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    TWI gets into podcasting

    2006-04-21T07:50:00Z

    8am:TWI has teamed up with two former Sky pundits to launch a new advertiser-funded podcast for golf fans on the iTunes music store.

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    PEER POLL: Terry Wogan

    2006-04-21T07:45:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Terry Wogan worth£800,000 a year?

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    Off the record - Beard or No Beard?

    2006-04-20T16:36:03Z

    OTR came across this picture of a beardless-Noel Edmonds the other day, taken back in 2001

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    NAB Focus: HDV - Is HDV the way ahead for docs?

    2006-04-20T16:36:00Z

    HDV camcorders are fast becoming a must as a second or field camera on many factual

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    NAB Focus: podcasting - Power of podcast

    2006-04-20T16:35:00Z

    Portable music players have created unexpected opportunities for content providers.

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    Two more GCap execs exit

    2006-04-20T16:23:14Z

    Capital Radio bosses Keith Pringle and Nik Goodman are to leave the station with immediate effect, with owners GCap saying the station needs to recruit people with 'specific skills' to help it win back audience.

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    Real Story Special interests just 1.8m

    2006-04-20T11:54:58Z

    BBC1's The McCartneys Versus the Fur Tradesuffered from viewer apathy with just 1.8 million (7.6%) at 9pm as the channel fell to its lowest all-hours share since August last year.

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    Morgan exposes celeb sackings

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Piers Morgan is returning to BBC1 to reveal the stories behind the high-profile sackings of celebrities including Linford Christie and Vinnie Jones.

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    Sunset + Vine lays down pack of poker shows

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Sunset + Vine has secured orders for five gaming series from Challenge in a deal understood to be worth more than£4m.

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    Sky One makes explosive history

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Sky One is tracing the history of all things explosive in a new documentary series presented by The Fast Show's Mark Williams (pictured). Made by Granite Films Production, Mark Williams' Big Bangs is a 4 x - 60-minute series in ...

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    Sky Sports trials Arri super-slo-mo prototype

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Sky Sports is trialling a prototype high-speed camera which captures 1,080 progressive images at 300 frames per second and could displace orders for next generation Sony and Grass Valley super-slow-motion cameras, writes Adrian Pennington.

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    Resolution goes to Movies

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Resolution has produced the titles and programme graphics for Diverse's Greatest Ever Movies, a 6 x 180-minute series about six genres of film - comedy, disaster, blockbuster, romantic, 1980s and horror - counting down the top 40. Creative director Darren Marshall designed, animated and composited ...

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    Sumners fires up Shootout

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Sumners has created the titles for Suburban Shootout, an 8 x 30-minute co-production from Five, Paramount Comedy, Feelgood Fiction and Oxygen. The series is a Desperate Housewives-style black comedy set in the home counties. Designers Alan O'Brien and Anthony Scott ...

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    Vizrt signs BBC deal

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Graphics specialist Vizrt has signed a four-year deal with the BBC to provide it with live rendered 3D graphics systems. The deal, worth between£1m and£2m, will enable the BBC to buy Vizrt graphics software at reduced rates. Networked news programmes and the larger national and regional stations are expected to ...

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    Tigress stalks yeti for Animal Planet

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Bristol-based factual indie Tigress Productions has secured a commission from Animal Planet US to produce a major new programme on the search to uncover the yeti.

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    ID scores flurry of Landmark sales at MipTV

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    ID Distribution has secured a number of sales for regional indie Landmark Films on the back of MipTV.

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    Fremantle brings back quiz classics

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle Media wants to capitalise on its upcoming US version of ITV1's Gameshow Marathon for CBS by reviving other classic quiz formats from its extensive library.

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    Format Focus: No smoking

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    Scandinavian production company Strix is rolling out a format which helps people quit smoking by locking them in a house with no cigarettes.

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    Maddigan's Quest to air on HD network

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    All3Media International has licensed CBBC drama Maddigan's Questto HDNet USA, the first American network broadcasting fully in 1080i HD. The 13 x 30-minute fantasy drama was produced by All3Media New Zealand company South Pacific Pictures as a co-production with CBBC, Nine Network Australia and TV3 ...

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    Lagardere to distribute Performance

    2006-04-20T08:30:00Z

    UK arts and entertainment digital broadcaster Performance Channel, which is owned and operated by Eicom, has entered a distribution agreement with French channel distributor Lagardere Networks International, a subsidiary of Lagardere Active. Under the terms of the agreement, Lagardere will be the exclusive representative for the channel's distribution within continental ...