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Brand new look for The Den
RTE Two's children's channel The Den has been given a facelift, with a range of idents and logos for use off and on air. Creative agency Dunning Eley Jones designed and produced the new look, which shows doors opening out of the show's title to reveal the programme content. The ...
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Saint titles for Rock School
RDF's new show Rock Schoolrolls up next week with a title sequence by design agency Saint. The programme follows Gene Simmons of Kiss teaching kids in an independent school how to rock and roll and form a band. Creative directors Nicky Thompson and Matt Cosserat designed ...
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Everest to Charter
Borehamwood-based hire firm Charter Broadcast has confirmed that Ed Everest, managing director of one of the UK's largest OB firms, 021 Television, is to join the company next month in the same role. Broadcastrevealed in July (7.7.05) that Everest would be leaving Birmingham-based 021 to join ...
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MPC wins Emmy
MPC has won an Emmy award for its 3D work on Discovery's Virtual History: the Secret Plot to Kill Hitler, produced by Tiger Aspect. MPC creative head of 3D, commercials and TV picked up the award in the category of outstanding individual achievement in craft; graphic ...
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JVC moves UK HQ
Camera manufacturer JVC Professional Europe is moving its headquarters to new purpose-built premises at Staples Corner, north London next month, bringing its UK-based consumer and professional divisions under one roof. JVC has also launched the tapeless DR-HD100 40GB and 80GB hard disk drive as its latest ProHD recorder, to enable ...
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BBC hires Blomberg
BBC Broadcast has appointed Thomas Blomberg - former managing director of the UK arm of global subtitling group, SDI Media - in a newly created role as its head of language services. The position was created to facilitate BBC Broadcast's expansion in the translation broadcast market; it will now offer ...
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Mansi to Clear Cut
Clear Cut Pictures has appointed online editor/colourist Bruno Mansi to head the company's online team. Mansi joins Clear Cut from Hillside Studios where he was senior editor for four years. His recent credits include 90-minute doc The Spy Who Stole my Lifefor Five and C4's ...
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Ten Alps sets up Midlands factual arm
Indie Ten Alps has launched a new company in the East Midlands, after taking over Derbyshire-based indie Rock Hammer and winning a year-long commission from the BBC.
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Byford defends BBC's 'hateful' Katrina report
BBC deputy director general Mark Byford has defended the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina, following allegations that Tony Blair described it as 'full of hatred of America and gloating'.
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Movie series on Five
Five has commissioned a 6 x 60-minute series listing the 40 greatest movies by genre. Each programme will cover a different genre and films will be voted for through Five's website and by readers of Times Online. The programme, produced by indie Diverse, was commissioned by Five controller of pop ...
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C4 airs Kiss Awards
Channel 4 has picked up the rights to the first ever Kiss Awards on 5 November, filmed by indie Done and Dusted. The Kiss awards from Emap Radio, which also publishes Broadcast, will showcase the best in urban and dance music over the past 12 months. ...
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Radio 1 sexes it up
BBC Radio 1 has teamed up with the Open University (OU) for the first time for a series of live broadcasts of phone-in show The Sunday Surgery, called The Sex Tour. The show will broadcast from Wrexham, Glasgow, Sunderland and Derry on ...
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Oliver at news helm
ITV News associate editor Craig Oliver has been promoted to the newly created role of head of network programmes. The new brief, which is effective immediately, will see Oliver continue to oversee editorial, production and management issues for ITV1 News but he will now take on additional responsibility for interactive ...
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True Vision Emmy
True Vision Productions snared its sixth Emmy at the 26th Annual News and Documentary Awards ceremony in New York this week. The London-based indie's documentary Reporters at War, which aired on Discovery, triumphed in the historical programming category. International video agency AP Television News (APTN) celebrated ...
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NewsSky Three to launch on Freeview
BSkyB is launching Sky Three, a new Freeview channel that will showcase content from Sky One.
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Kilgarriff calls time on Turner stint
Richard Kilgarriff is leaving his job as senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Europe at the end of the month. Kilgarriff has been with Turner in various roles for four years, most recently responsible for all the company's UK entertainment channels including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Turner Classic ...
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FilmFlex names Sky veteran Keyte as MD
Movie-on-demand service FilmFlex has appointed former BSkyB executive Andrew Keyte as its first managing director. Keyte, who was the general manager of Sky's 11 movie channels until 1999, has been brought on board to spearhead the region-by-region roll-out of the group's VoD service on NTL and Telewest. He begins on ...
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Pye leaves SPTI for non-exec roles
Chris Pye, vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), has quit. He will leave at the end of the year and is unlikely to be replaced. He told Broadcast he had decided to take up a series of non-executive director roles in the independent sector and hopes ...
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Target: distribution profits£880,000
Following last week's Distributors Survey ( Broadcast, 16.9.05), Target has asked us to make clear that the profit and loss figures published in the table did not relate to its distribution business. Target's programme distribution business made a profit of£880,000 on a turnover of£6m last year. We ...
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Audio SOS: emergency treatment
The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...