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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - OmniBus in deal with Time Warner.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    UK automation expert OmniBus Systems has launched the first phase of a $6m deal with Time Warner but admitted market difficulties have prompted the sale of part of the company to

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MYCREATIVE MERGER.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Creative consultancy MyCreative, formerly known as Myriad, has merged with marketing consultancy the Big Group, writes Barbara Marshall. The team of seven has joined the Big Group's Holland Park office, while

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Exposure acquires 8811 assets.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Editing outfit Exposure has paid #250,000 for the assets of duplication facility 8811 which went into liquidation last November (Broadcast, 23.11.01), writes Barbara Marshall.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BT WINS GAMES DEAL.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has awarded BT Broadcast Services the #1m transmission contract for the XVII Commonwealth Games, to be held in Manchester this summer. As the host broadcaster, the BBC is responsible

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - PINNACLE POSTS LOSS.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Pinnacle Systems has reported a quarterly increase in net sales, gross margins, net income and cashflow compared with the previous quarter. However, despite a 26 per cent rise in sales to

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NDS SUBSCRIBERS UP.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The number of set-top boxes using NDS technology reached 27.3 million, up 1.6 million in the quarter ended 31 December 2001, according to NDS Group's latest results. Revenues for the period

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - SOUNDMAN TO CFS.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    CFS has taken on Ian Marriot-Smith as senior sound engineer to head the Soho sound department. He joined from Canongate Studios in Edinburgh where he was post-production sound engineer and studio

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CREATIVE REJOINS 422.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Designer Graham Watts has rejoined 422 as creative director after four years, most recently spent with Skaramoosh. Based in Bristol, Watts will lead 422's work on major UK factual TV and

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - SKARAMOOSH HIRING.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Skaramoosh has taken on senior compositor Zave Jackson from Tyrell, as well as former Refinery/Aldis Animation DS artist Aries Brooker.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CORRECTION.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Tim Smith was incorrectly reported as joining Blue Post Production to head the Editbox department (Broadcast, 25.1.02). Smith joined the team which is managed by company director Jason Farrow.

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    LEADER - Fair trading must rule the roost.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    One fact of life in the world of regulation is that industry responses to government proposals always seem to be more about the immediate competitive pressures that face individual organisations, rather

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    FREE TO AIR - PSB debate badly needed.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    With NTL's debt mountain soaring to Himalayan levels, no end of the ad famine in sight and zero prospect of the government meeting its self-imposed targets for digital switchover, you'd think

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    TRADE TALK - Bean machine.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect's new head of animation, Claudia Lloyd, wants nothing less than her projects Bean and Bosom Pals to be up there with the toon greats.

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    IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps, managing director, Granada Content.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    On how rows over TV's dramatic treatment of Bloody Sunday missed an important point.

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    ON THE BOX - Giving TV a bad rep.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis Entertainment executive producer Tony Moss wished Club Reps would stop shagging, but was charmed by Ant and Dec.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Daylight robbery.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Liam Hamilton, the new controller of ITV daytime, has his work cut out if he is to undo the programming blunders and rows which have led to the network's slide in the daytime ratings over the past couple of years.

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    BBC STRUCTURE - Dyke's tonic for the troops.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    As Greg Dyke embarks on his third year in charge at the BBC, Leigh Holmwood asks whether despite an increase in talk-to-the-troops touchy-feelyness unthinkable under predecessor John Birt, his aim to create 'One BBC' has been a success.

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    INTERVIEW - Mixing it at Virgin.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    It was a case of plus ca change at Virgin Radio last week as the station grabbed the headlines yet again, but for all the wrong reasons.On Friday DJ Steve Penk

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    CITY WATCH - Finding the right Pace for growth.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The share price of the set-top box maker may have fallen after its latest results, but its prospects for the future look sound. The company is innovating with cheap plug-in decoders and PVR technology. James Curtis reports.

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    TX - Nightmare scenario.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Surprisingly, BBC 2's Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon, a starkly realistic docu-drama examining the likely consequences of a major bio-terrorism attack in the US, was made before 11 September 2001.'It seemed ironic