has appointed Alec Stichbury as its new vice president of business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

  • Former Mill man to head-up Golden Square Nuke team

    11-May-2010

    Senior VFX artist Rod Norman has left The Mill in order to head-up a new Nuke division at Golden Square Post Production.

  • Cinewessex adds Avid DX suites

    11-May-2010

    Cinewessex has added new Avid Nitris DX suites to its Winchester facility in order to meet an increasing demand for HD post-production services.

  • Omneon sold to Harmonic for $274m

    11-May-2010

    Harmonic is to buy the video server and storage company Omneon in a deal worth $274m.

  • Canvas submits tech docs to the DTG

    11-May-2010

    The Project Canvas team has submitted key technical documents about the proposed connected TV service to the Digital Television Group (DTG) as it looks to be transparent with the market ahead of an OFT competition ruling next week.

  • 3D firm to launch in north-west

    6-May-2010

    RTS Award-nominated director Reg Sanders is to launch a stereoscopic 3D production and consultancy company in the north-west after successfully completing test shoots for ITV.

  • Prime Focus returns salaries to former levels

    6-May-2010

    Prime Focus is to reinstate the full salaries of all the UK staff that took a pay cut last year.

  • BBC looks to swing the ratings

    6-May-2010

    BBC News will use a string of technical innovations to try to attract more viewers when the major broadcasters go head to head with their general election coverage tonight (6 May).

  • Visual Impact wins £1.5m Sky Sports order

    6-May-2010

    Visual Impact has been awarded a £1.5m contract to supply camera kits to all freelance crews working for Sky Sports.

  • Small print spells trouble for pro video DSLR users

    4-May-2010

    Filmmakers hoping to use video-enabled DSLR cameras for professional shoots are being warned that if they do so, they may have to pay royalties for using the camera’s video codec.

  • Arena snaps up ITV Sport OB gig

    4-May-2010

    Arena TV has been awarded a two-year contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for ITV Sport’s coverage of the Champions League and England football Internationals.

  • 422 upgrades for stereo 3D

    4-May-2010

    Manchester’s 422 is to upgrade the software in its Smoke, Maya, Flame and Lustre suites to the 2011 versions so that it can provide stereo 3D services.

  • Sky Sports opts for Quantel sQ

    4-May-2010

    Sky has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ integrated production system that it will use to produce content for Sky Sports News.

  • Globelynx network extended to The Hague

    4-May-2010

    Globelynx, the fixed camera network company, has selected Colt to provide news feed distribution over Ethernet between London and The Hague, using Nevion technology.

  • WRN unveils new media centre

    29-Apr-2010

    WRN Broadcast has revealed details of its soon-to-be-completed £1.4m media centre, which it hopes will help it to compete with the big UK playout operators.

  • Ionoco adds to real-time graphics options

    29-Apr-2010

    Gameshow technology developer Ionoco has unveiled four new realtime graphics innovations as it looks to apply its proprietary software engine Ionologic to other types of TV format.

  • Brighton’s BTV Post to make London debut

    29-Apr-2010

    Brighton-based BTV Post plans to bring south-coast prices to central London when it opens a new 2D and stereo 3D post facility in Soho in June.

  • Blackmagic Design - Pocket Ultrascope

    29-Apr-2010

    A portable waveform monitor that uses USB 3.0 to connect to a Windows-based notebook.

  • Dublin post house to woo overseas clients

    27-Apr-2010

    Dublin’s Windmill Lane Pictures is hoping that a range of post and vfx packages and the promise of Irish tax incentives will help it to seduce international producers.

  • ProRes support for Matrox DSX

    27-Apr-2010

    Matrox has added support for the Apple ProRes codec to its Matrox DSX developer products.

  • Avid: broadcast market starting to recover

    26-Apr-2010

    Avid has announced first quarter revenues of $156 million, a 3% increase compared to the first quarter of 2009, and stated that there are signs of recovery in the broadcast market.

  • Technology firms pick up Queen’s Awards

    26-Apr-2010

    Broadcast technology firms Pace, Vinten, Latens Systems and S&T were among the companies to be given the Queen’s Award for Enterprise last week.

  • Sky Sports lines up World Cup studio in Cape Town

    26-Apr-2010

    Sky Sports has secured space at a dedicated studio facility in South Africa so that it can provide local coverage of the football World Cup.

  • Sky signs with Input Media for World Cup coverage

    26-Apr-2010

    Sky Sports has secured space at a dedicated studio facility in South Africa so that it can provide local coverage of the football World Cup.

  • Ash cloud grounds tech staff

    22-Apr-2010

    Hundreds of staff from facilities and technology firms were among the estimated 150,000 Brits still stranded abroad earlier this week because of the Icelandic volcanic ash flight restrictions.

  • Broadcasters: Jury still out on video DSLRs

    22-Apr-2010

    Neither BBC nor Sky will not be rushing to commission or produce full programmes using video-enabled DSLR cameras despite the revelation that the Canon 5D Mark II was used for the season six finale of US import House.

  • S&T wins Queens Enterprise Award

    21-Apr-2010

    Strategy & Technology (S&T), the London-based Interactive TV software developer, has been awarded the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise.

  • Glee tapes fall foul of the ash cloud crisis

    20-Apr-2010

    Fans of E4’s Glee will get to see the high-school comedy drama in its normal Monday night slot next week despite the volcanic ash cloud preventing the Fox Network from air-freighting the master tapes to Channel 4.

  • Ash Crisis: How UK tech firms are coping

    20-Apr-2010

    British manufacturers Quantel, Autoscript and Cintel were this week making the most of an enforced stay in the US because of the volcanic ash cloud flight restrictions by setting up temporary offices and visiting customers in the States and beyond.

  • Pace to benefit from HD World Cup coverage

    20-Apr-2010

    Set-top-box maker Pace will reap the benefits of the football World Cup being broadcast in HD and 3D, according to its chairman.

  • Sky Sports opts for Chyron graphics

    20-Apr-2010

    BSkyB has bought a complete graphics workflow and infrastructure system from Chyron that will be used to aid production of Sky Sports News.

  • Nuke site licence for Cinesite

    20-Apr-2010

    Soho visual effects company Cinesite has invested in a site licence for The Foundry’s compositing software Nuke.

  • Multi-cam support for FORscene

    20-Apr-2010

    Forbidden Technologies has added multi-camera-support to its FORscene cloud-based video editing platform.

  • 3D kit takes centre stage at NAB

    15-Apr-2010

    NAB 2010 in Las Vegas was awash with tools for producing and broadcasting 3DTV this week as previously niche technology went mainstream.

  • Sequence Post finds new home at Exposure

    15-Apr-2010

    Sequence Post has ended an 8-month search for a new Soho home by talking space at Exposure Post on Newman Street.

  • Marvin shows digital film workflow system

    15-Apr-2010

    Dutch start-up Marvin Technologies used this week’s NAB show to unveil an on-set workflow management system for digital cinematographers.

  • Eyeframe secures World at War deal

    13-Apr-2010

    MIPTV: Eyeframe and its sister company Dubbs have won the contract to manage the restoration and Blu-ray creation for The World At War in HD for FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).

  • Input Media signs up Aldea for World Cup coverage

    13-Apr-2010

    Transmission services company Aldea Solutions is working with sports producer Input Media to provide facilities in Cape Town for coverage of the 2010 World Cup.

  • Cintel touts switchable film scanner

    13-Apr-2010

    Cintel is showcasing brand new products for film scanning and image restoration at NAB 2010, including a new ditto product.

  • Ionoco provides tech system for The Frame

    13-Apr-2010

    Ionoco has been selected as the preferred technology supplier for a new cross-platform reality show from July August Productions.

  • On Sight signs up for Alexa

    13-Apr-2010

    On Sight has become one of the first companies to place an order for Arri’s new Alexa digital film camera.

  • SumTalent expands ahead of BBC MediaCityUK move

    13-Apr-2010

    Editing talent agency SumTalent is to widen its remit to include production, studio and post-production staff ahead of the BBC moving departments to MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Blackmagic reveals Resolve for Mac

    13-Apr-2010

    Blackmagic Design is introducing a software-only version of the DaVinci Resolve colour corrector that runs on an Apple Mac.

  • Jobs go in Red Vision restructure

    13-Apr-2010

    Red Vision, the Manchester-based vfx company behind ITV’s Headcases, is closing its Red Vision Studios operation, a move that will result in approximately 35 people losing their jobs.

  • Quantel debuts EVS Gateway

    12-Apr-2010

    Alongside major new developments for stereoscopic 3D, Quantel is showing a new workflow product for television production using EVS servers.

  • S3D brings stereo 3D options to NAB

    12-Apr-2010

    S3D Technologies is showing a number of stereoscopic 3D innovations at NAB including a Beam Splitter Rig and a stereoscopic parameters calculator.

  • Lightworks to become open-source editor

    12-Apr-2010

    EditShare has unveiled plans to turn its newly acquired Lightworks non-linear editor into an open-source development initiative.

  • AMA to provide ProRes support for Media Composer

    12-Apr-2010

    Avid is opening up its editing systems so that they can work natively with Apple ProRes codecs and files created by Canon DSLR and Red cameras.

  • JVC adds studio and ENG hybrid camcorder

    12-Apr-2010

    JVC is introducing a new flagship product within its ProHD camcorder line at NAB in Las Vegas that is capable of being either a field-based shooter of part of a multi-camera set-up.

  • Avid to buy Euphonix

    12-Apr-2010

    Euphonix, the manufacturer of large-format digital audio consoles, media controllers and peripherals, is to be sold to Avid for an undisclosed fee.

  • Red adds H.264 encoding module

    12-Apr-2010

    Red Digital Cinema is increasing the workflow options for its new Epic and Scarlet digital film cameras by introducing proxy modules, including one for encoding H.264.

  • Cheaper Baselight unveiled at NAB

    12-Apr-2010

    FilmLight has added a sub-£65k version of Baselight to its range of non-linear colour grading systems.

  • Canon reveals XF camcorders

    12-Apr-2010

    Canon has unveiled the first two camcorders to use Canon XF, its newly developed MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec.

  • Euro Media Group snaps up ACS

    8-Apr-2010

    Euro Media Group, the parent company of outside broadcast firm CTV, has bought specialist camera supplier Aerial Camera Systems (ACS) for an undisclosed fee.

  • BBC S&PP faces further job losses in reshuffle

    8-Apr-2010

    The headcount at BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) is set to be reduced further in 2011 because there is a “99.9% chance” that its Sport and Children’s staff will not follow their production counterparts to MediaCityUKin Salford.

  • RDFR moves to digital delivery

    8-Apr-2010

    RDF Rights (RDFR) is adding new capabilities to its post-production set-up so that it can send programme content to broadcasters digitally rather than on tape.

  • Salford Uni puts studio install out to tender

    7-Apr-2010

    Salford University has published a tender document for the fit-out of its new facilities at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.

  • Alexa to capture native Quicktime files

    7-Apr-2010

    Arri’s new Alexa digital film cameras will shoot directly to native Final Cut Pro codecs, the German manufacturer has revealed.

  • BBC Worldwide to use Teletrax for show tracking

    6-Apr-2010

    Civolution has signed an agreement that will see BBC Worldwide use its Teletrax broadcast monitoring service to keep track of top BBC shows such as Doctor Who, Life on Mars and Waking the Dead.

  • De Lane Lea eyes up picture post work

    6-Apr-2010

    Audio post house De Lane Lea is moving into picture post-production with the launch of a new department.

  • Pixelmetrix secures Virgin monitoring deal

    6-Apr-2010

    Pixelmetrix has signed an agreement that will see its Electronic Couch Potato (ECP) monitoring tool rolled out across Virgin Media’s digital cable TV network.

  • EVS snaps up OpenCube

    6-Apr-2010

    Production server technology manufacturer EVS has bought OpenCube Technologies, the French MXF media specialist.

  • Vitec sells Clear-Com to HME

    6-Apr-2010

    The Videocom division of British camera peripherals and broadcast services group Vitec has sold Clear-Com Communication Systems to digital intercom specialist HME.

  • Grass Valley in line for major jobs cull

    6-Apr-2010

    Technicolor is reorganising its Grass Valley division resulting in the loss of 625 jobs worldwide.

  • Metaglue launches MXF viewer

    6-Apr-2010

    Metaglue has launched a beta version of a real-time Windows player for viewing MXF master files.

  • Cimelli gets top UK job at Ascent Media

    31-Mar-2010

    Former Technicolor managing director Maurizio Cimelli has been appointed as senior vice president of EMEA at Ascent Media, a move that effectively makes him the boss of the Group’s UK business.

  • BBC S&PP set to wield jobs axe

    31-Mar-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) is likely to make 44 staff redundant as it completes the final part of an internal reshuffle.

  • Unit boosts VFX team to meet growth target

    31-Mar-2010

    Unit has added new talent and equipment to its VFX department as part of an ambitious corporate growth plan devised to increase company turnover by 60% this year.

  • AP to open central London hub

    31-Mar-2010

    AP Global Media Services, the video news-gathering facilities arm of The Associated Press (AP), is to launch a new studio and production space in the heart of central London.

  • Sony doc details fire-detection breakthrough

    31-Mar-2010

    R&D findings from an environmental project that has become the subject of a one-off branded documentary are to be released as a technical white paper that could benefit wildlife and natural history documentary makers.

  • Pinewood positive despite profits drop

    31-Mar-2010

    Studios group Pinewood Shepperton saw its pre-tax profits fall by 24% in 2009 with TV revenues also down thanks to the advertising slump.

  • Fell to replace Childs at DTG

    29-Mar-2010

    The Digital TV Group (DTG) has appointed former ITV director of future technologies Simon Fell as the new independent chair of the DTG Technical Council.

  • Outpost unveils File Lab

    29-Mar-2010

    Outpost Facilities has launched a conversion, encoding and digitizing service for production companies called File Lab.

  • Stereo 3D joint venture launched

    29-Mar-2010

    Compendium Media and Vision 3 have joined forces to create a new joint venture company dedicated to producing and consulting on stereoscopic 3D work.

  • VET teams up with BTV Post for 3D courses

    29-Mar-2010

    London-based training provider VET is teaming up with Brighton’s BTV Post to run a series of stereoscopic 3D skills sessions.

  • MPC adds Nuke site license

    29-Mar-2010

    MPC has become one of the largest Nuke sites in the world after investing in a site license for The Foundry developed compositing software.

  • Siemens strike unlikely after new pay offer

    29-Mar-2010

    Talks between Bectu and Siemens have resulted in a revised pay offer that, if accepted, should avert industrial action by staff working on the BBC account.

  • Peel brings in BBC’s Waters as head of studios

    25-Mar-2010

    Peel Media has appointed BBC Studios and Post Production’s Andy Waters as the new head of studios for MediaCityUK.

  • Greenaway: ‘No post monopoly at MediaCityUK’

    25-Mar-2010

    The boss of MediaCityUK has assured the post-production sector that its proposed digital-media services deal with Ascent Media Group will not produce a monopoly situation at Salford Quays.

  • Ragdoll adds DVS SpycerBox in storage update

    25-Mar-2010

    Teletubbies producer Ragdoll Productions has completed an overhaul of storage capabilities at its post facility in Stratford-upon- Avon with the addition of a 48- terabyte DVS Spycer Box with fibre-channel connectivity.

  • BBC North commissioning drive begins to pay off

    25-Mar-2010

    BBC North director Peter Salmon’s efforts to encourage more commissioning from the north of England has kicked off with a first children’s order for Leeds-based factual producer True North.

  • Technology upgrade for Beautiful TV

    23-Mar-2010

    Beautiful TV has spent £50,000 upgrading its West End creative agency studio operation.

  • Former Red Vision duo launch Flipbook

    23-Mar-2010

    Two former directors of Manchester-based design and graphics companies have joined forces to open a new CGI and visual effects studio.

  • Tapestry adds post capabilities

    23-Mar-2010

    Creative service agency Tapestry is adding a high definition editing facility to its central Soho office.

  • Siemens staff could strike over pay

    23-Mar-2010

    BECTU members employed by Siemens on the BBC account have voted in favour of industrial action over a reputed ‘pay freeze’.

  • ATVOD appoints first full time chief exec

    23-Mar-2010

    The Association for Television On Demand (ATVOD) has made two senior appointments as part of a restructuring that will see it become the independent co-regulatory body for VoD programming to the public.

  • CWPro sold to Academia

    23-Mar-2010

    Professional AV equipment reseller CWPro has been bought by Academia, an IT technology supplier to the education market.

  • Farmers Wife adds Hadfield in LA push

    23-Mar-2010

    Farmers Wife, the scheduling and facility management software provider, has appointed Simon Hadfield as the managing director of a new Los Angeles office.

  • Digital TV Labs secures DTG test licence

    23-Mar-2010

    Digital TV Labs has become the first test facility to receive a licence to offer the full DTG Test Suite, providing electronics device manufacturers with a pre-DTG test and debugging process. 

  • How to build a creative hub

    18-Mar-2010

    With media centres being set up across the UK, Will Strauss examines what four non-broadcaster-affiliated projects are doing to create the right environment for tenants.

  • BBC moves closer to HD EastEnders

    18-Mar-2010

    The BBC has taken its first step towards making EastEnders in HD after new studio and location cameras were ordered for the long running soap opera.

  • Red Bee puts C4 kit up for sale

    18-Mar-2010

    Red Bee Media is hoping an overseas broadcaster will scoop up Channel 4’s now redundant playout and studio operation at Horseferry Road after putting the second-hand kit up for sale.

  • Pogo Films gears up for 3D television projects

    18-Mar-2010

    Boutique post house Pogo Films is to develop its own 3D TV projects after adding stereoscopic finishing to its services offering.

  • Glensound unveils easy to use sound recorders

    18-Mar-2010

    Glensound Electronics has launched two sound recording devices designed to help non-technical users achieve a high-quality voice recording.

  • Sharp Project gets £6.3m development grant

    18-Mar-2010

    Manchester digital media hub The Sharp Project has been handed £6.3million in funding by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

  • Broadcast technology sales down 7.2%

    16-Mar-2010

    Sales of broadcast and media technology fell 7.2% during 2009 according to the latest research by the International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM).

  • TV Genius added to Fetch TV

    16-Mar-2010

    IP Vision is to use the TV Genius content aggregation engine to enhance the functionality of the TV listings on its FetchTV service.

  • Sky splashes cash on 3D TVs for pubs

    16-Mar-2010

    BSkyB has bought 15,000 3DTV sets from LG Electronics so that its new 3D channel can be broadcast to pubs, clubs and other public venues around the UK.

  • Sky snaps up 15,000 3DTV sets

    16-Mar-2010

    BSkyB has bought 15,000 3DTV sets from LG Electronics so that its new 3D channel can be broadcast to pubs, clubs and other public venues around the UK.

  • Data centre to open near MediaCityUK

    16-Mar-2010

    Internet Facilitators has started work on a new multi-million pound data centre adjacent to the MediaCityUK site in Salford.

  • Pinewood opens archive facility

    16-Mar-2010

    Pinewood Studios has launched a media preservation, restoration and archive facility within its picture post-production suite

  • Red Bee staff to vote on strike action

    16-Mar-2010

    Bectu members at Red Bee Media are to take part in a ballot for industrial action as part of a row over redundancy rights.

  • Canvas chief in DTG firing line

    11-Mar-2010

    The friction between Project Canvas and the Digital Television Group (DTG) was ramped up at the trade body’s summit last week.

  • MPC simplifies DSLR workflow

    11-Mar-2010

    MPC’s Data Lab has created a simplified workflow for Canon DSLR footage, pre-empting a move by TV producers to use digital stills cameras to shoot longform video content.

  • UK facilities explore opportunities in the UAE

    10-Mar-2010

    The Bridge Training is confident that UK facilities will win business in the UAE after completing a UKTI-backed film and TV trade mission to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

  • Stephenson eyes BBC dramas from the North

    10-Mar-2010

    BBC drama will forge closer links with indies in the north of England, controller of commissioning Ben Stephenson has promised.

  • Refine grabs OTF deal

    9-Mar-2010

    Refine has secured a three-year deal to provide content storage and repurposing services to factual distributor and producer Off The Fence (OTF).

  • Europe to take on UK in archive awards scrap

    9-Mar-2010

    European producers are well represented in the shortlist for this year’s Focal International Awards, with French and Spanish companies both included in the prestigious Factual production category.

  • Freesat and Freeview prepped for catch-up services

    9-Mar-2010

    A DTG working group has finalised details of an Internet TV standard that will allow every free-to-air HD receiver in the UK to have an IP connection and free-to-air catch-up capability.

  • Sky bullish on 3DTV launch

    8-Mar-2010

    BSkyB director of product development Brian Lenz used his presentation at last week’s DTG Summit to outline the broadcaster’s confidence in stereo 3D.

  • DTG announces latest D-Book update

    8-Mar-2010

    The Digital Television Group (DTG) will release an update of its D-Book later this month that will provide the specification for providing catch-up services on Freeview HD.

  • Howling: Half UK can watch World Cup in HD

    8-Mar-2010

    Freeview managing director Ilse Howling is confident that half of all UK homes will be able to get HD services on Freeview by the time the football World Cup kicks off in June.

  • UK Screen highlights sector’s £2.2bn value to the economy

    4-Mar-2010

    UK Screen Association plans to flag up the importance of the UK facilities market to the government after mapping out the value of the £2.2bn sector for the first time.

  • BBC committee rejects DMI plan

    4-Mar-2010

    The team drafted in to turn around the BBC’s DMI (Digital Media Initiative) has had its latest business plan rejected.

  • Pace up to second in set-top box supplier chart

    2-Mar-2010

    Pace has announced a huge rise in profits and turnover and become the world’s second biggest supplier of set-top boxes to the Pay TV industry.

  • Quantel wins £10m BBC News deal

    2-Mar-2010

    The BBC has awarded Quantel a framework contract for supplying video editing systems for its news output.

  • Leeds to benefit from high-speed fibre

    2-Mar-2010

    The city of Leeds could become one of UK’s most advanced business hubs thanks to the installation of a high-speed fibre network.

  • BGAN X-Stream provides BBC kayak journey coverage

    2-Mar-2010

    BBC News is using a mobile broadband satellite service from Stratos to broadcast live coverage of a record-breaking Amazon River kayak journey in aid of Sport Relief.

  • Amberfin unveils iCR Standards Converter

    2-Mar-2010

    AmberFin has boosted its iCR range with the launch of a software-only standards converter for transcoding and rewrapping files for tapeless workflows.

  • TK One set to make a comeback

    25-Feb-2010

    TK One founders Alf Penn and David Yeo are to resurrect the archive and film restoration business next month by opening a new facility in Covent Garden.

  • Smithereen director exits to launch branding JV

    25-Feb-2010

    Senior director Matthew White has left creative agency Smithereen to launch his own branding and design company.

  • Magma Pro, powered by Piero

    24-Feb-2010

    A combination of Deltatre’s data navigation and management technology and Red Bee Media’s Piero virtual-graphics system.

  • Future Film plans March stock market move

    24-Feb-2010

    Future Film Group PLC, the international financier and film producer that owns a stake in Pepper Post, is planning to float on the Stock Exchange next month.

  • BVE bolstered by rise in visitors

    23-Feb-2010

    Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) exhibitors heralded the show’s “return to form” last week as it bucked an industry-wide trend for shrinking tradeshow attendance.

  • BBC Scotland opts for Baselight

    23-Feb-2010

    BBC Scotland has purchased a Baselight HD from FilmLight for use in a new grading suite at Pacific Quay in Glasgow.

  • NFTS student wins Altered Images post award

    22-Feb-2010

    Dillan Nicholls from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) was named as the winner of the inaugural Altered Images Student Post Production Award at Broadcast Video Expo last week.

  • Light Illusion to promote Mistika

    22-Feb-2010

    SGO UK is to use Light Illusion’s Steve Shaw as a consultant as it looks to further develop the market for its stereo 3D capable Mistika finishing system.

  • The Foundry bolsters sales and engineering teams

    22-Feb-2010

    Soho visual effects software developer The Foundry has appointed a new global head of sales and brought on board an Emmy Award-winning lead engineer.

  • DIA takes stake in Crewing Company

    18-Feb-2010

    The David Brady and Dan Gable backed investment vehicle DIA is taking a 10% stake in The Crewing Company (TCC).

