All Broadcast articles in 20 August 1999 – Page 4
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REPORT - Who's top of the class in UK TV?
Teacher's pet or class clown? As the industry packs its bags for next week's Edinburgh TV festival, and with an eye on the autumn schedules, Broadcast gives three contrasting views of terrestrial performance over the past year.
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Turner to rebrand classic film offer
Turner Broadcasting Systems is set to relaunch its 24-hour movie channel TNT Classic Movies as Turner Classic Movies (TCM) this autumn.The relaunch, scheduled for 15 October, will involve a complete rebranding
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ITC clears ITV's Tonight
The Independent Television Commission has ruled in favour of Tonight's decision to interview the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder case, writes Wale Azeez.In its ruling the ITC said the
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Pubs and clubs get Sky Inn Practice
BSkyB is gearing up to launch its first business-to-business service next month with 20 hours of programming targeted at the pubs and clubs trade, writes Alice Macandrew.The new programme, Inn Practice,
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Hartswood takes Road to Colditz
Hartswood Films has gone into production on a 2 x 50-minute documentary for BBC 1, The Road to Colditz, writes Tim Dams.Featuring interviews with former prisoners of war from Colditz and
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Sky Television's in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for new Sky News IT and computer programme Technofile. Designed and directed by Darren Kelly, the titles use a combination
Sky Television's in-house graphics department has created the title sequence for new Sky News IT and computer programme Technofile. Designed and directed by Darren Kelly, the titles use a combination of
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FLAT ERIC RETURNS FOR LATEST LEVIS COMMERCIALS
Flat Eric (left) makes a return performance for Levis in a new commercial post-produced by The Mill. Directed by Quentin Dupieux for Partizan Midi Minuit and written by Kym Papworth for
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THE MILL JOINS LIST OF CUSTOMERS FOR SPIDDR
The Mill is the latest facility to order Post Impression's SpiDDR. Mill technical director Roy Trosh said SpiDDR would be used as more than a replacement for the facilities D1 vtr.
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Two senior posts go as CVE restructures
Two senior Chrysalis Visual Entertainment (CVE) executives, managing director Julie Blessyn and Chrysalis Television International (CTI) managing director Nick Witkowski, are understood to be negotiating redundancy packages.The redundancies are said to
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CWC digital TV takes off
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) launched its first interactive digital TV services in Manchester on Friday (13 August).The cable operator announced it had signed up more than 50 content providers for
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DBC SIGNS DARBY AND MCBRIEN FOR MARKETING ROLES
Digital pay-per-view venture the digital broadcasting company (dbc), which launched the movie service u>directfilms on Sky Digital last month, has recruited two new members of staff to its marketing department. Charlotte
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Just desserts
After many years working with Peter Bazalgette, Tim Hincks was named deputy of GMG Endemol. But is he just a Baz clone, asks John Plunkett.
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Digital tax a turn-off NOP poll reveals
A new NOP survey has shown that half of all consumers who want to sign-up to digital TV will be put off if faced with a digital tax of£24, as
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ZDF SUBSIDIARY IN DOCUMENTARY JOINT-VENTURE
German public broadcaster ZDF's commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises, and Hamburg producer Katharina Trebitsch have set up the joint-venture doc.station to develop and produce documentaries for the international market. The Hamburg-based company,
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Edinburgh unveils programme
The full details of this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival were unveiled on Tuesday (17 August), writes Tina Mistry.Highlights scheduled for the event, which runs from 27-30 August, include ITV chief
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INTERVIEW - Let me entertain you
Ex-Planet 24 man Duncan Gray spent his first year as Granada's entertainment chief gathering a strong team around him. Now he's ready to reap the rewards, with a raft of shows about to hit the network's new schedule.
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SIEGLER REWARDS THREE AT GRANADA ENTERTAINMENT USA
Granada Entertainment USA president Scott Siegler has promoted Matt Goldammer to director, business and legal affairs, Rebecca Hedrick to story editor for TV movies and mini-series and EJ Lee to manager,
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INTERGRAPH UNVEILS ZX FAMILY FOR VIZUAL
Intergraph Computer Systems has launched a new Zx family of ViZual workstations which, the company claims, will deliver twice the system throughput of current generic systems. Utilising the company's new Wahoo
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FLINTHAM AND TOWNSEND FILL NEW POSTS AT SKILLSET
Skillset, the national training body for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, has filled two newly created posts - in-house research manager and communications director. Neil Flintham joins as research manager with
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RUSHES POACHES FIRE OPERATOR MOORE
Rushes has appointed former VTR Fire operator Derek Moore. He joins Rushes existing team of Paul Wratten, Russell Shaw and Groucho. Prior to joining VTR, Moore spent seven years at The