More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3211
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NewsMills to On Sight
HD dubbing and hire facility On Sight has recruited Richard Mills to join as chief engineer. Mills, who has 25 years' industry experience, was previously at Visions for 12 years as chief engineer and director of operations. He spent the past six years as manager of Molinare Studios and Transmission, ...
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VTR buys Clear
Prime Focus-owned VTR plc has completed its acquisition of visual effects house Clear for£300,000 in cash and around 2 million VTR shares. The move comes after Broadcast revealed the company's plans to take over the boutique last month ( Broadcast, ...
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Rainbow goes all HD
Rainbow Post has upgraded from a Symphony to a Symphony Nitris. It joins the Quantel eQ in the online department and has been installed primarily to work on programmes edited on Avid offline systems including an upcoming HD series for National Geographic Channel, Naked Science ...
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Arqiva wins Nick job
Transmissions specialist Arqiva has won a five-year contract with Nickleodeon to uplink Nick Jr 2 onto the Sky platform. The channel will be uplinked to the Eurobird satellite and broadcast on the C3 transponder so pre-school children can catch up with Nick Jr shows such as ...
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Frank sees red for Waddell Media
Frank has created the title sequence for Waddell Media's When Sports Stars See Red, a two-hour programme which looks at what makes sports stars get angry and go ballistic.
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Uncle posts Norton talent quest
Uncle is doing the post for BBC events' How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. Graham Norton presents the new entertainment show following Andrew Lloyd Webber's quest to find a new leading lady for The Sound of Music, with ...
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id3tv titles the Road to Hell
Id3tv has created the opening title sequence and programme graphics for Big Easy Productions' M25 - the Road to Hell, which looks at the motorway's infamous history on its 20th anniversary. Designed and produced by id3tv's creative director, Ian Carley, the sequence grades fiery, hell-like effects across the motorway footage ...
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E-auctions for wet hire to roll out across BBC
The BBC is to expand its eBay-style auction used to select crew and kit hire firms for its preferred suppliers list to the rest of the corporation.
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Yomego to supply avatars for MTV Flux
Glaswegian-based interactive company Yomego - which was responsible for creating a virtual Geoff Boycott for Five's website - has been commissioned to supply 3D avatars for new user-generated content channel MTV Flux.
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The Farm merges Squash into Uncle
The Farm Group's DVD arm, Squash, is moving out of its Soho premises and merging with Farm subsidiary Uncle in west London.
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Time Warner chief honoured by Mipcom
The chairman and chief executive of US media giant Time Warner, Richard Parsons, has been named TV personality of the year by Mipcom. He will be honoured in an industry event at the TV festival in Cannes on 11 October. Time Warner's businesses include cable network HBO, CNN owner Turner ...
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Target licenses Harry games
Target Entertainment has secured new licensing agreements for CCI Entertainment's pre-school show Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, which airs on Five in the UK. One deal is with Falcon Games for jigsaw puzzles, card and cardboard games, while the other with David Halsall ...
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ITV ties down Schofield for This Morning
ITV has agreed an exclusive two-year deal with presenter Phillip Schofield that will see him continue to host popular daytime series This Morning. The new deal will also see the former children's TV presenter front a new series of Dancing ...
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My Network shelves Love Island plans
The struggling LoveIslandformat has been dealt another blow with US broadcaster My Network TV ditching plans for an American version. The new Fox-owned terrestrial channel, which launches in September, had been developing the show with Granada America. It would have featured six American celebrities and ...
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UKTV snaps up US Food
UKTV and US lifestyle broadcaster Scripps Networks have signed an acquisitions deal for food-related programming.
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NAO to look at BBC
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has called in the taxpayers' watchdog to scrutinise the BBC's bid to raise the licence fee to£180.
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Ofcom survey
An Ofcom survey into current affairs programmes has found people watched more of the genre last year than they did five years ago. Bucking the suspicion that current affairs is on the wane, Ofcom found UK viewers watched an average 17 hours last year - four hours more than they ...
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Sky online boost
Sky has taken full control of web publishing company mykindaplace as part of the satellite group's strategy to expand its online presence and better serve teenage and over-45 audiences.