All Broadcast articles in 21 October 2011 – Page 3
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RatingsPaul Merton returns to C5 with 2m
WEDNESDAY: Paul Merton returned to Channel 5 with one of his biggest audiences to date - as Arsenal’s victory in the Champions League stumbled for ITV1.
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NewsBBC's Ariel to go online only
The BBC’s in house newspaper is to fold after 75 years and has gone online only as part of the corporation’s Delivering Quality First cuts.
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NewsAMWA draws up delivery spec
A common specification for the delivery of programmes to multiple devices will be released by the Advanced Media Workfl ow Association (AMWA) next month.
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NewsClear Cut builds for drama drive
Clear Cut Pictures is building a 5.1 audio theatre as part of its drive to take a greater slice of the drama audio post market.
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NewsCox joins Procam team
Twofour Broadcast camera facilities manager Simon Cox (pictured) will join hire company Procam as camera facilities manager at the end of this month.
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NewsRapid expands online and grading capacity
Rapid Pictures is adding a fourth floor to its West London base, with the additional online and grading suites due to open early next year.
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NewsFrame rates on SMPTE's LA agenda
Faster frame rates will be high on the agenda at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) annual conference next week in LA.
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NewsAmis boosts HD offering
Amis Productions is claiming to be one of the biggest providers of HD stabilised camera systems in the world following its Azule Finance-backed £635,000 investment in two Flir cameras and three Cineflex V14 HD cameras.
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NewsGrass Valley plans UK PubliTronic expansion
Grass Valley will seek to build on PubliTronic’s UK install base following its acquisition of the Netherlands-based company.
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NewsHarmonic in BBC Olympic win
BBC Sport will use Harmonic’s Omneon MediaGrid active storage system as part of its file-based workfl ow at the 2012 Olympics. Installed in the International Broadcast Centre in Stratford as part of a production system incorporating EVS servers, it will provide 3,500 hours of work-in-progress storage.
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Encompass inks ScheduAll deal
Playout provider Encompass Digital Media has signed a deal with ScheduAll to manage its distribution services.
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NewsTyrell equips Piranha Bar
Tyrell CCT has equipped Dublin facility Piranha Bar with a storage infrastructure consisting of an Avid Isis 5000 and Object Matrix’s Matrix Store.
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Elemental for Eurosport
Eurosport will use Elemental Technologies’ video-processing technology for its live and on-demand multiplatform streaming services.
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RatingsHoly Flying Circus draws 534k
WEDNESDAY: BBC4’s Monty Python biopic offered something completely different but could not beat ITV2’s reality double bill of Peter Andre and TOWIE.
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NewsJust a Minute makes TV move
The BBC is adapting long-running Radio 4 comedy series Just A Minute for TV to celebrate the series’ 45th anniversary.
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NewsJill Green wins first order for new indie
Jill Green’s latest venture, Eleventh Hour Films, has won its first commission – an extended second series of BBC2 comedy drama Vexed.
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NewsOptomen lands deals for Portas and Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay and Mary Portas are to extend their international footprints with a series of post-Mipcom distribution deals.
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NewsBullseye creator plans US remake
The creator of classic 1980s gameshow Bullseye is in talks for a US remake, which could have a million dollar jackpot.
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NewsPrincess to build Love Machine for Sky Living
Sky Living has ordered a dating show fronted by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and X Factor contestant Stacey Solomon, and which features a giant machine filled with singletons.