All Broadcast articles in 29 October 1999 – Page 3
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Capital set to launch on Digital One
Capital Radio is to launch its first national station on commercial digital platform Digital One, writes John Plunkett.The new service, which will launch in January, is provisionally called Capital UK and
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SKD MEDIA TO BUY OUT CARRINGTON PRODUCTIONS
SKD Media, the cartoon property company, is to take over Carrington Productions, a private animation library company with 10 properties including Jack and the Beanstalk. SKD Media was formed last November
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INDIE BUSINESS - The money programme
As fully funded commissions come to an end, some independent producers are turning their attention to new forms of deficit funding. Jason Deans examines the options and asks how they might bring long-term benefits to indies.
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BSC RAPS CAPITAL AND TFI
The Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) has upheld complaints made about Capital Radio's broadcast of the emergency call made by William Shatner on the discovery of his wife's dead body. The BSC
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PHILIPS DTS PICKS DB BROADCAST FOR UK INTEGRATION ROLE
Philips Digital Transmission Systems (DTS) has appointed dB Broadcast as its premier integrator for UK projects as well as a reference point for worldwide projects. Philips DTS operations manager Weil Louvenberg
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ITV'S MANSFIELD BOOKS ONE-OFF LIFE SAVER DOC
ITV controller of documentaries and features Grant Mansfield has ordered a one-off documentary from Carlton called The Life Saver. The 60-minute portrait of heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, who has
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Bolton launches new indie Flame
Current affairs producer and presenter Roger Bolton is setting up a new indie, Flame TV, in a bid to expand his slate of popular factual television.Bolton told Broadcast it was time
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OFF THE RECORD - Mitch Bitch
And so to last week's Bafta Interactive Entertainment Awards, where CNN was in feisty mood. Miffed at rivals BBC News Online walking away with the news award for the second time,
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News Corp bids for FTV Premiera
News Corp is one of the potential bidders for FTV Premiera, the holder of the Czech Prima TV commercial licence, according to the bank handling the sale.Czech bank IPB confirmed on
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Liquid Television Graphics was commissioned by Patagonia Films to create the title sequence for new Sean Bean ITV thriller Extremely Dangerous. Specially shot live-action footage of a book, which feat
Liquid Television Graphics was commissioned by Patagonia Films to create the title sequence for new Sean Bean ITV thriller Extremely Dangerous. Specially shot live-action footage of a book, which features prominently
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VTR IN SOUTH BEACH DEAL
As Broadcast went to press, facilities group VTR confirmed that it had struck a deal with shell company South Beach Concepts to dispose of its troubled production subsidiary, Portman Entertainment. South
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VTR confirms talks with South Beach
Facilities company VTR has confirmed it is in talks with restaurant group South Beach Concepts about a partnership for production subsidiary Portman Entertainment.Shares in South Beach Concepts, which trade on the
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CAWOOD TO FRONT SCRAP MATES FOR BBC CHOICE
ORTV is to produce a 10 x 30-minute home improvement show for BBC Choice, Scrap Mates, presented by Night Fever star Sarah Cawood. Commissioned by BBC Choice programming executive Katy Thorogood,
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CRCA hits out at BBC over digital
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) has accused the BBC of failing to pull its weight in the development of digital radio, writes John Plunkett.In its response to the Gavyn Davies
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COMPLAINTS DOWN AT BBC
The BBC received 156 complaints about issues of taste, decency, accuracy, impartiality or fairness between 1 July and 30 September this year, compared with 178 in the same period last year,
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Steyger quits BBC for post with Victoria Real
BBC Birmingham editor of new media programmes Tony Steyger has left to join Brighton-based TV and new media production company Victoria Real, writes Wale Azeez.Steyger takes on the new role of
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BARB CONFIRMS DIGITAL DELAY
Barb, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, has confirmed that its first digital-only data, relating to channels exclusive to digital TV, will be delayed (Broadcast, 22.10.99). The data - relating to the
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OFF THE RECORD - Bland banquet
Off The Record was disappointed not to be invited to the Queen's Royal banquet at Buckingham Palace in honour of Chinese president Jiang Zemin last week. Perhaps the invite got lost
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BAKEWELL TO CHAIR BFI
Joan Bakewell has been appointed chair of the British Film Institute, succeeding Alan Parker. Bakewell has been a governor at the BFI for the past five years and was deputy to
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EVERITT BAGS FIRST UNITED BURSARY
United Productions has awarded its first£5,000 documentary bursary to Peter Everitt. The annual scheme, launched by United at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival last week, is designed to give an