  • Jeffers named BlueBolt chair

    18-Feb-2010

    VFX boutique BlueBolt has aspirations to become a 30 seat-plus facility after appointing former MPC managing director David Jeffers as its non-executive chairman.

  • S&PP kits out HD hub for Olympics coverage

    18-Feb-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) has upgraded a gallery at Television Centre so it can provide HD resources for BBC Sport’s current coverage of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

  • Brightcove adds Forscene editing

    18-Feb-2010

    Broadcasters using Brightcove to publish and distribute content to the web are to be given access to Forbidden Technologies’ cloud-based editing tools from within the online video platform.

  • BBC to give new Doctor 3D push

    18-Feb-2010

    The BBC is planning to use stereoscopic 3D to try to attract younger viewers to the new series of Doctor Who.

  • SGO profits from an upsurge in 3D

    11-Feb-2010

    SGO is reaping the benefits of the surge in interest in 3D in the UK, securing eight deals for its stereoscopic-capable finishing system Mistika.

  • BBC S&PP packages Ingex for indies

    11-Feb-2010

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) plans to offer the BBC R&D-developed Ingex acquisition technology to producers as a standalone service.

  • Eyeframe to integrate PPC’s DVD department

    11-Feb-2010

    Soho’s Eyeframe has taken on the Picture Production Company’s DVD department and plans to merge the staff and kit with its own new media facility services.

  • Canon devises FCP plug-in for DSLR footage

    9-Feb-2010

    Canon has developed a plug-in that will allow video footage captured on one of its EOS DSLR digital stills cameras to be quickly and easily transferred into Final Cut Pro.

  • Cinedeck debuts multipurpose DDR tool

    9-Feb-2010

    US company Cinedeck is debuting a camera-mounted, cinema-grade direct-to-disk recorder (DDR) that has the potential to replace several components in a production workflow.

  • Prime Focus adds Technicolor’s Mitchell

    9-Feb-2010

    Prime Focus has made four recent appointments in London, including a new commercial director for its content services and two new staff within its broadcast division.

  • PPL goes Gaga over new video store

    9-Feb-2010

    PPL, the music licensing company, is launching a new service at BVE 2010 that will give producers online access to back-catalogue and modern day music promos.

  • DTG concerned about disengaged Project Canvas

    9-Feb-2010

    The Digital Television Group (DTG) has turned against Project Canvas, stating that its members are concerned that the proposed joint-venture companies have not fully engaged with the rest of the industry.

  • Refine to rent out P2 cards

    8-Feb-2010

    Content processing and re-purposing business Refine is buying 30 Panasonic P2 memory cards that it will make available to production companies on a rental basis.

  • Pro Motion Hire adds Varicams

    8-Feb-2010

    Pro Motion Hire has widened the selection of tapeless cameras available within its hire fleet with the acquisition of Varicam camcorders from Panasonic.

  • Avid buys Blue Order

    4-Feb-2010

    Avid has bought the German media asset management company Blue Order Technologies for an undisclosed fee.

  • Secret Millionaire backs plans for East London media village

    4-Feb-2010

    A property investment group chaired by Secret Millionaire David Pearl is backing a multimillion pound redevelopment project in East London to build a media village opposite the 2012 Olympic Park.

  • Cutting Edge Post takes aim at direct-to-disk

    4-Feb-2010

    Cutting Edge Post is hoping to make direct-to-disk acquisition more cost-effective by introducing a new multi-camera capture and storage technology.

  • Mosaic buy boosts Tata service

    4-Feb-2010

    BT’s media management product Mosaic is to become part of a new worldwide digital collaboration service following the sale of its assets and staff to India’s Tata Communications.

  • MatrixStore set for BVE debut

    2-Feb-2010

    Object Matrix will be showcasing its tapeless workflow archive technology The MatrixStore at Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) for the first time. 

  • Jigsaw to demo advanced 3D rig at BVE

    2-Feb-2010

    Jigsaw Systems and 3DRigs.com will demo a camera rig at Broadcast Video Expo that calculates the correct interaxial and convergence settings for a stereo 3D shoot.

  • SIS stakeholder considers sale

    2-Feb-2010

    Catalyst Media, which owns a 21% stake in Satellite Information Services and its OB facilities company SIS LIVE, could be sold as part of a strategic review by the Group’s board.

  • King joins AJA rep Phosphor

    2-Feb-2010

    Root6 product manager Kevin King has joined AJA Video Systems’ European representative Phosphor as its new technical director.

  • Hennessey replaces Jocelyn at Avid

    2-Feb-2010

    Avid has appointed Sony’s Paul Hennessey as its new vice president of sales for EMEA, replacing Patrick Jocelyn who has left the editing and effects systems company after little more than a year.

  • Hireworks makes plans for LA

    2-Feb-2010

    Hireworks, the Soho and Pinewood Studios based equipment hire company, is hoping to become an internationally renowned brand after securing representation in the US.

  • Mews adds to shared storage options

    2-Feb-2010

    The Mews is adding an 8 terrabyte Avid Unity to its shared storage capabilities as it looks to major on long-form HD, short-form and visual effects work.

  • Snell adds to Kudos converter range

    2-Feb-2010

    Snell will introduce two new standards and format converters to its Kudos Plus range at Broadcast Video Expo 2010.

  • Cinesite extends Shepperton effects offering

    28-Jan-2010

    Cinesite has expanded its models department at Shepperton Studios so it can provide a wider range of physical effects services.

  • Thomson shareholders agree to debt restructure plan

    28-Jan-2010

    French media technology group Thomson is to be re-named as Technicolor after securing approval from its shareholders for a debt restructure.

  • Hire firm Alias on growth trail

    28-Jan-2010

    Hire company Alias Smith and Singh is opening new offices in East London and Manchester as part of an expansion strategy designed to quadruple company turnover inside five years.

  • Sky commissions 3G OB trucks

    28-Jan-2010

    Sky Sports has commissioned Visions to build two new 3Gb/scapable outside broadcast trucks for its live Premier League and UEFA Champions League football coverage.

  • Adderlink Infinity

    28-Jan-2010

    A technology for distributing full screen, lossless images and audio over a high-speed IP network infrastructure.

  • Pogo Films to create 3D tutorial film for BVE

    28-Jan-2010

    Soho post house Pogo Films is planning to showcase its stereoscopic 3D capabilities by putting together a 3D film from scratch and exposing its inner workings to the rest of the TV industry.

  • Pepper heads into space for freefall doc

    26-Jan-2010

    Pepper Post is supplying technical consultancy and post-production services for an extraordinary new BBC and National Geographic documentary that will feature a man freefalling from the edge of space.

  • UKTI backs trade mission to UAE

    26-Jan-2010

    The Bridge Training has been awarded a UKTI contract to deliver a film and post-production trade mission to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

  • Sequence makes temporary Fifty Fifty move

    26-Jan-2010

    Sequence Post has temporarily taken on two suites at Fifty Fifty Post in Soho as a stop-gap measure while it competes a deal for a new facility in Frith Street.

  • VET to partner with Future Shorts

    26-Jan-2010

    Shoreditch facility VET has concluded a partnership agreement that will see it provide post-production support for the Future Shorts network.

  • BBC outlines long-term technology strategy

    26-Jan-2010

    The BBC has published a strategy document that it hopes will help technology developers and facilities providers better tailor their services and products to the needs of the corporation.

  • Red Bee appoints new technology chief

    26-Jan-2010

    Red Bee Media has appointed Hewlett Packard’s Brian Levy as its new chief technology officer.

  • Vertigo Films teams up with US firm for 3D company

    25-Jan-2010

    Los Angeles-based producer and post-producer Paradise FX and London media company Vertigo Films have joined forces to create a new Europe-wide production company that will specialise in stereo 3D.

  • EVS to show new XT2 model at BVE

    25-Jan-2010

    EVS will show off its new XT2+  video production server at next month’s Broadcast Video Expo (BVE).

  • DTG to lead on 3DTV standards drive

    22-Jan-2010

    The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, plans to lead the development of a UK standard for 3DTV products and services.

  • The Farm in £1m Home upgrade

    21-Jan-2010

    The Farm Group is spending more than £1m upgrading the audio studios at its Home facility in Soho.

  • Fuji issues alert on illegal tapes

    21-Jan-2010

    Fujifilm is warning broadcasters and facilities not to buy data storage tapes from unauthorised dealers after intercepting large quantities of sub-standard product being passed off as new.

  • LFJ brings US soundtrack specialist on board

    21-Jan-2010

    Multiplatform producer Lane Fabian Jones (LFJ) has forged a strategic partnership with a Los Angeles-based music and sound design company to create exclusive soundtracks for all its family entertainment TV, interactiveand film properties.

  • D-LINK Boxee Box

    21-Jan-2010

    A cube-shaped device made by D-Link that shares internet content with a TV set. It was one of the most talked about products at CES this month.

  • Sky to outline 3D commissioning plans

    20-Jan-2010

    Sky is running an invitation-only event at Bafta next month that will detail the commercial opportunities and the commissioning agenda for its new stereoscopic 3D channel.

  • Pact outlines product placement proposals

    20-Jan-2010

    Nations & Regions Conference: Pact chief executive John McVay has reinforced the trade body’s support for product placement by outlining how he believes any potential agreement with broadcasters could work.

  • ITFC comes out top in Five subtitling tender

    20-Jan-2010

    ITFC, the London-based content management services company, has won the contract to provide all of Five’s subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing.

  • Tories would scrap local news pilots

    19-Jan-2010

    The Conservatives will rip up any IFNC contracts if they win the forthcoming election, shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey has revealed.

  • Huggers: Canvas will have iPhone-style app store

    19-Jan-2010

    Nations & Regions Conference: IPTV joint venture Project Canvas will be an open platform akin to Apple’s iPhone with applications available from a central “store”, according to BBC director of future media and technology Erik Huggers.

  • TSL wins S4C HD facility deal

    18-Jan-2010

    Systems integrator TSL has been awarded a consultancy agreement that will see it play a key role in taking the Welsh language channel S4C to HD.

  • Tyrell secures MXF Technologies deal

    18-Jan-2010

    Reseller Tyrell CCT has secured a UK and Ireland distribution deal with Portuguese MXF technology developer MOG Technologies.

  • Sky to use 3flex rigs for 3D channel

    18-Jan-2010

    Sky has confirmed that content for its planned 3D TV channel will be captured using camera rigs and image processors from 3ality Digital.

  • VRCAM set for BVE unveiling

    18-Jan-2010

    Broadcast Video Expo 2010 (BVE) will be the location for the first UK public showing of For-A’s affordable virtual studio technology VRCAM.

  • The Look upgrades to Pablo

    18-Jan-2010

    Soho post boutique The Look has upgraded its Quantel suite to full Pablo specification complete with a Neo grading panel.

  • JVC to show 3D image processor at BVE

    18-Jan-2010

    JVC has introduced a new image processor that works both as a 2D-to-3D converter and as a 3D left and right mixer.

  • Red Rocket support for Avid DS

    15-Jan-2010

    Avid has updated the software on its DS effects, compositing and graphics system so that it can support the Red Rocket accelerator card.

  • ITU plans for next generation of stereo 3D

    15-Jan-2010

    An ITU study group has mapped out how future incarnations of stereoscopic 3D broadcasting might work, including new systems that will accurately mimic the way the human eye and brain perceive the visual world.

  • Centenary celebrations for Vinten

    15-Jan-2010

    Tripod and camera support equipment manufacturer Vinten is celebrating its 100th year n business in 2010. 

  • VET adds Smith in development role

    15-Jan-2010

    Former Evolutions and Silverglade Associates business development manager Terry Smith has joined VET.

  • Soho braced for further rail work disruption

    13-Jan-2010

    The creative community in and around Soho is bracing itself for widespread disruption in 2010 as construction work begins in earnest on two major transport infrastructure projects in the capital.

  • Brady and Gable launch training business

    13-Jan-2010

    The former managing directors of two Soho post companies have teamed up to create a new business that will provide training courses specifically for the creative industries.

  • Smoke and Mirrors CEO to take sabbatical

    13-Jan-2010

    Penny Verbe, the chief executive of Soho visual effects company Smoke and Mirrors, is to leave the company next month in order to take a year-long sabbatical.

  • ILab assets sold to Indian facilities company

    12-Jan-2010

    Indian facilities company Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) has gained a UK presence after buying the assets of Soho film processing company iLab.

  • SIS LIVE confirms O21 buyout

    12-Jan-2010

    SIS LIVE has agreed a multi-million pound deal to buy the bulk of the assets of fellow OB company O21 Television from Gravity Media Group.

  • The Station adds Baselight

    11-Jan-2010

    Boutique London post house The Station is hoping to compete with larger facilities companies after installing its first dedicated colour grading system.

  • Bones 3D man joins Envy

    11-Jan-2010

    Former Golden Square senior animator Dave Child, the 3D lead on the revered ‘Bones’ promo for the band The Killers, is joining Envy as its head of 3D.

  • Absolute duo join Prime Focus

    11-Jan-2010

    Prime Focus has attracted the visual effects team of Sean Feeney and Hani AlYousif to join the company from Absolute Post.

  • Darkside moving to accommodate extra animators

    11-Jan-2010

    Darkside Animation is moving from its current home in Bloomsbury Square to a new office more than three times the size.

  • First NXCAM launch for Sony

    11-Jan-2010

    Sony has launched the HXR-NX5E camcorder, the first product in its new NXCAM range.

  • Panasonic unveils first integrated 3D camcorder

    7-Jan-2010

    Panasonic has unveiled its first professional fully integrated camcorder for capturing full HD 3D content.

  • Sky gets 3D TV set boost

    7-Jan-2010

    Sky has been given a major boost in its quest to launch a 3D channel with the announcement that TV sets from some of the world’s biggest manufacturers will be compatible with its planned service.

  • Chapman takes full-time role at Sequence

    5-Jan-2010

    BAFTA Award-winning director Kevin Chapman has taken up the role of business development manager at Sequence Post Production.

  • Mwnci opts for The MatrixStore

    5-Jan-2010

    Object Matrix has sold its pre-production rushes and nearline archive technology The MatrixStore to Cardiff based post-production facility Mwnci.

  • Hireworks adds Soho base

    5-Jan-2010

    Editing equipment rental company Hireworks has this week opened a new branch in Soho.

  • US broadcasters plan 3D services

    5-Jan-2010

    ESPN and DirecTV in the US are to launch stereoscopic 3D services in the first half of 2010.

  • Crystal Vision deal for The London Studios

    5-Jan-2010

    Systems integrator Dega Broadcast Systems has provided 317 Crystal Vision interface boards to The London Studios as part of an HD upgrade in studios 1 and 2.

  • Post in 2009: No smoke without fire

    15-Dec-2009

    Faced with an industry downturn and a major safety scare, many of the UK’s post-production facility bosses spent2009 re-evaluating the way they run their businesses.

  • AJA unveils iPhone storage calculator app

    14-Dec-2009

    AJA Video Systems has released a free Apple iPhone app that works out video and audio storage requirements.

  • Halo picks up two from Molinare

    14-Dec-2009

    Halo Post Production has bolstered its client handling and business development team with the addition of two former Molinare staffers.

  • TSL adds Salford base

    14-Dec-2009

    Broadcast systems integrator TSL is to open an office at The Pie Factory in Salford.

  • Quantel adds SI-2K support

    14-Dec-2009

    Quantel has added native support for files produced by the Silicon Imaging SI-2K camera to the software capabilities on its Pablo, iQ and eQ systems.

  • NorthernNet

    10-Dec-2009

    A 100Mbps digital network that will allow North of England-based creative and digital companies and their customers to send large media files quickly.

  • Ascent Media service to employ inmates for metadata tagging

    10-Dec-2009

    Incarcerated drug dealers and armed robbers could soon be adding metadata to digitised TV and film archives as part of a planned media ingest service.

  • Grading overhaul for Clear Cut

    10-Dec-2009

    Clear Cut Pictures is spending £500,000 on a technical and cosmetic upgrade of its west London facility that will see major improvements to its grading capabilities.

  • New encoder gives Pepper Post extra Agility

    10-Dec-2009

    Pepper Post has bought an Agility 2G encoder from reseller Tyrell CCT as it looks to significantly improve its transcoding services for multiplatform delivery.

  • ITV Yorkshire to auction off old kit

    8-Dec-2009

    A Quantel eQ, an AMS Neve audio mixing desk and Angenieux lenses are amongst hundreds of items from the ITV Yorkshire studios in Leeds that are to be auctioned off this week.

  • PA and Vizimo team-up for online video search tools

    8-Dec-2009

    The Press Association has formed a technology partnership with Vizimo that will result in the introduction of new consumer aggregation tools for finding broadcaster catch-up and VoD services.

  • Visions adds to OB camera options

    8-Dec-2009

    Outside broadcast facilities provider NEP Visions is adding 34 more Grass Valley HD cameras to its equipment arsenal, a move that will aid with its coverage of live football for Sky Sports.

  • Beale swaps Genesis for Gearhouse

    8-Dec-2009

    Genesis Television’s Paul Beale has joined international services company Gearhouse Broadcast in the role of senior sales executive. 

  • Renault TV idents

    7-Dec-2009

    A channel identity package that communicates the spirit of Renault and also compliments Renault TV’s largely filmed programming and content.

  • BT wins MediaCityUK infrastructure deal

    7-Dec-2009

    Peel Media has awarded BT Business with a five year contract to design, implement and manage a private high-speed network at MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Prime Focus adds fourth 5.1 suite

    7-Dec-2009

    Prime Focus has installed a fourth 5.1 sound dubbing suite at its Old Compton Street facility in Soho.

  • Sky News secures Grass Valley switchers

    7-Dec-2009

    Sky News’ new HD production control room will be based around a Kayenne switcher and two K2 Summit servers following a deal agreed between BSkyB and manufacturer Grass Valley.

  • 3D World Cup coverage to be shown in London

    3-Dec-2009

    The 2010 football World Cup finals in South Africa will be produced in 3D and transmitted to public screens in cities around the globe following a deal agreed between Sony and FIFA.

  • Refurbished De Lane Lea to reopen in new year

    3-Dec-2009

    De Lane Lea, the facility worst affected by this summer’s Soho fire, will reopen with bigger and better studios in the new year, according to its chief executive.

  • HRA storyboarding system debuts

    3-Dec-2009

    Lupus Films and The Picture Production Company are using a new proprietary storyboarding and preproduction management system to help with production of The Hive, a new CG children’s show for GMTV.

  • Sony moves to future proof the SRW-9000

    1-Dec-2009

    Sony has added new capabilities to its SRW-9000 camcorder in a move designed to future proof the HDCAM SR shooter.

  • Thomson gains protection from creditors

    1-Dec-2009

    Grass Valley Group owner Thomson has obtained a “safeguard” proceeding that will protect it from creditors while it attempts to restructure its debts.

  • TC Soho adds second site

    1-Dec-2009

    Duplication company TC Soho plans to up its available capacity for digitizing, encoding and DVD services by opening a second site in central London.

  • Serious adds to editing team

    1-Dec-2009

    Glasgow post house Serious Facilities has added Alex Broad and Gary Scott to its editing team.

  • Wallace and Gromit packaged for iTunes

    1-Dec-2009

    JCA has packaged and delivered Wallace and Gromit short-films to iTunes on behalf of Aardman Animations. 

  • Telegenic wins deal to build Sky 3D OB truck

    26-Nov-2009

    BSkyB has commissioned Telegenic to build its first outside broadcast truck specifically for stereoscopic 3D production.

  • Unit teams with Content to offer joint post service

    26-Nov-2009

    Two Apple Mac-based facilities have forged an exclusive working relationship to jointly offer pre and post-production services to commercials, corporates and television producers.

  • London Studios upgrades for HD

    26-Nov-2009

    The London Studios is adding more than £2m of Sony cameras, monitors, recorders and vision mixers to its studios 1 and 2 so that they can produce shows in both SD and HD.

  • Scrub supplies mixing consoles to BBC S&PP

    26-Nov-2009

    BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) has added Icon mixing consoles to its Television Centre facility in Shepherd’s Bush as it moves towards using Pro Tools for all its audio dubbing and editing.

  • Halo poaches RTS winner Finn

    24-Nov-2009

    Halo Post Production has tempted Clear Cut Pictures’ RTS Craft Award winning dubbing mixer Danny Finn to join the company as its new head of sound.

  • The Farm celebrates double RTS Craft win

    24-Nov-2009

    Soho’s The Farm Group won in two categories at Monday night’s RTS Craft and Design awards, shaking off fierce competition from rivals Ascent 142 and The Mill in the process.

  • Panasonic readies Winter Olympics HD tech

    23-Nov-2009

    Panasonic will provide a huge quantity of both broadcast and AV equipment for HD coverage of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next year.

  • CTVC uses FORscene on ITV shows

    20-Nov-2009

    Production company CTVC is using Forbidden Technologies’ web-based review and edit service FORscene to speed-up post-production on four ITV programmes including Flight of Faith.

  • Alias Smith and Singh adds JVC shooters

    20-Nov-2009

    JVC has sold two GY-HM100 ProHD camcorders to broadcast hire company Alias Smith & Singh.

  • Vitec sales stabilizing

    20-Nov-2009

    The Vitec Group has revealed that sales of its camera systems, peripherals and accessories have stabilized in the second half of 2009 following a significant decline earlier in the year.

  • Altered Images backs student editors

    20-Nov-2009

    Reseller Altered Images is hoping to showcase new editing talent to the post-production community with the launch of a new awards event.

  • JCA launches web portal for Cake Entertainment

    20-Nov-2009

    JCA is behind a new programme preview and delivery web portal designed to speed up the sales process for the kids and family entertainment show distributor Cake Entertainment.

  • Autodesk unveils Smoke for Mac

    20-Nov-2009

    Autodesk has begun previewing a Mac OS X version of its Smoke finishing and editing system.

  • CTMS acquires 422 Manchester

    12-Nov-2009

    A new production resources company set up to exploit the opening of MediaCityUK and the establishment of BBC North has acquired post-production house 422 Manchester.

  • Ascent 142 adds new dimension

    12-Nov-2009

    Ascent 142 has increased its digital intermediate grading capabilities after becoming the first UK post-production house to install the new Dolby 3D Stereoscopic Projection System.

  • iPlayer wins RTS Innovation award

    11-Nov-2009

    The BBC iPlayer was last night described as being as important an invention as the steam engine after being handed the prestigious Judges award at the RTS Innovation Awards.

  • Gable quits Air Post Production

    10-Nov-2009

    Air Post Production managing director Dan Gable has left the North London facilities company in order to “pursue other opportunities.”

  • Rent adds raft of Sony camcorders

    10-Nov-2009

    The Farm Group’s broadcast hire division Rent is celebrating its second birthday by adding a raft of new Sony camcorders to its inventory.

  • Adams Trainor re-named

    10-Nov-2009

    Design agency Adams Trainor, famous for doing branding and re-branding work for broadcasters, has done a re-naming job on itself by becoming ‘AT the creative agency’.

  • Sky debuts live TV iPhone app

    10-Nov-2009

    BSkyB is making its mobile TV service available on the Apple iPhone after developing a live streaming app for the hugely popular multi-media handset.

  • Forrester names top online video companies

    10-Nov-2009

    Forrester, the US research company, has named Ooyala and Brightcove as its top online video platform vendors.

  • Mackey and Allen added to UK Screen board

    10-Nov-2009

    UK Screen Association members have voted two new directors onto the trade body board for 2009/2010.

  • GenArts snaps up Particle Illusion

    10-Nov-2009

    GenArts has acquired Particle Illusion along with Wondertouch, the company that developed it.

  • CWPro set for major post push

    5-Nov-2009

    Computer Warehouse’s CWPro plans to focus more of its efforts on the post-production market after taking on the chattels of fellow dealer 1080 Pro.

  • Sequence lines up Soho base and seeks investor

    5-Nov-2009

    Post-production house Sequence Post is close to securing a central Soho location for its new headquarters and is planning to offer an equity stake in the company to investors.

  • Pace debuts home content hub

    3-Nov-2009

    Pace has developed a ‘Home Content Sharing’ digital video recorder (DVR) for cable operators.

  • Imageworks and The Foundry forge development alliance

    3-Nov-2009

    Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and The Foundry will work together to develop the next generation of compositing software after the Soho company acquired SPI’s 2D and 3D lighting package Katana.

