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Mill Interactive arm
Increased demand for online content creation has forced digital visual effects facility The Mill to establish a dedicated interactive department.From this month, the Mill Interactive Lab will offer flash-based animations and
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Resources to negotiate
Managers at BBC Resources London Operations have bowed to pressure from Bectu to re-open negotiations on proposed changes to conditions of service and enforced redundancies to avert further industrial action. After
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Barnes reveals Teddington Studios revamp proposals
Barnes Trust Media (BTM) has revealed exclusively to Broadcast plans for redevelopment at its Teddington Studios site, ending months of speculation about the future of the facility.Although the existing studios will
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Sony digital arm bids for autonomy
Sony Digital interactive broadband services (Sony DIBS) is stepping up its profile in anticipation of becoming a separate but wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Sub zero goes interactive
BBC Resources special projects has developed a system to enable viewers of CBBC's interactive sci-fi gameshow Sub Zero to 'vision mix' from home using a telephone. The system detects which button
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BFV founder Blackham quits
Broadcast Film & Video (BFV) chief executive and founder Dave Blackham has quit in what both parties described as a 'mutual parting of the ways', writes Barbara Marshall.
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Terrestrial is ratings also-ran
Is the future of the British monarchy really to be decided on the basis that the Queen's traditional Christmas broadcast drew 700,000 fewer viewers than last year? And is the ratings
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Free to air - Taking care of TV history
British broadcasting has always taken an ambivalent attitude towards its own history. Think of all those classic shows wiped by the BBC in past decades before digital technology made storing film
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Predictions - Shape of things to come
As the new millennium really dawns, Broadcast reporters predict what the first year of the century will bring to the terrestrial, digital and cable television channels, independent production companies and the radio sector.
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Genre round-up 2000 - The nevere nding story
In 2000, the BBC and ITV continued to battle it out for ratings, dominating all of the top 20s, apart from Chan nel 4's intrusion with event TV show Big Brother. Peter Keighron highlights last year's good, bad and ugly.
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Coronation Street special is ITV's crowning glory
In early December, Coronation Street's 40th anniversary celebrations made most of the news in terms of primetime schedules. The one-hour live special (ITV, Friday 8 December 20.00) did very well with
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And finally ..
Ex-breakfast TV star Roland Rat reveals all about his life as the nation's favourite rodent ...If you weren't in TV what would you be doing?Spreading the bubonic plagueWhat is your proudest
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Off the record
The Ball guide to modern manners Just when you think Sky's own cuddly czar Tony Ball couldn't be any more charming, he goes and does something which gives you a teasing
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Off the record - Photo journalism is snow OTT
Oh Gawd. While we are fully aware that it's not clever to draw attention to something that is neither newsworthy nor in the public interest, sometimes the urge to do that
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Grimsdale to head ICG
BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) head of factual Peter Grimsdale has been named as the new head of the ICG, writes Tim Dams.
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C4 bags Sky rights to Friends and ER
Channel 4 has snatched BSkyB's rights to Friends and ER as part of a three-year deal with Warner Bros that also renews C4's terrestrial rights to the hit US series.Programming from
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Howell leaves Flextech to set up internet and TV firm
Flextech channels senior vice-president Lis Howell has quit just two weeks after Jane Lighting was installed as chief operating officer of TV and content, write John Plunkett and Steve Clarke.
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MPs to reject BBC digital licence fee
MPs are expected to deliver a severe blow to the BBC on Monday (20 December) by recommending that the corporation should be denied a licence fee increase for digital expansion, writes John Lewis.