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Red 3 expansion
Bristol-based Red 3 is expanding its base of operations to house the incoming staff that it believes will be needed to deal with upcoming CGI commissions, such as SS Republic for National Geographic. Red 3 directors Simon Edgar and Peter Bailey have been working closely with their Manchester affiliate, Red ...
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Clear gets Moore
Derek Moore has joined Soho effects house Clear as senior Inferno artist. Moore replaces Jonny Hicks, who is leaving Clear to join LA-based Digital Domain. Moore, previously of Rushes, has been brought in to work across all genres having worked on projects spanning commercials, promos and films. Ad campaigns include ...
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foundry wins grant
Visual effects developer The Foundry has been awarded a grant for research and development by the DTI. The funding will go towards Project Imogen, which has been valued at£575,000 and will last 18 month. Imogen will look to combine traditional optic flow research with imaging understanding techniques to develop more ...
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Suite beams
Beam.tv is launching a service, called Beamsuite, that it said will facilitate global advertising campaigns by speeding up the production of international versions for local broadcast market, including different formats, such as PAL, NTSC, HDTV, or languages. Generic masters and broadcast elements, including overlength shots, audio tracks, graphics, fonts and ...
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Image launch
Image Dynamic Pictures is set to launch Camden Post, a post-production facility providing offline and online suites, graphics and title design services. Owners Stuart Gosling and Patrick Holtkamp have recruited Jen Reznick from Illuminations to be head of facilities due to her experience in working with video and arts documentaries.
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Ofcom censures Fox News piece
Controversial US channel Fox News, which was criticised for its pro-American reporting during the Iraq war, has been reprimanded by Ofcom for attacking the BBC.
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Bailey and Gardam complete Charter panel
Sly Bailey, the high-profile chief executive of the Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror, is to sit on a government-sponsored panel looking into BBC Charter renewal.
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YTV merges factual and features
Yorkshire TV has merged its factual and features department into a single division following a round of redundancies last year.
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Everett and Fry to play Holmes for BBC and ITV
The BBC is to slug it out with ITV in a battle of the deerstalkers after revealing that it too has commissioned a Sherlock Holmes drama.
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BBC unveils new newsroom
This is the first view of what the BBC's new state-of-the-art digital newsroom will look like at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC's huge newsgathering operation, which is the largest in the world, is set to move from its current base at Television Centre in west London to Broadcasting House ...
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Popworld carved up
Channel 4 and UBC Media are poised to each take a 25% stake in Simon Fuller's Popworld company, as a prelude to launching Popworld-branded products, including a radio station, by the end of the year. C4 already owns 7% of the company, which owns both the Popworld brand and the ...
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Digital radio on up
The£45m market for digital radios is set to double by the end of the year, according to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB). The DRDB said this week that nearly 1 million digital radios will be in use in the UK by 2005 - the figure currently stands at 547,000. ...
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Talkback promotion
Talkback Thames has promoted production executive Donna Wiffen to head of production in its drama department. Reporting to head of drama Paul Marquess, she will work on The Bill , Family Affairs and new interactive projects based around the shows. ...
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Good results for FKE
Fox Kids Europe has posted a strong set of half-year financial results, with revenues increasing to£47m for the six months to 31 March this year, from£40m at the same point last year. Profits stood at£6.4m, up from£1.7m, while UK and Ireland revenues went up 39%, from£9.9m at 31 March 2003 ...
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Sen takes OSF role
OSF Productions has appointed Paul Sen, whose credits include Seven Ages of Britain and The Bollywood Story, as its executive producer for science and history. He takes up the role from 10 July after completing the four-part ...
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Hobbs to Celador
Celador Productions has appointed Alexandra Hobbs to the position of director of business and legal affairs and Heather Hampson to the role of head of production. Hobbs will be responsible for all Celador Productions' negotiations with broadcasters and talent.
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UKTV finds£1.8m for factual slate
UKTV is pouring£1.8m into commissioning up to 60 hours of new factual programming for 2005.
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C4 to unlock secrets of Einstein's brain
Two scientists will examine Albert Einstein's brain in a new Channel 4 documentary - one of several commissions from C4 head of science Simon Andreae.
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45 jobs set to go at Teletext
Up to 45 jobs are to go at Teletext after the company decided to axe its non-core activities.
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Broadcasters given warning over repeats
terrestrial broadcasters have been warned that if they use too many repeats of UK-produced programmes they may not be able to include them in their quotas in future.