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    Red Fig enhances its TV voting system.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Interactive TV specialist Red Fig is set to introduce a return path to its real-time TV voting system to enable programme makers to send personalised information to viewers via mobile phones, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    Avid chief Davies quits for new media venture.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Avid technologies international product marketing director Simon Davies has quit the company to set up a 'facilities house for new media', writes Will Strauss.

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    Impossible TV uses PCs for Channel 4 animation.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Impossible television has used super-charged PCs to complete a satirical animation pilot, Pen Monkeys, for Channel 4 in just five days, writes Will Strauss.

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    Pukka Web speeds up approvals.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Pukka group managing director John Gordon-Saker has outlined how the launch of his new strand - Pukka Web - could improve the lives of UK TV producers, writes Will Strauss.

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    FREE XSI COURSES.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Softimage is offering free XSI training courses to current users of the software. Tyrell will host the single-day courses on the following days: 6 February for new users; 7 February for

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    KEN MORSE MOVES.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Ken Morse Rostrum Cameras has moved to TSI Post Production house in Covent Garden. Previously located on Soho's Dean Street, Ken Morse has a varied client base ranging from the smallest

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    SHEIK LEAVES MTV.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    MTV senior editbox editor Tariq Sheik has left the music video channel to take up the same role at London Post. He said: 'London Post has handed me an opportunity to

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    RED POST BUYS FIRE.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Red Post in Soho has upped its high-end film editing capabilities with the purchase of Discreet Fire. Along with the upgrade to its Flame, Flint and Inferno suites, the purchase means

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    CLIMER TO ON DIGITAL.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    BBC News controller of technology Naomi Climer has joined On Digital in the new post of director of technical operations. Reporting to chief technical officer Simon Dore, Climer will take responsibility

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    Turning the white paper into law.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Work on shaping the communications white paper into something that can justifiably become legislation is beginning in earnest. Lobbyists on all sides of the industry are attempting to turn the greener

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    FREE TO AIR - It's the programmes.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    By a simple twist of fate, the first anniversary of the New Regime at Broadcasting House coincides with the publication of an interview in The Spectator with the sacked former BBC

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    TRADE TALK - The TV activist.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    One of the broadcaster's longest-serving staffers, Channel 4 editor of nations and regions Alan Hayling, is going back into documentary-making.

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    IN MY VIEW - Tony Stoller.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    On Access Radio, a non-commercial service which could fill the gaps in current provision.

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    ON THE BOX - Popstars who don't sing.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Two Four Productions' Rukhsana Mosam regrets the constant intervention of Nigel in Popstars but was moved by The Last Days.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Contract killer?

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Sky has been battling against ITN's hold on television news for nearly two decades. But the announcement from Sky News last week that it has four TV players on board for the next bid marks a new seriousness to the challenge.

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    GREG DYKE AT THE BBC - One year of Dyke's rule.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Programme-makers cheered in a director general who promised to demolish Birtist bureaucracy and put the BBC's money back into production. But dissenting voices in the corporation remain unconvinced that Dyke will deliver the golden age they were hoping fo

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    ANALYSIS - INDIE FINANCE - From a Chrysalis to a butterfly.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis has its fingers in a number of pies, besides TV production, such as music, media products and new media - but its radio interests, which have enjoyed phenomenal growth, are the stars of the show.

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    TX - The best possible taste.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    If a film sub-titled In search of the Kama Sutra evokes images of acres of naked flesh and soft-focus sex scenes then Position Impossible is going to disappoint. Executive producer Narinder

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    INTERVIEW - War of independents.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Shaun Williams, chief executive of producers' alliance Pact for almost exactly three years, leaves his post at the end of this week. As he begins a holiday before joining Carlton Communications

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    Older viewers lured into peaktime by 1940s House.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's The 1940s House (Thursday 21.00) - with 3.68 million in 14th place in the minority channels top 30 - is a programme with real appeal for C4's daytime-watching oldies.