  • Red unveils Epic-X spec

    3-Nov-2009

    Red Digital Cinema has revealed further details about its planned new digital stills and motion cameras (DSMC) but has stopped short of providing actual shipping dates. 

  • SumCreative completes Jinx effects

    3-Nov-2009

    SumCreative has provided more than 200 visual effects shots for the new CBBC sitcom Jinx which started this week.

  • Viz upgrade for Sky News

    3-Nov-2009

    Sky News will upgrade its Viz Engine to version three as part of the launch plans for Sky News HD.

  • SIS LIVE to build Coral TV facility

    3-Nov-2009

    SIS LIVE has been commissioned to design and build a new production facility that will be used to produce content for the in-shop television service Coral TV.

  • Evolutions to launch commercials studio

    29-Oct-2009

    Evolutions plans to spend £750,000 on a boutique commercials studio after tempting a Flame artist and two producers to join the company from Smoke and Mirrors.

  • Flumotion Streaming Software

    29-Oct-2009

    Open source software for delivering live and on-demand video and audio streaming from a single server.

  • Assimilate secures Scratch sales in Soho

    29-Oct-2009

    Assimilate has secured two Soho sales for its Scratch system and appointed a UK reseller.

  • Sky News in £4m deal with EVS

    29-Oct-2009

    Sky News will replace the Quantel newsroom technology in its west London headquarters with servers from EVS after signing a deal thought to be worth £4m with the Belgian manufacturer.

  • Barrett quits Ascent Media

    27-Oct-2009

    Ascent Media senior vice president of sales David Barrett is leaving the company to ‘pursue other opportunities.’

  • Visual Impact orders new EX camcorders

    27-Oct-2009

    Visual Impact has made an early investment in the new XDcam EX camcorders launched last week by Sony.

  • SIS LIVE secures Games contract

    27-Oct-2009

    SIS LIVE has won the multi-million pound contract to provide production and technical facilities for coverage of the Commonwealth Games in India next year.

  • The Look adds second eQ

    27-Oct-2009

    The Look is upgrading its Quantel Max system to an eQ, a move that will give the boutique Soho facility two online suites and allow its operators to share project work between systems. 

  • 422 South makes multiplatform move

    27-Oct-2009

    422 South has appointed a head of digital at it looks to expand its CG and VFX services to include work for the web, mobile and interactive.

  • Cintel launches used TK kit service

    27-Oct-2009

    Cintel International is hoping to help post-production facilities avoid the pitfalls of buying second hand kit with the launch of a new website selling refurbished telecine equipment.

  • Grass Valley sale delay

    27-Oct-2009

    Thomson’s attempt to sell its Grass Valley subsidiary is taking longer than initially expected because of tough market conditions.

  • MPC adds third Cineo32 projector

    27-Oct-2009

    Moving Picture Company (MPC) has added another Projectiondesign Cineo32 DLP projector to its Wardour Street facility.

  • Quantel quick to offer Red Rocket support

    27-Oct-2009

    Quantel has released new software for its eQ, iQ and Pablo systems that, amongst other things, includes support for the Red Rocket accelerator board.

  • Pandora buy boosts JCA facility

    22-Oct-2009

    JCA is increasing the breadth of its Ray King-fronted grading and restoration department with the addition of a Pandora Revolution.

  • Unit doubles up for grading and dubbing

    22-Oct-2009

    Apple-based Soho post facility Unit has added a second grading suite as well as a second dubbing mixing room.

  • Ooyala sets sights on UK indies

    22-Oct-2009

    US online video start-up Ooyala will be targeting UK indies and broadcasters with its Backlot platform after securing $10m (£6m) in a new round of funding.

  • London office for Ipercast after 3G acquisition

    22-Oct-2009

    French content delivery network (CDN) provider Ipercast has bought mobile multimedia services company 3G Factory and opened an office in London.

  • Sony adds two camcorders to EX range

    20-Oct-2009

    Sony has added a new shoulder-mount and a new hand-held camcorder to its XDCAM EX line-up, including a successor to the EX1.

  • Nuke to support Cooke lens metadata

    20-Oct-2009

    Lens manufacturer Cooke Optics is working closely with The Foundry to incorporate its ‘Intelligent’ metadata capture technology into the Nuke compositing system.

  • Increased demand for Blu-ray services

    20-Oct-2009

    Fifty Fifty Post Production in Soho and ITFC in Park Royal have added to their HD and DVD facilities with the launch of Blu-ray authoring services.

  • Technicolor reinstates 16mm services

    20-Oct-2009

    Technicolor Creative Services has reinstated its 16mm film colour negative processing services at Pinewood Studios.

  • Assimilate unveils 4K tech bundle

    20-Oct-2009

    Assimilate is promoting a software and hardware bundle for indies and post houses who want to do real-time PC-based ingest, conform, delivery and output of 4K material shot with the Red One camera.

  • Media 100 adds Blackmagic support

    20-Oct-2009

    Media 100 has added support for Blackmagic Design video cards to the new incarnation of its Media 100 Suite system.

  • Aspera launches Amazon cloud services software

    20-Oct-2009

    Aspera is making a high-speed file transfer software available that allows broadcasters to move terabytes of data on a daily basis to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • Future funding strategy to help Pepper

    15-Oct-2009

    Future Film’s move into TV production financing (Broadcast 09.10.09) is set to provide a boost to Pepper, the post facility in which it owns a stake.

  • Ascent wins Dutch film archive clean-up deal

    15-Oct-2009

    Ascent Media has won a Europewide tender to clean-up and transfer more than 1,250 hours of historic newsreel film from Holland’s film archives.

  • Hall appointed BBC CIO

    13-Oct-2009

    The BBC has appointed Tiffany Hall as its new chief information officer, replacing Keith Little who has left to join a technology consultancy.

  • Former Glassworks MD joins Prime Focus

    13-Oct-2009

    Prime Focus has appointed former Glassworks managing director Romilly Endacott as an executive producer.

  • Marquis Consulting goes it alone

    13-Oct-2009

    Broadcast software development company Marquis has spun off its consultancy division so that it is a separate Limited Liability Partnership.

  • Kite matte box for Procam

    13-Oct-2009

    True Lens Services has developed a new matte box specifically for use within the rental department at facilities company Procam Television.

  • DV upgrades Nucoda software

    13-Oct-2009

    Digital Vision has unveiled software improvements for its Nucoda grading platform including major upgrades to the stereoscopic 3D toolset.

  • Soundcraft Studer readies factory launch

    13-Oct-2009

    Soundcraft Studer is getting ready to open its newly refurbished factory in Potters Bar, a move that will allow all of its Vista and OnAir 3000 consoles to be manufactured in the UK.

  • Evolutions puts £1m into upgrade for HD

    8-Oct-2009

    Evolutions is investing £1m in a technical refurbishment that will make all of its London facilities fully HD-capable.

  • Stereo3D boosts Quantel revenues

    8-Oct-2009

    Sales of stereoscopic 3D-enabled post-production systems have helped Newbury-based manufacturer Quantel buck current economic trends by increasing both its turnover and operating profit year on year.

  • Tyrell helps Autumnwatch incorporate UGC

    8-Oct-2009

    The producers of BBC2’s Autumnwatch are using a new encoding workflow provided by reseller Tyrell CCT that lets them broadcast and publish user-generated footage as part of the wildlife series.

  • Envy hires MPC’s Bennett to lead Flame initiative

    8-Oct-2009

    Envy has purchased a Flame visual effects system and recruited Moving Picture Company’s Nick Bennett to drive it.

  • StormHD adds Unity

    6-Oct-2009

    StormHD has invested in a new Avid Unity Media Network in order to provide shared storage capabilities at its Covent Garden post-production facility.

  • Gearhouse secures The X Factor audio deal

    6-Oct-2009

    Gearhouse Broadcast has retained the contract to supply radio microphones and audio systems for the live studio rounds of ITV’s The X Factor.

  • Jarvis joins Root6

    6-Oct-2009

    Root6 Technology has appointed Mike Jarvis as its new channel manager for Europe.

  • WRN encodes MUTV archive

    6-Oct-2009

    The content management services arm of WRN has completed a mass encoding and asset management project for Manchester United TV designed to improve productivity at the football club channel.

  • Riedel secures MediaCityUK deal

    6-Oct-2009

    Systems integrator TSL has ordered an intercom set-up from Riedel Communications for installation at MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Adobe adds to Flash mobile options

    6-Oct-2009

    Flash Professional CS5, the latest version of Adobe’s interactive applications development software, will allow designers to create apps that can be exported to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

  • Sony devises single lens 3D camera system

    2-Oct-2009

    Sony has developed a camera system for shooting stereoscopic 3D content that requires just a single lens to capture the left and right eyes.

  • The Mill boosts studio division

    1-Oct-2009

    The Mill is expanding and reorganising its Mill Studio department just six months after launch because its desktop technology services are becoming more popular than expected.

  • Famous names go in Soho re-brands

    1-Oct-2009

    Soho lost three longstanding brands this week as the facilities Blue, DGP and Rainbow Post were all renamed by their owners.

  • Prime Focus unveils 3D and MAM innovations

    1-Oct-2009

    Prime Focus used its global rebrand event on Tuesday to unveil two technology innovations, including one for stereoscopic 3D content.

  • Prime Focus completes global re-brand

    30-Sep-2009

    Prime Focus has re-named all of its facilities in order to create a single global ‘visual entertainment services company’, a move that results in the demise of established Soho brands including Blue.

  • Refine recruits for new division

    29-Sep-2009

    Processing and re-purposing business Refine has added two new members of staff  and opened a new content aggregation and sales division for clients who store content with the company.

  • Autodesk adds to Mac options

    29-Sep-2009

    Autodesk has signed an agreement that will make Parallels Desktop its preferred Mac virtualisation software.

  • Virgin upgrades to ScheduALL ERM

    29-Sep-2009

    Virgin Media Television has upgraded to ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software at its Creative Village post-production facility.

  • Panasonic touts new studio system

    29-Sep-2009

    Panasonic is to start shipping the Camcorder Studio System, a new low cost alternative for HD studio production.

  • MediaCityUK gets green status

    29-Sep-2009

    MediaCityUK in Salford is the first development in the world to become a BREEAM approved sustainable community.

  • Roundtable expands operation

    24-Sep-2009

    Roundtable Films, the London post house set up by former Broadcast Hot Shot Ash Jenkins, is moving into bigger premises as it looks to expand the cost-effective services it offers to independent film-makers.

  • ITFC in key tapeless role for Five

    24-Sep-2009

    ITFC will play a key role in Five’s ongoing move to tapeless after kicking off a five-year deal to prepare all of the broadcaster’s acquired programming for transmission.

  • Streambox Live

    24-Sep-2009

    A web-based contribution service that enables remote reporters and citizen journalists to send compressed live video streams to broadcasters.

  • ITN lines up Megahertz to build news truck

    24-Sep-2009

    Systems integrator Megahertz has won the contract to build a new links vehicle for ITN.

  • Conch Awards: Sounding out the winners

    24-Sep-2009

    To celebrate the 2009 Conch Awards, Will Strauss and Colin Birch talk to the winners in the TV sound editing and TV dubbing mixer categories, finding out what makes them tick and gathering their views on some of the burning issues in the audio sector.

  • Deluxe to launch mobile apps service

    23-Sep-2009

    Deluxe Digital Studios has acquired the services of Island Wall Entertainment Ltd, a British mobile phone applications developer.

  • Conch Awards: Evolutions crowned best TV facility

    23-Sep-2009

    Evolutions was named as the UK’s best television facility at last night’s Conch sound awards, fighting off competition from Films at 59 and Ascent 142 to win the coveted title.

  • PictureBox deal for Ree Bee Media

    22-Sep-2009

    Red Bee Media has won the contract to deliver video and metadata for PictureBox, Virgin Media’s on-demand movie service.

  • LipSync goes with Genetic Engineering

    22-Sep-2009

    LipSync has purchased a Quantel Genetic Engineering system so that effects artists and colourists using its iQ and Pablo workstations can collaborate on projects.

  • Sky adds SoundField up-converters

    22-Sep-2009

    Sky has purchased eight of SoundField’s stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors for live use in its studios and outside broadcast facilities.

  • One Of Us opts for Baselight

    22-Sep-2009

    The Soho visual effects company One Of Us has bought a Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight.

  • Blackmagic updates capture card range

    22-Sep-2009

    While the purchase of DaVinci was Blackmagic Design’s big news of IBC, the company also used the Amsterdam trade show to reveal updates to its DeckLink range.

  • GV debuts K2 Solo

    22-Sep-2009

    Grass Valley used IBC to unveil a portable multi-format SD and HD server designed for remote live productions and small post-production applications.

  • BBC Radio picks up Studer consoles

    22-Sep-2009

    Studer has won a contract to supply 85 OnAir digital audio mixing consoles to BBC Radio over the next two years.

  • Ascent closes in on ITN encoding deal

    17-Sep-2009

    Ascent Media is to digitise more than 40,000 hours of ITN’s news back catalogue as part of a deal announced at IBC.

  • Blackmagic secures first sales after DaVinci buyout

    15-Sep-2009

    Blackmagic Design has sold two Resolve colour correction systems to Smoke and Mirrors just days after completing the purchase of all the assets of DaVinci Systems LLC.

  • MediaCityUK kit supply goes out to tender

    15-Sep-2009

    Systems integrator TSL is putting out to tender the contracts to supply equipment to MediaCityUK’s studio technical block following a deal with Peel Media Studios.

  • Mistikas sold to On Sight and Bird Studios

    15-Sep-2009

    On Sight and Bird Studios have bought SGO Mistika grading and finishing systems to use on stereoscopic 3D projects.

  • IBC 2009 round-up – stereo 3D

    15-Sep-2009

    A selection of the stereoscopic 3D production and post-production tools on show at IBC 2009 including those from JVC, Avid, P+S Technik, IDC, Element Technica and Doremi.

  • EditShare picks up Geevs and Lightworks

    15-Sep-2009

    EditShare has bought the technology behind the Geevs broadcast video servers and the Lightworks non-linear editing platform

  • Sky News snaps up HyperX3s

    15-Sep-2009

    Chyron has sold 11 HyperX3 graphics systems to Sky to be used on the broadcasters Sky News HD channel, which launches next year.

  • DV adds Red Rocket support

    15-Sep-2009

    Digital Vision has announced support for Red Rocket, the real-time 4k playback card from Red Digital Cinema.

  • Foundry celebrates Nuke sales

    10-Sep-2009

    Soho-based visual effects software developer The Foundry will head to IBC on the back of huge London sales of its Nuke compositing software.

  • DTG unveils Freeview HD box-vetting regime

    10-Sep-2009

    British television viewers will come a step closer to being able to watch HD channels on DTT when the Digital Television Group (DTG) launches its test and conformance regime for Freeview HD set-top boxes at IBC this week.

  • Arri to unveil new digital camera system

    10-Sep-2009

    Arri will officially unveil a new range of 35mm-format digital cameras at IBC tomorrow when the technology tradeshow opens for 2009.

  • The VFX Co opens post boutique

    10-Sep-2009

    Specialist camera-effects house The Visual Effects Company will move into post-production this week when it opens a boutique facility in central London.

  • Former MPC trio launches visual effects house

    10-Sep-2009

    Three former Moving Picture Company (MPC) colleagues have joined forces to launch a visual effects studio in Soho.

  • IBC kicks off with major acquisitions

    9-Sep-2009

    This week’s IBC exhibition in Amsterdam will be alive with talk of mergers and acquisitions after reports that both Avid and Blackmagic Design have completed buy-outs of fellow manufacturers.

  • Anton Bauer secures Procam deal

    9-Sep-2009

    Procam Television has signed a deal that will see the equipment hire firm’s entire fleet of cameras kitted out exclusively with batteries and chargers from Anton Bauer.

  • 3D vs 3D: Ooze gonna save us?

    9-Sep-2009

    Will Strauss examines the impact that C4’s decision to opt for an advanced version of anaglyph for its 3D content could have on viewer perceptions of 3D.

  • The Station adds Final Cut suite

    9-Sep-2009

    London post-production company The Station has added a purpose-built Final Cut Pro suite to its Bloomsbury Street facility.

  • BBC S&PP upgrades Studio 2

    9-Sep-2009

    BBC Studios and Post Production is temporarily upgrading its Studio 2 to HD in order to support production of a new series of Ready Steady Cook.

  • PFL upgrades Baselight

    9-Sep-2009

    Prime Focus London has upgraded its Baselight system and recruited a new senior producer and a new senior character animator.

  • BDA backs full res 3D for blu-ray

    9-Sep-2009

    The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has detailed its plans for incorporating 3D into its disc format, with full resolution per eye currently its preferred specification.

  • Vitec upbeat despite profits fall

    3-Sep-2009

    Vitec Group companies will head to IBC next week with their fingers crossed for a great show after the British plc posted a 41% fall in profits for the first half of its financial year.

  • For-A VRCAM

    3-Sep-2009

    A plug-in for the Brainstorm eStudio realtime graphics software package that can be used to create virtual sets for news, weather and other shows with fixed camera positions.

  • Inition expands after boom in 3D demand

    3-Sep-2009

    3D specialist Inition has moved to new premises and begun a recruitment drive as demand for its stereoscopic production and technology services grows.

  • IBC preview: Innovation goes on show

    3-Sep-2009

    Some of the big guns may be missing, but this year’s show still has plenty to offer in terms of the latest industry trends. Will Strauss provides highlights of who’s exhibiting what.

  • What next for DI?

    2-Sep-2009

    Is Framestore’s decision to close its digital intermediate (DI) department indicative of a deeper malaise for the country’s digital lab providers? Will Strauss investigates.

  • Hyperactive splashes £1.8m on EVS servers

    1-Sep-2009

    Equipment hire company Hyperactive Broadcast has added another 14 EVS XT2 servers to its inventory in a deal worth over £1.8m.

  • Dashwood unveils stereo 3D plug-in

    1-Sep-2009

    Dashwood Cinema Solutions has released a plug-in pack that will give users of After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express a range of stereoscopic 3D mastering tools.

  • Canon adds to HD-capable DSLR range

    1-Sep-2009

    Following on from the success of the 5D Mark II, Canon has unveiled another digital SLR camera capable of capturing HD video.

  • Take 1 adds online sound bite service

    1-Sep-2009

    Transcription provider Take 1 is to launch a new internet-based service that enables producers to locate and audition promising sound bites before going into an offline edit.

  • War memories series heads to MTV Studios

    1-Sep-2009

    MTV Studios has won the contract to host Finestripe Productions’ new HD series The Week We Went to War for BBC1 daytime.

  • TSL shuffles management team

    1-Sep-2009

    Broadcast systems integrator TSL has re-organised its senior management team, a move that sees David Webber join the company as chief operating officer.

  • S3 Stereo 3D Stepping Module

    27-Aug-2009

    A portable unit that controls the motion and triggering of a digital SLR or digital film camera for stereoscopic 3D stop-frame animation production.

  • Preditors plans stereo 3D finishing suite

    27-Aug-2009

    Newman Street post facility Preditors is turning its lower groundfloor offices into a convertible audio and video finishing suite capable of grading stereoscopic 3D projects.

  • Goldcrest invests in Avid HD kit

    27-Aug-2009

    Goldcrest Post has put its head above the recession parapet by adding four HD Avid editing systems to its London facility and increasing its central storage capabilities.

  • Framestore shuts DI department

    25-Aug-2009

    Framestore has closed its loss-making DI department, a move that leaves 23 members of staff looking for work.

  • Watchdog goes to Unit

    25-Aug-2009

    Apple-based Soho finishing house Unit has secured the contract to post-produce the new series of the BBC’s Watchdog.

  • ChilliBean goes with Aspera

    25-Aug-2009

    Digital asset management company ChilliBean has selected high-speed file transfer technology from Aspera to improve the uploading and transportation of its content around the world.

  • Case study: Red Bull X-Fighters London

    25-Aug-2009

    How O21 Television provided technical facilities for coverage of the final leg of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour.

  • 3sixtymedia adds FORscene for Lakes show

    25-Aug-2009

    3sixtymedia has invested in remote-access editing technology from FORscene for use on the ITV Studios ob-doc The Lakes.

  • Jungle Group opts for music room

    25-Aug-2009

    The Jungle Group has added a music composing room to its Royalty Mews studios, providing a dedicated place for staff at the company to compose spots for advertising and broadcast clients.

  • Halo snaps up remains of Spirit Studios

    19-Aug-2009

    Halo Post Production has snapped up the premises and assets that previously formed Spirit Studios as part of a major expansion plan.

  • Sky orders Twofour to shoot Noel in 3D

    19-Aug-2009

    BSkyB will take a huge step towards its planned 3D channel this week when indie Twofour completes a broadcast-compliant 3D version of Noel’s Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?

  • Nickelodeon UK poised to finish tapeless facility

    19-Aug-2009

    Nickelodeon UK will complete the installation of its end-to-end tapeless post-production and transmission facility next month with the addition of content storage management software from Front Porch Digital.

  • RTS unveils Young Technologist of the year

    18-Aug-2009

    The Royal Television Society has announced the winner of its first annual Young Technologist Award, a prize given with the aim of advancing the science, practice, technology and art of television.

  • Credit crunch blamed for Concrete closure

    18-Aug-2009

    Soho post-production facility Concrete has ceased trading, with management blaming funding issues caused by the global banking crisis and delays in payments from clients.

  • Autodesk profits fall after 33 per cent revenue slip

    18-Aug-2009

    Profits at Autodesk fell 88% in the second quarter of its financial year with management pinpointing lower sales and margins as the main reasons.

  • Funding secured for digital doctorates

    18-Aug-2009

    The Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE) has been awarded £6.3m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to fund 50 doctoral studentships in digital entertainment.

  • Digit picks up former Technicolor CEO

    18-Aug-2009

    Former Technicolor Creative Services chief executive Roger Beck has joined Digit as its new director of business development.

  • Hullabaloo continues to grow

    18-Aug-2009

    Hullabaloo Studios’ new head of 2D design, Ian Bate, has made his first appointment at the Altrincham-based post-production facility.

  • Red Bee’s Clennell to join MediaCityUK

    17-Aug-2009

    Peel Media has appointed Red Bee Media programme director Paul Clennell as the chief technology officer for MediaCityUK in Salford.

  • Sequence tempted by bigger Soho presence

    11-Aug-2009

    Sequence Post Production is eyeing up bigger premises in Soho as part of a move to consolidate its resources and talent in a central London location.

  • Arena plans £2.4m VT truck

    11-Aug-2009

    Arena Television, fresh from winning contracts to provide OB facilities to Sky for boxing and darts coverage, is building a new £2.4m VT truck.

  • Narduzzo to grade Lark Rise again

    11-Aug-2009

    Vince Narduzzo will grade series three of Lark Rise to Candleford at his Pinewood Studios facility after once again being awarded the contract for the 12 x 60-minute BBC costume drama series.

  • Cinegy readies new ‘Workflow’ tools for IBC

    11-Aug-2009

    Cinegy will use IBC to unveil two new modules for Cinegy Workflow, the media asset management and archive technology that forms part of the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative.

  • Slumdog and Man on Wire set for Conch battle

    11-Aug-2009

    UK Screen Association has announced the shortlist for its Conch Sound Awards 2009 with Slumdog Millionaire and Man on Wire set to battle it out for several awards including best film soundtrack.

  • O21 wins Sky SPL contract

    6-Aug-2009

    O21 Television has been awarded the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for Sky for its coverage of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) this season.

  • Aston Broadcast sold to Brainstorm

    4-Aug-2009

    The Softel Group is selling its video graphics systems company Aston Broadcast to Brainstorm Multimedia for an undisclosed fee.

  • British Eurosport adopts EPG trigger technology

    4-Aug-2009

    British Eurosport is using technology pioneered by Red Bee Media to provide live programming schedule triggers that update Sky’s electronic programme guide and its ‘Now & Next’ on-screen agenda.

  • MediaCityUK operations director resigns

    4-Aug-2009

    Peel Media operations director David Carr is to return to London after resigning from his role at MediaCityUK.

  • Blue upgrades DS Nitris suites, adds Baselight

    4-Aug-2009

    Blue is upgrading its four Avid DS Nitris edit suites as part of an infrastructure investment programme that also includes the addition of a new Baselight.

