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Commissioner's Q & A: Andrea Hamilton
Sky One's new commissioning editor, features and daytime is proud of her Taste, loves The X Factor and is looking for entertaining lifestyle ideas that appeal to men as much as women.
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Panasonic pulls out of next IBC
Panasonic is to pull out of next year's IBC, arguing that the costs of taking part in Europe's biggest broadcasting technology event outweigh the benefits.
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Terrestrial channels sign up for mobile trial
Fourteen of the 16 channels lined up for Arqiva's mobile television broadcast trial, scheduled to begin later this month, have been confirmed, with BBC1 and BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, Channel 4, Five and BBC News 24 all signing up to take part.
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BBC spends£2m on HD upgrades
BBC Post Production has ploughed£2m into HD upgrades of its operations in London, Birmingham and Bristol.
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HD cameras at IBC
The camera wars heated up at IBC this year with Grass Valley launching its new Infinity camcorder, a low-end HD camera aimed at taking on Sony's HDV market. Sony completed its line-up of HD formats with the launch of the HD version of its tapeless XDCAM, positioned between its HDV ...
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Resellers for Nitris
Altered Images, Root6 and Dublin-based Tyrell have been appointed as resellers for Avid's Symphony Nitris, the first time the long-form finishing kit has been offered to third-party dealerships. Symphony Nitris offers real-time uncompressed HD and SD finishing and primary and secondary colour correction.
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Dubbing expands
Glasgow-based audio post facility The Dubbing Theatre has moved to the city's The Waterfront Studios and doubled its capacity because of increased bookings. It now offers five studios with Protools, Avid Audiovisions and Digital performer.
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Quantel's new suite
Quantel has launched a new grading option the Pablo Suite, combining image processing hardware and colour correction software. Founded on eQ and iQ, the suite offers a complete digital intermediate system. Three Pablo models have been developed: the eQ for HD applications, the iQ2 for 2K digital intermediates and the ...
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Sport deal renewed
Arqiva has renewed its contract with British Eurosport in a five-year deal worth over£6m. The channel will move from Arqiva's Langley studio to the company's Broadcast Media Centre at Feltham, which will be British Eurosports' production and administration base. Arqiva receives worldwide feeds and provides playout to Sky at Osterley ...
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Framestore tends Gardener FX
Framestore CFC has supplied the special effects for Focus Features' new film The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Set in Kenya, the film recounts a man's quest to expose corruption in the pharmaceutical industry after his wife is murdered. Digitally supervised by Adrian ...
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3sixtymedia titles Gameshow
3sixtymedia Creative produced titles and graphics for ITV1's Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathonfrom Granada/Talkback Thames. Creative director Paul Kearton and designer Sue Bodicoat designed and directed the opening sequence in which Ant and Dec appear in seven old gameshows. Bluescreen footage was shot of the duo ...
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The Hive animates UKTV idents
VTR design house The Hive has created new idents for UKTV Gold's latest season of programmes. The concept is simple - the new programmes arriving are represented by an animated box with UKTV Gold's logo on it falling at high speed through a brightly coloured cloudy sky. Designed by Dunning ...
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NewsFord reshapes acquisitions at C4
Jeff Ford, Channel 4's new director of acquisitions, has stamped his mark on the department with a wide-ranging staff restructure.
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Ofcom opens bidding for Tyne FM licence
Ofcom has put one of the last remaining regional FM licences up for grabs, this time covering Tyne & Wear and Teesside.
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BBC loses Cole to Tigress factual team
Tigress Productions has appointed BBC executive producer Matthew Cole to join its factual entertainment, science and contemporary factual team.
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News is too white, says ITV's Mannion
ITV News editor in chief David Mannion has called for broadcasters to use 'positive discrimination' to make TV newsrooms more multicultural.
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BBC website revamps to plug key shows
The BBC TV channels' website is to be revamped to focus promotion on just a few key programmes.
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UTV buys up Juice
Ulster TV (UTV) has acquired the remaining 67% of Liverpool station Juice FM that it did not already own from joint-venture partner Absolute Radio UK. The station will now be integrated into UTV Radio. UTV bought the station from Forever Broadcasting in September 2003 for£3.1m, in partnership with Absolute, an ...
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Purvis: ITV cost-cutting threatens news
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has suggested that regional and late-night news on ITV could struggle to survive if the broadcaster implements further cost-cutting.
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Newsnight 'not fair'
Former Conservative party press chief Guy Black has won a partial victory against the BBC, after he complained about a Newsnightreport on the party's leader, Michael Howard last year. Black complained about the programme's coverage, claiming extracts from interviews had been used selectively and missed out ...