All Broadcast articles in 19 December 2003 – Page 2
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Mitcorp set to plug gap left by McMillan
Following the closure of broadcast equipment reseller McMillan last week, Mitcorp UK has announced that it is to set up a subsidiary to fill the gap in the regional market left by the company's demise.
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Lipsync hires fyvie
Lipsync Post has hired Stuart Fyvie as senior colourist to utilise its Quantel iQ-based grading system. Previously at Resolution, his credits include Band of Brothers and Dreamkeeper. This year he has worked with Ray Harryhausen on the restoration of archived 16mm material.
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Fox Kids posts profit
Fox Kids Europe has recovered from its $28.9m (£17.2m) loss last year and posted a $3.8m (£2.26m) profit for 2002/03. The broadcaster, which is 76% owned by Disney, upped advertising revenues by 36% to $30.3m (£18.0m) for the 12 months ending 30 September. Overall revenues were up by 14% to ...
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Five looks at extreme plastic surgery
Yorkshire Television has been commissioned by Five to explore just how far people will push the boundaries of plastic surgery. Drastic Plasticwill track the extreme enhancements taken by both men and women across 2 x 60-minute programmes and is due to be broadcast early next ...
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Rise news editor gets London news role
ITV has revealed that the new regional London ITV news service will be run by the former news editor of Channel 4 breakfast flop Rise. Stuart Thomas has been named editor for the service, which will be called ITV London News Service when it relaunches ...
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Discreet's US parent in move to shed jobs
Discreet is to streamline its management operation as part of a rationalisation process announced by its US parent company, Autodesk.
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Kerrang! gets midlands digital launch
Emap is to launch Kerrang! digital radio in the West Midlands on 1 January as an appetiser to its forthcoming FM station. The heavy rock station, owned by Broadcast's publisher, is currently only available in London but will roll out an analogue service in the ...
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Five divides factual dept
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has scrapped the controller of factual role he previously held and split the department into two genres - history and science.
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Molinare to host Sky daytime show
Molinare has secured the contract for Sky One and Shine's new daytime show, writes Sam Espensen.
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Ofcom criticised over higher cost
Ofcom this week found itself under fire from broadcasters - after revealing that its operating costs of£164m would be 27% higher than the five regulators it is replacing.
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Condor ups game
The Condor Group has placed an order for a fifth Da Vinci grading system and is upgrading all of its international systems as part of£500,000 of investment. The new system is to go into the London office, with the Millennium ITK datacines being upgraded to the new Millennium II machine. ...
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Post co promotions
Editors' agency The Independent Post Company has given two booking employees new jobs. Anthony Crossby has been promoted to general manager from head of bookings, and Holly Ryan has become senior booker. The agency's recent credits include Little Britain and ...
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Mr Men set to join Noddy at Chorion
Chorion, the owner of classic kids character Noddy, is set to add the Mr Men to its portfolio of characters by the end of the year, writes Michael Rosser.
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Capital Disney moves
Digital station Capital Disney has handed two of its presenters behind-the-scenes roles in order to give its editorial content extra weight. Disney Channel presenter Will Chambers has been appointed new programme manager while Capital Disney DJ Matt Soper will become a producer for the station.
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Merchant navy buys top gear for crews
BBC motoring show Top Gearhas been picked up for broadcast by three new territories and the Merchant Navy. The BBC2 series has been sold by BBC Library Sales to TVN Turbo in Poland, Prime TV in New Zealand and pan-Europe Russian language channel TV+. The ...
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Christie bows out
Grampian TV non-executive director Bob Christie has retired from ITV after over four decades' service. He attended his last meeting this week. A former Grampian director of television, Christie has been with the Aberdeen-based broadcaster since its launch in 1961 and first joined the board in 1975.
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Films to boost Friday night Living
Flextech has sealed its biggest ever movie deal with Sony Pictures Television in an attempt to strengthen Living TV's Friday night offering. In the multimillion-pound deal, 50 movies from Sony's Columbia Pictures will be broadcast on Living TV over the next three years, with a small portion of the films ...
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Trouble to examine celebrity bodies
Flextech channel Trouble has commissioned September Films to make a 15 x 30-minute series on how celebrities get their physiques. Celebrity Bodies, ordered by Trouble commissioning editor Lucy Pilkington, will give a detailed head-to-toe analysis of stars such as Justin Timberlake and David Beckham. It ...
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Forth board recruit
Radio Forth has appointed former Kiss producer Nik Goodman to its board. Goodman has been with the Edinburgh-based station as programme director for just over a year. He joined from Emap-owned London station Kiss, where he produced the Bam Bam Breakfast Show.
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Elliot orders third Wire In The Blood
ITV has commissioned a third series of Robson Green vehicle Wire in the Blood, before the second series has aired. Controller of drama Nick Elliott has ordered four more episodes of the detective series, which