More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3475
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Positive change for Community
BBC Broadcast has completed a brand redesign for the Community Channel to represent it as a channel for positive change. BBC Broadcast designer Marc Hardman and design producer Janet Smith created the rebrand's orange and blue concept. An orange circle was used as a symbol of community inclusion while blue ...
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Tennis link to India
TWI is beaming this year's Wimbledon Tennis Championship to mobile handsets around the world. Mobile phones users in the UK, Spain, Malaysia and, for the first time, India will be able to watch coverage of the grass court tournament on the move. TWI's mobile ...
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Rudgard to move
Soho post house Golden Square has signed up Lord of the RingsFlame and Fire artist Tim Rudgard. Rudgard previously worked at Red Post for five years and at Oktobor Post in New Zealand, where he was involved in the Lord of the ...
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Kemistry wins MTV
Design and branding company Kemistry has won the contract to rebrand MTV3 in Finland. Kemistry will be responsible for producing the entire on-air package, covering idents, news programme graphics and website interfaces. The channel will relaunch in the autumn. Creative head Graham McCallum, who branded the original launch of MTV3 ...
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Funds for films
London's digital film festival, Pulse, has opened up£80,000 of funding to film-makers working in the digital medium. The funding will be spread among a maximum of 10 short films. Pulse was launched by Film London, in association with the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund in 2002, to help produce ...
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Musgrove Quits M2
Darren Musgrove has left Soho post-production company M2 to join broadcast facility Evolutions Television. Musgrove joins as a business development manager at the Berners Street post house. Musgrove previously worked for the BBC, Oasis and Broadcastmagazine. Post production producer Melanie Tomlin has also joined, leaving Nats ...
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Growing pains in the world of DVD
DVD is good business for facilities houses. But with increased competition and the introduction of new formats, it's a maturing market. By Kevin Hilton.
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Toughest gig in town?
Growing concern about the long hours culture in reality and factual TV has prompted Pact and Bectu to begin renegotiating terms for freelancers. But just what is the worst job in television?
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Licence to skill
From Tai Chi to camera operating and graffiti, National Skills Day offered a chance for broadcasting staff to try something new and better understand each other's jobs. But there was a serious message too.
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Search is on for the new thing
With Jess Search heading C4's new Documentary Film Foundation, you can bet the films it funds will be different. But she wouldn't have it any other way
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Joining the club
Former top TV executive Richard Eyre's first novel, The Club, may take a few liberties with the truth, but Roy Addison couldn't help recognising the politics at the heart of the story
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Reality check for broadcasters
With half a dozen ITV reality shows suffering an ignominious fate in the past year, the stakes are high as everyone searches for the elusive formula for success. Katy Elliott looks at the shows that flopped and what can be learnt from their failure
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Virgin goes head to head with Planet Rock
Virgin Radio is taking its digital rock station live in a bid to go head to head with GCap rival service Planet Rock.
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Commission me, you git
TV executives claim to be always on the lookout for exciting ideas, but never seem to grasp them when they come their way.
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Untouchable? Absurd
The idea that the future of the BBC is somehow safeguarded today is wide of the mark. Thompson's reforms are critical.
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NewsBBC and Pact say WOCC can roll
The BBC's controversial Window of Creative Competition (WOCC), which opens up a further 25% of output to external suppliers, will be introduced before the end of the summer.
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NewsFive invests in US imports
Five has splashed out on a host of shows from the LA Screenings, including a comedy inspired by the childhood experiences of comic Chris Rock and a Jennifer Lopez-produced drama.
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NewsNickelodeon to promote healthy eating
Nickelodeon is hoping to discourage the government from banning lucrative fast food ads by ploughing over£1m into a series of programmes championing healthy eating.
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NewsSony takes a stake in Shine
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has bought a minority stake in Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine.
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NewsVH1 hunts for an INXS rock idol
VH1 has bagged exclusive UK rights for a high profile American reality show following rock band INXS's search for a new frontman.