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News5* seeks male-leaning shows
Channel 5’s digital station 5* is hunting two horror, fear, survival or action shows to air from spring.
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Base79 hires ITV and BBC execs
Digital rights management business Base79, formerly myvideorights, has hired two high-level technical execs from ITV and BBC to develop its connected-TV apps.
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NewsC4 drops Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer’s holiday show Vacation, Vacation, Vacation, will not be returning to Channel 4 for another series.
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NewsAMWA draws up delivery spec
A common specification for the delivery of programmes to multiple devices will be released by the Advanced Media Workfl ow Association (AMWA) next month.
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NewsClear Cut builds for drama drive
Clear Cut Pictures is building a 5.1 audio theatre as part of its drive to take a greater slice of the drama audio post market.
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NewsFrame rates on SMPTE's LA agenda
Faster frame rates will be high on the agenda at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) annual conference next week in LA.
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NewsRapid expands online and grading capacity
Rapid Pictures is adding a fourth floor to its West London base, with the additional online and grading suites due to open early next year.
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NewsCox joins Procam team
Twofour Broadcast camera facilities manager Simon Cox (pictured) will join hire company Procam as camera facilities manager at the end of this month.
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NewsAmis boosts HD offering
Amis Productions is claiming to be one of the biggest providers of HD stabilised camera systems in the world following its Azule Finance-backed £635,000 investment in two Flir cameras and three Cineflex V14 HD cameras.
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NewsGrass Valley plans UK PubliTronic expansion
Grass Valley will seek to build on PubliTronic’s UK install base following its acquisition of the Netherlands-based company.
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NewsHarmonic in BBC Olympic win
BBC Sport will use Harmonic’s Omneon MediaGrid active storage system as part of its file-based workfl ow at the 2012 Olympics. Installed in the International Broadcast Centre in Stratford as part of a production system incorporating EVS servers, it will provide 3,500 hours of work-in-progress storage.
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Encompass inks ScheduAll deal
Playout provider Encompass Digital Media has signed a deal with ScheduAll to manage its distribution services.
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NewsTyrell equips Piranha Bar
Tyrell CCT has equipped Dublin facility Piranha Bar with a storage infrastructure consisting of an Avid Isis 5000 and Object Matrix’s Matrix Store.
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Elemental for Eurosport
Eurosport will use Elemental Technologies’ video-processing technology for its live and on-demand multiplatform streaming services.
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NewsOptomen lands deals for Portas and Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay and Mary Portas are to extend their international footprints with a series of post-Mipcom distribution deals.
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NewsKidsCo hunting animation firm
International children’s channel KidsCo has put a new animation project up for tender and is calling on UK companies to submit proposals.
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NewsC5 to celebrate WWI heroes
Channel 5 is to strip a documentary series at 7.30pm in the week running up to Remembrance Sunday that features first-hand accounts from World War I veterans.
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NewsTOWIE scores success in US
Structured reality show The Only Way Is Essex debuted in the US on Hulu this week and immediately became one of the most-viewed shows on the on-demand service.
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NewsBBC1 orders Dale Farm Panorama
BBC1 has ordered a fast-turnaround Panorama special telling the story of 400 travellers being evicted from Dale Farm.
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NewsAll3 reshuffles senior management
All3Media has reshuffled its senior management and poached a Reveille executive as it targets increased growth in the UK and internationally.