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Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs, writes Will Strauss.
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Pepper pours£1m into HD kit
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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Buyers line up for BBC Tech
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04). After receiving 40 bids for BBCT, the BBC pared these down to a shortlist of eight: EDS, Capita, Accenture, IBM, Logica, CSC, Fujitsu and HP. These companies will now move forward to the next ...
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Millar buys studios
Record producer Robin Millar has acquired Whitfield Street Studios from its current owner, Sony Music. Negotiations have been going on between Millar and Sony since September when Sony decided to pull the plug on the facility. Purpose-built in 1965 and originally owned by CBS, the central London facility consists of ...
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Molinare spends
Molinare is continuing the£1.5m investment drive started by managing directors Steve Milne and Mark Foligno when they took over the company in September with the creation of a new Avid department. The 3,500 sq ft facility will house nine Avid Adrenalines with LAN-share supplied by Root 6. It will also ...
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Encoda wins ITV deal
ITV has awarded a multimillion pound contract to Encoda Systems to supply its airtime sales system Landmark. The deal will see more than half of the UK's commercial TV advertising being controlled by the Landmark system at ITV, following the merger of Carlton and Granada. Landmark will allow ITV to ...
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Optex to sell sony
London-based reseller and rentals company OpTex has inked a deal with Sony to become the latest 'Sony premier reseller' in the UK. The deal covers the Sony DVcam systems and services and will see OpTex add the entire DVcam range to its existing Sony CineAlta HDcam high-definition products. Sony will ...
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NewsBroadcast Young Talent Awards
Broadcast has begun its annual search for the next generation of programme making superstars with the launch of the Broadcast Young Talent Awards 2004.
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BBC Technology attracts 40 bids
The BBC has received 40 serious bids for its BBC Technology arm, writes Farah Jifri.
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TMR expands video restoration facilities
London-based post-production facility The Machine Room (TMR) has expanded its restoration department with the addition of new video restoration and enhancement technology from US manufacturer Teranex, writes Farah Jifri.
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Mwnci buys in Avid systems
Cardiff-based post-production company Mwnci has purchased a range of kit from Avid including the first Avid DS Nitris to be installed in Wales. Also included in the deal are four Avid Media Composer Adrenalines and an Avid Unity Media Network system. Avid declined to reveal how much the deal is ...
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Big Squid recreates shipwreck
Big Squid has produced content graphics for a new Discovery Channel series shot in high definition called Quest for Columbus. The programme, produced by New York's Engel Brothers Media, pieces together the search for the explorer's Santa Maria boat that was shipwrecked on his ...
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Red3 transitions travel time
Red3, a recently established offshoot of Red Vision, has provided transitional shots for a show within the BBC's Natural World strand called The Amber Time Machine. The film follows David Attenborough as he traces a piece of amber he was ...
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Farm lays down Dunkirk sound
The Farm has completed audio post work on Dunkirk , a three-part BBC drama documentary. The series recreates events in June 1940 and the race against time to save Allied soldiers trapped in France. Sound effects were tracked down via specialist archives in order to ...
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Anvil relocates
Dubbing and ADR facility Anvil Post Production is moving from Buckinghamshire to a facility in Perivale, west London. Work on the new premises will begin this month, with existing equipment being transferred from the old studios over the next six months.
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ATG signs BBC deal
Systems integrator ATG Broadcast has signed a deal with BBC Broadcast for the integration of a central storage and archive system to be installed at its new Broadcast Centre facility in west London. The initial phase of the project will allow several days' worth of programme files to be archived ...
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Hot-Heads in action
Picture Canning Company has been contracted to provide technical facilities and equipment for a new RDF reality TV show called The Penthouse. Currently in production, the show follows a group of celebrities in a penthouse as they complete tasks. Computer controlled hot-head cameras and ...
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BBC wins NY prizes
BBC Post Production has won two golds - for best art direction and best digital effects - at the 46th New York Festival for Secret Weapons. The 3D and digital effects team at BBC Post created the effects. The producer was Big Wave Productions. ...
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Avid buys German software outfit
Editing and graphics equipment manufacturer Avid Technology has bought the German company NXN Software in a cash transaction worth around£24m, writes Farah Jifri.
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Apple-based facility opens in London
Exactly 20 years after the first Apple Macintosh computer was sold as a consumer product, a post-production facility has been set up in London based purely on Apple G5s, writes John Oates.