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    IBF invests in HDCam decks

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    International Broadcast Facilities (IBF) has invested more than£150,000 to boost its Sony HD capabilities as it predicts a swing from HD-D5 to HDCam SR.

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    Metro chief follows 'passion'

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Metro Broadcast chief executive has quit the WPP-owned company to pursue his 'passion' for architecture.

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    Oasis posts Africa icons series

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Oasis Television has completed post-production on Out of Africa: Heroes and Icons, a 90-minute documentary opening BBC's Africa season. The documentary features interviews and archive footage of some of the most famous and influential icons in Africa's recent history such as Nelson Mandela ...

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    Positive change for Community

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has completed a brand redesign for the Community Channel to represent it as a channel for positive change. BBC Broadcast designer Marc Hardman and design producer Janet Smith created the rebrand's orange and blue concept. An orange circle was used as a symbol of community inclusion while blue ...

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    Tennis link to India

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    TWI is beaming this year's Wimbledon Tennis Championship to mobile handsets around the world. Mobile phones users in the UK, Spain, Malaysia and, for the first time, India will be able to watch coverage of the grass court tournament on the move. TWI's mobile ...

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    Rudgard to move

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Soho post house Golden Square has signed up Lord of the RingsFlame and Fire artist Tim Rudgard. Rudgard previously worked at Red Post for five years and at Oktobor Post in New Zealand, where he was involved in the Lord of the ...

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    Kemistry wins MTV

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Design and branding company Kemistry has won the contract to rebrand MTV3 in Finland. Kemistry will be responsible for producing the entire on-air package, covering idents, news programme graphics and website interfaces. The channel will relaunch in the autumn. Creative head Graham McCallum, who branded the original launch of MTV3 ...

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    Funds for films

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    London's digital film festival, Pulse, has opened up£80,000 of funding to film-makers working in the digital medium. The funding will be spread among a maximum of 10 short films. Pulse was launched by Film London, in association with the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund in 2002, to help produce ...

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    Musgrove Quits M2

    2005-06-16T08:30:00Z

    Darren Musgrove has left Soho post-production company M2 to join broadcast facility Evolutions Television. Musgrove joins as a business development manager at the Berners Street post house. Musgrove previously worked for the BBC, Oasis and Broadcastmagazine. Post production producer Melanie Tomlin has also joined, leaving Nats ...

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    Growing pains in the world of DVD

    2005-06-16T08:00:00Z

    DVD is good business for facilities houses. But with increased competition and the introduction of new formats, it's a maturing market. By Kevin Hilton.

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    T4 party gets a beach brand

    2005-06-15T18:26:26Z

    Design agency Burrell Durrant Hifle (BDH) has designed and produced the branding for T4's summer party, T4 On the Beach. The brief covered the event from on-air trails and titles to billboards and a T4 bus livery. Director John Durrant and designer Carys Hull shot presenters ...

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    Video Europe in£1m rental

    2005-06-09T12:19:17Z

    Equipment rental company Video Europe has won a£1m contract with Dubai-based broadcaster Taj Television to supply the production equipment for all international cricket in Pakistan and Sri Lanka for three years.

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    Blue posts Strangest Village doc

    2005-06-09T12:04:44Z

    Post facility Blue has completed the post production on The Strangest Village in Britain for Landmark Films. The Channel 4 documentary takes a look at Botton, a village whose 236 inhabitants are people with learning difficulties and co-workers who all form part of the same community. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton ...

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    Arenap3 finishes Martha & Me

    2005-06-09T12:04:12Z

    ArenaP3 has just completed work on Martha & Me for BBC2. The 50-minute documentary follows filmmaker Jamie Campbell as he rents a caravan in the trailer park opposite disgraced domestic goddess Martha Stewart's prison and follows her home-making ideals in an attempt to understand her rise and fall. ArenaP3 editor, ...

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    AHC completes football idents

    2005-06-09T12:02:25Z

    AHC post has finished the high-definition post-production on idents for the Confederations Cup. The Confederations Cup, which pits continental football champions against each other, kicks off on 15 June with coverage on Five. Senior editor Victor Riva offlined the project on a Quantel editbox, using down conversions of the rushes ...

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    Music vision award

    2005-06-09T12:01:11Z

    Rushes' VFX team has picked up the best special effects prize at the CADS Music Vision awards for its work on Dizzee Rascal's Dream, beating off competition from U2's Vertigo and UNKLE's Reign. Vfx artists Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin and Dave Bannister claimed the award.

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    Willey joins Pepper

    2005-06-09T12:00:31Z

    Post-production facility Pepper has appointed Paul Willey as a new business executive across broadcast and film projects at its Covent Garden headquarters. Willey comes direct from broadcast facility VTR Media Services company Blue. He had previously worked at fellow VMS company The Machine Room.

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    Show visitors rise

    2005-06-09T11:59:42Z

    Last week's Broadcast Production Show recorded a 19% increase in visitors year-on-year to over 9,400 and has laid out plans for expansion in 2006. Arqiva - formerly NTL Broadcast - has already signed up to create a new Content and Delivery Zone at next year's show. Keynote sessions will be ...

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    New location guide

    2005-06-09T11:59:04Z

    The 2005 edition of The Location Guide, which is about to launch its seventh edition with over 100 countries covered as filming destinations, has been expanded to include locations such as Uganda and Macedonia. The book, which acts as a guide to production service companies and ...

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    Abery steps down

    2005-06-09T11:58:06Z

    Crown Castle chief executive Peter Abery is to step down by the end of the year to make way for chief operating officer Steven Marshall. Abery will remain heavily involved in the broadcast side of operations in the role of deputy chairman at the company. He will ...