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    BAKER SWITCHES TO SALES ROLE AT MAD EDITING

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Suzanne Baker, formerly sales and marketing director with Baraka and Evolution, has joined Mad Editing in the same role. She will also act as post-production producer. Mad has also taken on

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    THE FOUNDRY SELLS KEYLIGHT COMPOSITING TOOLS

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Software development specialist The Foundry has sold three Keylight compositing tools to Mill Film. Keylight enables artist to composite blue and green screen shoots more easily by modelling the interaction of

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    Megalomedia to sell CFC's US arm

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Megalomedia is selling the Los Angeles arm of its effects subsidiary, the Computer Film Company (CFC), to US film effects company Manex Visual Effects.William Sargent, Megalomedia board director and CFC's UK

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    Shaw drops Coats for Cintel board role

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Men in White Coats (MIWC) managing director Steve Shaw is quitting the company to join telecine manufacturer Cintel as its new technical director.Shaw's unexpected departure comes little more than a year

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    ITK's Millennium Machine limbers up for IBC debut

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Innovation TK's (ITK) forthcoming high-definition telecine will make its prototype debut at this year's IBC in September.ITK managing director Stuart Hunt said the new telecine, codenamed the Millennium Machine, was being

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    ICS spins off 3D graphics

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Intergraph Computer Systems (ICS) is planning to spin off its graphics division, Intense 3D, into a new company in an attempt to bolster its position in the market for add-on professional

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    Manwatching

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Molly Dineen once asked Tony Blair: 'Why aren't you a Tory?' This ability to catch men off-guard makes her a unique TV talent, says David Wood.

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    Martin Jackson

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Here we go again. Flush with a£30.5 million kickback on their breakfast franchise from the Independent Television Commission, the Scottish and Guardian Media groups are saying 'good morning thank you'

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    Red light for the ITS?

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    So far the UK branch of the International Teleproduction Society has failed to act as a credible talk-shop for Soho's post-production industry. Dominic Timms asks if it has a future.

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    OPINION - Salmon must act to halt the decline

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    It was not an original observation but Christopher Bland, speaking at a Royal Television Society dinner on Tuesday, was right when he said that a strong BBC is important to ITV,

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    THE RATINGS WARHORSE - WAR ZONE: LATE PEAK

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Who's winning the battle in weekday primetime?

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    Gagging for it

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Comedy producer Tony Charles hopes the departure of News at Ten will lead to new opportunities for sitcoms.

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    INTERVIEW - Dramatic visions

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Since arriving as Channel 4's drama chief 18 months ago, Gub Neal has overhauled the department and now plans to air one original piece a week. Will new shows like Queer as Folk prove a new dawn for drama on C4?

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - Failing the family

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Have broadcasters given up on the traditional Sunday afternoon teatime drama for all the family? With a sizeable fireside audience still tuning in, they should be wary of neglecting the genre.

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    OFF THE RECORD - A close shave for Bolton

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Fans of Roger Bolton's Right to Reply on Channel 4 (and we're sure there are many) will be familiar with the host's coiffured good looks. Imagine our shock, then, when Mirror

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    OFF THE RECORD - Eyres rock

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted a familiar face in the crowd of ITV's Saturday morning extravaganza, SM:TV Live - none other than Network Centre bigwig Richard Eyre. The ITV chief executive

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    OFF THE RECORD - One man and his dosh

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    OTR is astonished at the brouhaha surrounding the Beeb's decision to axe One Man and his Dog, which it had always assumed was a fair summation of its likely audience. The

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    OFF THE RECORD - Big screen debut

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is set to multiply its reach at a stroke when it makes a cameo appearance in the eagerly awaited follow-up to Four Weddings and a Funeral.The producers of the

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    OFF THE RECORD - Watery rave

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    OTR is sorry to note there was no Jarvis Cocker-style tomfoolery at last week's Brit awards for ITV to edit from its programme the following night. But some of the legions

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    OFF THE RECORD - Charting the demise of LWT warhorse Gladiators ..

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    A one-time family favourite, the LWT show - once dubbed It's a Knockout on Steroids - has been dodging the axe for some time1991 The US import gets shaky reception when