All Broadcast articles in 9 December 2011 – Page 3
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News
University in SADiE first
Bournemouth University has been named the first UK accredited SADiE Training Establishment, as part of a new scheme to improve training for students using its editing equipment.
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Fifty Fifty completes refurb
Fifty Fifty Post has completed the refurbishment of its five post suites.
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422 to animate Britain
Bristol-based animation and VFX company 422 South has been commissioned by BBC Scotland to produce CGI and graphics for Britain Beneath Our Feet.
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Aspera hires Heitmann and Flathers
Aspera has appointed Richard Heitmann to the position of vice-president of marketing,
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Avid updates Interplay toolset
Avid is boosting its media asset management toolset with updates to its Interplay system that it says will ease the pressure of delivering content to multiple screens.
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Features
Honey, Pack the Bags!
Broadcast shines the spotlight on a new French format that evokes memories of Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush.
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Comment
It’s time we measured up
We must have the means to track diversity to tackle the lack of it.
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Comment
Off Cuts: I’m A Giraffe... Get Me Out of Here!
Distressing scenes on Wild At Heart, where Lucy the giraffe broke onto the set and fell in the pool.
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Comment
Fast Freddie, The Widow & Me / Gruffalo’s Child / Hunt for the Whalers
Ricochet’s Claire Egerton-Jones and Electric Sky’s Karen Young on festive TV, kids’ classic and hunters hunted.
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Comment
Caught out by the Pace of change
Set-top box manufacturer has had a tough year, says Kate Bulkley.
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The Broadcast Interview
Elaine Pyke, Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic’s director wants to beef up the channel’s staple diet of acquisitions with original content. She tells Alex Farber about forgoing ratings winners for more ‘grown-up telly’.
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Behind The Scenes
The Long Road to Tripoli, Al Jazeera English
Having secured a commission from Al Jazeera to film rebel fighters in war-torn Libya, Anne Reevell did what any mother would do: took her son along.
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Comment
We can’t afford not to pay for freelancer training
Everyone benefits from having a well-trained freelance community, says Nick Catliff.
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Features
Review of the Year 2011
Broadcast looks back over a tough 12 months when rows broke out over sexism, racism and a crime-fighting mouse, and a media mogul’s wife delivered the surprise hit of the year.
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Yearly ratings plummet
This year’s ratings reveal some major headaches for the commercial PSBs: Channel 4 is on course to miss its 7% share target, Channel 5’s gamble on Big Brother has not paid off and ITV1’s 2010 ratings renaissance is over.
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Shine to launch indie staffed by youngsters
Shine Group is launching a new production company that will be staffed by young content makers from non-traditional TV backgrounds.
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Zig Zag goes to Hollywood for push into ent
Zig Zag Productions is targeting a major push into entertainment after hiring former Sky 1 and Living commissioner Clare Hollywood.
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Edgar-Jones takes Sky entertainment reins
Sky has snapped up former Big Brother executive producer Phil Edgar-Jones to become head of entertainment just a few weeks after he quit Running Bare.
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Reef and ITN win rights to develop shows on V&A
Reef Television and ITN Productions have won the right to develop programme ideas based on the Victoria & Albert Museum’s forthcoming exhibitions and permanent collection.
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Daybreak deputy ed to leave
Less than a week after taking up the mantle of Daybreak editor and David Kermode has already made his mark – overseeing the departure of deputy editor Paul Connolly.