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NewsCue dot for 021 Television
Outside broadcaster 021 Television has installed a HD cue dot generator, specially engineered by Microvideo, to cope with ITV Sport’s move to cover UEFA Champions League, FA Cup and England Internationals in HD. ITV uses a cue dot to signal to its transmission centres when to take commercial breaks.
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NewsFive wins final Freeview HD slot
Five has been allocated the fourth and final HD Freeview slot by Ofcom.
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NewsSetanta woe could boost ITV
ITV is rubbing its hands at the prospect of picking up eight England matches at a knockdown price if Setanta Sports collapses.
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NewsGinger trains Amazon trekker
Ginger Productions has trained adventurer Ed Stafford to self-shoot with a HVR A1E handycam for an epic trek along the river Amazon.
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NewsITV slashes Royal Variety budget
ITV will spend half a million pounds less on entertaining the Queen this year after it chopped the budget for the Royal Variety Performance almost in two.
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NewsOLED comes to market
The technology set to eventually supercede plasma and LCD screens in the home and for professional monitoring is being advanced by a number of manufacturers.
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NewsSky News to launch in HD
Sky News will launch a high definition channel in Spring next year to run alongside it’s current 24-hour news channel – making it the first broadcaster to air news in both formats.
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NewsSky 1 to bolster sports with panel show duo
Sky 1 is to kick off a sports entertainment drive with two panelshow pilots, a search-for-a-star format featuring José Mourinho and a second series with Wayne Rooney.
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NewsSurvey: File transfer slow to take off
Nearly two thirds of broadcasters feel that speeding up production is a key technology priority, yet half of them still ship media around the world which is both time-consuming and costly, a survey from file transfer management company Aspera has revealed.
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NewsLipSync appoints business exec
Wardour Street film and TV facility LipSync Post has appointed Daniel Pagan as business development executive.
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NewsITVS takes I’m a Celebrity to India in format debut
ITV Studios has struck its first Indian format deal and will coproduce a version of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! for Sony Entertainment Television.
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NewsWhizz Kid wins ABC order for celebrity dance show
Whizz Kid Entertainment is remaking its Comic Relief celebrity dance format Let’s Dance for America’s ABC1 as a primetime show.
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NewsRenegade’s redecorating couples ordered by BBC3
Renegade Pictures is to apply its Don’t Tell The Bride format to interior decoration in a 6 x 60-minute series for BBC3.
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NewsMTV appoints Beaton to international sales role
Caroline Beaton, the former managing director of Carlton format division Action Time, has been made senior vice president of programme sales at MTV Networks International.
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NewsBBC2 gives greenlight to Bwark ad agency sitcom
The Inbetweeners producer Bwark has had the greenlight from BBC2 for a full series of its pilot comedy, The Scum Also Rises.
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NewsBroadband push could tap licence fee, says Carter
The digital surplus from the BBC licence fee should be the main source for funding universal broadband, next week’s Digital Britain report will confirm.
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NewsIMG hunts for further job cuts at Tiger Aspect
IMG Media is planning to make a fresh round of redundancies at Tiger Aspect Productions and its natural history subsidiary, Tigress Productions.
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Senior departures prompt Channel 4 to rethink factual
Channel 4 is set to shake up its factual commissioning structure in the wake of high-profile departures.
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NewsCBBC focuses on science with double order
CBBC has ordered a guide to “holidaying in space” and a second run of Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab - both to tie in with the BBC’s 2010 year of science.
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NewsBBC1 debut for Nigel Slater with simple cooking
Nigel Slater is to move from BBC2 to BBC1 for a primetime show about “achievable” cooking.