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NewsAscent buys RTL's playout business
Ascent Media has acquired London Playout Centre from its parent company, RTL.
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Evolutions wins 65-show RDF deal
Soho facility Evolutions Television has agreed a deal with independent production company RDF Media - maker of Banzai and Faking It - to post-produce 65 programmes for two new property series. Evolutions did not reveal how much the deal is worth, writes Farah Jifri.
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Gearhouse splashes out on latest lenses
Broadcast services, sales and rental company Gearhouse Broadcast has invested a further£500,000 in the latest HD camera lenses, writes Farah Jifri.
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DGP invests in Symphony V5
DGP has bought eight of Avid's latest version of Symphony, writes Farah Jifri.
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Baker joins Metro
Richard Baker has joined Metro Broadcast as media and operations manager. The appointment comes in response to the company's recent growth and is aimed at driving the business further. The newly created role will give Baker overall responsibility for all the technical operations at Metro Broadcast's Soho facility. Baker joins ...
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Festival offer
Rushes Postproduction is calling for entries for its annual Soho Shorts Festival, due to take place between 31 July and 6 August this year. The festival will feature free screenings of shortlisted films in bars, cafes and cinemas throughout Soho. All entries need to have been produced in the past ...
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Mitcorp bags iVDR
Mitcorp has been appointed as the UK reseller for Thomson's Grass Valley brand - in particular the Grass Valley M-Series intelligent video recorder (iVDR), which combines traditional VTR functions, including playout and camera ingest, with video storage and media-exchange format. The move is intended to widen Thomson's pro-AV customer ...
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Demerger deal
Blitz Communications and Charter Broadcast have demerged from their parent company, Evenser. The move is the result of both sides of the Evenser business wanting to focus on their own specialist areas in the broadcast and presentation and events services markets. The newly formed Blitz Charter Group - headed by ...
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Post industry body given name
UK Post has been confirmed as the name for the trade body representing the UK's post-production industry which last week attracted 250 people to its inaugural meeting. The new body has been given around£45,000 by the Department of Trade and Industry and the UK Film Council and post companies will ...
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Alchemy moves into Centre Point
Audio facility Alchemy Mastering is investing£1.2m to relocate its business to the 29th floor of London's Centre Point building, writes Farah Jifri.
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Thomson on verge of ParkerVision tie-up
Broadcast technology manufacturer Thomson is set to ink a cash deal worth $14m (£7.56m) with ParkerVision to acquire its video division, writes Farah Jifri.
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Optibase eyes up Media 100
Editing software company Media 100 is in talks with Optibase about a possible buyout.
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Siemens in running
Siemens has emerged as a surprise ninth contender for the purchase of BBC Technology. The shortlist already includes EDS, Capita, Accenture, IBM, Logica, CSC, Fujitsu and HP. Three finalists will be chosen by the end of April with the winner announced in the summer. The news followed the sacking of ...
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Skaramoosh hires
London facility Skaramoosh has appointed Trish Trufelli and Philip Hough to boost its post and design operations. Trufelli has joined as head of post and senior designer, following seven years at P3
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BFBS buys system
BFBS(British Forces Broadcasting Service), the television arm of the Services Sound & Vision Corporation, has purchased a transmission automation system from Ibis in a deal worth£50,000. The Ibis LandScape system will be used to produce a live television service for BFBS' Navy TV. It will control the switching and branding ...
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Sanctuary updates
Sanctuary Post has upgraded its two Avid DS systems to the latest DS Nitris versions for use on high-end TV work and promos. The company has also installed a new tape suite kitted out with two DigiBeta machines, a Collage Junior, Sony 9100 edit controller, Yamaha 03D audio mixer and ...
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Firecracker goes Superhuman
Firecracker Films has completed the graphics package for Superhuman, Channel 4's extreme reality contest. In the two-hour test of human performance one man and one woman will win the 'Superhuman' title.
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Farm posts chess master film
The farm has completed post-production work on Alliance Atlantis' (producer of Bowling for Columbine) feature documentary Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine.
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UKTV channels get new identity
Dunning Eley Jones has designed the new channel identity for UKTV People, one of two factual channels being launched by the Flextech/BBC joint-venture this week. Based on the proposition of 'capturing what we do in our world' the identity features colour-saturated images derived from personal snapshots, CCTV and paparazzi photography. ...
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Five big hitters rule post world
Five companies claimed over a third of all money spent at the top 50 UK television post houses last year, according to a survey published today by Broadcast.