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BBC Broadcast ups capability
BBC Broadcast is to tighten up the playout operations at its Broadcast Centre facility in preparation for the launch of services from the site in April.
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MPC finishes Hustle promos
MPC has completed effects work on a series of promos for a BBC1 drama about confidence tricksters called Hustle.
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Station ties the knot with RDF
The Station has put together the titles for RDF's Wedding Day. The 5 x 30-minute ITV1 series follows a happy couple on their big day.
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422 South takes Crisis control
422 South has produced visual effects, computer animations, maps and diagrams as well as on-screen graphics for BBC2's Crisis Command.
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Ascent fills gaps
Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace its departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two managing directors. Terry Downing will be the new chief financial officer - he was previously finance director at AOL UK. David Barrett becomes managing ...
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Soho Editors to Eire
London post-production talent company Soho Editors is to open a division in Dublin. The company will be run by managing director Therese Caldwell, previously of The Farm Digital Post Production. Soho Editors Ireland will represent Irish editors, compositors and sound engineers as well as all other post-production disciplines to the ...
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Leitch hires CEO
Leitch Technology Corporation has appointed Tim Thorsteinson as president and chief executive. Thorsteinson joins Leitch after leaving his position at Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions where he was responsible for the broadcast product line. Formerly the president of the video and networking division of Tektronix, Thorsteinson also ran ...
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MPC buys licences
The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has picked up another batch of plug-in licences from visual effects sparks developer The Foundry. The company has purchased 22 remote-processing licences and four full licences of Furnace for their Shake systems. Paddy Eason, visual effects supervisor at The Moving Picture Company, said that the ...
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NewsAscent Media appoints new head team
Post-production giant Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace it's departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two new managing directors.
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Corinthian shuts NW8 facilities
Corinthian Television is abandoning its landmark studios in St John's Wood to concentrate business in its facility at Chiswick Park. Eighteen jobs are at risk as a result, writes John Oates.
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Clear Cut moves to fill gap left by McMillan
Post house Clear Cut Pictures has plucked two senior staff from defunct rental and reseller company McMillan to set up a division called Clear Cut Hires, writes John Oates.
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Broadcast '04 post survey
Broadcast is to reveal the results of a major piece of research into the UK post-production sector.
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Component finishes CBBC work
Component Graphics has completed design work on a 10 x 30-minute 'reality' series for the CBBC channel called The Stables. Created and produced by children's and youth specialist Prism Entertainment, the show centres around a charity-run stables in Newcastle and the stories of the ...
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Baraka delivers FX for BBC3
Baraka has created special effects for the second series of the BBC3 comedy series.
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Jump renews hit show credits
Jump Design has put together new opening titles for the latest series of I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here!. Once again the LWT-produced ITV series takes 10 celebrity contestants and puts them to the test in the Australian jungle. The opening titles ...
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Ascent loses staff
Ascent Media UK is losing its finance director and the managing director of its creative and media services divisions. Sam Husain, finance and corporate affairs managing director, is going back to work for his consultancy, HEP Holdings. Simon Kay, the managing director of creative services division, is taking some time ...
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Charter renewal
Equipment rental company Charter Broadcast has announced that it is to spend£3.4m on new equipment this year. With major events coming up, including the Olympics, and a need to widen and update its dry-hire stock, the company will continue to invest in cameras, videotape recorders, microphones and the like. The ...
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Emap renames show
Emap Media has unveiled a name change for The Production Show and details of Broadcast Week. The 2004 event will be called The Broadcast Production Show and will take place from 18 to 20 May at the National Hall, Olympia. It will form an important ...
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BT keeps it real
BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) is teaming up with RealNetworks to offer broadcasters a way to keep track of video content over the internet. BTBS will use Helix DRM 10 which can protect content security and deliver video to PCs and other devices connected to the internet. The system allows broadcasters ...
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Target wins Sky distribution deal
Sky has handed responsibility for its entire international programming distribution to Target Entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.