All Broadcast articles in 22 October 1999 – Page 2
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On Digital serves up interactive TV
On Digital partners Carlton Media and Granada Media have linked up to develop an interactive TV service for the digital pay-TV platform, which could eventually be transferred to ITV programmes and
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Half of UK to go digital within three years
Just under half of the UK population plans to sign up to digital TV within three years, according to a new Gallup survey, writes Paul Donovan.Research commissioned by Pace Micro Technology
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Digital radio wins satellite platform
Digital radio received a much-needed boost this week when the GWR Group unveiled three new digital channels and its 20 UK radio stations announced they had secured digital carriage on the
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CUTTING EDGE TO FEATURE TWO NEW DISABILITY DOCS
Channel 4 has ordered 2 x 30-minute documentaries focusing on disability as part of the forthcoming 16-part run of Cutting Edge. Love is Blind is made by Hannah Berryman for Carlton
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Samura wins Peck for Sierra Leone coverage
The Rory Peck Trust this week declared Sierra Leonian cameraman Sorious Samura the winner of the 1999 Rory Peck Award, writes Wale Azeez.From a shortlist of five, including three British journalists
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Radio Corp joins Wales licence fight
The new regional radio licence for south Wales is set to become one of the most hotly contested yet, after details were announced of a GWR-backed bid from The Radio Corporation,
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OPINION - Content is king, the rest is detail
Shorthand. We all use it and it's endemic to the TV and radio industries, just as all industries develop their own jargon. We write about Gavyn Davies and you realise we're
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COMMUNICOPIA MERGES WITH NEW MEDIA OUTFIT NETPRO
Communicopia, sole programme provider for the Money Channel (left), has merged with new media outfit Netpro. The pair have worked together on a number of projects over the past three years.
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TROUBLE AND INITIAL KIDS TO MAKE TEENAGE COMEDY
Flextech-owned Satellite and cable channel Trouble has joined forces with indie Initial Kids to co-produce a 26 x 30-minute teenage comedy, Ed Stone is Dead, a ghost story set in Notting
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CNN and Sky News launch millennium programming
CNN and Sky News have unveiled details of their millennium coverage with more than 140 hours of live broadcasts, writes John Plunkett.Sky News will air a 42-hour continuous show, Into 2000,
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FOLEY QUITS CINESITE FOR INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA
Cinesite chief executive Aiden Foley is quitting the company to pursue opportunities in the internet and new media arenas. Foley, who has been with the US special effects arm of Eastman
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Resources chief comes under fire
Commercial director of BBC Resources David Green came under fire from UK facilities last Thursday (14 October) for wanting to 'have his cake and eat it'.Speaking at a conference in Barcelona
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OFF THE RECORD - News on the cheap
Congratulations to the BBC's Fergal Keane - winner of the TV news gong at this year's Bayeux Awards for war correspondents. It was Keane's hard-hitting reports from Sierra Leone that impressed
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Charity launches Writernet
Writers' charity The New Playwrights Trust is launching an online interactive database designed to put writers and producers in touch with each other, writes Wale Azeez.Called Writernet, the database will feature
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MTV JOINS PREMIERE WORLD TO DEVELOP MUSIC CHANNEL
MTV Networks Europe and Kirch-owned German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World have linked up to develop an exclusive music channel for the platform. Following the agreement, MTV and VH-1 will cease
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WOMEN IN FILM & TV NAMES KINNINMONT AS CHAIR
Industry networking organisation Women in Film & Television (WFTV) has elected founding member Kate Kinninmont as its UK chair effective from this month. Kinninmont, a freelance producer with Independent Image and
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SKY PICTURES INKS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM DEAL
Sky Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox to handle the theatrical release of some of the dozen films it is producing over the next 12 months. A
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CARTOON NETWORK MAKES RADIO DEBUT IN HALF-TERM DEAL
Cartoon Network is to launch on the radio with a special half-term radio version of the cable and satellite channel beginning on Friday (22 October). The station has teamed up with
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Carlton Food lines up new Xmas fare
Carlton Food Network has lined up five new commissions for Christmas and the new year, writes Wale Azeez.The first of the new shows is fast turnaround show In Season, a 26
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CAPITAL GOLD SIGNS MASTHEAD DEAL WITH OK!
Capital Gold has sealed a masthead programming deal with OK! magazine to broadcast two celebrity gossip and interview shows each week. The show, OK! On Air, will be hosted by Capital