  • Lewiston joins Tyrell

    4-Aug-2009

    Reseller Tyrell CCT has appointed Adam Lewiston as the technical support and pre-sales manager at its UK subsidiary.

  • DMC to showcase remote playout at IBC

    4-Aug-2009

    The Digital Media Centre (DMC), the Amsterdam-based channel playout and content distribution provider, is to demonstrate remote playout and digital delivery of TV content at IBC 2009.

  • Panasonic starts P2 part-ex campaign

    4-Aug-2009

    Equipment dealers are being offered the chance to ‘part-ex’ their old cameras against the price of a new Panasonic P2 Varicam camcorder.

  • Lumiere Studios moves into motion graphics

    29-Jul-2009

    Lumiere Studios is adding broadcast design and motion graphics to its 3D animation and visual effects services, recruiting Beautiful TV co-founder Claire Plaskow as head of production.

  • Breathe rebrands and expands

    29-Jul-2009

    Breathe Post Production has been renamed Air Post Production as it prepares to launch its third facility.

  • Arqiva plans VoD recruitment

    29-Jul-2009

    Arqiva is preparing to recruit a team of business-to-consumer specialist staff to launch a video-on-demand service based on the platform assets of Project Kangaroo.

  • Arena secures Sky boxing contract

    28-Jul-2009

    Arena Television has been awarded the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for Sky’s boxing coverage.

  • MPC opens up Data Lab to rivals

    28-Jul-2009

    The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is looking to widen the remit of its purpose-built Data Lab operation by offering data processing services to other post houses as well as film and commercial producers.

  • TSL snaps up Ravensbourne gig

    28-Jul-2009

    TSL has been awarded the systems design contract for Ravensbourne College’s new end-to-end broadcast facility.

  • Prokit becomes Sony specialist

    28-Jul-2009

    Sony Professional has appointed equipment reseller Prokit as a Sony Specialist Dealer.

  • Avid posts wider than expected losses

    28-Jul-2009

    Avid lost more money than it was expected to in the most recent financial quarter, thanks to a 36 per cent drop in product revenues.

  • Doghouse adds to storage options

    28-Jul-2009

    Doghouse Post Production in Bristol has bought a Tiger Technology MetaSAN Storage network, increasing its shared storage capabilities from 24 to 48 terrabytes.

  • Apple adds new ProRes codecs to FCP7

    23-Jul-2009

    Apple has released a new version of its Final Cut Studio software suite that includes an update to Final Cut Pro complete with new ProRes codecs and support for AVC-Intra.

  • Sharp Project set for phase one

    23-Jul-2009

    The team behind a new digital media production complex in Manchester hopes to foster the ideal environment for developing a ‘new Google’ when phase one of the £5m scheme opens in September.

  • AMI (Automated Metadata Insertion)

    23-Jul-2009

    Software for adding metadata automatically developed by Fiteris, a company formed by academics and researchers from Leicester De Montfort University.

  • Ravensbourne plans for Greenwich move

    23-Jul-2009

    Ravensbourne College will move a step closer to its new Greenwich home next week when it appoints a systems designer, a move that will kick-start the process of technology procurement for the new end-to-end broadcast facility.

  • SIS LIVE gears up for Champions League coverage

    23-Jul-2009

    SIS LIVE will deploy its new OB 3 outside broadcast truck for ITV’s Wednesday night coverage of the Uefa Champions League next season.

  • More support for 3DTV standards drive

    21-Jul-2009

    The industry debate over 3DTV has moved up a gear with Cambridge Research Systems backing the call for standardisation and the ITU canvassing its members about a practical timetable for technological uniformity.

  • Run VT expands with 5.1 audio suite

    21-Jul-2009

    Run VT has added a new dubbing suite to its Newman Street facility as part of a move that will see the company offer a full post-production service.

  • Cinesite effects work nominated for Emmy

    21-Jul-2009

    Visual effects work completed by UK facilities on the HBO dramas Generation Kill and Into The Storm has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy award.

  • Aardman opts for DV Data Conform

    21-Jul-2009

    Digital Vision has sold a Data Conform to Wallace & Gromit creators, Aardman Animations for use on its next feature film.

  • Trotman returns to Prime Focus Group

    21-Jul-2009

    Prime Focus London has added to its visual effects department with the appointment of Flame artist Anne Trotman.

  • The Pavement to develop iPhone apps

    21-Jul-2009

    London media and motion graphic production company The Pavement is launching a new iPhone App development service.

  • Pharos opens US office

    21-Jul-2009

    Pharos, the content management and workflow technology provider, has opened a US office.

  • Post houses escape Soho blaze

    15-Jul-2009

    Huge swathes of Soho’s post community were evacuated on Friday as firefighters fought to contain a blaze in offices on Dean Street.

  • Studio 81 targets new facility

    15-Jul-2009

    Leeds Independent Studios is starting negotiations with a property developer that could result in its current Production Centre at Studio 81 being replaced with a much larger, purpose-built facility.

  • Escape secures Avid reseller status

    15-Jul-2009

    Escape Studios has added video editing equipment to its technology sales portfolio after being awarded Avid authorised reseller status.

  • The Street series 3

    14-Jul-2009

    A range of effects shots including a bomb explosion for a scene, set in Afghanistan, that required actors to appear engulfed in a fireball.

  • 021 provides flyaway OB for Gormley project

    14-Jul-2009

    O21 Television is providing outside broadcast facilities for Sky Arts’ programming around One & Other, the human sculpture project in which the general public occupies the empty Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.

  • IBC 2009: Quantel in, Snell out

    14-Jul-2009

    Snell and Quantel, the British broadcast technology manufacturers, have announced their plans for this year’s IBC with Quantel planning to exhibit but Snell deciding to concentrate on local events and meetings.

  • ATG Broadcast to relocate BBC training facility

    14-Jul-2009

    ATG Broadcast has started work on a project to relocate the BBC’s central London production training studio from Marylebone High Street to White City.

  • CandelaMedia secures Cinegy deal

    14-Jul-2009

    Cinegy has appointed CandelaMedia to act as a reseller and integrator of its workflow and asset management technology in the UK.

  • Envy adds to business development team

    14-Jul-2009

    Envy is expanding its business development team with the addition of two new members of staff.

  • BBC Special Projects engineers launch company

    9-Jul-2009

    Five former BBC engineers have launched a new company after buying kit from the soon-to-be-defunct BBC Special Projects unit.

  • Pepper lands bulk Kudos deal

    9-Jul-2009

    Pepper Post has secured a multi-series post-production deal with Spooks producer Kudos Film & Television.

  • Slumdog supervisor starts Soho VFX outfit

    9-Jul-2009

    The visual effects supervisor on Slumdog Millionaire has teamed up with a former head of imaging from Mill Film to start a Soho VFX company.

  • MediaCityUK topping out

    8-Jul-2009

    The view from the 19th floor of the 300ft tall Studio Block South Tower at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.

  • Sumners opts for Unity Isis

    7-Jul-2009

    Manchester post-production facility Sumners is starting the process of consolidating its central storage with the installation of a 32 terabyte Avid Unity Isis Storage Area Network (SAN).

  • Nice Biscuits recruits Flame artist Young

    7-Jul-2009

    Nice Biscuits Post Production is adding a fourth Smoke/Flame suite to its Soho facility and has recruited a new Flame artist to drive it.

  • Blue-Zoo calls for animation industry support

    7-Jul-2009

    Animator Blue-Zoo wants the government to step in and counteract a ‘crisis’ currently engulfing England’s animation industry.

  • Envy and Weta plump for Nuke

    7-Jul-2009

    The Foundry has had a double success with its Nuke compositor, selling licences to London’s Envy and New Zealand’s Weta Digital.

  • Altered Images goes Wild

    7-Jul-2009

    Reseller Altered Images has appointed Andy Wild to the role of pre-sales consultant and senior support engineer.

  • Root6 adds to training programme

    7-Jul-2009

    Reseller Root6 is to expand the range of external training courses it offers for runners and edit assistants.

  • 021 mulls cuts after ITV OB loss

    1-Jul-2009

    021 Television is considering making redundancies after an OB contract it had with ITV for live Champions League football coverage was awarded to SIS LIVE.

  • Scottish post houses team up

    1-Jul-2009

    Two of Scotland’s largest independent post-production facilities have formed a new joint company after working together on a BBC3 drama series.

  • Ilab-Rocket office closure leads to job losses

    1-Jul-2009

    Ilab-Rocket will close its Frith Street operation this month, resulting in a round of redundancies.

  • Facilities briefs 3 July

    1-Jul-2009

    Facilities news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 3 July 2009 including 422 South, Molinare, Tide UK and Sequence Post.

  • Richard Taylor 1945-2009

    30-Jun-2009

    Richard Taylor, the former managing director of Quantel and one of the industry’s most influential engineers, has died.

  • Edit Store in Avid upgrade

    30-Jun-2009

    The Edit Store has completed a major upgrade of its London facility, replacing its original central storage with a new 24 terabyte Avid Unity storage area network and adding three Media Composers.

  • JCA signs British Pathe deal

    30-Jun-2009

    JCA has signed a long term contract with the new owners of the British Pathe library that will see all physical and digital archive content stored at the London digital media services company.

  • Da Vinci Resolve gets Red update

    30-Jun-2009

    Da Vinci Systems is releasing a new version of its Resolve software that enables users of R-Series colouring systems to grade native digital motion picture files including debayered Red RAW files from the Red One camera.

  • Fifty Fifty completes TT job

    30-Jun-2009

    Boutique post house Fifty Fifty Post Production has bought a new Halo router and completed an around the clock transfer job for North One Television to aid coverage of The Isle of Man TT race.

  • DVR ownership nears 9m

    30-Jun-2009

    Ofcom research has revealed that the total number of digital video recorders (DVRs) being used in the UK has reached 8.9m.

  • Sky renews satellite deal with Astra

    30-Jun-2009

    SES Astra has renewed its contract with BSkyB for the use of 24 transponders on Astra’s 28.2 degrees East orbital position.

  • Computamatch MD Aungle joins MPC

    30-Jun-2009

    Moving Picture Company (MPC) has appointed Kerri Aungle as its Data Lab and Scanning business manager.

  • Wild Tracks calls in liquidators

    24-Jun-2009

    Wild Tracks, one of Soho’s longest standing audio post houses, has been forced to close due to a lack of work and falling rates.

  • Coach House rejigs TV drama workflow

    24-Jun-2009

    Coach House Studios has come up with an innovative way of post-producing TV drama that combines traditional film-style production workflows with affordable IT technology.

  • RNIB joins debate on 3D industry standards

    24-Jun-2009

    The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has waded into the dispute other whether or not 3D TV should be standardised.

  • Monster Moves series 4

    24-Jun-2009

    Post-production work, completed by Envy, on the new series of Monster Moves.

  • Arena adds Royal Family to 3D catalogue

    23-Jun-2009

    Outside broadcast company Arena Television plans to make stereoscopic 3D images of the Royal Family available to broadcasters.

  • Ascent in line to run MediaCityUK studios

    23-Jun-2009

    MediaCityUK developer Peel Media is in exclusive talks with Ascent Media about it running the studio complex and providing global distribution services at Salford Quays.

  • Jobs to go as Rushes makes cutbacks

    23-Jun-2009

    Rushes is making eight of its 100 staff redundant as part of an overall review of business costs.

  • SGO adds Mills to London venture

    23-Jun-2009

    Former Quantel regional sales manager Geoff Mills has joined SGO to head-up the Spanish manufacturer’s new London-based subsidiary.

  • HHB awarded Sony specialist dealer status

    23-Jun-2009

    Sony has appointed reseller HHB Communications as a Sony Specialist Dealer.

  • SIS LIVE behind Wimbledon HD coverage

    23-Jun-2009

    SIS LIVE is providing BBC Sport with technical facilities for its HD host broadcast coverage of The 2009 Wimbledon Championships which starts this week.

  • Arqiva’s Ivey joins Visions

    23-Jun-2009

    Outside broadcast facilities company NEP Visions has appointed a new sales and marketing director.

  • Industry split over 3DTV standardisation

    05 June 2009

    The broadcast industry is divided over whether or not to standardise 3D TV, according to new research from the Digital Television Group (DTG).

  • Blue and PFL staff agree to take pay cut

    05 June 2009

    More than 80% of staff at Blue and Prime Focus London have agreed to take a pay cut as an alternative to a programme of redundancies.

  • Foundry team completes MBO

    3-Jun-2009

    A management team at London visual effects technology developer The Foundry has completed a buyout of the company.

  • Narduzzo readies bigger Pinewood suite

    2-Jun-2009

    Colourist Vince Narduzzo is to move from his temporary home at Pinewood Studios to a new larger grading suite within the Iver Heath studio complex.

  • Vitec Group to scale back IBC presence

    2-Jun-2009

    The broadcast systems division of British plc The Vitec Group will scale back its presence at IBC in September and instead focus is marketing efforts on locally run events and targeted activities.

  • Terry Smith joins Evolutions

    2-Jun-2009

    Evolutions has appointed former IBF chief executive Terry Smith to the role of business development manager.

  • Visions to provide Twenty20 coverage

    2-Jun-2009

    OB company NEP Visions will provide host broadcaster ESPN Star with the worldwide HD feed for the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup which starts in London this week.

  • Gearhouse heads to Costa Rica for US ‘I’m a Celeb’

    2-Jun-2009

    Gearhouse Broadcast is providing broadcast and technical facilities in Costa Rica for coverage of the US version of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!

  • Ionoco backs Poker Channel 3D playout service

    2-Jun-2009

    Ionoco has developed a live 3D playout system for The Poker Channel’s new Casinojoy Blackjack service.

  • Bob the Builder heads for Bubble

    29-May-2009

    Bubble TV has won the contract to provide voice-recording facilities for the seventeenth and eighteenth series of Hit Entertainment’s animated children’s series Bob the Builder.

  • Effects body to foster open standards

    29-May-2009

    Seven of the post-production sector’s best known software companies have formed a new independent industry body that will develop and promote open standards within the visual effects community.

  • GMS to open Afghan bureau

    29-May-2009

    Global Media Services (GMS), the outside broadcast and transmission arm of The Associated Press, is to open a new bureau in Afghanistan ahead of the country’s general elections in August.

  • Boag to run Ascent digital lab

    29-May-2009

    Former Cine Image owner and managing director Steve Boag has joined Ascent Media where he will head up a new department providing filmmakers with digital lab services.

  • Bolt races into a third dimension

    20-May-2009

    Triple Olympic sprint gold medallist Usain Bolt’s record breaking run in Manchester has become the latest event to be captured in stereoscopic 3D by Sky.

  • BVE targets craft and creative with new show

    20-May-2009

    Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) is introducing a sister event for its main show next year that is specifically aimed at creative, logistics and craft people.

  • Skyworks opens up HD aerial archive

    20-May-2009

    Independent production company Skyworks is offering other television producers the chance to access its aerial footage library which contains 60,000 high definition shots taken from the air.

  • Mockler heads for Soho Film Lab

    20-May-2009

    Neil Mockler has joined Ascent Media’s Soho Film Lab (SFL) as director of film services.

  • Breathe adds Icon and posts charity film

    20-May-2009

    Breathe Post Production has upgraded one of the 5.1 dubbing theatres at its North London facility and provided picture post on the winner of a charity short film competition.

  • Brookside co-creator backs tapeless

    20-May-2009

    Colin McKeown, the producer and executive producer behind BBC daytime drama Moving On, has praised the camera technology that was used to shoot the show.

  • Halo opts for Bray

    20-May-2009

    Former DGP general manager Rowan Bray has joined Halo Post Production as business development manager.

  • Huge grading suite to replace Molinare studio

    14-May-2009

    Molinare has closed the TV studio at its Foubert’s Place HQ and will replace it with one of the largest colour grading theatres in central London.

  • Gearbox bought by CVP-Mitcorp

    12-May-2009

    The CVP-Mitcorp group has rescued fellow equipment sales and rental company Gearbox from administration and in the process saved 16 jobs.

  • Pepper considers vfx closure

    12-May-2009

    Pepper Post is considering closing its visual effects department as part of a round of cut backs designed to ensure that the company remains competitive.

  • SMPTE proposes 3D mastering standard

    12-May-2009

    The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has announced proposals for a stereoscopic 3D mastering standard that will provide universal image formatting requirements for making and delivering 3D content.

  • Democracy's Mills joins HRA

    12-May-2009

    Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA) has appointed Greg Mills, formerly a partner and executive producer at Democracy, to the role of executive producer.

  • TC Soho picks up Sony VTRs

    12-May-2009

    TC Soho has bought two Sony VTRs to help with the company’s transfer and duplication operation and also its standalone Avid and FCP digitising service.

  • Megahertz adds Miles

    12-May-2009

    Systems integrator Megahertz has appointed Ben Miles as its sales manager for Europe.

  • Reseller Tyrell reappears in UK

    7-May-2009

    The Tyrell name will re-enter the UK reseller market this week when Ireland's Tyrell CCT opens an office in London's Soho.

  • Rogue Element moves to Elstree

    7-May-2009

    Digital film camera rental company Rogue Element Films has vacated its Pinewood Studios office in order to set up a new base at Elstree Studios, and is planning to offer a stereo 3D production service.

  • Manufacturing profits on the slide

    5-May-2009

    Many of the companies exhibiting at last month's NAB in Las Vegas will have been fretting about their short-term profitability, according to the findings of the latest IABM ‘Industry Index' research.

  • The Mill grabs T4 work

    5-May-2009

    The Mill has been commissioned to create graphics for T4's On the Beach and its various spin-off programmes.

  • Metadata and MAM pioneer joins Ascent

    5-May-2009

    Ascent Media has added Carol Owens to its EMEA business development team as director of strategic engagements.

  • Sequence grabs Ascot titles gig

    5-May-2009

    Sequence Post has won the contract to design, shoot and post the opening titles for this year's BBC1 Royal Ascot programmes.

  • Ilab and Rocket complete merger

    5-May-2009

    Soho film processing facility Ilab and post-production house Rocket have completed a merger that results in the birth of a new company.

  • Support Partners' Newman joins Unit

    5-May-2009

    Unit Post Production has appointed Support Partners founder Andrew Newman to the role of executive producer.

  • Goldcrest takes Pavement stake

    29-Apr-2009

    DVD and motion graphics production facility The Pavement has secured major new investment from post and production company Goldcrest Group.

  • Ioko plans news monitor service

    29-Apr-2009

    Ioko, one of the companies behind the BBC's iPlayer, has devised an automatic news monitoring tool to speed up the release of accurate, multi-sourced stories.

  • Creative Review - UKTV Style re-branded as Home

    28-Apr-2009

    A new brand identity for Home, formerly UKTV Style, created by Red Bee Media as part of the broadcasters ongoing network re-brand.

  • Riedel resurrects Mediornet

    28-Apr-2009

    Riedel Communications has unveiled a real-time routing network for transmitting audio, video, control and data over fiber-optic cable.

  • NAB show buoyant despite drop in traffic

    28-Apr-2009

    Although visitor numbers at last week's NAB exhibition in Las Vegas were down almost 20% year-on-year most exhibiting manufacturers were more than content with the quality of the people that did make the trip.

  • TSI Broadcast sold to WRN

    28-Apr-2009

    Central London playout facility business TSI Broadcast has been sold to radio transmission company WRN.

  • Severyn joins DMC

    28-Apr-2009

    Former TSI Transmission managing director Mike Severyn has joined The Digital Media Centre in Amsterdam as its new head of broadcast operations.

  • University plans reduced rate Red training

    28-Apr-2009

    The University of Derby is to offer filmmakers the chance to receive training and support on Red One digital camera equipment at a discounted rate.

  • Kayenne tops Grass Valley NAB push

    28-Apr-2009

    Grass Valley has introduced a new family of production switchers that combine the best parts of its Kalypso and Kayak models and are described by the company as the 'most powerful and capable switchers on the market.”

  • Quantel partnership looks to quicken 3D projects

    28-Apr-2009

    Quantel has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Spatial View that the company hopes will make it easier for content creators to speed up 3D development projects.

  • NAB best of the rest

    28-Apr-2009

    Broadcast picks some of the other technology developments, innovations and enhancements worth knowing about from NAB 2009. Includes Imagineer, Automatic Duck, Red, The Foundry and Cintel.

  • Smoke and Mirrors first to go for Flare

    21-Apr-2009

    Smoke and Mirrors has become the first post facility to purchase seats of Flare, Autodesk's new software-only creative companion to the Flame and Inferno visual effects systems.

  • JVC demos 4k live camera

    21-Apr-2009

    JVC is using NAB to demonstrate a working version of a 4k camera capable of producing live ultra high-resolution images.

  • Finding the positives

    21-Apr-2009

    While NAB 2009 may not be quite as busy as previous years in terms of either visitors or exhibitors, those that are here are making the most of a difficult job.

  • Avid qualifies Unity and Isis for FCP

    20-Apr-2009

    Avid has made it possible for facilities and broadcasters to run Apple Final Cut Pro editing software on its Unity MediaNetwork and Isis shared storage systems.

  • Panasonic plans 3D production system

    20-Apr-2009

    Panasonic is to start development of a professional 3D production system consisting of a twin-lens P2 camcorder and 3D compatible HD plasma display.

  • Object Matrix unveils post workflow innovation

    20-Apr-2009

    Object Matrix is working with digital asset management company Square Box Media Solutions on a new post-production workflow set-up that allows facilities with both Apple and Avid software to manage their assets on a single archive storage product.

  • Sky backs UK talent on 3D shoot

    15-Apr-2009

    Sky is continuing its push into 3D following the recent live broadcast of a music gig with the stereoscopic recording of a ballet.

  • Red Bee Media sells Piero to Viasat

    14-Apr-2009

    Viasat, the Scandinavian satellite broadcaster, has bought Red Bee Media's Piero 3D virtual graphics system for use on its coverage of both Danish and English football.

  • Post houses give up their time for Cut

    14-Apr-2009

    Big Buoy and Prime Focus London are among the companies to have completed work on Cut, a two-minute long charity film made by Grey London for Women's Aid.

  • Digital Vision completes 'reorganization'

    14-Apr-2009

    Digital Vision, the Swedish manufacturer behind the Film Master grading system, has successfully come out of ‘reorganization', its domestic equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • Evolutions makes precautionary staff cuts

    14-Apr-2009

    London post-production company Evolutions has made five positions redundant as it looks to reduce its overheads.

  • Award winning mixer joins LipSync

    14-Apr-2009

    LipSync has added award-winning re-recording mixer Robert Farr to its sound department.

  • Sony fattens XDcam range

    14-Apr-2009

    Sony has expanded its XDcam HD422 product family with a new 24p camcorder that offers variable frame-rate recording for under- and over-cranking.

  • Cineform brings 3D workflow to FCP

    14-Apr-2009

    CineForm has introduced a new compression technology specifically designed to allow Final Cut Pro to be used to cut stereoscopic 3D content.

  • Leppington joins Rainbow and DGP

    6-Apr-2009

    Former Evolutions technical director Simon Leppington has joined Rainbow and DGP, the soon-to-be merged post facilities owned by Gareth Mullaney.

  • Eyeframe snares E1 gig

    6-Apr-2009

    Eyeframe has won a contract that will see the company provide all DVD and Blu-ray authoring services for E1 Entertainment UK for the next two years.

  • South West Screen moots Bristol studio

    6-Apr-2009

    Regional screen agency South West Screen is conducting a feasibility study into developing studio facilities in Bristol after the BBC confirmed that it is relocating production of Casualty to Cardiff.

  • Mytherapy heads for central London

    6-Apr-2009

    West London digital cinematography facility Mytherapy D-Cinelab has opened a new base in central London and could relocate the whole company there in the future.

  • Autodesk plans further cutbacks

    6-Apr-2009

    Autodesk is hoping to slash its annual operating expenses by between $100 and $150 million through another series of global cutbacks.

  • Evolutions speeds up Red Dwarf post

    2-Apr-2009

    Evolutions has devised a bespoke post-production workflow for the return of sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.

  • Platform upgrades for Waybuloo project

    2-Apr-2009

    Platform Post Production has spent£300,000 on new kit for editing and finishing RDF pre-school series Waybuloo.

  • Hayfisher to hire out wireless van

    2-Apr-2009

    Sports producer Hayfisher is to make its wireless outside broadcast vehicle available to other indies for the first time.

