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TV Corp faces call for post closures
The results of a City investigation into independent television production in the UK released this month will make bad reading for TV Corporation's 30-year-old post subsidiary, Molinare, and its sister company, Visions, writes Sam Espensen.
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Reality looks to SMS for hit
A sms text-based reality TV show could be the next big money spinner, according to a panel at the Edinburgh TV Festival, writes Sam Espensen.
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Brands bolster 3G
Revenue from 3G phones is likely to be generated by using existing brands rather than original content, according to the head of interactive at Endemol. Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival in a session examining the future for 3G technology, Peter Cowley said: 'brand new content is problematic. How is ...
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NDS nabs IDP assets
Digital pay-TV technology provider NDS has snapped up some of the assets of the French interactive TV technology company Interactif Delta Production (IDP), which was recently put into administrative receivership by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris. The News Corporation company acquired all of IDP's intellectual property assets, including the ...
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McMillan buys DRCs
The rental division of McMillan has bought four of the BBC's new WiScape Digital Radio Cameras (DRCs). The cameras, which retail for about£36,000, will be used for outside broadcast, sport and corporate events for clients like STV and Carlton. Business development director at McMillan Angus Knight said the DRCs are ...
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B&S gets Treatment
PR and marketing agency Bubble & Squeak has launched a programme and film development division. The Treatment Salon will offer services including negotiating product placement, set design proposals, assistance in presenting pitch tapes and documents, and help with commissioning editors. The department is already working on several projects, including documentaries ...
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Downturn kills off 2003 Leaf festival
The London Effects and Animation Festival (Leaf), which was due to take place in October, has been cancelled after manufacturers, already suffering a serious decline in profit margins, decided to further reduce their marketing spend, writes Sam Espensen.
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Pink House buyout may boost Bristol scene
Bristol-based Pink House Post Production has been bought for an undisclosed fee by fellow Avon facility Films at 59, in an attempt to stabilise the post industry in the city, writes Sam Espensen.
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St Anne's piles money into HD
post house St Anne's has purchased the UK's first HD disk recorder as part of its ongoing investment in HD and telecine technology.
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Link camera launch
Link Research is launching its latest digital wireless camera at IBC next month, along with a digital Triax system solution to carry digital signals to outside broadcast vehicles. The LinkXP camera has reverse camera control and is fitted with a Sony interface making it compatible with all broadcast cameras. An ...
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Resolution expands
Post facility Resolution has expanded its high-end short-form team by poaching editor Jonathan Myers from Frontline to do online and Editbox work. It is hoped that the appointment of Myers will increase the amount of work that the company gets from existing music channel clients MTV and VH1. Stuart Fyvie, ...
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Crow TV buys Avids
Crow TV has bought 18 Avid Media Composer Adrenaline editing systems and an Avid Unity storage system in a deal worth around£500,000. The London-based editing company is also to upgrade two of its Avid Symphony systems. Head of editing Mark Manning said that the decision was down to the increased ...
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Nucoda set for IBC
Soho-based Nucoda is all set to debut its resolution-independent film mastering system for digital intermediate finishing and a data play system, both based on its Postcode frame-indexing technology, at next month's IBC. Harnessing standard PC RAM memory, data play is claimed to allow users to view 2K 10-bit log sequences ...
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HD at forefront of next BBC epic
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) will start filming its most expensive natural history series ever this month and nearly all of it will be shot in HD, writes Sam Espensen.
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Uncle's VTR pods set to save time and cash
The new£3m facility being set up in west London by The Farm Group will have a revolutionary engineering infrastructure according to its chief engineer, writes Sam Espensen.
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Shut Eye back as Bird Studios
Eye Animation, which was forced to close six months ago due to the advertising recession, has reopened as Bird Studios.
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Shorts fest back
Brief Encounters, the Bristol short film festival, returns for its ninth year between 12 and 16 November this year. The five-day festival includes a new award, the Momentum Pictures Best of British Award, with a£1,000 cash prize for the most innovative UK short. Also on offer is a four-day film ...
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Stream's new focus
DVD outfit Stream Digital Media is refocusing its business to concentrate on interactive design and authoring. The company will be working across all platforms and formats of interactive media, although it will still be doing high-end DVD design and production. Heading the new team will be Lucy Protheroe who joins ...
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New company up
The founder of broadcast technology manufacturer Omnibus Systems has left to launch IdeasUnlimited.tv, a company that will specialise in transmission verification and content monitoring. Glyn Powell-Evans believes the company will address an urgent need among broadcasters for automated remote TV and audio-signal monitoring. The company will introduce the Content Probe ...