All Broadcast articles in 07 July 2006 – Page 2
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NewsJump shows impact of sport
Jump has created the titles and graphics for BBC's Sport Relief 2006. The graphics were inserted in real environments with contact information on billboards and roadwork signs lighting up to show how the surrounding environment affects the way people live. Commissioned by BBC executive producer ...
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Platform Post grows
Platform Post is expanding its facilities to occupy all four floors of its D'Arblay Street site. Around£400,000 has been invested in upgrading its three Avid Symphony suites, and installing a fourth, which will be fully integrated with a shared media storage system. The investment also covers a 5.1 audio suite ...
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Francis heads This Morning
ITV is planning to overhaul its flagship daytime brand This Morningwith a new journalistic edge and revamped on-air look, following the promotion of Anya Francis to the role of editor.
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Tapeless at Flextech
Flextech has completed the switch of its linear channels to tapeless playout two weeks before the planned date of 18 July, with the move of Living TV to Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. FTN, Bravo, Challenge, Living TV2, Trouble and associated timeshift channels are now being played ...
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FD leaves VTR
VTR's finance director, Peter Samengo-Turner, has left the company to work in the financial sector after 11 years at the company. He has been replaced by Prime Focus' vice-president, strategy and business development, Anshul Doshi, who joined VTR's board of directors last month.
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Format Focus: Extra Extra
A European panel format is attracting interest following a US deal with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest
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Evolutions posts Sunday Service
Evolutions is working on the online and audio post for Radar Productions' Christian O'Connell's Sunday Service, a new 10 x 60-minute entertainment programme. The show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, is similar to O'Connell's radio show, with one-off features, regular items and ...
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Video Europe kit
Broadcast rental company Video Europe has splashed out around£1m on Avid kit and broadcast HD equipment. It includes three Avid Unity Lanshares, two Symphony Nitris and 20 Adrenaline HD Systems. Video Europe has also started to build a HD flyaway system for contracts such as the 2006 Asian Games and ...
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Regan to Target entertainment post
Target Entertainment has appointed former Living TV commissioning editor Steve Regan as its new head of entertainment and factual entertainment. He effectively replaces the former managing director, Ed Forsdick, who defected in March to run Ant and Dec-owned indie Gallowgate Productions. Reporting directly to Target chief executive Alison Rayson, Regan ...
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Lazarus takes on DVD sales
London-based business consultancy Lazarus Consulting has been appointed the UK agent for Edel Music, which releases DVDs across Europe.
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DGP invests in HD
DVD and post facility DGP has spent around£100,000 on a DS Nitris version 8. The system has a dual boot option for Symphony Nitris, dual-link RGB 444 and 5Tb of raid-protected storage. It will be used for managing all HD formats and to help clients work across platforms on both ...
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Sky One investigates Diana conspiracies
Sky One has commissioned MAP TV (Michael Attwell Productions) to produce an hour-long special examining the conspiracy theories behind the death of the Princess of Wales. Who Killed Diana?,set to broadcast ahead of the ninth anniversary of the Princess's death in August, will feature ...
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Commissioner's Q & A - Daniel Lennard
The senior director of original series and development, Cartoon Network Europe is a big fan of Aardman Animation and has more than£200,000 to spend on a half-hour animation
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Edinburgh puts technology centre stage
The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.
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Telegenic builds hi-def scanner for OB
OB company Telegenic has ploughed£5m into building a new HD scanner to service its increasing portfolio of sports contracts.
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BT strikes film deal with Momentum
BT has secured a film deal with independent distributor Momentum Pictures for access to titles including Lost in Translation and O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Leopard wins big down under with Living commissions
UK indie Leopard Films has made further inroads into the Australasian market, selling a raft of programming to the Living Channel in New Zealand and an original documentary to Australian public broadcaster ABC.
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Tern wins BBC Scotland double order
Indie Tern Television has received a double order from BBC Scotland. It is producing The Family Farm, a 6 x 30-minute observational documentary series that takes a poignant look at traditional family farming in Dumfries and Galloway, as residents fight to save Castle Douglas, one ...
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BBC wants more of Folio's peak successes
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been commissioned to make new series of BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in about 5.6 million viewers has been ...