All Broadcast articles in 16 November 2007 – Page 4
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Comment
Hot Topic: Spectrum sell-off
Highest-bidder spectrum sales short-change PSB. By Andrew Bethell.
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News
Videosonics TV unit moves
TV and film sound post-production specialist Videosonics has relocated its Camden-based TV unit from Hawley Crescent to Delancey Street to join the bulk of its business at this site.
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NewsBroadcast Live to host HDTV debate
BBC head of HDTV Seetha Kumar will explore the prospects for HDTV in the UK in a keynote presentation that will form part of the newly launched Broadcast Live and VideoForum Business of Broadcasting conference schedule.
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NewsBBC’s first music podcast
The BBC has launched its first podcasts to feature music clips following a deal with royalties body Phonographic Performance.
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NewsAffinity TV channel site
Website operator Affinity Media has launched a site that enables users to create their own online TV channel featuring content from videosharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video.
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FeaturesCONTENT FOCUS: DISPATCHES LATE NIGHT & LIVE
Newly launched online show discusses the issues raised in Dispatches in greater depth.
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FeaturesWhat’s up with docs?
Commissioners spent last weekend’s Sheffield Doc Festival trying to reassure film-makers that things are not as bad as they seem for the genre.
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Prism supplies dScope III
Prism Sound has supplied a dScope series III audio analyzer to GEM UK, a Gloucester-based company specialising in the offshore manufacture and assembly of printed circuit boards.
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NewsDicks to head Somethin’ Else interactive
Indie Somethin’ Else has hired the man behind the BBC’s online soap Wannabes to head its interactive division.
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NewsEndemol US seals indie deal
Endemol will move into feature films after its US subsidiary bought a majority stake in US indie Original Media.
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CommentMedia fails to replicate banking sector bounce
Bank and financial stocks bounced back from last week’s heavy falls, but the FTSE 100 was still down 1.7%. Media stocks in particular had a difficult week.
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NewsArkaga eyes producers after first indie deal
Jersey-based venture capitalist Arkaga is planning to become a player in the consolidation of the indie sector after buying factual and kids TV producer and distributor Parthenon Entertainment.
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The Broadcast Lifestyle Survey 2007
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NewsStewart Purvis joins Ofcom
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has joined Ofcom as partner for content and standards.
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NewsTrinny and Susannah lose their charms
The audience for last night’s Trinny and Susannah Undress the Nation was two million down on the opening show, appealing to only 3m viewers (12.9%) and losing out to both of the BBC’s terrestrial channels.
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FeaturesTalking to the world
As one of the most highly regarded interviewers in global news, eyebrows were raised when Sir David Frost joined a fledgling news channel. But a year on Al Jazeera English is making waves and challenging the likes of the BBC and CNN.
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NewsOneword faces uncertainty as Quinn steps up as COO
UBC Media, the AIM-listed radio indie, has promoted commercial director John Quinn to a more senior role amid speculation that it will further streamline its business by pulling out of its Oneword digital station venture with Channel 4.
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NewsWhitehaven goes digital
Whitehaven today (14 November) became the first town in the UK to switch off its analogue TV signal.
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NewsTV Critics 13 November 2007
TV critics' verdict on programmes - including BBC2’s The 800 Million Pound Railway Station - broadcast on 13 November 2007