  • Quantel to make further cutbacks

    31-Mar-2009

    Quantel is embarking on a cost-cutting programme that will include more redundancies, a freeze on recruitment and further non-attendance at trade shows.

  • Mistika gets real-time Red tape playout

    31-Mar-2009

    SGO has updated its Mistika editing, compositing and grading system so that it can fully support native R3D format files produced by the Red One camera.

  • Da Vinci offers up a PowerHouse

    31-Mar-2009

    Da Vinci Systems has released a new technology innovation designed to support the grading of files created using the Red One camera.

  • Loft London secures kids channel deal

    31-Mar-2009

    Loft London has been commissioned to ingest 800 hours of back catalogue children's programming for The Digital Media Centre (DMC) in Amsterdam.

  • BBC Resources to be re-named

    31-Mar-2009

    The newly merged BBC Resources studios and post divisions are to be re-named as BBC Studios and Post Production.

  • Sony opts out of IBC 2009

    31-Mar-2009

    Sony will not exhibit at this year's IBC trade show and will instead concentrate its marketing efforts on a series of localized customer ‘engagement' events.

  • Pinewood achieves modest TV growth

    31-Mar-2009

    Pinewood Shepperton plc managed to up its television revenues slightly in 2008, despite its customers facing increasing pressure on production budgets.

  • Molinare appoints COO

    31-Mar-2009

    Soho post facility Molinare has promoted operations director Richard Hart to the role of chief operating officer.

  • Pepper spices up sound studio

    25-Mar-2009

    Law & Order UK post-facility Pepper is looking to bolster its feature film business with a£300,000 audio upgrade and the addition of three new senior creative staff.

  • Ionoco wins gameshow deal

    25-Mar-2009

    Computer systems developer Ionoco has been named as the preferred technology supplier for 12 Yard Productions' gameshow format The Colour of Money.

  • Griffin provides F1 soundscape

    24-Mar-2009

    The Jungle Group's Toby Griffin, using Fairlight and Logic Pro, has devised a bespoke soundscape for the opening sequence to the BBC's F1 coverage, which starts this weekend.

  • Avid to close Soho office

    24-Mar-2009

    Avid Technology is to close its Soho office as part of efforts to reduce the number of administrative centres the manufacturer has in this country.

  • SIS LIVE to provide F1 coverage for BBC

    24-Mar-2009

    SIS LIVE, the outside broadcast services company that worked with North One on ITV's Formula One coverage, will provide all technical facilities and support crew for BBC Sport's presentation coverage of this season's competition.

  • The Mill adds third Baselight 8

    24-Mar-2009

    Filmlight has sold a third Baselight 8 colour grading system to visual effects company The Mill.

  • Glasman off to Ascent 142

    24-Mar-2009

    Framestore head of digital grading Adam Glasman will join Ascent 142 next month.

  • Sequence Post quick to expand

    24-Mar-2009

    The owners of Sequence Post have decided to expand the capabilities of their new satellite W4 facility in Chiswick Park just two weeks after it opened.

  • Pepper forms new MD partnership

    24-Mar-2009

    Pepper Post has promoted commercial director Jane Coombes to the role of joint-managing director, a role she will share with current boss Shane Warden.

  • Envy to use quick Red One process

    18-Mar-2009

    Envy has come up with a way to speed up the workflow for projects shot on the Red One camera.

  • DGP owner buys Rainbow Post

    18-Mar-2009

    The new owner of DGP has made his second Soho facility purchase in less than a month, snapping up Rainbow Post in Ingestre Place.

  • Keane 3D gig to be broadcast live online

    17-Mar-2009

    A pop concert will become the latest testing ground for 3D television when production company Nineteen Fifteen and technology company Inition produce and transmit a live web-only 3D gig for the band Keane next month.

  • Lipsync divisions to merge

    17-Mar-2009

    The Lipsync Group is to merge its various divisions - including Post and Creative - into one company, to be known as Lipsync.

  • Prime Focus London predicts 2009 losses

    17-Mar-2009

    Post-production group Prime Focus London has admitted that it is likely to report a loss at the end of its 2009 financial year.

  • Jellyfish Pictures adds Isilon storage

    17-Mar-2009

    Visual effects company Jellyfish Pictures has spent more than£50,000 on Isilon clustered storage technology.

  • Quantel seeks second round of savings

    11-Mar-2009

    Quantel plans to make another round of cutbacks after admitting that the global recession is having a bigger impact than it first anticipated.

  • Buyers line up as Gearbox stalls

    11-Mar-2009

    Bidders are circling equipment hire and sales company Gearbox after it was placed in administration.

  • BBC Resources to lose director roles

    11-Mar-2009

    BBC Resources will ditch a layer of senior management roles as it merges its facilities divisions.

  • HD Heaven ready for Red workflows

    10-Mar-2009

    Birmingham's HD Heaven has upgraded its Avid DS systems to version 10.1.1, allowing it to provide a full resolution end-to-end Avid-Red workflow.

  • Avid adds 3D capabilities to MC

    10-Mar-2009

    Avid Technology has added native support for Sony's XDcam format and stereoscopic 3D workflow capabilities to the latest versions of Media Composer and Symphony.

  • Marquis to offer HR consultancy

    10-Mar-2009

    Marquis Broadcast has added an HR and recruitment department to its consulting division.

  • DTG plans 3DTV research

    10-Mar-2009

    The Digital Television Group (DTG) it is to conduct a consultation into the technological feasibility and viability of 3D television.

  • Sargent continues to trim Framestore fat

    10-Mar-2009

    Framestore will continue to reduce overheads through natural wastage rather than a big staff cull, joint chief executive William Sargent has told Broadcast.

  • Envy adds vfx support unit

    10-Mar-2009

    London post house Envy has opened a new visual effects support department that will work in collaboration with its high-end effects suites.

  • The Mill's Harrison joins MPC

    10-Mar-2009

    MPC (Moving Picture Company) has added award-winning senior colourist Paul Harrison to its telecine team.

  • Pro-Bel and Snell and Wilcox confirm merger

    6-Mar-2009

    Two of the broadcast industry's biggest manufacturers, Pro-Bel and Snell and Wilcox, are to merge, creating a new joint company.

  • Moorhouse appointed Gravity COO

    5-Mar-2009

    Gravity Media Group, the owner of Gearhouse Broadcast and outside broadcast company 021 Television, has promoted group technical director Kevin Moorhouse to the role of chief operating officer.

  • Vitec axes jobs despite profits

    5-Mar-2009

    Vitec Group has made job cuts in its broadcast systems division despite pocketing a pre-tax profit of£35m last year, an increase of 17% on 2007.

  • Economic downturn forces Mill to cut staff

    5-Mar-2009

    The Mill is making 25 people redundant as part of a restructuring programme that will also see some central resources relocated to America.

  • Confusion and gloom reign at ITV Yorkshire

    4-Mar-2009

    Staff leaving the main ITV Yorkshire building in Leeds today (4 March) looked unsurprisingly glum - but while most were despondent, it was an air of confusion that was most prevalent.

  • Rogue joins Digilab for digital service

    3-Mar-2009

    Rogue Element Films has formed an alliance with tapeless workflow company Digilab London that will see the two companies provide producers with a full digital production service.

  • Fourth quarter losses for Autodesk

    3-Mar-2009

    Autodesk Inc has reported a fourth-quarter loss of $105.3 million based on falling sales and an impairment charge related to its media and entertainment business.

  • New trio to aid Foundry expansion

    3-Mar-2009

    Visual effects software developer The Foundry has appointed three new sales and product management staff.

  • Camera Corps on the move

    3-Mar-2009

    Camera Corps has moved to a bigger office within Shepperton Studios and invested in a raft of new equipment.

  • 422 Manchester picks up third Smoke

    3-Mar-2009

    422 Manchester has bought a third Autodesk Smoke editing and finishing system and added an HDcam SR deck capable of dealing with data from digital cameras such as the Red One and the Phantom.

  • Quantel adds Red 2k support

    3-Mar-2009

    Quantel has updated the software on its eQ and Pablo HD online finishing and colour correction systems so that it can work with 2K projects shot on Red cameras.

  • ITV News buys 68 Sony Z5 cameras

    26-Feb-2009

    ITV News is hoping to widen the scope of its news coverage by equipping reporters with full camera and editing kits.

  • Mullaney deal rescues DGP

    26-Feb-2009

    Former Oasis Television managing director Gareth Mullaney has bought post facility DGP from its administrators.

  • Yellowmoon to add 5.1 suite

    26-Feb-2009

    Belfast's Yellowmoon is adding a surround sound dubbing theatre to its Holywood post-production facility.

  • One Total Audio closes, another opens

    24-Feb-2009

    Total Audio Solutions, the midlands-based reseller, has been resurrected as Total Audio Projects after the original company ceased trading and commenced liquidation proceedings.

  • GMTV ready for Avid move

    24-Feb-2009

    GMTV's main weekday morning programme will be produced using an Avid-based end-to-end digital workflow system from next month.

  • First Post North set for April return

    24-Feb-2009

    Skillset is running its First Post trainee scheme in the North of England for a second time this April.

  • NBC Universal adds new promo workflow

    24-Feb-2009

    Reseller Altered Images has completed installation of an end-to-end promo production and post set-up for NBC Universal Global Networks, the broadcaster behind the Sci Fi channel.

  • Dubbing suite for Two Tall Men

    24-Feb-2009

    Two Tall Men has added a new 5.1 surround-sound dubbing suite to its Fitzrovia finishing house and is about to start work on a Cutting Edge doc about pubs in Britain.

  • The Club is saved from closure by its owners

    18-Feb-2009

    The future of The Club Post Production has been secured after its owners formed a new limited company and bought the assets and goodwill from the administrators.

  • Azimuth finishes£275k refurb

    18-Feb-2009

    Azimuth Post Production has completed a£275,000 refurbishment of its D'Arblay Street facility.

  • NAB faces slide in UK visitors

    18-Feb-2009

    The NAB trade exhibition in Las Vegas is facing a significant drop in the number of visitors from the UK this year because of the economic climate.

  • Creative Review - Blighty launch

    17-Feb-2009

    A new brand identity for the Blighty channel, formerly UKTV People, created by Red Bee Media.

  • Panasonic unveils budget 10-bit camcorder

    17-Feb-2009

    Panasonic has unveiled a new P2 HD camcorder for budget conscious professional shooters who want to use the high-end AVC-Intra codec.

  • Jigsaw to sell Boxx workstations

    17-Feb-2009

    Reseller Jigsaw Systems been accredited to sell and support Boxx Technologies' high performance workstations in the UK.

  • Sequence secures Chiswick Park site

    17-Feb-2009

    Mac-based post production company Sequence Post has secured office space at Chiswick Park for its new west London facility.

  • Harris plans ‘virtual NAB'

    17-Feb-2009

    US manufacturer Harris plans to stream content from its NAB exhibition stand in Las Vegas so broadcasters that cannot afford to attend the trade show in person can still see its presentations and demos.

  • Omoshebi to join Ascent 142

    11-Feb-2009

    Ascent142 has poached Life on Mars colourist Jet Omoshebi from rival Pepper.

  • Procam on the move

    11-Feb-2009

    Equipment hire and crewing firm Procam Television will move to a new purpose-built facility in April.

  • Endemol adds Forscene workflow

    11-Feb-2009

    Endemol is using web-based editing and logging tools from Forbidden Technologies to speed up production on two of its factual shows.

  • Creative Review - The Culture Show

    10-Feb-2009

    Final Cut Pro finishing, completed by Clear Cut Pictures, on VT inserts for the current series of The Culture Show.

  • Halo adds third dubbing theatre

    10-Feb-2009

    Halo Post Production will install another Icon 32 fader D-Control mixing desk at its Great Portland Street building.

  • Beauvais to the Farm

    10-Feb-2009

    The Farm has recruited senior producer Rosie Beauvais from Ascent Media to head up the production team at Uncle Duplication & Digital Media.

  • Re:fine adds new operations head

    10-Feb-2009

    Newly re-branded content processing and re-purposing business Re:fine has appointed Brett Symes as its head of operations.

  • Rapid Pictures upgrades audio

    10-Feb-2009

    Rapid Pictures Post Production, the Shepherd's Bush based facility, has upgraded its entire audio department.

  • FilmLight to skip NAB

    10-Feb-2009

    FilmLight is the latest manufacturer to reveal its non-attendance at this year's NAB trade exhibition in Las Vegas.

  • Reidel opens Pinewood office

    10-Feb-2009

    Riedel Communications has opened a dedicated UK office in order to provide rental, sales and direct customer support for its digital intercom, radio and fibre products.

  • M8media adds facility manager

    10-Feb-2009

    Glasgow post house M8media has appointed Endemol Scotland's Angela Donnelly as its facility manager.

  • Creative Review - Promo for the Brits

    4-Feb-2009

    A musical Brit universe promo created especially for the Brit awards.

  • Creative Review - Panorama: Tax Me If You Can

    4-Feb-2009

    Graphics to illustrate the financial climate in a visually engaging way.

  • Unpaid bill threatens The Club

    4-Feb-2009

    Covent Garden facility The Club has entered into insolvency proceedings after being told that one of its major customers is unlikely to be able to pay a£110,000 bill for post-production work.

  • Avid to cut number of resellers

    4-Feb-2009

    Avid will reduce the number of companies that it allows to sell its digital media production technology across EMEA and India by at least 10% as it tries to improve relations with customers.

  • Clear Cut adds more FCP

    3-Feb-2009

    Shepherd's Bush facility Clear Cut Pictures has installed a tenth Final Cut Pro (FCP) online and Color grading suite in order to cope with further demand for Mac technology-based post-production and finishing.

  • Framestore producer joins Big Buoy

    3-Feb-2009

    Big Buoy has recruited post producer Ian Harland from Framestore CFC.

  • Thomson to sell Grass Valley

    3-Feb-2009

    Thomson has put its Grass Valley division up for sale after revealing a fall in year-on-year revenues and admitting that it is ‘likely' to breach a debt covenant.

  • Ionoco adds real-time voting apps

    3-Feb-2009

    Ionoco is launching new voting and opinion polling applications within its viewer participation products.

  • Quantel opts out of NAB

    3-Feb-2009

    The global financial crisis continues to have an impact on the broadcast equipment manufacturing sector with Quantel the latest company to announce that it will not be exhibiting at NAB this year.

  • Rent adds prime lenses and adaptors

    3-Feb-2009

    Rent, The Farm Group's one-year-old equipment hire division, has added new lens kit to its camera rental stock.

  • Nick UK opts for Nexus playout

    29-Jan-2009

    Nickelodeon UK is installing a tapeless playout system at its Rathbone Place HQ that will deal with its channels' graphics, editing and transmission processes from a single box the size of a DVD player.

  • The Farm plans LA facility

    29-Jan-2009

    The Farm Group plans to open a new facility in Los Angeles later this year.

  • Sequence sets sights on Soho

    27-Jan-2009

    Sequence Post will open two new satellite offices in March in a bid to bring its Mac technology-based post-production services closer to its clients.

  • Gearhouse adds EVS servers

    27-Jan-2009

    Gearhouse Broadcast has bought ten new EVS XT[2] servers which will be used to aid coverage of a number of sports including tennis, football and rugby.

  • New kit and staff for Beautiful TV

    27-Jan-2009

    Beautiful TV is expanding its boutique motion graphics operation with a re-furb, some new technology and two new members of staff.

  • Unit adds new vfx staff

    27-Jan-2009

    Unit has added two new members of staff to its visual effects department.

  • Horrobin to join Smoke and Mirrors

    27-Jan-2009

    Colourist Mark Horrobin will leave the Moving Picture Company next month in order to join Smoke and Mirrors.

  • Creative Review - Eden launch

    27-Jan-2009

    Four idents for the rebranded UKTV Documentary channel.

  • Creative Review - Promos for Rehab

    27-Jan-2009

    3D promos based on the concept of rebuilding broken lives.

  • Creative Review - Pete Doherty In 24 Hours

    27-Jan-2009

    Titles and content graphics for a documentary following Pete Doherty during London Fashion Week.

  • Rogue to launch mobile facility

    23-Jan-2009

    Digital cinematography services company Rogue Element Films is putting the finishing touches to a new mobile facility that will provide support on location for HDcam SR and data-based camera shoots.

  • Loft London in Signiant deal

    23-Jan-2009

    Loft London has bought a Signiant digital media distribution management software suite as part of a new media hub installation at its South London facility.

  • Bubble adds former Wild Tracks mixer

    20-Jan-2009

    Bubble TV has taken on dubbing mixer and composer Simon Harris.

  • Noel benefits from Fountain Studios re-fit

    20-Jan-2009

    Sky One show Noel's HQ has become the first live HD production to take advantage of Fountain Studios' recent£1.5m HD overhaul.

  • Sales dip for Vitec Group

    20-Jan-2009

    The Vitec Group plc faced a ‘softening in demand' for its camera peripherals and RF systems products during the last quarter of 2008.

  • Autodesk silent on potential UK job cuts

    20-Jan-2009

    Redundancies at Autodesk, announced last week, will impact on the Media and Entertainment division but the company has decided not to reveal whether or not UK staff will be affected.

  • DS Nitris editor joins The Joint

    20-Jan-2009

    The Joint has recruited editor Jeffrey May to drive its Avid DS Nitris Suite.

  • Sony ready for BVE showcase

    20-Jan-2009

    Sony will use Broadcast Video Expo (BVE) to launch a compact point-of-view HD camera and to show off its latest tapeless and hybrid camcorders.

  • On Sight snaps up Axis Films

    15-Jan-2009

    On Sight has bought specialist hire firm Axis Films for an undisclosed sum, just hours after the Shepperton Studios based company was placed in administration.

  • Raw Cut takes post work in-house

    15-Jan-2009

    Raw Cut Television will install a second Avid DS finishing system this month as part of a move that will see the Road Wars indie do the majority of its editing and finishing in-house.

  • Mill to launch Mac-based studio

    15-Jan-2009

    The Mill will officially launch a new Mac technology-based design and visual effects department next week that will work specifically on multiplatform content.

  • Peto quits Unit

    14-Jan-2009

    Adam Luckwell has been appointed as the new chief executive of post-production facility Unit following the resignation of founder and former CEO David Peto.

  • Coach House brings in ex-BBC production head

    13-Jan-2009

    Former BBC head of production Paul Richmond is to work in an advisory role with The Coach House Studios as the editing facility looks to widen its customer base.

  • Evolutions adds Icon desk

    13-Jan-2009

    Audio post reseller Scrub has installed a Digidesign Icon D-Control ES mixing console at Evolutions' newly acquired Great Pulteney Street location.

  • Autodesk snub prompts Foundry price cut

    13-Jan-2009

    The Foundry has slashed the price of its Autodesk plug-ins after being dropped from the manufacturer's software developer programme.

  • Pixel Farm founder dies

    13-Jan-2009

    Richard Spohrer, the co-founder of UK visual effects software company The Pixel Farm, passed away suddenly on 31 December 2008 aged 43.

  • Halo adds Bafta winner

    13-Jan-2009

    Halo Post Production has recruited Bafta award winning dubbing mixer and sound editor Pete Gates and added a new facility director.

  • JVC unveils Quicktime camcorder

    13-Jan-2009

    JVC has launched a new camcorder that makes it possible for Final Cut Pro users to instantly edit recorded material without having to convert the file first.

  • Creative Review - VFX on Myths

    13-Jan-2009

    Visual effects work carried out by Smoke and Mirrors on a BBC Switch series featuring modern versions of Greek stories.

  • Former Autodesk manager joins Avid

    13-Jan-2009

    Avid has confirmed the appointed of former Autodesk country manager Simon Brett as senior sales manager for UK and Ireland.

  • Morris handed Elstree Studios job

    16-Dec-2008

    Former Teddington Studios managing director Roger Morris has been appointed as the new MD of Elstree Studios, the home of Big Brother.

  • A boost for the little guy

    16-Dec-2008

    A common industry approach to on-demand TV over broadband could prove to be a real tipping point for small and independent content creators argues Will Strauss.

  • NTP buys up Digital Audio Denmark

    16-Dec-2008

    NTP Technology has acquired Digital Audio Denmark (DAD), the manufacturer of analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters.

  • Smallwood joins Beam TV

    16-Dec-2008

    The Mill has appointed former Mindshare Worldwide client leader Mike Smallwood as the new managing director of Beam TV.

  • Technology supply sector faces ‘challenging times'

    16-Dec-2008

    Confidence amongst senior executives in the supply and manufacturing part of the broadcast and media technology sector has declined sharply according to the latest IABM Industry Trends Survey.

  • Miranda to buy Nvision for£27m

    11-Dec-2008

    Miranda Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of privately held routing system manufacturer Nvision.

  • Decision looms on Vividas arms' fate

    11-Dec-2008

    The fate of the Australasian and US subsidiaries of UK video streaming company Vividas could be decided today (Thursday) as administrators close the door on potential offers.

  • Ionoco plans LA office in global format push

    11-Dec-2008

    Ionoco, the broadcast technology company that supports Fremantle Media's Million Dollar Password and Endemol's 20Q, is to open an office in Los Angeles.

  • Woolcocks joins IPV

    9-Dec-2008

    IPV has appointed Patrick Woolcocks as its new business development manager.

  • Rycote launches ‘shock wig' windshields

    9-Dec-2008

    Rycote has added new models to its range of Mini Windjammer miniature windshields.

  • Polecam plans BVE debuts

    9-Dec-2008

    Four new mobile production tools from Polecam will make their UK debut at Broadcast Video Expo next year.

  • Front Porch reveals DIVAsolo

    9-Dec-2008

    Content storage management company Front Porch Digital has launched an all-in-one technology application for migrating content from legacy videotape to high-density data tape.

  • Megahertz adds Stopford

    9-Dec-2008

    Omnibus Systems vice president of sales Robert Stopford has joined systems integrator Megahertz Broadcast Systems as director of sales.

  • Pro Motion Hire heads for Waterloo

    9-Dec-2008

    Broadcast equipment rental company Pro Motion Hire has relocated its London office to a larger, purpose-fitted facility just south of the river in Waterloo.

  • Blue helps to bring back the 60s

    9-Dec-2008

    The telecine and restoration team at Blue post production is transferring more than a hundred hours of unseen interviews from the 1960s for a new BFI online research tool to be launched next year.

  • Magnolia unveils web re-purposing tool

    9-Dec-2008

    Magnolia has launched a new Java-based, open source content management system that allows broadcasters to manage and serve their content over the Internet.

  • Creative Review - Zero G

    4-Dec-2008

    Zero gravity channel idents and promos created for Space Week on Nat Geo.

  • Pharos sets up Salford development base

    4-Dec-2008

    Pharos has opened a new software development facility at The Pie Factory in Salford.

  • SNG unveils fixed-receive network

    4-Dec-2008

    SNG Broadcast Services is launching a resource that will allow news crews to operate wireless cameras in central London without a satellite uplink or -radio-link vehicle.

  • Concrete set for major changes

    4-Dec-2008

    Concrete Post Ltd has convened a meeting of members and creditors for Monday 8 December in order for the company to be placed into creditors' voluntary liquidation.

  • Ascent 142 adds BrightDrive

    2-Dec-2008

    Bright Systems, the US disk-recording and data infrastructure technology developer, has installed a BrightDrive media recording system at Ascent 142.

  • Case study: Wayne Rooney's Street Striker

    2-Dec-2008

    How creative agency Ingredient created and posted a title sequence for Coke Zero Presents: Wayne Rooney's Street Striker on Sky 1.

  • Disk-based media archive product launched

    2-Dec-2008

    Object Matrix is working with distributor Channel Dynamics to launch The MatrixStore, a new multi purpose disk-based archive product designed for media businesses with large data libraries.

  • Avid offers new 384TB Isis Unity

    2-Dec-2008

    Avid has revealed that version 2.0 of its blade-based Unity ISIS storage system will offer up to 384 terabytes of storage and be able to handle up to 330 users at the same time.

  • Thomas: cut jobs or make losses

    2-Dec-2008

    BBC Resources chief executive Mark Thomas has acknowledged that the facilities company would have made losses and been forced to focus on “surviving rather than thriving” without this week's announced job cuts.

