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NewsESPN 'planning daily sports show'
ESPN is planning a daily sports show as part of its new Premier League football package, Broadcast has learned.
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NewsScottish post houses team up
Two of Scotland’s largest independent post-production facilities have formed a new joint company after working together on a BBC3 drama series.
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NewsRoss pre-record plans were discussed six months ago
Plans were being discussed to pre-record Jonathan Ross’ Radio 2 show shortly after the Sachsgate scandal, according to station boss Bob Shennan.
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Ilab-Rocket office closure leads to job losses
Ilab-Rocket will close its Frith Street operation this month, resulting in a round of redundancies.
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NewsAscent provides tennis stream for ESPN
Ascent Media’s Network Services division is streaming the 2009 Wimbledon Tennis Championship live for ESPN’s on-demand internet service ESPN360.com.
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NewsSci-Fi acquires US fantasy drama
Sci-Fi channel has snapped up the UK, pay-TV rights to ABC Studio’s Legend of the Seeker, a fantasy drama series executive produced by Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.
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NewsFacilities briefs 3 July
Facilities news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 3 July 2009 including 422 South, Molinare, Tide UK and Sequence Post.
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NewsMyers calls for shake-up at Ofcom
John Myers, the former chief executive of GMG Radio, has slammed Ofcom claiming the media regulator is out of date and unwilling to change.
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NewsEndemol strikes Man City deal
Endemol has clinched a long-term deal to produce all global media content for Manchester City Football Club.
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NewsTarrant confirmed for Watch
North One’s hidden camera series My Little Soldier has been renamed Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose after securing the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host for the show.
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NewsBoy Meets Girl heads to Oz
ITV Global Entertainment has sold more than 40 hours of scripted content to public broadcaster ABC in Australia, including ITV1 comedy Boy Meets Girl.
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NewsRichard Taylor 1945-2009
Richard Taylor, the former managing director of Quantel and one of the industry’s most influential engineers, has died.
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Jobs to go as Joost exits consumer market
Online video platform Joost will cease to be a consumer-facing website as part of a strategy rethink that will also see Mike Volpi stand down as chief executive.
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NewsRichards: No change to Sky proposals
Ed Richards has said that the arrival of ESPN into the UK sports broadcasting marketplace does not mean that Ofcom’s proposals to curb Sky’s dominance are out of date.
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NewsEdit Store in Avid upgrade
The Edit Store has completed a major upgrade of its London facility, replacing its original central storage with a new 24 terabyte Avid Unity storage area network and adding three Media Composers.
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NewsAirey: content providers "staring into abyss"
Dawn Airey has warned that if British broadcasters fail to build mutually beneficial partnerships “the creators and providers of UK content are not so much looking at a perfect storm as staring into the abyss.”
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NewsJCA signs British Pathe deal
JCA has signed a long term contract with the new owners of the British Pathe library that will see all physical and digital archive content stored at the London digital media services company.
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NewsGrade slams BBC partnerships
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has rubbished the BBC’s partnership proposals and criticised the corporation’s efforts to avoid top-slicing the licence fee.
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NewsDa Vinci Resolve gets Red update
Da Vinci Systems is releasing a new version of its Resolve software that enables users of R-Series colouring systems to grade native digital motion picture files including debayered Red RAW files from the Red One camera.
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NewsTop-slicing legislation plan revealed
Gordon Brown has revealed government plans to formally introduce legislation that will divert TV licence fee revenue into propping up regional news coverage on ITV1.