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    GNU'S NEW PROJECT COMPLETED FOR OUR TOWN STORY

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Gnu has just completed designing and animating the opening titles for new Sky Digital series McDonalds - Our Town Story. The series of programmes from Brewers Productions gives students from towns

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    COLLIS TAKES SONY DIRECTOR OF BROADCAST BUSINESS JOB

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe has promoted Ian Collis to director of broadcast business, responsible for Sony's Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Collis has worked at Sony for 18 years

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    BBC RESOURCES TO TAKE ON RUSHES FOR BAND OF BROTHERS

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources has won the rushes work for new HBO 11-hour mini-series Band of Brothers, a story based on Stephen Ambrose's non-fiction best seller about a Second World War army unit.

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    STANDARDISED SCRAMBLING SYSTEM TESTED BY EBU

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said this week that is has successfully tested a simple standardised scrambling system, suitable for digital satellite news gathering, that can work with all makes of

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    Chyron in $20m placement

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Chyron Corporation has secured $20 million (£12.6 million) funding in a private placement that it intends to spend on developing a range of products to meet the advancing convergence of traditional

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    Apple/Pinnacle to launch CineWave

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Apple and Pinnacle Systems have revealed the joint development of a product that they believe will send shockwaves throughout the industry.On the first day of the NAB broadcast technology exhibition in

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    Panavision offers Sony cam

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Sony announced at NAB this week that Panavision, the leading supplier of film cameras to the Hollywood motion picture industry, is to begin offering film and TV producers Sony's 24P high-definition

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    Panasonic boosts HD

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Panasonic is seeking to boost the take-up of its high-definition TV formats with other manufacturers by introducing easily integrated mini board codec modules and standalone codec packages for its D5-HD and

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    CARLTON INTERNATIONAL SIGNS BIG JAPAN DEAL AT MIP-TV

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Carlton International Media signed a number of programme deals at Mip-TV this week, including its biggest Japanese deal to date, a $3 million (£1.9 million) broadcast, video and merchandising rights package

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    MAN EATERS SOLD BY ITEL TO AUSTRALIA'S CHANNEL 9

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Itel has sold a 6 x 30-minute run of wildlife documentary Man Eaters to Australia's Channel 9. The Tigress-produced series, which features footage of real animal attacks on humans, is expected

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    AARDMAN'S ANGRY KID KICKS OFF ON NET ON 7 MAY

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    The first episodes of Aardman Animation's latest series, Angry Kid (left), will only be available to audiences on the internet following a deal with online broadcaster AtomFilms. The 25 x 1-minute

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    COOPER JOINS BBC WORLDWIDE'S BUSINESS AFFAIRS BOARD

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide director of business affairs Sarah Cooper has joined the board of the directorate to head a new business and legal affairs division, while adding responsibility for fair trading to

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    CARLTON AMERICA IN LANDMARK DEAL FOR FAMILY SHOWS

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Carlton America has teamed up with Landmark Entertainment Group to jointly produce a host of family and children's programmes. Carlton International will act as worldwide distributor for the programmes, with Landmark

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    ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS BECOMES BTDA'S 23RD SIGNING

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Entertainment Rights, formerly SKD Media, has become the 23rd company to join the British Television Distributors Association (BTDA), currently chaired by Andrew Macbean. Entertainment Rights distribution managing director Jane Smith said:

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    PAYNE TAKES SOUTHERN STAR SALES CHIEF EXEC ROLE

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Cathy Payne has been promoted to chief executive Southern Star Sales after the departure of Robyn Watts, who left the company last week. Watts has not announced further details of her

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    PEPPERMINT TASTES WORLD CUP MASCOT ANIMATION

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    New German distributor Peppermint, which launched at Mip-TV this week, is to handle sales of a 26 x 30-minute animated series based on the 2002 FIFA World Cup mascots. The series

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    Merged giant may float by end of year

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    The newly merged Pearson TV/CLT-Ufa broadcast-production company could be floated on the London stock exchange with a new name by the end of the year.Speaking at Mip-TV in Cannes this week,

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    C4I signs US Queer deal

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 International has finally signed a deal with Showtime in the US to create an American version of Red Productions' Queer as Folk, writes Ashley Davies.Under the $21 million (£13.3

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    Disability drama due to air in UK

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 and Nickelodeon have pre-bought a 13 x 30-minute children's animation disability series from Nelvana for broadcast in 2001, writes Tara Conlan.Pelswick is written by Pulitzer prize-winning disabled author John

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    Mosaic and BBC part of Euro project

    2000-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Mosaic Films has joined forces with the BBC and a number of European broadcasters to produce a major 20 x 26-minute documentary series on Europe, writes Colin Robertson.Eutopia! brings together Mosaic