  • BBC Resources to axe 210 jobs

    1-Dec-2008

    BBC Resources could cut as many as 210 jobs as part of a restructure at the corporation-owned facilities business.

  • Medway boosts post file exchange for ITV

    27-Nov-2008

    ITV has added a Medway file interchange system to the workflow for its new BT-managed Content Store.

  • Future Media set to merge brands

    27-Nov-2008

    Content processing and re-pur-posing business Future Media Group will bring its three companies under a single brand next year and move them all into the same building.

  • What's that coming over the hill?

    25-Nov-2008

    With the NFL about to embark on a test broadcast of a live 3D American Football game, the interest in stereoscopic telly is really starting to grow, suggests Will Strauss.

  • Headcases grabs RTS innovation award

    25-Nov-2008

    ITV1 animated satirical series Headcases was handed the coveted Innovation award at the RTS Craft and Design Awards on Monday night.

  • Quantel unveils Red Conform

    25-Nov-2008

    Quantel has released Red conform and import, a software update for the eQ, iQ, Sid and Pablo finishing and colour correction systems designed to help post-produce projects shot on the Red camera.

  • Second ContentAgent sale to ITFC

    25-Nov-2008

    Root6 Technology has sold a second ContentAgent repurposing platform to ITFC.

  • MPC promotes as Cannon leaves

    24-Nov-2008

    The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has promoted head of strategic projects Davie Johnston to the role of chief technology officer, replacing Nick Cannon who has left to become chief operating officer at Escape Studios.

  • Sendall moves in with Concrete

    24-Nov-2008

    Morgan Sendall has moved into Concrete's Dean Street facility where he will work as an independent creative director, designer and producer.

  • Hospital doc uses remote workflow to streamline post

    19-Nov-2008

    Talkback Thames has made use of a specially created remote access workflow for the post-production of its new BBC daytime documentary series Hospital Heroes.

  • When technology makes things better

    18-Nov-2008

    Remote, web-based, shared media, tapeless. These are not just buzz words, argues Will Strauss, they're ways of making production a little easier, quicker and more efficient.

  • TSI signs Ionoco deal

    17-Nov-2008

    TSI Broadcast has signed a 12 month rolling contract to supply Ionoco's Web2TV product to its broadcast services clients.

  • I'm a Celebrity... design me some new titles

    17-Nov-2008

    Design company Component Graphics is behind the re-brand and new opening titles for the latest series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

  • Primatte keyer added to Quantel arsenal

    17-Nov-2008

    Quantel is making the latest version of Imagica's Primatte keyer plug-in available to users of its iQ, eQ and Pablo systems.

  • Adobe and Red test R3D workflow

    17-Nov-2008

    Adobe and Red are beta testing an importer plug-in for Premiere Pro, Encore and After Effects that will allow the software to natively handle R3D files created by Red cameras.

  • Red unveils customizable video/stills cameras

    14-Nov-2008

    Red Digital Cinema has conjured up a range of configurable professional cameras that shoot both video and still images, can capture resolutions of up to 28k and also work in stereo 3D.

  • TV focuses on a greener future

    12-Nov-2008

    Television as an industry uses up vast amounts of power, but it's rising to the challenge to go green and reduce its carbon footprint with a host of new products and initiatives.

  • Going green AND boosting your business

    11-Nov-2008

    Reducing your carbon footprint is not an entirely selfless act, suggests Will Strauss. Going green can also be good for your business.

  • Barmer joins Absolute Post

    11-Nov-2008

    Absolute Post has appointed former The Mill managing director Andy Barmer as its new production director.

  • Saddam takes on the Ice Dancers

    11-Nov-2008

    The BBC2 drama House of Saddam and ITV1 skating extravaganza Dancing on Ice are the front-runners to win big at this year's RTS Craft and Design Awards after both shows picked up three nominations each.

  • PPC adds Apple and Avid SANs

    11-Nov-2008

    The Picture Production Company has updated its post facilities with the addition of new SANs, software and systems upgrades from Root6.

  • Aimimage takes control of Ice Film

    6-Nov-2008

    Aimimage has acquired the assets of camera hire and retail company Ice Film Equipment Ltd, which went into liquidation last month.

  • Digital switch starts in Scottish Borders

    6-Nov-2008

    Tens of thousands of TV viewers in the Scottish Borders region lost the first of their analogue channels today (Thursday) as digital switch-over began in earnest.

  • UKTV streamlines operation

    6-Nov-2008

    UKTV is crediting a new multi-million-pound broadcast management system with allowing it to rebrand its channels without having to employ extra staff.

  • And so it came to pass

    5-Nov-2008

    Will Strauss made a prediction about mergers and acquisitions and it came true. In his latest blog he wonders what can be done to stop them failing.

  • Millicent brings DTP-style working to TV

    4-Nov-2008

    Best Before Media has developed a web-enabled, software-based channel production toolset that can just as easily power a traditional channel on Sky as it can broadcast to a public screen or live web stream.

  • Kentish Town Studios helps gaming channel expand

    4-Nov-2008

    Gaming channel Challenge Jackpot has extended its broadcasting hours and launched a service on Sky, all done using the Kentish Town studios in London as its base.

  • Gearhouse wins jungle gig

    4-Nov-2008

    ITV Productions has awarded Gearhouse Broadcast the contract to provide technical and broadcast facilities for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

  • Hiring Post brings post workflow to Brownsea Island

    4-Nov-2008

    BBC Post Production in Birmingham is using an on-location Avid-based post workflow to help with the making of BBC2 series Autumnwatch.

  • Bugbears - UGC monsters with a public purpose

    29-Oct-2008

    CBBC is to launch a new website that gives children a chance to anonymously share stories and discuss personal concerns.

  • More exhibitors join Broadcast Video Expo

    29-Oct-2008

    Technology exhibition Broadcast Video Expo will be 25% bigger next year after adding a host of new audio, asset management and IPTV exhibitors.

  • Avid cuts 400 jobs in global restructuring

    29-Oct-2008

    Avid Technology is to cut more than 400 jobs in a re-organisation that will see its video, audio and consumer businesses operate as a single company.

  • Softimage to Autodesk: the end of an era?

    29-Oct-2008

    One company owning most of the 3D animation software market will have plusses and minuses, says Will Strauss.

  • Fifi and Roary get the Smoke treatment

    28-Oct-2008

    Manchester facility Hullabaloo Studios has bought an Autodesk Smoke editing and finishing system for its new video post-production arm.

  • Twofour adds to Media Freedom capabilities

    28-Oct-2008

    Twofour Digital, the technology services arm of the Twofour Group, has added new ingest and encoding capabilities to its Media Freedom webTV platform.

  • Red to open Pinewood base

    28-Oct-2008

    Red Digital Cinema will launch its first operation outside the US when it opens a support facility at Pinewood Studios next week.

  • Avid sells Pinnacle PCTV products

    27-Oct-2008

    Avid Technology has made its second divestment in the space of a week after signing a definitive agreement to sell its Pinnacle PCTV product line and related assets to Hauppauge Digital.

  • Avid to sell Softimage to Autodesk

    24-Oct-2008

    Avid Technology is leaving the 3D animation sector after agreeing to sell its Softimage business unit and product line to Autodesk for $35m (£22m).

  • Skillset consults staff over redundancy plan

    23-Oct-2008

    Creative media training body Skillset has begun a consultation process that could result in 15% of its 67 staff across all its nine regions being made redundant.

  • Pinewood joins forces with Stephen Street

    23-Oct-2008

    Pinewood Studios has secured a central London base by forging a strategic relationship with Stephen Street Studios.

  • Men From Mars moves to Molinare site

    23-Oct-2008

    Century-owned visual effects facility Men From Mars is planning to move into sister company Molinare's Fouberts Place base in the first quarter of next year.

  • Finaliser given simultaneous grade and ingest ability

    23-Oct-2008

    Edifis has re-engineered the disk infrastructure on its Finaliser colour corrector so that it can grade and ingest material at the same time.

  • BBC uses mobile phones to shoot music doc

    23-Oct-2008

    BBC audio and music has produced a part UGC feature-length documentary for this week's Electric Proms shot entirely using mobile phone cameras.

  • Pandas and penguins and Panasonic P2

    21-Oct-2008

    Will Strauss reports from the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol as wildlife and natural history programme makers give their opinions on file-based production.

  • Ascent builds Current TV remote studio

    21-Oct-2008

    The systems and technology services division of Ascent Media has completed the build of a new studio for the part UGC channel Current TV.

  • Amis buys XDcam for Volvo Ocean Race

    21-Oct-2008

    CVP-Mitcorp has supplied tapeless camera kit and shooting packages for the 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean Race, which is being shot in HD for the first time.

  • Oculus adds Editshare for Wild at Heart

    21-Oct-2008

    Oculus Post has bought a four terabyte EditShare storage system to help with production of the next series of ITV1 drama Wild at Heart.

  • Vitec buys Talkdynamics for£1.4m

    21-Oct-2008

    Camera peripherals and accessories group Vitec will continue its 2008 spending spree by acquiring the Technologies Talkdynamics business for£1.4m.

  • Yorkshire's got talent

    21-Oct-2008

    With over 10,000 people working in TV, radio, new media and games, Yorkshire is a key player in the creative sector. Will Strauss takes a look at the shape of the industry and how it is starting to embrace cross-platform production.

  • C4 and ITV to launch HD Freeview channels

    17-Oct-2008

    Channel 4 and ITV will both be allocated slots on Freeview to provide HD services, Ofcom has confirmed.

  • On Sight to hire out P2 cards

    16-Oct-2008

    On Sight plans to offer Panasonic P2 memory cards for hire as part of a concerted effort by the two companies to make IT-based tapeless working more affordable.

  • Digital Vision handed bankruptcy protection

    16-Oct-2008

    The short-term future of Digital Vision, the Swedish manufacturer behind the Film Master grading system, has been secured after the company successfully applied for its domestic equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • Ice Patrol goes tapeless

    16-Oct-2008

    The makers of a new high definition ob-doc for Five and National Geographic are hoping that tapeless camera technology will help them successfully complete 16 weeks filming and editing on a Royal Navy ship bound for the Antarctic.

  • Ionostorm to calm participation TV fears

    15-Oct-2008

    ionoco and Content Guru have fused together their Storm and graphics technologies to create a new end-to-end innovation designed to help producers create participation TV formats.

  • Hireworks invests in new Avid systems

    14-Oct-2008

    Hireworks, the Pinewood based Film and TV editing equipment rental company, is continuing its current expansion by investing more than£300,000 in new Avid technology.

  • The Mill joins the data lab providers

    8-Oct-2008

    The Mill is the latest facilities company to launch a dedicated Data Lab service offering to oversee tapeless shoots and deal with footage through pre, production and post.

  • Jobs to go as Quantel focuses on software

    8-Oct-2008

    Editing and effects systems manufacturer Quantel is to cut a significant number of jobs as part of plans to concentrate on software rather than hardware development, Broadcast has learned.

  • 3,000 hours of history go online

    8-Oct-2008

    Colleges are to get free online access to more than 3,000 hours of film and TV news from the past 100 years following a collaboration between academia and the broadcast industry.

  • Whose line-in, line-out is it anyway?

    8-Oct-2008

    In a world where technology transcends boundaries, Will Strauss stumbles across a debate about who the broadcast equipment customer really is.

  • Rogue Element Films in TV push

    7-Oct-2008

    Rogue Element Films is hoping to attract more TV producers by offering up its inventory of lenses and 35mm support equipment for hire via a dedicated rental service.

  • Dolby Digital Plus added to ContentAgent

    7-Oct-2008

    Root6 Technology has added Dolby Digital Plus to the post-production deliverables on its ContentAgent repurposing platform.

  • Case study: You Are Powerful

    7-Oct-2008

    How three Soho post facilities joined forces to work on a hard-hitting and poignant project for Amnesty International.

  • Free satellite services boom

    7-Oct-2008

    More than 900,000 households in the UK now own equipment that gives them access to free satellite television services, according to Ofcom.

  • Satellite the key to mobile TV success, says report

    7-Oct-2008

    Mobile satellite services that allow users to receive television and radio on mobile phones and in vehicles even when in remote regions could soon be available across Europe, according to the findings of a new report.

  • Case Study: Big Cat Live

    7-Oct-2008

    BBC Post Production is supporting Big Cat Live with a tapeless workflow set-up designed to help the show's editors and web producers prepare and transmit content simultaneously whilst on location.

  • ITV backs new content tracking standard

    7-Oct-2008

    ITV is adopting a new standard for tracking its programme content around the world and across multimedia platforms.

  • CVP-Mitcorp adds to NW presence

    5-Oct-2008

    Equipment dealer CVP-Mitcorp has taken advantage of the demise of Preston-based reseller Video Source by recruiting three of its former members of staff and taking a lease on its vacant office building.

  • BBC upgrade makes use of Crystal Vision boards

    1-Oct-2008

    Crystal Vision has revealed that 165 of its interface boards are being used in the newly upgraded Studio Four at BBC Television Centre.

  • The Conch Awards winners 2008

    1-Oct-2008

    Hackenbacker and De Lane Lea were the big winners at the 2008 Conch Sound Awards, picking up the best TV and best film facility gongs respectively.

  • Smoke added to Aardman workflow

    1-Oct-2008

    Aardman Animations has bought an Autodesk Smoke editing and finishing system and added it to the workflow for its new Cbeebies series Timmy.

  • BBC upgrade makes use of Crystal Vision boards

    1-Oct-2008

    Crystal Vision has revealed that 165 of its interface boards are being used in the newly upgraded Studio Four at BBC Television Centre.

  • Smoke added to Aardman workflow

    1-Oct-2008

    Aardman Animations has bought an Autodesk Smoke editing and finishing system and added it to the workflow for its new Cbeebies series Timmy.

  • The Conch Awards winners 2008

    1-Oct-2008

    Hackenbacker and De Lane Lea were the big winners at the 2008 Conch Sound Awards, picking up the best TV and film facility gongs respectively.

  • Avid adds Red support

    30-Sep-2008

    Avid Technology is the latest company to sign a R3D Software Developer's Kit (SDK) License agreement, making it possible for producers to create workflows using the Red One and Avid editing software.

  • Pharos Mediator sold to Ascent Media

    30-Sep-2008

    Ascent Media is adding Pharos Mediator content management technology to its Stephen Street playout facility.

  • First Cuts software puts editing on ‘auto pilot'

    24-Sep-2008

    A new sub-£200 piece of software that generates a first edit of a documentary by itself is set to divide the editing community.

  • Thomson launches slo-mo system

    24-Sep-2008

    Thomson will hope to put a dent in EVS's dominance of the outside broadcast slow-motion market when it releases a new instant replay controller and media server later this year.

  • Should we let the software do the first edit?

    24-Sep-2008

    A new piece of software that works with FCP has the potential to save an editor time - and act as inspiration - by doing the first rough cut by itself. But does this ‘artificial intelligence' take away the craft of the editor, wonders Will Strauss.

  • Root6 sells ContentAgent to ITN

    23-Sep-2008

    ITN will use Root6's re-purposing platform ContentAgent to help with the transcoding and digitising of its archive.

  • 2nd Sense picks up Euphonix console

    23-Sep-2008

    Euphonix has secured the first UK sale for its S5 Fusion digital mixing audio system.

  • SIS Live continues fleet modernisation

    23-Sep-2008

    SIS Live, the broadcast division formed by the merger of BBC Outside Broadcasts and SIS Link, has completed its most advanced HD vehicle to date as part of a modernisation of its fleet.

  • Case study: Grandpa in my pocket

    23-Sep-2008

    How a Codex-based tapeless workflow helped the production team on a Cbeebies show to make rapid visual effects decisions while on-set.

  • IBC round-up: Monitors and displays

    23-Sep-2008

    New monitors and displays launched and demonstrated at IBC from Sony, JVC, Barco, Philips, Ikegami and Vutrix.

  • Clear Cut picks up Alchemist

    23-Sep-2008

    Clear Cut Pictures has taken delivery of a new Alchemist Ph.C-HD motion compensated standards converter from Snell and Wilcox.

  • Sony takes lead role in new BSkyB centre

    19-Sep-2008

    BSkyB is building a new broadcasting facility with a£77m technology fit-out and has named Sony as the lead systems integrator on the project.

  • Evolutions puts£1m into latest upgrade

    18-Sep-2008

    Evolutions is investing£1m in new editing, audio and grading equipment and plans to centralise its machine room operations.

  • IBC: Recession! What recession?

    17-Sep-2008

    With IBC apparently buoyant this year, despite a global recession, Will Strauss attempts to take the pulse of the manufacturing sector.

  • Super Hi-Vision to arrive early

    16-Sep-2008

    The next generation of high definition television, Super Hi-Vision, will become a consumer service earlier than anticipated, it was revealed at IBC.

  • MTV spends£2m on master control room upgrade

    11-Sep-2008

    MTV has spent£2m upgrading the infrastructure of the master control room (MCR) at its transmission and media centre in Camden.

  • TSL to build C4 playout facility

    11-Sep-2008

    Red Bee Media has handed broadcast systems integrator TSL the multimillion pound contract to build a new playout facility for Channel 4.

  • HD Heaven and Platform Post buy DS v10

    10-Sep-2008

    Two more post facilities have signed up for the new version of Avid's DS finishing system, which launched last month.

  • VidiGo gets Youtube video and audio capability

    9-Sep-2008

    Dutch company Delta Solutions will launch a new version of VidiGo Live at IBC that will allow Flash video and audio - such as Youtube clips - to be added directly into live TV programming.

  • Link shows mobile phone remote control

    9-Sep-2008

    Link Research will use IBC to demonstrate a new remote control facility for its wireless cameras that uses the mobile phone network.

  • Livewire plans double IBC launch

    9-Sep-2008

    Livewire Digital will unveil a new real-time broadcast transmission system for remote and hostile locations and its latest range of waterproof cameras at IBC.

  • SSL aids journalists in the field

    9-Sep-2008

    Solid State Logic (SSL) will use IBC to show how its Gravity Mobile Record application can help professional journalists in the field to record and upload stories via a 3G mobile phone network.

  • ITFC adds Alchemist for ITV HD gig

    9-Sep-2008

    Post-production facilities company ITFC has picked up a Snell and Wilcox Alchemist Ph.C HD converter in order to supply services to ITV's HD service on Freesat.

  • IBC: editor's choice

    9-Sep-2008

    Will Strauss offers up his selection of products to look out for at this week's IBC exhibition in Amsterdam.

  • Content Agent gets Red upgrade

    3-Sep-2008

    Root6 Technology will use IBC to unveil an updated version of its Content Agent system that works with files from the Red One camera.

  • Vitec adds Litepanels to expanding group

    3-Sep-2008

    The Vitec Group is eyeing more acquisitions after adding two more equipment companies to its camera accessories interests.

  • Take 2 Films takes three Sony F35 cameras

    3-Sep-2008

    Sony has had early UK success with its new£125,000 F35 digital cinematography camera.

  • Why HD is potentially child's play

    3-Sep-2008

    Will Strauss looks at HD adoption and understanding amongst viewers in the UK.

  • Ross chat show goes HD

    2-Sep-2008

    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross will this week become the first high definition production to be recorded in BBC Studios' new HD Studio, the re-vamped Studio Four.

  • BBC successful with HD over DTT test

    2-Sep-2008

    BBC Kingswood Warren engineers, undeterred by talk of strike action, have for the first time successfully demonstrated a working demodulator capable of receiving HD signals transmitted using the DVB-T2 standard.

  • The Farm quick to snap up DS v10

    2-Sep-2008

    Reseller Root6 has taken the first UK orders for Avid DS version 10, the iteration of the high-end finishing system that launched last week.

  • Rushes upgrades TK and motion graphics suites

    2-Sep-2008

    Ascent Media owned post and effects facility Rushes has revamped its motion graphics suite and added a Da Vinci Resolve to its telecine department.

  • OmniTek in waveform monitor giveaway

    2-Sep-2008

    Test and measurement manufacturer OmniTek will give away a brand new OTM1000 waveform monitor system at IBC as part of a competition for visitors to its stand.

  • UK Screen announces new board

    2-Sep-2008

    UK Screen, the trade body that represents film and TV service companies, has unveiled the names of its new board of directors for 2008/2009.

  • Summer Wine adds mobile colour timing suite

    28-Aug-2008

    The BBC team filming the next series of Last of the Summer Wine are making use of a new live on-set pre-grading technique, the latest in a line of workflow innovations aiding production of the classic sitcom.

  • Public confused by HD, says survey

    28-Aug-2008

    More than half of UK viewers are reluctant to invest in HD televisions and set-top boxes because of confusion over industry jargon, new research has revealed.

  • Motor racing style transmission system unveiled

    26-Aug-2008

    Drivedata, the independent technology company founded by ex-Thundersaloon racer John Chambers, is introducing a new digital video and audio transmission system.

  • Avid unveils DS version 10

    26-Aug-2008

    The latest incarnation of Avid's DS editing and finishing system will include Symphony-style secondary colour correction and do away with the need for a Nitris accelerator box.

  • Ten grand wildlife film up for grabs

    26-Aug-2008

    Panasonic and On Sight are backing a Wildscreen Festival short film competition that offers the winners the chance to produce their own 30-minute HD wildlife documentary.

  • BBC Kingswood Warren faces strike action

    26-Aug-2008

    Bectu members at the BBC's Kingswood Warren Research and Innovation centre will go on strike on Friday in protest at plans to move the pioneering technology development department to London.

  • Information TV chooses Geevs for playout

    26-Aug-2008

    Information TV, the Ofcom licensed public service channel, has installed a Geevs broadcast video server, saving the broadcaster thousands of pounds in third-party playout costs.

  • IBC to show Katzenberg interview in live 3D

    20-Aug-2008

    The world's first transatlantic high-definition stereoscopic 3D broadcast will take place at next month's IBC technology exhibition.

  • Devil's Lane unveils commissioning site

    20-Aug-2008

    New multiplatform production company Devil's Lane is using a self-built website application to help get its programme ideas commissioned.

  • Axis adds data and digital specialist

    19-Aug-2008

    Axis Films has hired Michael Rosario as its new technical client coordinator.

  • The Look makes long form move

    19-Aug-2008

    Soho post boutique The Look is aiming to up its productivity and do more long form post work after adding a Quantel Genetic Engineering system.

  • Arqiva upgrades Sky speedway coverage

    19-Aug-2008

    Sky Sports will produce key international Speedway fixtures in HD after agreeing a deal with Arqiva.

  • Fairlight adds new UK dealer

    19-Aug-2008

    Total Audio Solutions has been appointed as the UK supplier for Fairlight digital audio workstations.

  • Quantel on IABM shortlist

    14-Aug-2008

    Quantel is one of 10 finalists in this year's IABM Peter Wayne award for design and innovation.

  • IT workflow training offered

    14-Aug-2008

    VET and Panasonic are teaming up to provide tapeless IT workflow training courses.

  • Turner Kids creative boss opts for Red

    14-Aug-2008

    The head of creative and production for Turner Kids has given Red One camera footage the thumbs up.

  • PMSE spectrum to be overseen by new body

    13-Aug-2008

    Ofcom plans to appoint a regulated but self-financing “band manager” to look after the spectrum needs of programme-makers after digital switchover.

  • Good and bad news for mobile TV

    13-Aug-2008

    Disappointing industry research results point to a difficult future for mobile television in this county. So maybe it's time for a different approach, suggests Will Strauss.

  • UK Screen board shortlist unveiled

    12-Aug-2008

    UK Screen Association, the trade body that represents the TV and Film services market, has published the names of the candidates that will stand in this year's Board Elections.

  • Prism moves into Sadie building

    12-Aug-2008

    Prism Sound, the manufacturer that bought the audio workstation brand Sadie earlier this year, is consolidating its businesses and moving into a building previously owned by Studio and Audio Video Ltd.

  • Digital Vision adds support for Red files

    12-Aug-2008

    Digital Vision has adapted all of its picture enhancement software systems so that they will now support footage captured with Red One cameras.

  • Beam TV goes mobile

    12-Aug-2008

    Beam TV, the global approval and distribution network, is making footage available to its clients via web-enabled mobile phones.

  • DVCPro HD records Games

    7-Aug-2008

    Host broadcast feeds provided by Beijing Olympic Broadcasting (BOB) at the Games will be produced using Panasonic DVCPro P2 HD solid-state cameras and recorders.

