All Broadcast articles in 08 February 2002 – Page 4
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GOLDEN SQ ADDS TO FX.
Golden Square Post Production has added to its effects department with the appointment of Inferno artist Yourick Van Impe who joins from Condor Post Production. Van Impe, who has worked regularly
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CLEAR ADDS PRODUCER.
Clear has added a fourth producer to its team by taking on senior producer Fleur Hollis. Hollis joined after five years at Soho 601 and has also worked at FrameStore (now
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BARB ADMITS DECLINE.
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) has claimed that television audiences have fallen by an average of 5 per cent but added it was still evaluating its new data. Research has
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Edinburgh TV festival lines up advisers.
The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) has announced the line-up for its advisory committee for this year's festival, writes Jon Rogers.
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BARB DEFENDS ITS FIGURES AGAINST CARAT.
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) has hit back at controversial research carried out by media buying agency Carat last week, which claimed its new measuring system was losing millions of
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SALES AGENT FOR CINTEL.
Cintel has strengthened its sales function with the appointment of reseller Sprockets as exclusive agent for the London region. The appointment comes ahead of the launch of Cintel's next generation film
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BLUEYONDER AIMS TO THRILL.
Telewest has unveiled its latest broadband drama commission, which will run on high-speed internet service Blueyonder, writes Simon Ellery.
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FREE TO AIR - Airheads on the airwaves.
You might think, looking at the statistics, that radio is one of the most mature businesses there is: its latest Rajar figures confirm that it is more popular than television. Its
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Al-Jazeera breaks off ties with CNN.
CNN newsgathering president Eason Jordan has launched a scathing attack on the former darling of the news community Al-Jazeera, intensifying the war of words over the Qatar-based channel's exclusive interview with
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Cards on the table.
The debt of cable company NTL stands at twice that of collapsed US energy company Enron. As the financial advisers are drafted in, what does the future hold for the UK's largest but most troubled cable venture?
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Barb tunes in for a sharper picture.
Gremlins in Barb's new system saw the research outfit pull data last month, prompting exaggerated headlines that viewing had suffered a sharp decline. Now that Barb is releasing 2002 data, what's the real story? Adrian Edwards reports.
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IN MY VIEW - Angus Fletcher.
On why children's television should be seen as an integrated part of the media industry.
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ANSON ON BROADBAND.
Former Channel 4 head of business planning and interactive Andy Anson has resurfaced as joint head of a government-funded scheme to study the development of content for broadband networks. Anson will
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Jowell to move quickly to appoint Ofcom chairman.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to move swiftly to appoint the first chair of Ofcom even though the media regulator will not take up its full powers until next summer at the earliest, writes David Rose.
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BBC/CBS ARCHIVE DEAL.
BBC Worldwide has struck a major deal with CBS News to commercially exploit the US broadcaster's archive. The footage will be marketed alongside that of the BBC through the library sales
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ITV unions up in arms over Granada fund.
ITV Unions this week averted action over a #124m write-off in Granada's pension fund, writes Steve Aston.
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CONSULTANT FOR ARRI.
Arri has taken on Mick Mason BSC as consultant to the group's rental activities. Working across the camera, lighting and grip operations of Arri Lighting Rental and Arri Media, Mason will
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LWT ASKS INDIES FOR LONDON PROGRAMMES.
LWT managing director Lindsay Charlton is to commission half of the 12 x 60-minute programmes for the next series of the London Programme from independents. He claimed the decision to look
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BRITISH TOON AWARDS.
The British Animation Awards has announced the finalists for its fourth biennial awards. In the best children's series, Cartoon Network's The Cramp Twins is up against Cosgrove Hall's Albie and their
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MEDIAARC GOES BAA.
BBC MediaArc's 3D CharacterShop has produced the opening film for the British Animation Awards (BAA) to be held in London on 15 March, writes Barbara Marshall.