All Broadcast articles in 16 December 2005 – Page 3
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Tern wins first cartoon commissions
Scottish indie Tern TV has secured its first animation commissions, with a series for Channel 4 Education and a pilot for BBC Scotland.
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Merry Christmas from Broadcast
Broadcast is taking a festive break and will return with the issue dated 6 January 2006. Broadcastnow.co.uk, will continue to provide daily and breaking industry news up to Friday 23 December and will resume on 3 January. Broadcast would like to wish all our readers
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New tax breaks for film industry
The UK film production industry has welcomed the government's announcement last week of a long-awaited new tax credit system, geared to allow producers to offset certain production costs against tax.
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Bids for NE licence
Ofcom has received 13 applications for the north-east FM commercial radio licence, including three bids from foreign companies. US firm Emmis International, Canadian company CanWest, which recently won the Solent licence, and Australian investment bank Macquarie have entered bids for the licence, which will reach a potential 2 million listeners. ...
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BDA rebrands ESPN
Design company BDA has rebranded the ESPN Classic sports channel, with new idents and on-air elements. Senior designer Andrew Olley created the new look, using Clarity Pixel Promo. The new on-air design airs early next year.
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BBC HD doc finished
BBC Resources has secured the editing and grading work on the three-part HD documentary Galapagos for BBC Natural History and the National Geographic Channel. BBC Post Production Bristol is providing the HD tapeless post-production solution to support the series, which explores the history, landscape and wildlife of the islands, and ...
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Baselight for Envy
Start-up post house Envy has spent£225,000 on Filmlight's Baselight Four grading system for colour grading and finishing. It will be used for high-end grading for film and broadcast work and will be installed in the facility's grading suite.
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Done and Dusted spotlights new bands
Music producer Done and Dusted is to profile the year's most successful new bands for a Channel 4 miniseries. The indie has been commissioned to make Carling's New Kings - a 3 x 30-minute series co-funded by beer maker Carling through its marketing company, Cake. The episodes will follow Hard-Fi, ...
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FBC appoints Kawash in new COO role
FBC, the European-based media and entertainment group that owns Diverse, producer of Musicality, has appointed former 4Ventures managing director Anmar Kawash to the role of chief operating officer.
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Digital Classics in market for another indie
Digital Classics is lining up another major acquisition in the wake of its purchase of Box TV.
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City cash for Alba
Alba Communications, the indie behind Saddam and the Third Reich, has raised£250,000 from City investors, which it will put into factual programming as well as an expansion into DVDs. The Capital Fund, a£50m venture capital fund, has put up the cash and will inject more over the next few years. ...
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Studio AKA does Nick Jr idents
Studio AKA has created the channel idents for Nickelodeon UK's Nick Jr channel. The idents, directed by AKA's Mic Graves, depict a pop-up world featuring cut-out animals in festive mode. Ben Boquelet, Emilie Boyard, Boris Kossmehl, Rob Latimer and Fabienne Rivory animated in 3D using Softimage XSI. James Gaillard rendered ...
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Long wait ahead for product placement
Broadcasters may have to wait for up to two years before product placement gets the green light as legislation works its way through the European Parliament. The European Commission's Television Without Frontiers directive is expected to take between 18 months and two years to be ratified. Ofcom is hoping to ...
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BBC Scotland lures C4 comedy talent
BBC Scotland has recruited a string of Channel 4 comedy talent for its latest sitcom, in the hope of securing its reputation as a centre for comedy.
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BBC1 to offer 'brain workout'
BBC1 is following up Test the Nation with a Saturday night 'brain workout' show from Northern Irish indie Wild Rover Productions.
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Tough times, tough measures
Both the BBC and ITV had to face up to some difficult questions in 2005 and it doesn't look as if life will be getting any easier in 2006, says Raymond Snoddy.
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Serving up winners and losers
Conor Dignam on a year which brought us the turkey twizzler and a regenerated Doctor Who landed back on our Saturday night screens.
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Listening to the voice of VoD
When is a TV programme not a TV programme? That is the big question troubling Ofcom, which last week was forced to postpone its long-awaited Television Production Sector Review as it struggled to work it out.
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Keeping us posted
Our end-of-year round-up finds facilities struggling to find the cash to invest in HD while at the same time the advent of desktop editing is putting pressure on them to cut their rates. By Simon Meek.
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A learning experience
Ten Alps' acquisition of Brook Lapping gave Brian Lapping the clout to win the Teachers' TV contract, while the company's veteran docs maker Norma Percy is now working alongside new blood. By Suzy Bashford.