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SONGS OF PRAISE PLANS NHS TRIBUTE.
Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff. The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will
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STAR WARS COLOUR FIRST.
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system. Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite
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KASENNA SCOOPS $20M.
Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (#14.4m) in its latest round of funding. Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to
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OMNEON'S NEW SERVER.
Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions. The
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AVID OPENS UP ITS KIT.
In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to
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BOUJOU LAUNCHES.
2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production. Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking
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Panasonic ties up with Apple.
Panasonic this week unveiled details of 25 new products as well as announcing it is collaborating with Apple on two technologies for the professional video industry, writes Barbara Marshall from NAB in Las Vegas
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Sony chief says it's digital's year.
Sony President and chief operating officer Kunitake Ando has hailed 2002 as 'the year for digital'.Speaking at NAB in Las Vegas, Ando singled out the growth of digital cinematography as well
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BBC and Channel 4 win raft of gongs at Promax.
BBC Broadcast has scooped several gold and silver awards in the promo categories at the Promax and BDA Europe awards, writes Will Strauss
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Discreet adds asset server to FX family.
Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary product, writes Will Strauss
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Leader - Can the BBC aim to please us all?
A week on from the furore over the BBC's attitude to the death of the Queen Mother, bigger issues surrounding the future of public service broadcasting continue to be debated.Just as
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Free To Air - A sad loss to the nation.
The inevitable passing of a much-loved figure in British public life has once again put the spotlight on how our broadcasters conduct themselves. Yes, the coverage of ITV Digital's collapse and
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Trade Talk - Sharp operator.
Given his undoubted intellect and political nous, does it matter that new LWT boss Christy Swords has little experience of programme-making?
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In My View - Simon Shaps.
On how heritage TV drama could have more staying power internationally than formats
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On The Box - Political intrigue.
Tor McLaren, Universal Studios Networks director of channels, is captivated by life on The West Wing but thinks 24 is drama by numbers
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News Analysis - The going is slow.
The Office of Fair Trading's decision to give BSkyB extra time to defend itself against charges of anti-competitive behaviour looks like indecisiveness, though some suspect the OFT may be deliberately avoiding a row with Sky
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Hot-House TV - Telly's test tube babies.
The growth of a new breed of 'ideas labs', designed to hot house new TV hits, shows that broadcasters are desperate for new ideas. Is the in-house approach working?
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Interview - The matter of facts.
Brook Lapping Productions director Brian Lapping is a class act - churning out quality factual against the grain. But is time running out for the veteran documentary maker?
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Ratings Analysis - BBC struggles to win youth vote.
Recent research shows the BBC is losing the battle to attract younger viewers to its slate of political programmes. Can it reverse the trend?
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TX - Clubbing together.
'I don't think it's very funny actually,' comments writer/director Annie Griffin about her black comedy drama, The Book Group. Not the sort of thing you'd normally expect someone to say about