All Broadcast articles in 29 January 1999 – Page 3
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RED POST HIRES ANDREWS TO OVERSEE SOFTIMAGE DS
Red Post Production has taken on former Happy Fish and Aura editor Dan Andrews to run its recently acquired dual stream Softimage DS. Andrews' appointment coincides with the arrival of the
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BBC BIRMINGHAM SERIES TO MARK SIKH ANNIVERSARY
The Asian unit at BBC Birmingham's network production department is producing a series for BBC 2 to mark the 300th anniversary of the establishment of modern Sikhism. The 3 x 30-minute
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ANXIETIES MOUNT OVER FRENCH PAY-TV FILM RIGHTS
Concern over control of French pay-TV film rights rose to fever pitch this week as French broadcasters battled for control of television and cinema group Pathe. Pay-TV group Canal+ bought up
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NEW TRADE ASSOCIATION
The National Association of Screen Make-up Artists & Hairdressers has been set up to represent the interests of make-up artists and hairdressers working in the media. The association is on a
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Lord Attenborough is star speaker at Movie Day
The Production Show 1999's Movie Day will target the film industry head on, promising to deliver a star-studded line-up. Speakers include Lord Attenborough, who most recently starred in both Steven Spielberg's
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Audience eludes the Scarlet Pimpernel
BBC 1's latest costume drama, The Scarlet Pimpernel, was trounced when it made its debut on Sunday (24 January), writes Alice Macandrew.
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Digidesign upgrades AudioVision
Digidesign, the specialist audio division of Avid that manufactures the ProTools non-linear audio editor, has developed an upgraded version of the AudioVision sound-for-picture workstation, writes Kevin Hilton.
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GENRE AUDIT - Watching the soaps slide
David Wood charts the steady decline in the popularity of soap operas and asks what can be done to return the genre to its position as the broadcasters' guaranteed ratings puller.
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Street-fighter wanted to punch for Auntie - Comment
Perhaps the BBC missed a trick. Two accomplished spin doctors, slightly tarnished but with plenty of mileage left in them, have recently come on the market. The newer, shinier one was
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OMNIBUS SERVES UP AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSES
Omnibus Systems, which manufactures broadcast automation systems, is to provide training courses to freelance journalists and broadcasters beginning this spring. Omnibus technical director Ian Fletcher said that freelancers would be given
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FIRST CUT INSTALLS AVID'S SYMPHONY
Bristol facility First Cut Digital Post Production has become the first facility in the west country to install Avid's Symphony. First Cut managing director John Lomas said the uncompressed non-linear editor
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DISCREET LOGIC BAGS PRIZE FOR FLAME AND INFERNO
Discreet Logic's effects systems, Flame and Inferno, have won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Scientific & Engineering Award. The award, due to be presented at a ceremony in
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BAZALGETTE AND SILVERMAN JOIN MONTE CARLO PANEL
GMG Endemol Entertainment creative director Peter Bazalgette and William Morris head of international packaging Ben Silverman will be on the panel of a new format conference at the Monte Carlo market
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BBC takes millennium medicine
The BBC has added two new series to its line-up of millennium programming including Frontiers of Medicine from BBC science, focusing on the most dramatic recent breakthroughs in medical science, writes
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BBC SATISFIES INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION QUOTA
The BBC comfortably met its 25 per cent independent production quota for the 12 months to 31 March 1998, according to the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) fifth statutory report. The
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BBC COMPLAINTS UNIT MEETS RESPONSE TARGET
The BBC's Programme Complaints Unit (PCU) has for the first time reached its target of dealing with 80 per cent of complaints within 20 working days. Between October and December 1998,
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BBC ONLINE BOOST
BBC Online has the second largest share of the UK internet market, second only to US search engine Yahoo!, according to a study by Fletcher Research. The survey found that 42
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HARWOOD QUITS BBC DRAMA
BBC drama head of finance Andy Harwood is moving to the post of finance director at online consumer service LineOne, a joint-venture between News International, BT and United News & Media.
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BBC's TV drama 'sold down river'
BBC television drama is being 'sold down the river', according to writers and producers dismayed by the axing of 70 jobs from the department.Sixty-two TV posts will be cut from 116
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Big screen series editor Rufus Roubicek commissioned LNN Design to create a new series of titles for the relaunch of the LWT weekly film review show, Big Screen. Given the brief
Big screen series editor Rufus Roubicek commissioned LNN Design to create a new series of titles for the relaunch of the LWT weekly film review show, Big Screen. Given the brief