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COOMBS JOINS THE FARM AS AUDIO ENGINEER
The Farm has appointed Chris Coombs as audio engineer.A former Pearson engineer, he was most recently working in Canada. He joins recent new signing, edit assistant Tom Appleby, who arrives from
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Four Media targets Euro acquisitions
US facilities giant Four Media Company looks set to enter the European video and film post-production market for the first time later this year following the sale of a controlling stake
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24P format gets NAB support
More than a dozen of the world's leading manufacturers of editing, effects, storage and network tools are expected to throw their weight behind a new 24-frames-per-second high-definition post-production video format at
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Cinesite is close to finishing more than 450 effects shots for Animal Farm, the Turner Network Television and Hallmark Entertainment co-production due for release in the autumn. Directed by John Steph
Cinesite is close to finishing more than 450 effects shots for Animal Farm, the Turner Network Television and Hallmark Entertainment co-production due for release in the autumn. Directed by John Stephenson,
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Share plunge wipes 30% off Avid value
Shares in Avid Technology dropped over $7 (£4.34) last week wiping nearly 30 per cent off the company's value.The drop, a second large fall in less than eight months, came as
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C5 creative services hires Dunlop
Channel 5 is to reorganise its creative services department, drafting in on-air promotions veteran Bruce Dunlop on an interim basis to replace outgoing controller of creative services Glynn Brailsford, who quit
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KIRCH PLANS AUTUMN RELAUNCH FOR MERGED SERVICE
The Kirch Group will relaunch its DF1 and Premiere pay-TV channels under a common brand this autumn after taking majority control of Premiere last week. Markus Tellenbach, managing director of the
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BBC AMERICA DOUBLES COVERAGE WITH DIRECTV DEAL
BBC America has doubled its distribution through a deal with satellite broadcaster DirecTV, taking it to nine million homes in the US. The channel, which launched in December 1997 as part
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C4 INTERNATIONAL TO SELL RIGHTS TO ROCK STAR FORMAT
Channel 4 International is in negotiations with several overseas broadcasters, including a Disney company, about acquiring the format rights to its six-part drama series, The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a
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EX-PRIMETIME CHIEF LEWORTHY JOINS CASE TV
Richard Leworthy, former CEO of Primetime, is to join independent Case Television as director. He joins founders Sue Francis and Patricia Williams and will oversee Case's production joint-venture with Canadian producer
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NEW YOUTH CHANNEL TF2 TO LAUNCH EARLY NEXT YEAR
TF1 is to launch a new youth channel, in spite of the decision by Rupert Murdoch to pull out of a joint project, TFX, which had been widely touted earlier this
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ASSET EXCHANGE STRENGTHENS MURDOCH'S SPORTING GRIP
Rupert Murdoch has tightened his grip on the world's sports market in an exchange of assets with Liberty Media, which owns 36 per cent of Flextech.The deal sees Liberty Media give
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NEWS CORP OPENS CHINESE OFFICE IN BEIJING
News Corp is expanding its operations in China by opening an office in Beijing to oversee investments in China. The company's Hong Kong-based Star TV already broadcasts to parts of mainland
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Trio to give Corrie airing on US cable
Granada Media has sold Coronation Street to US cable channel Trio, marking the soap's first appearance there since limited syndication in the 1970s.The deal will see Trio - which specialises in
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RTE signs Watchdog editor
Irish public service broadcaster RTE has poached the editor of BBC 1's Watchdog, Helen O'Rahilly, to become its new director of television production, writes Tim Dams.O'Rahilly fills the gap left by
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SBS/CME merger creates Euro giant
Scandinavia's SBS Broadcasting is to merge with Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in a deal worth $615 million (£381 million), forming Europe's largest broadcaster with 18 TV channels and 12 radio
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Mentorn International to sell the Blockbuster Movie Chart Show format around the world
Mentorn International, the distribution and sales arm of the Mentorn Group, is to sell the Blockbuster Movie Chart Show format around the world.The distribution deal comes just as video retailer Blockbuster
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Tough cookie
Sophie Turner Laing, new acquisitions controller at the BBC, takes the biscuit - no-one has a bad word to say about her, Hilary Curtis discovers.
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Peter Bazalgette
On how the UK television industry is too complacent in its approach to selling programmes to the world.
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Channel 5's bum rap
The ITC says Channel 5's schedule last year was awash with too many low-quality shows such as The Real Monty. But how can C5 deliver top-quality product on a shoestring, asks John Plunkett.