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TV Set duo set up TK business
Alf Penn and Dave Yeo, sales managers at the TV Set, have quit the post house group to set up telecine company TK One.
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Dubbs axes nine
Soho duplication service Dubbs has laid off nine members of staff in what chairman John Reiss called 'a proactive initiative to protect the staff that remain'. Reiss attributed the decision to cut the staff to the technological changes that have affected the duplication business and said: 'We hate doing this ...
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Glassworks flames
Glassworks has bought four HD-compatible Flames to cater for an increase in HD work. Managing director Hector MacLeod said: 'The new Discreet suites can work at HD but when they work at standard definition the difference will really be noticed.' Glassworks is due to work on the new Robbie Williams ...
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Fifty Fifty sci fi deal
Fifty Fifty Post Production has signed a two-year deal to set up and manage in-house audio services for the Sci Fi channel. The Sci Fi channel will pay a monthly management fee to the Soho company, which will supply two in-house audio engineers to operate and service the HD Pro ...
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New pepper kit
Pepper has installed Finaliser, the Edifis colour processor and finishing system, to replace the Ursa Diamond that it sold to TK One in May. Finaliser provides extensive creative capabilities in disk-based and tape-to-tape colour correction, in HD as well as standard definition. Managing director Patrick Holzen said: 'We were looking ...
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HD first for UK TV
Metro Broadcast, BowTie TV and ntl last week aired the UK's first commercial 4:2:2, MPeg-encoded, high definition transmission in Dolby 5.1 surround. NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, chose Metro to project manage the first European transmission of Nodojiman , the long-running Japanese karaoke entertainment show. It ...
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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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Pepper shakes up love story
Pepper has completed picture post on BBC2 drama When I'm 64. The film is an unconventional love story about two gay men who reach retirement, and look back on the difficulties they experienced coming out in their youth. Colourist Chris Beeton graded and Simon ...
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Oasis posts Olympic Dream
Oasis has completed My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream , a Bite Yer Legs production for BBC3. The documentary followed Radio 1's part-Greek DJ Nemone for 12 months, as she chased her dream of competing at the Olympics, trying to prove that she ...
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Bectu calls off BBC Technology strike
Broadcasting union Bectu has been forced to call off this weekend's planned strike over the sale of BBC Technology after receiving a renewed offer from its proposed buyer Siemens. The strike was due to take place for two days from Friday (30 July). Another two-day strike from 13 August, which ...
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NewsBBC Technology strike set for Olympics opening
Managers could be drafted in to keep BBC services on the air after broadcasting union Bectu announced it would take strike action over the weekend of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
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St Anne's set to up high-def capabilities
St Anne's Post is to upgrade its second C-reality telecine to HD as it completes£600,000 of investment in a bid to attract archive restoration and documentary work.
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Metro invests in HD
Metro Broadcast has invested£250,000 to continue its HD commitment, including upgrading its Sony XPRI non-linear suite to version 7 and buying Panasonic's HDD5, Sony's HDW M2000 VTRs and Sony's latest HD camcorder - the HDW-730. The expansion will also include a new voiceover and audio restoration studio which is on ...
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BBC broadcast deal
BBC Broadcast has won a five-year deal with Channel 4 to provide all its access services: subtitling, audio description and signing following an open competitive tender. By January next year BBC Broadcast will be providing tailored services on all Channel 4 channels from the Broadcast Centre in west London. More ...
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Apple-based post house goes under
London's first dedicated Apple-based post-production facility has been forced to shut its doors just six months after opening, raising questions over Final Cut Pro's place in the market.
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ITV hands UK's largest uplink contract to SISLink
SISLink, Europe's largest independent uplink services provider, has won the five-year contract to supply ITV with uplinks for its entire regional news network.
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Canon's new camera
Canon has unveiled its new broadcast quality, interchangeable lens digital video camcorder - the XL2. 'With more than double the resolution of the XL1s, the XL2 sets the new broadcast-quality mini-DV recording standard,' said Malcolm Hills, head of Canon consumer imaging, UK and Ireland. 'Canon expects this digital video camcorder ...
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Iraq buys gee kit
Gee Broadcast Systems is supplying its Geevs broadcast video server to Iraqi broadcaster KTV. The station is investing heavily to upgrade its facilities to modern global standards. The station is expanding its studios and broadcast facilities and is investing heavily in new equipment. The KTV system will have two channels ...
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Jump rebrands news channel
Jump has rebranded Indian news channel Aaj Tak, incorporating new technology to allow headlines to be embedded in the idents as news breaks. Jump was responsible for the idents, titles and interstitials and its design team was led by Russell Mann. The majority of footage was shot in Mumbai and ...
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Atom titles ITV's Simply the Best
Atom Pictures has produced the titles and in-show graphics for ITV's upcoming Simply the Best. The opening sequence features animated figures undertaking challenges similar to those featured in the show, which pits town versus town in a contest reminiscent of It's a Knockout. It was ...