All Broadcast articles in 03 September 1999 – Page 4

  • News

    FLAME GETS FIRST ORDER FROM ITV NETWORK

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Granada Television's design, graphics and effects arm, g2, has become the first ITV company to acquire Discreet's Flame compositing and effects system. Supplied by recently launched Discreet reseller Red Lorry Yellow

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    WIDE MOUTH FROG TO PRODUCE JAZZ FM TRAVEL SLOT

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Jazz FM is to launch a new travel programme on Monday (6 September), to be produced by indie Wide Mouth Frog. The Jazz FM Travel Guide will be presented by former

  • News

    Premier football may return to terrestrial

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of legal and business affairs Simon Johnson has predicted the return of live Premier League football to terrestrial TV, but said ITV would not seek to buy the contract

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    Regulation 'unrealistic' in multi-channel future

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasting regulation in its current form will have no place in the multi-channel digital future, according to ITV chief executive Richard Eyre.Presenting the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Gardening tip

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches OTR of an ingenious new way to help win a commission from ITV. The programme in question was the network's critically acclaimed gardening quiz show, The Answer Lies in

  • News

    Granada Media in NY Times tie-up

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media and the New York Times (NYT) have set up a joint-venture to develop factual programming based on the US newspaper's print journalism output.The new partners plan to invest£1

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    GRAND NATIONAL TO MOVE?

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    The organisers of the Grand National are holding 'informal discussions' with the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV about broadcast rights for the event. The BBC has televised the Grand National for

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    GRASS VALLEY SEEKS HIGH PROFILE AT IBC

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Grass Valley Group will launch the next generation of its Profile video servers at IBC next month. The Profile XP media servers are board-switchable between high-definition and standard-definition video and are

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - High profile

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    This week's picture comes courtesy of those publicity hungry folk at Channel 5. It was given away as part of a rather clever mousemat in the delegate goodie bag. The question

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    OFF THE RECORD - How was it for you?

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Airey, meanwhile, was in typically feisty form when she was quizzed by John Humphrys over Channel 5's latest eyebrow-raising show about the female orgasm. The Dawnster, in defence of the show,

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    Telecine to steal the show at IBC

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Cintel is to launch a new telecine at next month's IBC in a bid to head off competition from Innovation TK's (ITK) high-definition upgrades for Ursa telecines.Capable of both standard and

  • News

    THOMSON AND MICROSOFT UNVEIL INTERACTIVE TV OUTFIT

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Thomson multimedia and Microsoft are joining forces to launch a new company dedicated to developing interactive television services. Ownership of the joint-venture - which will be known as TAK - will

  • News

    INTERVIEW - What's the Story?

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Mark Story has come a long way from his days running a pirate station in Dublin. But after a circuitous ascent through the radio networks, the Kiss FM and Magic 105.4 boss believes he now has the best job in the world.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lost for words

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Poor old Caryn Mandabach. Not only was her Worldview Address received, er, somewhat unenthusiastically, but she was also among the 60 or so passengers whose luggage was temporarily misplaced on her

  • News

    Sky News in radio talks

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Sky News is understood to have held preliminary discussions with Virgin Radio and the Chrysalis Radio group in a bid to supply the stations with their news bulletins, writes John Plunkett.The

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    OFF THE RECORD - A Twist in the tale

    1999-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Everyone's favourite channel controller, David Liddiment, wasn't smiling much at Edinburgh either. Perhaps it was the painful memory of his session where one Carlton International minion asked him about the scheduling