All Broadcast articles in 08 November 2002 – Page 5
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BBC to launch multimedia fightbox game
The BBC is launching a new multimedia entertainment format fusing gaming and technology to allow viewers to fight virtual gladiators in front of a live studio audience. In Fightbox, which airs on BBC 3 from autumn next year before being repeated on BBC 2, viewers ...
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Promax calls review after BBC cleans up
The BBC's dominance of the 2002 Promax Awards has attracted stinging criticism from the industry and led to promises that the way prizes are awarded will be changed next year, writes John Oates
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Media 100 latest to offer low-cost post alternatives
US product manufacturer Media 100 is the latest company to actively try to drive down the cost of post-production by introducing cheaper versions of its products, writes Will Strauss
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5D customers wait for news
Customers and creditors of 5D are still waiting to hear the fate of the British manufacturer, writes John Oates
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Soap crashes
Wimbledon-based company Any Effects was responsible for the dramatic helicopter crash seen on Mersey Television's soon-to-be-axed soap Brooksideearlier this week. Dubbed by producer Nicky Higgens as 'the most ambitious sequence ever attempted by a soap' the stunt involved a full- size model helicopter built by ...
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Eskenazi joins Nats
Nats editor Marc Eskenazi has left the company to join the creative team at Oasis Television. Marc joins long-time colleagues Pat Gale and Liz Hayward who are now business development and marketing managers at Oasis respectively. Oasis has recently finished work on BBC's The Ship, ...
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More Discreet for MPC
Soho visual effects facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has ordered another Discreet Inferno HD compositor. The purchase comes as demand for high-end commercials work is soaring. The purchase brings its total of Discreet systems to 10, which includes four Infernos, two Fire effects editors, three Combustion desktop compositors and ...
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Dunton wins award
The Moving Image Society recognised innovator Joe Dunton's services to technology development by giving him the technical and scientific achievement award at last week's BKSTS prize-giving ceremony. Dunton was praised for his invention of a product that is an Ikegami HD digital video camera squeezed into the confined space of ...
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Broadcast competition
Broadcast , its monthly supplement B+and Soho Editors are offering three people the chance to win£1,000 worth of professional audio training. Up for grabs are three prizes of three days fully accredited Digidesign pro-tools training with a Soho Editors tutor. ...
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RatingsJamie's Kitchen pulls in the punters
TV chef Jamie Oliver made a successful debut for Channel 4 last night with nearly 5 million watching his attempt to launch a new restaurant staffed by unemployed people, writes Jon Rogers
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NewsMPs to lobby for reduced BSkyB carriage fees
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to face demands from MPs to force BSkyB to reduce the fees it charges terrestrial broadcasters to carry their services, writes David Rose
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Everybody's doing it
Millions of Britons have gone DIY barmy and are now 'obsessed' with doing up their homes. ...
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TV's Brent will be back. Fact!
Cringe-making boss David Brent is definitely returning to our screens, to the delight of millions of fans. ...
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The Office stays open
Hit comedy The Office will return to our screens, it was confirmed yesterday. ...
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Why men watch the newsgirls, not the news
Women have suspected it for years. men, it seems, can't concentrate on two things at once - especially when there i...
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No more sex, say City girls
The TV series Sex And The City is coming to an end after just four years. ...
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Our TV regrets, by Ozzy's wife
Ozzy Osbourne's wife has revealed her regrets at letting cameras into her home. ...
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Ozzy bottles it as ill wife ends TV show
Ozzy Osbourne has started drinking again as his wife Sharon battles cancer. ...
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Boss gets job back at The Office
Fans of BBC2 comedy show The Office can breathe easily - for the odious David Brent is set to return to our screens...