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Technology & Facilities - Northlight scanner.
Framestore-CFC spin-off Film-Light has joined forces with telecine specialist Innovation TK to produce the ITK Northlight scanner. Originally developed by the Framestore-CFC team that now runs FilmLight, the CCD digital scanner
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Technology & Facilities - Lynx equipment theft.
Middlesex facilities company Lynx Digital has been rocked by the theft of four digital beta video recorders worth #100,000 from their premises in Denham on Tuesday night last week (5 February).
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Technology & Facilities - Workstation XSI.
Softimage has introduced an entry-level version of its XSI non-linear animating system. The new version, called Workstation, runs on a single workstation and starts at under $5,000 (#3,520), compared with the
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Technology & Facilities - Net innovation at CeBIT.
Hitachi will be showing a range of products at the CeBIT world business fair in Hannover next month, including a prototype range of wearable internet appliances. The devices come complete with
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Technology & Facilities - Soho shorts entries.
Entries are invited to the fourth Rushes Soho Shorts festival which will be held between 27 July and 1 August 2002. Submissions should have been produced in the 12 months up
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Leader - Time to forget Barb's troubles.
As the dust settles on the first six weeks of the year, one group of people in the industry is sighing with relief. The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or Barb, has
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Free to air - Execs who want to be idols.
Apart from the obvious disappointment of simpering middle class Will and his annoying Jamiroquai-a-like crooning winning, Pop Idol was about as close to a perfect piece of light entertainment television as
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Trade talk - A big ideas man.
Capital 95.8 FM looks set for a burst of creativity now that Ric Blaxill, creator of TOTP2 and SM:TV, has been made deputy programme controller.
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In my view - Wayne Garvie.
On how Dyke's 'cut the crap' could lead to a new definition of public service broadcasting.
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ON THE BOX - Murders most foul.
Accomplice Television joint managing director David Collins was haunted by Crime and Punishment but not by the Wests.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - A falling market.
According to BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, the end is nigh for know-nothing celebrities - is it now the turn of 'credible' presenters, such as Robert Winston and Simon Schama or even Sam Neill, to be in the ascendant?
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FUTURE OF ITN - Looking for good news.
The last year has been a tough one for news supplier ITN. It has faced increasing competition for its domestic news contracts, editorial interference from ITV, the downgrading of the ITN news brand and job cuts. Is it time to scale back while it weathers
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INTERVIEW - ITV's risk taker.
According to ITV director of channels David Liddiment, controversial docu-drama Bloody Sunday was a shining example of 'risk taking on ITV'. When advertisers hear the words risk taking on ITV they
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INDIE FINANCE - Staying ahead of the avant garde.
Illuminations, set up in 1982 to win commissions from the newly founded Channel 4, has under co-founder John Wyver stayed at the cutting edge of the visual media with series about video art and the internet. Meg Carter reports.
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TX - A man for all seasons.
Special effects in a gardening programme? Now there's a blooming good idea. Time-lapse photography and composite shots take centre stage in How to be a Gardener. They're accompanied by funky music
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ITV's Pop Idol hit machine blows away competition.
The weekly audience data for the week ending 27 January brings the regular analysis back in line with the publication schedule we used to operate in the good old days before
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OFF THE RECORD - Greg's fan club gets together.
At vast expense, the BBC created a kids paradise in a huge marquee in Battersea, south London on Monday to celebrate the launch of its two new digital kids channels, CBBC
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OFF THE RECORD.
Dyke's new 'cut the crap - make it happen' mantra has obviously hit a nerve with some BBC staffers who are using it as an excuse to do away with a
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OFF THE RECORD - Kiss and make up.
Relations between radio rivals BBC Radio 1 and Emap's Kiss 100 have been more strained than usual following the antics of Kiss breakfast co-presenter Street Boy. The naughty boy broke into
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OFF THE RECORD - A pox on Dubya.
According to Jonathan Hewes, deputy chief executive of Wall To Wall and executive producer of Smallpox 2002, which aired on BBC 2 last week, the programme caused quite a stir amongst