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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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Two Way in Flextech deal
Two Way TV has signed a deal with Flextech Television to provide interactive red button services for Challenge TV and Bravo.
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Rendermedia engineers jet
Rendermedia, the 3D animation studio, has completed its animation of the Whittle jet engine prototype for Quanta Films' Whittle - The Jet Pioneer, a documentary about the development of the jet engine in the 1930s. Rendermedia's animator Mark Miles and creative director Steve Green created the model, particle and air-flow ...
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Blue completes Biggest Loser
Blue has completed the online editing, grading and audio work on the promos for Flextech's The Biggest Loser UK, a reality show in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. Blue's Andy Sawyer, Davide Pascolo and Steve Miller used Combustion to matt footage of the contestants floating in water. Blue's ...
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Diverse buys Edifis
Factual indie Diverse's in-house facility has purchased an Edifis Finaliser which will be used to colour correct and create HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables from a single HD or SD edit master. The£150,000 purchase was prompted by the decision to establish a dedicated grading facility at the indie. Diverse will ...
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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Turquoise hiring
Branding and marketing consultancy Turquoise has recruited Conran Design Group's Nick Coomber as its senior production designer to spearhead its corporate identity production department. The newly created position sees Coomber work alongside Turquoise's creative directors Gareth Mapp and Scott Manning. Recent Turquoise branding campaigns have included work for NTL, BBC ...
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Crown rebranded
Crown Castle UK, the main provider for broadcast transmission infrastructure, has been rebranded as National Grid Wireless, after its merger with National Grid-owned Gridcom earlier this year. It delivers the BBC signal, providing analogue transmission across the UK.
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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...
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C4 opens door for young film-makers
The future stars of British documentary-making will have the opportunity to produce original programmes through a new Channel 4 strand.
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Trouble targets older kids with Later strand
Flextech youth channel Trouble is launching a new identity and late night programming strand in a bid to attract older viewers.
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RDF reveals profits up for first results
RDF Media's first results since listing on the London Stock Exchange in May saw turnover increase 14% to£26.3m.
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Sky Match is on top
Sky One's entertainment show The Match - Live is the most watched non-sports multichannel programme so far this year.
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Thinkbox chairman
ITV director of customer relationship marketing Justin Sampson has been appointed as the first chairman of Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial television. Taking up the role from November, he will act as 'lead ambassador' for the body that represents eight TV channels including Channel 4, Five, GMTV, Turner Broadcasting, ...
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Baker's back at BBC
Former BBC Radio London presenter Danny Baker is to return to the station, just four months after quitting. Baker, who left the breakfast show in May to pursue 'personal projects' - believed to include working on a comedy drama for Five - will start the afternoon show this Monday, 17 ...
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Digital losses up
Digital Classics, the TV distribution and production business chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein, has increased losses for the year to June from£590,000 last year to£616,000. Turnover during the period was£3,134,000, an increase of£980,000 on 2004.
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Footie high of 57.1%
England's 1-0 victory against Austria which put them through to the World Cup gave BBC1 a peak audience of 10.3 million (57.1%) at 5.30pm on Saturday (8 October). The entire coverage of the game drew 7.5 million viewers.
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Five to bring back Swinging sketch show
Five's first homegrown comedy commission, Swinging, a sketch show about relationships and sex, has been recommissioned by the broadcaster.
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BBC3 orders Little Britain studio show
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to star in a Trisha-style chat show in which they will be quizzed on aspects of the show by a studio audience.