All Broadcast articles in 08 September 2000 – Page 6
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CHRIS SMITH DENIES GOVERNMENT DASHING FOR DIGITAL
Media secretary Chris Smith this week rubbished reports that the government was to make a mad dash for a switchover from analogue to digital transmission to yield the Treasury as much
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OFF THE RECORD - Cleaning up
Another reason Brand has become so rich may lie in the hard work of his staff. Last week some of them were locked in their office by the cleaners, who clearly
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Wark Clements nets Lockerbie man
Wark Clements has poached award-winning Scottish Media Group senior producer/director Ross Wilson, writes Ashley Davies.Wilson, who is expected to join the indie next month as a senior producer, won a Bafta
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ENTERTAINMENT: PARAMOUNT - Mountain to climb
In the first of a series analysing niche channels Ed Shelton considers whether the Paramount Comedy Channel will be outflanked by British newcomers like E4.
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Einstein Entertainment has unveiled its first commissions
Einstein Entertainment has unveiled its first commissions including an 8 x 30-minute series on Britain's toughest men for Channel 5, writes Simon Ellery.C5 controller of news, current affairs and documentaries Chris
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RAFT OF POKEMON CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR THIRD SERIES
Pokemon international distributor Lacey Entertainment has announced a number of new contracts with European broadcasters for the third series of the hit animation (left) The new 52-episode run is due to
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SOUND AND LIGHTING EVENT TO BE HELD AT EARLS COURT
Plasa, the Professional Lighting & Sound Association, is holding a three-day event at Earls Court from 10 to 13 September. There will be 400 exhibitors at the Plasa 2000 Show, including
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SKY WOOS CRAIG DAVID
BSkyB is in talks with a catalogue of homegrown UK talent including pop star Craig David and footballer turned TV presenter Ian Wright. Sky One head of entertainment and factual Sam
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KEEP UP TO DATE WITH IBC BY LOOKING AT PRODUXION.COM
Produxion.com will be providing daily news coverage of events at IBC in Amsterdam. Pooling the resources of the teams from the online service, Broadcast and Production Solutions, produxion.com will feature breaking
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INTERVIEW - GMTV's dawn raider
As editor of GMTV, journalist and former presenter Martin Frizell has big plans. He wants to give the show a harder news edge and lure audiences from BBC 1. But he faces a major battle against falling figures.
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EX-MILLIONAIRE LAUNCHES TV JOBSHOP ON SKY DIGITAL
Former millionaire and Crystal Palace football club owner Mark Goldberg has launched a recruitment channel called TV Jobshop. The service will air 12-hour blocks of programming every week that are repeated
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Walt Disney goes pre-school
Walt Disney Television International is making its first move into the pre-school television market as part of the launch of three new UK channels, writes Simon Ellery.Headed by Walt Disney Television
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Docherty rethinks website strategy
New Telewest managing director of broadband content David Docherty has announced the first changes to his department by shifting channel websites from the interactive and digital division into the broadcast and
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - ENFOCAST TO TAKE NEWS STRAIGHT INTO THE OFFICE
New broadband outfit Enfocast has signed deals with BBC News 24, CNBC, Euronews, CNN, Bloomberg, The Money Channel and ITN News Channel to deliver its content directly to offices via standard
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ENTERTAINMENT - Goodbye mainstream, hello niche programming
Tim Ewington lays out the challenges for the major broadcasters as they are increasingly forced to choose between new niche viewers and the heavy-viewing, but gradually disappearing, older audiences.
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EX-GINGER PRODUCERS LOOKING FOR INVESTORS
Former Ginger Television producers David Grainger and Will McDonald are understood to be looking to raise funds for their new internet/television content venture and have revealed that the start-up will be
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Just Group expands in US
Children's specialist producer Just Group has made its first major strike on the US by hiring a chief executive officer for the country and selling 150 hours of programming to the
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - VENICE UNVEILS PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL TV FESTIVAL
A new international television festival is to be held in Venice from 2002, with the plans due to be unveiled this week at the Venice Film Festival. The new event will
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SAT-COMM TO SHOW OFF FLY-AWAY UP-LINK AT IBC
Newmarket-based systems integrator Sat-Comm will be making its debut at IBC this year and will be showing three of its products. Chameleon, a fly-away up-link, is a fully redundant MPE^G2 4:2:2
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Goodwin to quit TWG
The Wireless Group (TWG) managing director Jonathan Goodwin is leaving the radio outfit at the end of September and will not be replaced, writes Georgina Lipscomb.From October his duties will be