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GIBB TAKES ON DEVELOPMENT ROLE AT DIGITAL FILM
Digital Film@The Moving Picture Company has appointed a new development manager. Joanna Dewar Gibb, who joins from the British Film Commission, will be responsible for building relationships with clients as well
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BALL TO GIVE IBC KEYNOTE SPEECH
BSkyB chief executive and managing director Tony Ball will present the keynote speech at IBC on 11 September. Ball, who joined BSkyB in June, is expected to use the occasion to
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Telecine to steal the show at IBC
Cintel is to launch a new telecine at next month's IBC in a bid to head off competition from Innovation TK's (ITK) high-definition upgrades for Ursa telecines.Capable of both standard and
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FrameStore has won its fourth consecutive Emmy Award for its effects work on Hallmark Entertainment's Alice in Wonderland. The Noel Street facility created around 870 effect shots for the two-hour TV
FrameStore has won its fourth consecutive Emmy Award for its effects work on Hallmark Entertainment's Alice in Wonderland. The Noel Street facility created around 870 effect shots for the two-hour TV
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TSI first broadcast facility to buy Fire
TSI has become the first broadcast facility to acquire Discreet's Fire editing system.Expected to be installed within the next few weeks, Fire will join TSI's existing Discreet Smoke system and brings
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Accom gives Affinity IBC debut
Accom will unveil Affinity at IBC next month, its first new non-linear editing system since it acquired the Sphere range from Scitex Digital Video last December.In development for the past 12
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Molinare plans 12 redundancies
Molinare is seeking around 12 voluntary redundancies across its post-production department. The move is expected to cut staff at the Foubert's Place facility by around 25 per cent.Molinare managing director Hugh
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Bernard Clark
Argues that now Channel 4 has got its act together, it needs to gain the confidence to take more risks.
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Talent agent
Lisa Clark has a reputation for getting the best out of stars she works with, but can she rev up LWT's comedy department, asks David Wood.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Nothing to grab on to
Richard Eyre's MacTaggart Lecture set the tone for last weekend's Edinburgh TV Festival - well-structured, carefully thought out, but with little new to say. Alice Macandrew reports.
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OPINION - BBC makes poor fist at Edinburgh
Richard Eyre's MacTaggart lecture failed to live up to the hype.But when The Times runs a story suggesting that poor programme quality is undermining the case for the licence fee, the
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INDIE BUSINESS: BRANDING - The right brand of success
According to classic marketing theory, it is impossible not to have a brand identity just as it's impossible for an individual not to have a character. But are independents making the most of theirs, asks Peter Keighron.
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INTERVIEW - What's the Story?
Mark Story has come a long way from his days running a pirate station in Dublin. But after a circuitous ascent through the radio networks, the Kiss FM and Magic 105.4 boss believes he now has the best job in the world.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Happy talking
Following the recent overhaul of Rajar's ratings system, William Phillips places his faith in the new figures and answers some of the key questions thrown up by their use.
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OFF THE RECORD - Crap comic
Among the legions of telly execs in Edinburgh was BBC Entertainment grand fromage Paul Jackson, who was spotted at the fringe hunting down fresh comedy talent. One hapless stand-up unwittingly picked
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OFF THE RECORD - A Twist in the tale
Everyone's favourite channel controller, David Liddiment, wasn't smiling much at Edinburgh either. Perhaps it was the painful memory of his session where one Carlton International minion asked him about the scheduling
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OFF THE RECORD - Gardening tip
Word reaches OTR of an ingenious new way to help win a commission from ITV. The programme in question was the network's critically acclaimed gardening quiz show, The Answer Lies in
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OFF THE RECORD - Sunny side down
A rather less effective way of winning a commission, this time from Channel 4 director of programmes Tim 'three brains' Gardam, would appear to be approaching the great man with a
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OFF THE RECORD - Miss the commissioner
Staying with Gardam, Channel 4 head honcho Michael Jackson found himself locked out of his sidekick's meet the commissioner session because he arrived too late. As if by magic, he only
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OFF THE RECORD - High profile
This week's picture comes courtesy of those publicity hungry folk at Channel 5. It was given away as part of a rather clever mousemat in the delegate goodie bag. The question