  • BBC beds down HD facility for Beijing

    7-Aug-2008

    BBC Sport and BBC Resources have constructed a 1,500sq m multiplatform HD production facility in Beijing to produce tele-vision and interactive coverage of the Olympics.

  • British tech firms make strong Olympic showing

    7-Aug-2008

    British technology and facilities companies are taking their expertise to Beijing to help provide broadcasters with unilateral coverage of the Olympics, which starts Friday 8 August.

  • Olympian innovation

    6-Aug-2008

    Will Strauss looks at a new research project that could result in technology capable of producing 'intelligent' interactive programming.

  • Red unveils first SDK

    5-Aug-2008

    Red Digital Cinema is releasing its first Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing third parties to write applications that will work directly with R3D files created in the Red digital camera.

  • Red Bee retains BBC interactive contract

    5-Aug-2008

    BBC Future Media and Technology has awarded a five-year, multi-million pound interactive services contract to Red Bee Media.

  • Rogue Elements adds Sony F23

    5-Aug-2008

    Digital cinematography company Rogue Element Films has bought a Sony F23 CineAlta camera to add to its hire fleet.

  • First Thomson Nexcode to The Pavement

    5-Aug-2008

    DVD authoring company The Pavement has added a Thomson Nexcode encoding system to its new Blu-ray production facilities.

  • Red Giant buys Digital Anarchy video plug-ins

    5-Aug-2008

    Digital Anarchy, the US-based developer of plug-ins for After Effects, FCP and Flame, has sold its video and 2D animation product line to Red Giant Software.

  • ITV picks 021 for FA Cup and England games

    5-Aug-2008

    021 Television has won the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for ITV's coverage of the FA Cup and England football Internationals from next season.

  • Ionoco lands Password systems deal

    31-Jul-2008

    A Winchester-based computer systems developer has been named as the preferred technology supplier for a Fremantle Media gameshow format currently airing on CBS in the US.

  • Box TV upgrades to HD with Sony XDCam kit

    31-Jul-2008

    Music channel broadcaster Box Television has upgraded its acquisition equipment to high definition with the purchase of Sony XDCam kit.

  • Dealing with a recession

    30-Jul-2008

    As facilities continue to close and manufacturers start to feel the pinch of the global credit crisis Will Strauss looks at what can be done to cope with an economic downturn.

  • Freesat commercial boss returns to DTG

    29-Jul-2008

    The Digital TV Group (DTG) has reappointed Richard Lindsay-Davies to the role of director general, replacing Dermot Nolan who left in June.

  • Gearhouse promises biggest OB truck in Europe

    29-Jul-2008

    Gearhouse Broadcast will show a triple expanding high definition outside broadcast unit at IBC that it believes to be the biggest in Europe.

  • Autocue to close London hire office

    29-Jul-2008

    Autocue Group Ltd, the British newsroom automation and teleprompting company, is to close its London-area rental business.

  • Thomson encoders used for Eurosport HD

    29-Jul-2008

    Eurosport HD will deliver HD video and audio to viewers around Europe using high-definition MPEG-4 ViBE encoders from Thomson.

  • Amberfin helps Turner convert back catalogue

    29-Jul-2008

    Turner Entertainment Networks has used iCR to make files on its outgoing Pinnacle playout servers compatible with its new Omneon ones.

  • Radio OB strike could affect Beijing coverage

    29-Jul-2008

    Industrial action by BBC radio outside broadcasts engineers - due to start this Thursday - could impact on the BBC's Olympics coverage, Bectu has revealed.

  • When two facilities worlds collide

    23-Jul-2008

    As more services and facilities providers look to merge, Will Strauss looks at the plus points and potential drawbacks of 'joining forces' with another company.

  • 021 secures Setanta SPL gig

    22-Jul-2008

    O21 Television will provide outside broadcast facilities for Setanta Sports' coverage of the Scottish Premier League next season.

  • Waveform monitors to NEP Visions

    22-Jul-2008

    NEP Visions has become the first company in the world to buy the new PTO760 waveform monitor from DK-Technologies.

  • Eutelsat channels turned off permanently

    22-Jul-2008

    Eutelsat Communications has revealed that four transponders on its W5 satellite will remain permanently out of use following a technical issue with its power supply sub-system last month.

  • Five tapeless move takes in IPV system

    22-Jul-2008

    IPV has installed its new Curator tapeless workflow solution at Five as part of the broadcaster's move towards a file-based environment.

  • BBC NI gets Omnibus automation back-up

    22-Jul-2008

    Systems integrator TSL has installed dual Colossus V3 playout automation systems in separate sites in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland.

  • Apace workflow used to post BBC3's Dog Borstal

    16-Jul-2008

    The producers of BBC3's dog training series Dog Borstal are making use of a new web-based media asset management and shared storage technology to speed up post-production on the series.

  • C4 and Red Bee conclude playout deal

    16-Jul-2008

    Channel 4 and Red Bee Media have rubber-stamped their playout deal and will now press on with appointing a systems integrator to build dedicated facilities at Red Bee's Broadcast Centre.

  • Making technology purchasing decisions

    16-Jul-2008

    Will Strauss looks at the perennial debate of which is best: the brand name product or a cheaper alternative.

  • Cruet uses Sadie to capture The Restaurant

    15-Jul-2008

    The Cruet Company is using a Sadie LRX2 location audio workstation to record multi-track audio for the second series of the BBC show The Restaurant.

  • Pavement adds business development manager

    15-Jul-2008

    DVD production and authoring facility The Pavement has appointed a new business development manager.

  • ATG appoints managing director designate

    15-Jul-2008

    Former Harris regional sales director Guy Elliott will be the next managing director of systems integrator ATG Broadcast.

  • Dirac Pro to bolster BBC HD links

    15-Jul-2008

    The BBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympics will make use of a new video compression tool developed by BBC Research and Innovation that squeezes HD signals down SD lines.

  • Panasonic teams up with Eurosport HD

    15-Jul-2008

    Equipment manufacturer Panasonic has been made an official partner of Eurosport HD, the simulcast sport channel that launches on Sky this week.

  • Envy to open£2m offline facility

    10-Jul-2008

    Envy is opening a£2m facility in October to service demand for short and long-form offline work.

  • Ofcom invites pitches for new HD channel slots

    10-Jul-2008

    Ofcom has invited public service broadcasters to pitch for the available capacity on DTT multiplex B, which has been confirmed as a high-definition service.

  • Red develops high-res sensor for new 5k Epic

    10-Jul-2008

    Red Digital Cinema, the US camera equipment manufacturer, is developing a new image sensor for a 5k digital camera it has not even finished building yet.

  • Pixelution tailors studio for Spider Eye

    10-Jul-2008

    Pixelution has installed a new studio infrastructure for Cornwall-based animation company Spider Eye to aid with production of the new pre-school Disney series Jungle Junction.

  • Online viewing vs broadband speeds

    9-Jul-2008

    As broadcasters search for new ways to monetize online viewing, Sky and Ofcom are looking at ways of speeding up the networks. This is no coincidence, argues Will Strauss.

  • Sumners adds Symphony Nitris DX systems

    8-Jul-2008

    Manchester post facility Sumners has taken delivery of three Avid Symphony DX Nitris systems from Root6 as it gears up for more HD work including new BBC3 comedy Trexx and Flipside.

  • Gearbox picks up Avid Nitris DX systems

    8-Jul-2008

    Equipment hire company GearBox has added five Media Composer Nitris DX systems and a Unity Media Network to its Avid non-linear editing rental stock.

  • Sssh! IMD helps broadcasters with ad loudness

    8-Jul-2008

    Advertising distribution service provider IMD has been signed up by ITV, Channel 4 and MTV to help meet new rules on the loudness of advertising.

  • Lime adds Pro-Bel router

    8-Jul-2008

    Pro-Bel has sold a large-scale HD Cygnus router to Lime Pictures as part of an upgrade to the company's production and post production infrastructure.

  • Making a big noise about Live at IndigO2

    8-Jul-2008

    How broadcast sound recording company Red TX is dealing with the quick turn around of bands while capturing the audio for ITV2's Live at IndigO2 series.

  • Ionoco introduces 'OB in a box'

    8-Jul-2008

    Ionoco has introduced a new low-cost production set-up that allows producers to make niche programming using web cameras and convert the output to broadcast quality.

  • Hireworks backs Mamma Mia and Harley Street

    8-Jul-2008

    Hireworks, the Pinewood based dry hire facility, has supplied editing equipment for the feature film Mamma Mia and new ITV drama series Harley Street.

  • Technology route masters

    8-Jul-2008

    Will Strauss examines the demands made of post-production and broadcast systems makers for commodity technology and systems integration

  • Tributes paid to promos legend

    4-Jul-2008

    Tributes have been flooding in for former History Channel creative director Terry Yetton who passed away on 18 June.

  • Snell and Wilcox adapts Kahuna for EVS XT2

    2-Jul-2008

    British manufacturer Snell and Wilcox has adapted its popular Kahuna SD/HD multi-format vision mixer so that it works directly with the EVS XT2 production server.

  • BBC testing DVB-T2 in run-up to HD Freeview

    2-Jul-2008

    The BBC has begun test transmissions of DVB-T2 in preparation for the launch of high-definition services on Freeview.

  • Camera Corps ready for Beijing role

    1-Jul-2008

    UK specialist camera systems company Camera Corps will play a key role in providing coverage of next month's Beijing Summer Olympics.

  • US broadcasters benefit from tapeless Wimbledon

    1-Jul-2008

    NBC, ESPN and Tennis Channel are making use of an on-site tapeless production set-up to provide coverage of this year's Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

  • TSL to upgrade NI assembly broadcast system

    1-Jul-2008

    Systems integrator TSL has won a contract to re-furbish the broadcast facilities within the historic Parliament buildings in Belfast where the Northern Ireland Assembly meets.

  • The great outdoor display revolution

    1-Jul-2008

    As a new digital advertising network launches, bringing commercial messages in full motion HD to London Underground commuters, Will Strauss wonders how far the technology can go.

  • DVB-T2: how the tests will work

    1-Jul-2008

    As preparations for the launch of HD on Freeview begin, Justin Mitchell from BBC research and innovation offers up some detail on the DVB-T2 trials.

  • Route masers

    1-Jul-2008

    In his second feature on equipment manufacturers' routes to market, Will Strauss examines the demands made of post-production and broadcast systems makers for commodity technology and systems integration.

  • S4C completes first HD children's programme

    1-Jul-2008

    Welsh-language broadcaster S4C is a step closer to its goal of making all programming in HD by 2012 after completing filming on its first high-definition children's programme.

  • Rise of the middle men

    25-Jun-2008

    In the first of two articles looking at broadcast equipment manufacturers' routes to market, Will Strauss looks at how acquisition kit makers approach the broadcast market as it moves to a HD and IT-based world.

  • Technicolor moves to Soho

    25-Jun-2008

    Technicolor will open a new seven-storey facility in Soho's Lexington Street in late autumn as part of a multimillion pound project to move its post-production and its creative services division from West Drayton.

  • Pace puts forward case for stereo 3D

    24-Jun-2008

    Vince Pace used his presentation at last week's Broadcast's Technology Summit to try to persuade UK programme makers that stereoscopic content is a viable production option.

  • Visions gets Mandela gig

    24-Jun-2008

    NEP Visions is working with Serpent Productions to deliver host broadcast coverage of the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday concert in Hyde Park this weekend.

  • BBC unveils plans for Beijing

    24-Jun-2008

    BBC Resources is teaming up with BBC Sport to provide bespoke coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics for viewers in the UK.

  • A1GP goes HD

    24-Jun-2008

    The A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport will be produced in high definition for the first time from the start of the 2008/09 season.

  • Ten technology predictions

    24-Jun-2008

    Better batteries, a universal undo button and infinite storage. Will Strauss reveals the ten new technology innovations that will change your world.

  • Talkback to overhaul production of The Bill

    18-Jun-2008

    Talkback Thames is upgrading the technology that it uses to produce ITV drama The Bill, starting with the sound dubbing operation.

  • Making a big noise about loudness

    18-Jun-2008

    As new rules come into play governing the audio levels on television adverts, Will Strauss tries to get his head around what happens next.

  • Goldcrest opts for VCube HD

    17-Jun-2008

    EMerging, the distributor for Merging Technologies in the UK, has sold three high-definition VCube HD-2K video playback systems to Goldcrest Post.

  • Manufacturers starting to lose confidence

    17-Jun-2008

    Senior executives at broadcast equipment manufacturers are starting to worry about future trading conditions within their market, according to the IABM June 2008 Industry Trends Survey.

  • Editshare introduces file that works in Avid and FCP

    17-Jun-2008

    Shared storage technology company Editshare has come-up with a media file that works in both Avid and Final Cut Pro.

  • Smith and Singh adds Pinewood base

    17-Jun-2008

    Broadcast hire company Alias Smith and Singh has opened a new office at Pinewood Studios and spent£420,000 on new equipment.

  • How Absolute Post sent a bus through a ring of fire

    17-Jun-2008

    Absolute Post is the visual effects company behind the Channel 4 promo in which a double decker bus jumps through a ring of fire.

  • Whose content is it anyway?

    11-Jun-2008

    Will Strauss considers the difficult decisions some equipment manufacturers have to make when trying to second guess the television market.

  • Broadcast Video Expo gets IABM backing

    10-Jun-2008

    The technology exhibition Broadcast Live and Video Forum has been re-named as Broadcast Video Expo and been given the official endorsement of the International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers (IABM).

  • Springwatch makes the most of tapeless workflows

    10-Jun-2008

    A tapeless workflow adopted by the BBC for Springwatch has been instrumental in speeding up the production of video material for the programme's website.

  • Presteigne Charter spends£4m with EVS

    10-Jun-2008

    Equipment hire and broadcast projects firm Presteigne Charter has spent£4 million on live and near-live technology from EVS.

  • Panasonic offers incentives

    10-Jun-2008

    Panasonic Broadcast is offering free stills cameras and training courses to people who buy their AG-HVX201AE P2 camcorder.

  • Camera Corps supplies kit for Gladiators

    10-Jun-2008

    Point-of-View video helmets made by Camera Corps are being used on the new series of Gladiators on Sky One.

  • CVP-Mitcorp takes on Infinity camera

    10-Jun-2008

    CVP-Mitcorp has added the much-delayed but eagerly awaited Thomson Infinity Digital Media camcorder to its product range.

  • When IT and broadcast collides

    4-Jun-2008

    Will Strauss revels in the new technologies that fuse the plug-and-play world of IT with the practical world of broadcasting.

  • Interview: Tim van Someren

    3-Jun-2008

    Director Tim van Someren gives his personal account of how he and his team dealt with a live commercial shoot for C4 that was heavily reliant on preparation, luck and the weather.

  • Envy is first to buy Symphony Nitris DX

    3-Jun-2008

    Avid Technology has made its first Symphony Nitris DX sales in the UK, with Broadcast post house of the year Envy buying two systems.

  • XDCam order creates 40 jobs at Sony in Wales

    3-Jun-2008

    Sony will create 40 new jobs at its manufacturing plant in Wales after it awarded the plant a contract to make XDcam high-definition camcorders.

  • The making of: Difficult is Worth Doing

    3-Jun-2008

    The team behind the Honda skydiving commercial that aired live on Channel 4 last week tell Broadcast that successfully getting the pictures to air was more down to preparation and luck than technical wizardry.

  • Interview: Tim van Someren

    3-Jun-2008

    Director Tim van Someren gives his personal account of how he and his team dealt with a live commercial shoot for C4 that was heavily reliant on preparation, luck and the weather.

  • Interview: Tim van Someren (part 2)

    3-Jun-2008

    In part two of an exclusive interview director Tim van Someren discusses the days leading up to the live broadcast of ‘Difficult is Worth Doing.'

  • Interview: Tim van Someren (part 3)

    3-Jun-2008

    In the third part of an exclusive interview director Tim van Someren reveals how the team's nerves were pushed to the edge in the hours leading up to the big jump.

  • Interview: Tim van Someren (part 4)

    3-Jun-2008

    In the final part of an exclusive interview director Tim van Someren reveals the emotions of going to air with a three minute long live commercial.

  • Red Bee gets new HD suites

    28-May-2008

    ATG Broadcast is installing two new edit suites at playout and channel management service provider Red Bee Media.

  • Comet adds to UGC options

    28-May-2008

    Comet Technologies has introduced a new software product that makes it easier for TV newsrooms to work with non-professional reporters.

  • An argument against HD

    28-May-2008

    Will Strauss illustrates why high definition television may not be everyone's cup of tea.

  • SIS OB truck gets audio upgrade

    27-May-2008

    Systems integrator Megahertz has upgraded the audio capabilities of SIS Outside Broadcasts' Unit 10 truck.

  • College plans first DVB-T transmission

    27-May-2008

    Arqiva will support Ravensbourne College students next week as they bid to make their first ever DTT television transmission.

  • Live super-HD TV to debut at IBC

    27-May-2008

    The next generation of super-high-quality broadcast pictures and sound will be unveiled in live demonstrations by a consortium of broadcasters later this year.

  • Edit Store upgrades with Pro Tools systems

    27-May-2008

    The Edit Store has installed five new Pro Tools systems at its London facility, replacing the Fairlight equipment that it used previously for dubbing work.

  • MPC adds to visual effects team

    20-May-2008

    Soho post production facility the Moving Picture Company (MPC) has taken on two new visual effects supervisors.

  • Pace snares BT Vision set-top box deal

    20-May-2008

    BT Vision hopes to secure 'two to three million subscribers' after signing a deal with Pace for next-generation personal video recorders.

  • Extreme Sports gig goes to Arqiva

    20-May-2008

    Arqiva has won a five-year contract to playout the Chello Zone-owned Extreme Sports Channel to Sky.

  • Qualcomm snaps up mobile-TV spectrum

    20-May-2008

    American mobile technology firm Qualcomm has bought 40 Mhz of UK L-Band radio spectrum for£8.3m.

  • Link Research sells wireless systems to SIS

    20-May-2008

    SIS Outside Broadcasts, formerly BBC Outside Broadcasts, has invested ‘several hundred thousand pounds' in L1500 wireless camera systems from Link Research.

  • Sony's new camcorder flies off the shelves

    14-May-2008

    Sony has sold more than 500 units of the new PMW-EX3 camcorder in the first month since its launch.

  • Brits provide state of the art kit for Moscow

    14-May-2008

    Manchester United and Chelsea won't be the only English participants in next week's Champions League finals, as key Sky Sports personnel and Staines-based outside broadcast company NEP Visions will be providing the host feed from Moscow.

  • Technology that will change the world

    14-May-2008

    Last chance to win stuff! Will Strauss starts a debate about the technology of the future and offers readers the chance to win a free conference pass worth£700 in exchange for their opinions.

  • Anthony Dod Mantle interview

    13-May-2008

    Director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle explains why he decided to use a virtually untried technology, the Red One camera, on a new high-profile BBC drama.

  • Foundry unleashes Ocula

    13-May-2008

    Visual effects software developer The Foundry has developed a series of plug-ins that will help with the post production of stereoscopic 3D content.

  • Health channel to go live with Portland TV

    13-May-2008

    Portland TV will provide bandwidth, playout services and live studio feeds for a new channel dedicated to health and wellbeing.

  • Pepper picks Omnitek

    13-May-2008

    Test and measurement manufacturer OmniTek has sold four XR image analysis systems to Pepper for use in its newly refurbished post production facility in Geek Street, London.

  • BBC1 to use new Red One digital camera

    13-May-2008

    A new BBC1 adaptation is making a little bit of technology history this month as the first reported UK television drama production to use the Red One digital camera.

  • Upgrade at GlobeCast will increase capacity

    13-May-2008

    GlobeCast has kicked off an expansion project that encompasses upgrades to master control room (MCR) and media management technology from Omneon, Hewlett Packard and Pharos.

  • Autodesk buys Realviz

    13-May-2008

    Autodesk has purchased the image creation products and technology devised by software company Realviz.

  • Beam TV to launch subtitling service

    7-May-2008

    Distribution companies IMD and Beam.tv are teaming up to launch a new service for the television commercials market that will make adding subtitles part of the distribution process.

  • Making sense of 1080p

    6-May-2008

    The launch of Freesat means that more consumers will get to access HD content. But what happens if the HD standards change? Will Strauss investigates.

  • iTX News sold to BBC

    6-May-2008

    BBC News has bought an iTX News playout and automation system from OmniBus Systems so that it can produce short summaries with a two-person producer-presenter team.

  • Red Bee sells Piero to Ireland and Sweden

    6-May-2008

    Red Bee Media, formerly BBC Broadcast, has sold its Piero 3D graphics technology to RTE in Ireland and C More Entertainment in Sweden.

  • Avid unveils new Raid arrays

    6-May-2008

    Avid Technology is launching two new storage disk arrays that fuse SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drive technology with fail-safe data protection to cope with disk drive failure.

  • Nativ unveils multiplatform conversion service

    30-Apr-2008

    Nativ, one of the technology companies behind the BBC iPlayer, is launching a service that will enable broadcasters to automatically convert their raw television content into new media files and distribute them to many platforms at the same time.

  • Test and measurement: who needs it?

    29-Apr-2008

    Guest blogger Sass Jahani examines three different products for checking filed based content before it is broadcast.

  • Avid makes first quarter loss

    29-Apr-2008

    Avid Technology made a net loss in the first quarter of 2008 and brought in $20m less in revenues than this time last year.

  • Seachange adds Sony workflow

    29-Apr-2008

    SeaChange International has adapted its latest generation of standard and high-definition ingest and play-to-air codecs so that they include support for Sony's XDCAM HD422 format.

  • New removable media options for the Infinity

    29-Apr-2008

    Thomson Grass Valley is bringing to market two new versions of the Rev Pro removable media cartridges that store data from the Infinity camcorder.

  • Flash XDR ready to roll

    29-Apr-2008

    Mass production of the award-winning Flash XDR portable recorder will begin this month following a US launch at NAB.

  • TV One adds multi-purpose switching unit

    29-Apr-2008

    TV One has released a new 8-input SD and HD switcher for the pro AV and broadcast markets.

  • Major BBC sales for Sony

    29-Apr-2008

    Sony has sold three switchers to BBC News and a host of new equipment to BBC Studios as the corporation embarks on the latest phase of high definition upgrades at Television Centre.

  • Focus adds new DTE recorder

    29-Apr-2008

    Focus Enhancements will release a new portable direct to edit (DTE) recorder this summer.

  • Truelight enhancement

    25-Apr-2008

    FilmLight has improved its Truelight colour management system so that it works with selected third-party colour correction and monitoring tools.

  • Concrete hires Millichope

    25-Apr-2008

    Concrete has recruited a new senior Smoke artist.

  • Smoke and Mirrors in£5m expansion plan

    25-Apr-2008

    Smoke and Mirrors is embarking on a£5m expansion programme that will see the boutique facility more than double in size.

  • Is stereo 3D just a gimmick?

    23-Apr-2008

    Will Strauss looks at whether the recent reincarnation of stereoscopic 3D is simply a case of the emperor's new clothes.

  • Quantel Dino unleashed

    22-Apr-2008

    Quantel used NAB to unveil Dino, a new collaborative workflow for sharing content between broadcast centres that is being described as 'email for television production.'

  • Man arrested in failed hire scam

    22-Apr-2008

    Police arrested a man in Soho last week after he tried to dupe a facilities company into hiring him camera kit worth£60,000.

  • Canon unveils XL H1 replacements

    22-Apr-2008

    Canon is replacing its popular XL H1 with two brand new high-end high definition XL range camcorders.

  • Automatic Duck improves FCP to Avid conversion

    22-Apr-2008

    Automatic Duck is releasing a new version of its Pro Export timeline integration plug-in that will give editors the ability to convert Final Cut Pro media files into Avid media files.

  • Autodesk cuts price of Smoke

    17-Apr-2008

    Autodesk has unveiled a new workflow and a reduced purchase price for its Smoke finishing system.

  • New Quantel control panel

    17-Apr-2008

    Quantel has launched a new Neo control panel for its Pablo grading system at NAB.

  • Panasonic adds solid-state VariCams

    17-Apr-2008

    Panasonic has fused together two of its most important technology developments of recent years with the introduction of P2 VariCam camcorders.

