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    Skaramoosh engineers promo

    2006-07-12T16:44:00Z

    Skaramoosh has completed the logo design and promo for Discovery Channel's Industrial Revelations: Best of British Engineering, a six-part series celebrating our greatest engineering icons including Concorde, the Channel Tunnel, the Routemaster Bus and Tower Bridge.

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    Smoke & Mirrors speaks for E4

    2006-07-12T16:43:00Z

    Smoke & Mirrors has created E4's new Espeak idents, which give viewers the lowdown on festivals such as the V Festival and Joust 2006 in a vox pop style.

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    Google rolls out UK video service

    2006-07-12T12:25:00Z

    Google has launched a new online video service allowing consumers to upload their own videos and view content from a selection of television networks and independent producers.

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    87% of kids want mobile TV

    2006-07-11T08:35:00Z

    Almost 90% of children would like to be able to watch TV on their mobiles, according to research exploring mobile phone use among 10-12 year olds carried out by Quaestor.

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    Metro to expand broadcast arm

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Hire, events and post facility Metro Broadcast is looking to spend an estimated£2.5m on a new Soho facility in a bid to expand its broadcast post-production business and reposition itself in the market.

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    Envy launches 3D graphics arm

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    London-based facility Envy is to set up a 3D graphics arm to provide graphics for broadcast, commercials and channel branding.

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    Telegenic builds hi-def scanner for OB

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    OB company Telegenic has ploughed£5m into building a new HD scanner to service its increasing portfolio of sports contracts.

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    TSI Transmission calls in the administrators

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    TSI Transmission - the playout arm of troubled facility TSI - has gone into administration after failing to attract a buyer.

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    Video Europe kit

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast rental company Video Europe has splashed out around£1m on Avid kit and broadcast HD equipment. It includes three Avid Unity Lanshares, two Symphony Nitris and 20 Adrenaline HD Systems. Video Europe has also started to build a HD flyaway system for contracts such as the 2006 Asian Games and ...

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    Arqiva airs Bubble

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract to provide direct-to-home (DTH) services for the UK's first ad-free music TV channel, Bubble Hits. The deal with Creative Sounds UK is worth over£1m across a five-year period. Arqiva is providing co-location and uplinking facilities for Bubble Hits from one of its UK ...

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    Can VoD rock for indies?

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    What's the best way for indies to make money in the VoD environment?

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    Platform Post grows

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Platform Post is expanding its facilities to occupy all four floors of its D'Arblay Street site. Around£400,000 has been invested in upgrading its three Avid Symphony suites, and installing a fourth, which will be fully integrated with a shared media storage system. The investment also covers a 5.1 audio suite ...

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    DGP invests in HD

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    DVD and post facility DGP has spent around£100,000 on a DS Nitris version 8. The system has a dual boot option for Symphony Nitris, dual-link RGB 444 and 5Tb of raid-protected storage. It will be used for managing all HD formats and to help clients work across platforms on both ...

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    FD leaves VTR

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    VTR's finance director, Peter Samengo-Turner, has left the company to work in the financial sector after 11 years at the company. He has been replaced by Prime Focus' vice-president, strategy and business development, Anshul Doshi, who joined VTR's board of directors last month.

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    Tapeless at Flextech

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Flextech has completed the switch of its linear channels to tapeless playout two weeks before the planned date of 18 July, with the move of Living TV to Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. FTN, Bravo, Challenge, Living TV2, Trouble and associated timeshift channels are now being played ...

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    Evolutions posts Sunday Service

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions is working on the online and audio post for Radar Productions' Christian O'Connell's Sunday Service, a new 10 x 60-minute entertainment programme. The show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, is similar to O'Connell's radio show, with one-off features, regular items and ...

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    Jump shows impact of sport

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    Jump has created the titles and graphics for BBC's Sport Relief 2006. The graphics were inserted in real environments with contact information on billboards and roadwork signs lighting up to show how the surrounding environment affects the way people live. Commissioned by BBC executive producer ...

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    Edinburgh puts technology centre stage

    2006-07-06T08:30:00Z

    The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.

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    Download team films Love Island footage

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...

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    Is post making a passage to India?

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    How post-production is moving out of London