All Broadcast articles in 7 October 2011 – Page 4
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FeaturesMatrox MX02
A Thunderbolt-enabled I/O device that provides broadcast-quality video and audio capture, monitoring, output and encoding for use with editing and content-creation applications.
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NewsPinewood Shepperton in TV funding move
Pinewood Shepperton is opening conversations with experienced TV producers as part of a move into TV production financing.
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NewsThompson warns government: "We can't do this again"
Mark Thompson has fired a warning shot across the bow to prevent the government from imposing future cuts on the BBC.
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NewsITV links eight sites in tapeless workflow bid
ITV has connected eight of its sites in London, Manchester and Leeds via a dedicated fibre-optic network as part of its drive towards a fully tapeless workflow.
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NewsSuppliers hit out at DPP report
Suppliers to the UK production and post-production sector have criticised the Digital Production Partnership’s (DPP) report on file-based workflows for failing to acknowledge the role of disk-based archiving and cloud-based storage.
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NewsRed Bee signs PBS UK playout deal
Red Bee Media has signed a deal to supply playout services for PBS in the UK.
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NewsBBC S&PP hires post chief
BBC Studios and Post Production has appointed The London Studios post production head of sales Julie Sangan to the new role of post-production resource manager.
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NewsFlying TV signs Getty deal
Aerial filming company Flying TV has signed a distribution deal with Getty as demand for HD aerial footage increases.
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News24-7 joins The Bottle Yard
Bristol production facility The Bottle Yard has signed its first permanent tenant
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NewsBBC confirms 2,000 job cuts
Around 2,000 BBC staff will lose their jobs by 2017 and a further 1,000 will move to Salford, where BBC3 will relocate as part of the corporation’s cost-cutting measures revealed this morning.
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NewsFoley guru Carr returns to Goldcrest
Foley mixer Paul Carr has come out of retirement to set up a Foley studio at London post facility Goldcrest.
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NewsApproval for DTG spec
The seventh edition of the Digital TV Group’s (DTG) interoperability specification for UK Digital Terrestrial Television and Hbb TV-based connected TVs has been formally approved by the DTG Council.
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Behind The ScenesWorld War II: The Last War Heroes
For this follow-up to Blitz Street, we added to the high-explosives with live bullets, mortars, mines and flamethrowers, says Paul Wooding.
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Behind The ScenesDriving Wars, Dave
Alex Farber takes on the ‘Bear Pit’ challenge from Dave’s new driving gameshow and finds that navigating an obstacle course in a full-size remote-controlled car is tougher than it sounds.
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The Broadcast InterviewRonan Bennett on C4's Top Boy
The writer of BBC1’s Hidden and C4’s Top Boy tells Chris Curtis why he’s uncomfortable taking creative control and likes to keep people guessing both on and off screen.
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NewsBBC2 orders Wartime Farm series from Lion TV
BBC2 has commissioned a third version of Lion TV’s successful …Farm format, this time looking at rural life during World War II.
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NewsCurrent TV to expose booze and sex danger
Current TV has ordered three docs and its first series recommission as part of a season planned for the run-up to Christmas that tackles the dangers posed by unlicensed alcohol and unprotected sex.
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NewsTalkback wins CBBC order for science sitcom
Talkback Thames is moving into the children’s space with a CBBC commission for a science-based kids’ sitcom.