  • BBC fleshes out 2008 preferred supplier list

    17-Apr-2008

    Three additional equipment dealers have been added to the list of companies that can sell cameras, lenses and VTRs to the BBC.

  • Creative Review - Headcases

    17-Apr-2008

    Titles and interstitial graphics created by Rushes for a new animated sketch show on ITV.

  • Avesco buys Charter Broadcast

    15-Apr-2008

    Update: The new owner of equipment hire and outside broadcast projects firms Presteigne and Charter Broadcast has decided to merge the two companies.

  • Scarlet camera fever

    15-Apr-2008

    Camera folk and facilities people alike have been waiting patiently for NAB announcements from Red Digital Cinema. Finally, Will Strauss offers an insight.

  • Arri adds new 2k digital camera

    15-Apr-2008

    ARRI has upgraded its film style digital cameras with the launch of the ARRIFLEX D-21, a camera capable of outputting raw data at 2k resolution.

  • Absolute launches motion graphics department

    15-Apr-2008

    Absolute, the Soho-based post facility, has opened a new motion graphics department, headed-up by visual effects artist Ric Comline.

  • DVO packs sold to Ascent Media

    15-Apr-2008

    Ascent Media has become the first company to buy Digital Vision's new image processing software tool packages Enhance and Restore.

  • BT provides ITV with digital content store

    15-Apr-2008

    BT Media and Broadcast has developed a digital content store to enable ITV to deliver its television library on-demand to internet users and other broadcasters around the globe.

  • Avid brings DX to market

    15-Apr-2008

    Avid Technology has introduced a new family of digital video editing systems designed to speed up high definition editing.

  • Five invests in Signiant

    14-Apr-2008

    Root 6 has sold a Signiant digital media distribution and workflow automation system to Five, the new home of Neighbours.

  • UK HD strategy is too short term, says DTG

    14-Apr-2008

    UK digital television will start to lag behind other European countries without a longer-term HD on DTT strategy, the Digital Television Group (DTG) has warned.

  • 124 Facilities buys Smoke

    14-Apr-2008

    Autodesk has sold a Smoke editing and finishing system to Channel 4's post-production department 124 Facilities.

  • NAB Show Focus: Editor's pick

    9-Apr-2008

    Technology editor Will Strauss picks the ten products and technologies not to miss at NAB this year.

  • NAB Show Focus: Tapeless HD cameras

    9-Apr-2008

    Slightly further down the camera food chain from the Red One and the D-20, camera operators and facilities may well be discussing the merits of tapeless high definition cameras from Panasonic, Ikegami and Sony.

  • NAB Show Focus: Stereoscopic 3D

    9-Apr-2008

    One of the most intriguing recent trends is the return of stereoscopic 3D. And there are plenty of developments on the horizon at NAB.

  • NAB Show Focus: Digital Intermediate

    9-Apr-2008

    Once a niche product, Digital Intermediate (DI) has become mainstream and affordable and now tops many a facility owner's shopping list.

  • NAB Show Focus: Editing and effects

    9-Apr-2008

    The absence of the two biggest editing software companies should leave a gaping hole in NAB. But while neither Apple nor Avid have multimillion pound stands their presence will still be felt.

  • NAB Show Focus: Storage and workflows

    9-Apr-2008

    As IT engineering becomes the biggest challenge facing media production, Will Strauss looks at some of the storage and workflow products that will be on show at NAB

  • How to survive NAB

    8-Apr-2008

    Will Strauss, a veritable veteran of technology trade shows, offers his top tips for surviving NAB and Las Vegas.

  • Apple ships Final Cut Server

    8-Apr-2008

    Almost exactly a year after it was first unveiled, Apple has announced the availability of Final Cut Server, the company's new asset management and workflow automation product.

  • NAB Show Focus: Digital acquisition

    8-Apr-2008

    Focusing on some of the current trends in the broadcast, production and post sectors, technology editor Will Strauss offers his take on what to see at this year's NAB Show, starting with digital acquisition.

  • Taking the fight to Autodesk

    8-Apr-2008

    Imagineer Systems chief executive Allan Jaenicke explains why his company is introducing a post production system designed to rival Flame.

  • Voom launches new channel with Arqiva

    8-Apr-2008

    Arqiva is providing fibre connectivity and uplinking for Rush HD, a new extreme sports channel on Sky.

  • Cotta joins Smoke and Mirrors

    8-Apr-2008

    Soho facility Smoke and Mirrors has signed-up a new senior Flame operator and visual effects supervisor.

  • Sky Sports buys SoundField audio processors

    8-Apr-2008

    SoundField has sold six DSF-3 sound processors to Sky Sports so that the broadcaster can provide digital 5.1 surround sound from its DSF-2 microphones without needing to convert signals to analogue.

  • Paramount signs VoD deal

    8-Apr-2008

    Vode has agreed a digital storage and distribution deal with Paramount Comedy to digitize and deliver 80 hours of content for the BT Vision platform.

  • UK developer takes on visual effects giants

    8-Apr-2008

    A UK-based technology developer will introduce a new high-end compositing, editing and finishing platform at NAB designed to compete with established systems from Autodesk and Quantel.

  • Baselight for Windmill Lane

    2-Apr-2008

    Dublin post house Windmill Lane has become the first facility in Ireland to buy a Baselight colour grading system.

  • Monterosa Formats eyes global market

    2-Apr-2008

    Monterosa, the interactive content producer behind BBC participation events such as Test the Nation, is to push its formats internationally with a new subsidiary company.

  • Velocix debuts hybrid-P2P live streaming

    1-Apr-2008

    Content delivery network provider Velocix has come up with a hybrid-P2P protocol for live video streaming that uses both peer-to-peer technology and live streams from its own network caches.

  • The two sides of administration

    1-Apr-2008

    In the week that it is announced that audio workstation Sadie has been saved, Will Strauss wonders if other companies understand the implications of going into administration.

  • The Pavement reveals relocation plans

    1-Apr-2008

    Shoreditch-based DVD production facility The Pavement is relocating to new facilities in Soho and forming an alliance with Goldcrest Post Production.

  • Suite adds Eyeheight legaliser

    1-Apr-2008

    London post house Suite has installed an Eyeheight legaliser in an HD suite at its Newman Street facility.

  • BBC OB upgrades will go ahead despite sale

    1-Apr-2008

    The sale of BBC Outside Broadcasts to SIS will not hamper the company's plans to invest in new kit for its fleet of trucks.

  • Setanta moves to dedicated transponder

    1-Apr-2008

    Arqiva is providing a dedicated 36MHz transponder to Setanta that will enable the broadcaster to reorganise how it transmits its sports channels and potentially open up capacity for more launches.

  • Framestore CFC wins big at Escape Awards

    1-Apr-2008

    Framestore CFC picked up three gongs at the Escape Awards 2008 for its CG work on Primeval, The Golden Compass and The Salmon Dance.

  • Lime places Tektronix order

    1-Apr-2008

    Tektronix has sold 14 video and audio waveform monitors to Hollyoaks producer Lime Pictures.

  • The Foundry to show Furnace plug-ins at NAB

    1-Apr-2008

    Visual effects software developer The Foundry will reveal a range of Furnace plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and demo some new stereoscopic 3D tools at NAB.

  • What next for mobile television?

    25-Mar-2008

    The EU last week endorsed the DVB-H technology standard for television on mobile devices. But, asks Will Strauss, was it the right decision?

  • Ikegami unveils flash-memory camera kit

    24-Mar-2008

    Ikegami will make a little bit of NAB history next month when it introduces a flash-memory based tapeless HD camcorder and studio deck.

  • Calrec gives audio control to vision mixers

    24-Mar-2008

    Calrec Audio is bringing to market a new technology protocol that will give a vision mixer the ability to control autofades on a Calrec sound desk.

  • TV One introduces matrix routing switcher

    24-Mar-2008

    TV One has added the 1T-MX-3344 matrix routing switcher to its One-task product line.

  • DVS adds SAN management tool

    24-Mar-2008

    Digital Video Systems (DVS) will use NAB to launch a new management tool that offers control over both the DVS-SAN storage system and other technologies working with it.

  • Good offers made for Sadie

    22-Mar-2008

    The administrator appointed to run Studio Audio and Video Limited, the maker of the Sadie digital audio workstation, is confident that he will find someone to buy the assets of the company.

  • Technology sales on the up

    19-Mar-2008

    Sales in the global broadcast technology market increased 11.9% year-on-year according to the latest IABM Industry Index.

  • New thinking outside the Avid box

    19-Mar-2008

    Will Strauss gives his reaction to a new Avid business plan that will see the company slash the price of software and look to develop its online community.

  • Omneon links up with Vizrt

    19-Mar-2008

    Omneon has combined its MediaGrid server technology with the Viz Ardome asset management system from Vizrt.

  • Portland TV adds to streaming capabilities

    14-Mar-2008

    Portland TV has signed a deal with virtual network operator Adapt that will allow it to host and stream client video directly from its playout centre.

  • IBIS plans newsroom workflow demo

    14-Mar-2008

    IBIS will put together a replica television newsroom at NAB to showcase how its kit can control and manage a mixed Mac and PC set-up featuring other manufacturers' hardware and software.

  • SeaChange launches flash memory server

    13-Mar-2008

    SeaChange International has introduced a Flash memory-based broadcast server.

  • EVS supports Avid and Apple codecs

    13-Mar-2008

    EVS has added full support for Avid Technology's DNxHD and Apple's ProRes 422 codecs in its XT2 production server.

  • Cheltenham wireless band to be auctioned

    13-Mar-2008

    Wireless camera systems will play a key role in Channel 4's coverage of the Cheltenham Gold Cup horse-race on Friday (14 March) but the end is nigh for the spectrum that will be used to carry the pictures.

  • What now for BBC Post?

    11-Mar-2008

    With OB sold and Studios staying, Will Strauss looks at why the BBC doesn't yet have a buyer for Post Production.

  • Experts propose radical high def DTT plan

    11-Mar-2008

    An independent committee of industry experts has come up with a new proposal for using digital terrestrial spectrum to provide HD channels.

  • Wireless cameras to bolster Cheltenham coverage

    11-Mar-2008

    Highflyer Productions will embark on coverage of this week's Cheltenham Festival armed with a host of broadcast 'toys' including wireless camera systems from Link Research.

  • BBC adds to News studios armoury

    11-Mar-2008

    Shotoku Broadcast Systems has sold robotic control systems and pan and tilt camera heads to BBC News.

  • Omnitek sells to BT

    11-Mar-2008

    Test and measurement manufacturer OmniTek has sold a picture quality analyser to BT.

  • BiBC brings ReelMaster to mainland Europe

    11-Mar-2008

    The British Internet Broadcasting Company (BIBC) has sold its web-based ReelMaster digitisation and distribution services to a major central and eastern European broadcaster.

  • Sony adds file transfer capabilities to high-end VTR

    11-Mar-2008

    Sony is adding new file transfer capabilities to its SRW-5800 VTR with the introduction of the HKSR-5804 option board.

  • BBC invites bids for interactive services

    11-Mar-2008

    The BBC's Future Media and Technology (FM&T) division has put out to tender a contract worth up to£25m to provide the corporation's interactive services.

  • Four join Top Gear post house Evolutions

    7-Mar-2008

    Evolutions has appointed four new members of staff and won a competitive tender to continue post-producing Top Gear for the BBC.

  • Thomson wins product leadership award

    4-Mar-2008

    Thomson, the manufacturer of broadcast and cinematography cameras, has won Frost and Sullivan's 2007 Global Product Line Leadership of the Year Award.

  • Sony adds new LCD master monitor

    4-Mar-2008

    Sony will exhibit a new 42' LCD master monitor at NAB designed to be used for high end post-production, telecine and DI.

  • Brits want free on-demand programmes

    4-Mar-2008

    A consumer survey has revealed that Brits have a huge thirst for on-demand programming - but only if it's free.

  • Why Apple still needs the professional market

    4-Mar-2008

    Just because Apple is not exhibiting at NAB this year does not automatically mean that the company is going to stop making professional products, argues Will Strauss.

  • DTG to scrutinise Ofcom plans for HD Freeview

    4-Mar-2008

    The Digital Television Group (DTG) will use its annual industry meeting this week to scrutinise Ofcom's plans for HDTV on Freeview.

  • First Smoke sale to the North East

    28-Feb-2008

    Mere Mortals has become the first post facility in the North East to invest in a Smoke editing and compositing system from Autodesk.

  • Will Ofcom's plan for HD on DTT work?

    26-Feb-2008

    Ofcom has a proposal that will see HD channels made available on Freeview. But will it work? Will Strauss explores the arguments for and against.

  • Digital Vision to unveil software standards converter

    26-Feb-2008

    A new software based standards converter set to be launched at NAB by Digital Vision will enable post facilities and broadcasters to deliver high quality masters in any format.

  • New IPTV monitor unveiled

    26-Feb-2008

    Tektronix has unveiled a new MPEG transport stream monitor designed to detect IPTV signal degradation caused during transmission and distribution before it impacts on the viewer.

  • SGL unveils archive system

    26-Feb-2008

    Content archive and storage management software manufacturer SGL has introduced a new all-in-one archive system for post facilities and broadcasters.

  • Foundry launches Nuke 5

    26-Feb-2008

    The Foundry has launched the first new incarnation of desktop compositor Nuke since buying it from Digital Domain subsidiary D2 software.

  • Autodesk extends Lustre capabilities

    26-Feb-2008

    Autodesk has released an extension for the Linux version of its Lustre 2007 digital colour grading system which includes a new feature that makes it easier for colourists to track elements in a scene.

  • Research project to shape next generation of Internet TV

    21-Feb-2008

    A pan-European conglomerate that includes the BBC has received an EU grant worth €14 million to fund a project to identify how peer-to-peer technology can shape the Internet TV of the future.

  • ITV soaps to go HD

    21-Feb-2008

    ITV Productions director of Northern Resources Paul Bennett discusses plans to move Emmerdale and Coronation Street to a tapeless HD production cycle.

  • Latest incarnation of 3ds Max unveiled

    21-Feb-2008

    Autodesk has unveiled a new version of its Autodesk 3ds Max modelling, animation and rendering software.

  • ITV Productions invests£500k in Emmerdale HD upgrade

    21-Feb-2008

    ITV Productions has taken a giant step towards going HD and tapeless with Emmerdale after splashing half a million pounds on new studio cameras and lenses.

  • Panasonic unveils handheld HD camcorder

    19-Feb-2008

    Panasonic has revealed details of its new solid-state handheld HD camcorder, the AG-HMC151.

  • By the time we get to HD, will it be obsolete?

    19-Feb-2008

    How much future proofing can broadcasters actually do when technology change continues apace, asks Will Strauss.

  • Pixelfantasic buys eQ

    19-Feb-2008

    Quantel has sold an eQ system to London HD production and post boutique Pixelfantastic.

  • S&W upgrades Kahuna production switcher

    19-Feb-2008

    The new version of Snell and Wilcox's Kahuna multi-format production switcher will include the capability to wrap live video around animated models.

  • New MD for European Raid Arrays

    19-Feb-2008

    IT hardware reseller European Raid Arrays has appointed Chris Rawson as its new managing director.

  • Panasonic doubles capacity of P2 card

    19-Feb-2008

    Panasonic has unveiled a new P2 memory card that can record more than an hour of DVCPRO HD or AVC-Intra 100.

  • Creative Review - promo for Moonlight

    19-Feb-2008

    A promo, shot by Andy Boulter and posted by blue, for a new vampire drama on Living.

  • Ten companies account for 60% of post spend

    13-Feb-2008

    Consolidation and polarisation are the watchwords of this year's Broadcast Post Survey, with the 10 largest companies and groups accounting for nearly 60% of the money spent on television editing, graphics and finishing in the UK

  • Breath upgrades dubbing theatre

    13-Feb-2008

    Breathe Post Production, the post facility formed by the merger of Strongroom and Air Studios, has spent£350,000 updating and upgrading its Hampstead dubbing theatre.

  • Ascent picks up new diTTo scanner

    13-Feb-2008

    Ascent Media has become the first company in the world to purchase the new 16mm/35mm version of the Cintel diTTo film scanner.

  • Post Survey 2008: A split personality

    13-Feb-2008

    2008's Post Survey suggests the editing, finishing and effects sector is a tale of two industries.

  • Facilities pool their resouces across Pennines

    13-Feb-2008

    VTR North in Leeds and Sumners in Manchester have merged their graphics and visual effects departments.

  • New HD playout suite for Arqiva

    12-Feb-2008

    Arqiva Satellite Media Solutions has installed a new HD ready television playout suite at its Chalfont Grove Media Centre.

  • How average is the average post company?

    12-Feb-2008

    In the week that Broadcast publishes its Post Survey 2008, Will Strauss looks at the characteristics of the 'average' UK facilities company.

  • Ascent Media gives Media Centre the hard sell

    12-Feb-2008

    Ascent Media is going to take an aggressive approach to selling its transmission services to the broadcast market after officially opening a new Media Centre in Stephen Street in London.

  • Big post companies continue sector domination

    12-Feb-2008

    Consolidation and polarisation are the watch words of this year's Broadcast Post Survey with the 10 largest companies taking home nearly 60% of the money spent on TV post production in the UK.

  • On Sight first in line for PDW-700s

    12-Feb-2008

    Broadcast equipment hire and HD facility On Sight has placed the first order in the UK for the new Sony XDCam HD PDW-700 camcorder.

  • British companies snare vfx awards

    11-Feb-2008

    The Visual Effects Society honoured a host of UK artists and companies - including Framestore CFC, The Senate, MPC, Rainmaker London and Jellyfish Pictures - at its 2008 awards ceremony.

  • Creative Review - Phoo Action

    6-Feb-2008

    200 visual effects shots completed by Rushes for a 60-minute BBC3 drama.

  • Gearhouse completes new 021 truck

    5-Feb-2008

    Gearhouse Broadcast has completed the build on a new high definition production truck for O21 Television.

  • Managing technology change

    5-Feb-2008

    The move from linear processes to a digital media workflow is not just a challenge for engineers - it affects everyone in television, argues Will Strauss.

  • Live sport production and the OB market

    5-Feb-2008

    Oversupply in the OB market is offering producers the chance to squeeze the cost of HD sport production and making suppliers think hard about their business models.

  • Avid profit figures disappoint

    5-Feb-2008

    Avid Technology reported a $19.5m increase in sales year-on-year during the three-month period ended December 31 - but shareholders are not happy with the company's profitability.

  • Wohler adds new TFT widescreen HD monitor

    5-Feb-2008

    Panoramadtv, the video products division of Wohler Technologies, has released a high definition 19-inch widescreen monitor for both field and studio applications.

  • Intelsat bought by private equity investors

    5-Feb-2008

    The parent company of fixed satellite services provider Intelsat has been bought by private equity investors Serafina Holdings for $16.5 billion (£8.3m).

  • Blackmagic turns to Manchester

    31-Jan-2008

    Blackmagic Design, the makers of video cards and converters for the post production and broadcast industries, is to open an office in Manchester.

  • Coronation Street going tapeless with Avid

    31-Jan-2008

    Avid, the manufacturer of digital media creation tools, is helping ITV flagship soap Coronation Street to move to a shared storage based tapeless production environment.

  • CVP buys Mitcorp

    31-Jan-2008

    Update: Creative Video Productions (CVP) will pay around£5m to buy Mitcorp, creating what is thought to be the UK's largest broadcast equipment and systems provider.

  • BBC hopes to educate Britain about HD

    30-Jan-2008

    The BBC is planning a major consumer campaign in the spring in an effort to counter a perceived confusion about HD amongst the British public.

  • New camera support from Vinten

    30-Jan-2008

    Vinten is showing its Protouch pan and tilt camera support technology at Broadcast Live and VideoForum.

  • Siemens adds to BBC subtitling services

    30-Jan-2008

    Screen Subtitling Systems has sold a new transcoding system to Siemens IT Solutions and Services that will be used as part of a new coding and multiplexing service for the BBC.

  • SNS adds to storage options

    30-Jan-2008

    Storage Network Solutions is making a big noise about two of its new storage products at Broadcast Live and Video Forum.

  • Sony shows live production camera

    29-Jan-2008

    Sony has announced further expansion of its HD systems camera line-up with the introduction of the HDC-1400 for live production.

  • JVC adds HD studio products

    29-Jan-2008

    JVC unveiled its latest HD studio products, including a range of LCD monitors, at Broadcast Live and Video Forum.

  • Root6 demos native 4k on an LCD monitor

    29-Jan-2008

    Visitors to Broadcast Live and Video Forum can be witness to the first ever UK showing of native 4k on an LCD monitor.

  • Sony unveils new CineAlta camera

    28-Jan-2008

    Sony has revealed details of the next generation of its CineAlta line of high-end electronic cinematography cameras.

  • ATG serves up BBC Post ingest suite

    28-Jan-2008

    ATG Broadcast has completed the installation of a new video ingest suite for BBC Post Production.

  • New versatile studio set for CNBC

    28-Jan-2008

    Business and finance channel CNBC Europe has made changes to the on-air look of its daily programming and upgraded its London studio set.

  • VTR buys Machine Effects for£2m

    25-Jan-2008

    VTR plc, the owner of Prime Focus London and Blue, has bought its second visual effects company in less than a month.

  • Engineering solutions to a lack of technical skills

    25-Jan-2008

    A lack of business and management skills is not the only thing holding back the technology and facilities market, argues Will Strauss.

  • Manufacturers pool storage and playout resources

    24-Jan-2008

    Omneon and Pro-Bel are working together on a new storage, management and automation set-up for television broadcasters.

  • Altered Images signs up iCR

    24-Jan-2008

    Altered Images has been appointed as the UK reseller for iCR, the content repurposing product from Snell and Wilcox.

  • Broadcast steps up technology news

    23-Jan-2008

    Broadcast is introducing a new section dedicated solely to technology.

  • Camera Corps adds camera control unit

    23-Jan-2008

    Specialist camera systems company Camera Corps is hoping to create new opportunities for its CCU-5 camera control unit by introducing it to the direct purchase market for the first time.

  • Ross unveils new production switchers

    21-Jan-2008

    Ross Video has introduced three new production switcher control panels.

  • New plug-in from Hamlet

    21-Jan-2008

    UK test and measurement kit manufacturer Hamlet will make public a new plug-in module for its Flexiscope family of handheld appliances at Broadcast Live and Video Forum.

  • Former MPC man joins Quantel

    21-Jan-2008

    Quantel has appointed Roland Brown as a non-executive director of the company.

  • Altered Images plans Manchester office

    15-Jan-2008

    Technology reseller Altered Images is to open a new office in Salford Quays, Manchester.

  • New work placement scheme for Northerners

    5-Dec-2007

    Three regional screen agencies have pooled their resources to launch a new work placement scheme for prospective television workers based in the North of England.

  • Five go in Global Radio restructure

    13-Sep-2007

    Global Radio has axed five senior roles in a management restructure designed to give station directors more responsibility and enable faster local decision-making. [ALL]

  • Emily Bell: Now we're talking

    30-Aug-2007

    Emily Bell on how TV's crisis of confidence delivered that rare thing - an electric Edinburgh

  • Evolutions expands reality

    30-Aug-2007

    Arena P3 dubbing mixer Richard Ashley, Ascent Media duplications producer Lee Austin and M2's Tim O'Brien have all joined post house Evolutions to work on its expanding reality TV business.

  • ITV upgrades Corrie kit

    30-Aug-2007

    ITV Productions has upgraded its Coronation StreetManchester studios using MultiViewers from Zandar Technologies.

  • Goldenballs extended

    23-Aug-2007

    ITV1 has thrown its weight behind daytime gameshow Goldenballs, ordering 60 x 60-minute new episodes from Endemol subsidiary Initial.

  • Langley joins Audio

    23-Aug-2007

    Production music company Audio Network has named Jason Langley as its new commercial director.

  • Pioneer moves into drama

    23-Aug-2007

    Pioneer Productions is to set up a drama unit headed by Sean Grundy, who directed the company's forthcoming drama-documentary Hindenburg.

  • Blog: Top Five Tips to Save The Planet

    17-Aug-2007

    Richard Kilgarriff explains how television people can save the planet without having to camp outside an airport or wear hand-loomed Hessian pants. [ALL]

  • Media and the environment - ITV

    16-Aug-2007

    What ITV is doing to help the environment and reduce its carbon footprint
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