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    GILBERT CREATES TITLES FOR C4 MILLENNIUM SERIES

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    The titles (left) for Channel 4 millennium series On The Line were designed by Grant Gilbert of C4's creative services department utilising some of the footage from the show. The programme

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    INSCRIBER DEVELOPS INTERFACE FOR CYBERSET

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Inscriber Technology has developed a new interface for Orad Systems virtual studio product Cyberset, which will allow direct placement of 3D text and graphics within the different layers and depths of

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    ITN WEBSITE TO COVER MILLENNIUM JOY IN EIGHT CITIES

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    ITN has launched a new website that will broadcast live pictures and audio over the internet of the millennium celebrations in eight cities around the world. www.itn.co.uk will show live video

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    TRIUMPH AND APTN TO OFFER LONDON LIVE NEWS FEEDS

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Associated Press Television News (APTN) has teamed up with Triumph Communications to offer a number of pre-cabled stand-up correspondent positions for live news feeds for foreign broadcasters to send back continuous

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    EX-SONY MAN HUCKFIELD MOVES TO PANASONIC

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Panasonic Broadcast Europe has appointed David Huckfield as general manager, UK broadcast sales, based at Panasonic's European headquarters in Wokingham, Berkshire. Huckfield spent 10 years working at Sony Broadcast, where he

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    LLOYD JOINS DISCREET FROM SGI

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Discreet has appointed Nick Lloyd to be UK broadcast manager with a remit to develop sales of all Discreet's products to broadcasters and post-production houses in the UK and Ireland. He

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    Avid may reprieve Illusion software

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    The threatened Media Illusion compositing software could be in for a reprieve, as Avid Technology renews negotiations with Blue Software to take over responsibility for the product.Avid confirmed only two weeks

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    Sinclair plans more COFDM tests

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Sinclair Broadcast Group in the US is to carry out further tests on the COFDM digital TV modulation standard - this time to demonstrate its hierarchical coding capacity. The move marks

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    Granada Film Production drama

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    124 Facilities senior colourist Mike Panchaud created the master grade for Granada Film Production drama Longitude, based on the Dava Sobel novel. For the film, which moves between eighteenth-century seascapes and

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    Pace Micro set-top box wins millennium award

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Pace Micro Technology has become the first and only set-top box designer to be awarded Millenium Product status for its digital cable set-top box, developed for Cable & Wireless digital cable

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    MACTAGGART TAKES UP FILM ROLE AT WORLDWIDE

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has drafted in Ivan Mactaggart to the new role of films manager, calling the appointment a 'further demonstration of its commitment to develop a feature film business'.Mactaggart joins from

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    GRANADAWEST TO FINANCE ARTEMIS WILDLIFE SLATE

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    GranadaWest, the joint-venture set up in February by Granada Media and Western Australian development agency ScreenWest to fund TV projects, has signed up newly formed factual indie Artemis International. GranadaWest will

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    20TH CENTURY FOX HANDLES RELEASE OF SKY'S SAVING GRACE

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    The UK theatrical release of Sky Pictures' Saving Grace will be handled by Twentieth Century Fox. The film, starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson, is the first Sky film to have

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    UNIQUE SIGNS DUTCH CO-PRO DEAL FOR SECRET CAMERA

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Unique Television has struck a co-production deal with Dutch indie Boorsma Loogman for a 9 x 45-minute run of World of the Secret Camera for cable channel Veronica. The show, which

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    BRIGHTER TO CONTRIBUTE UK ITEMS TO TBS REVIVAL

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Brixton-based indie Brighter Pictures has secured a deal to produce material for a 20 x 60-minute revival of Ripley's Believe it or Not on Ted Turner's TBS Network in the US.

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    Think-tank warns govt on TV exports

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Left-wing think-tank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) will this week issue a warning to the Government to streamline its efforts to boost television exports.The warning comes as part of

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    Carlton America strikes output deal with Polson TV movie firm

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Carlton America has signed a multi-year output deal with US TV movie producer and author Beth Polson's Madison Avenue Productions and Corapeake Productions.Under the terms of the deal, Carlton America -

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    Two Way TV joint-venture targets US

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    London-based interactive outfit Two Way TV has made its first move into the US by forming a joint-venture with San Francisco-based Interactive Network, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Spire Films has finished shooting

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Oxford-based indie Spire Films has finished shooting a six-part documentary for WGBH Boston and PBS starring art buff nun Sister Wendy, writes Tara Conlan. Sister Wendy's American Collection is a 6

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    World View - Jos Havermans in Amsterdam

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    On 31 December Dutch viewers will pick the winner of Big Brother.The lucky man or woman will be one of three people who has endured 100 days of diurnal public scrutiny