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Drake Automation sold to Columbine
Another leading UK technology company has passed into US ownership with the news that Drake Automation, which specialises in automating the transmission of programming for large multi-channel broadcasters, has been bought
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MPC opens state-of-the-art digs
Moving Picture Company, one of London's largest video facilities, has relocated for the first time in its history - opening a state-of-the-art facility designed around digital networking and video servers.The facility
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Unique ID tempts MPC with Cakes
Unique ID has scored the most high-profile customer it could hope for with its first client for its Cakes asset-tracking system. The new Moving Picture Company facility will adopt Cakes throughout
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TV3 planning breakfast slot
Ireland's fledgling commercial broadcaster, TV3, is to launch a new Planet 24 breakfast service from September in competition with programmes that spill over from mainland Britain, writes Anthony Garvey.
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Disney rebuilding its Euro operation
Disney's European and UK operations are set to be restructured in line with internal streamlining within the Disney corporation.Part of a drive to consolidate Disney's international business, it comes after Disney/ABC
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Vivendi seeks£2.6bn from sell-off strategy
Vivendi is to sell off its 20 per cent stake in Belgian communications group Audiofina plus its 52 per cent stake in European broadcaster Tele-Monte-Carlo (TMC), according to chairman Jean-Marie Messier, writes Paul Michaud.
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CARLTON FOOD NETWORK TO SELL TO JAPAN VIA DIGITAL
Carlton International has signed an output deal with Digital Planet Satellite Broadcasting to channel a minimum 150 hours of Carlton Food Network programming to Japanese digital broadcasters Direct TV and SkyPerfect
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ROBINSON TAKES ON TOP MINOTAUR MARKETING ROLE
Distributor Minotaur International has poached Patrick Robinson from David Graham Associates to become senior marketing executive, reporting to managing director Jane Lighting. Robinson worked for DG&A from 1997 and was co-author
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WORLD RIGHTS TO MEL C DOC TAKEN UP BY 3DD
3DD has secured worldwide TV rights to a 30-minute fly-on-the-wall documentary about Spice Girl Melanie C. The film, being directed by Hamish Hamilton for Done & Dusted, airs on Channel 4
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GRIEVES GIVEN BUSINESS AFFAIRS POST AT CHANNEL 4
Channel 4 has hired National Video Corporation legal and business affairs manager Cheetah Grieves to become manager of business affairs. Grieves, who had been with NVC since 1996, reports to C4I
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NUNEZ NEW CBSBI PRESIDENT AS SIEK TAKES HIS LEAVE
CBS Broadcast International has appointed Armando Nunez Jr as its new, LA-based president while former chief Rainer Siek steps down. Nunez Jr joins from Universal International TV, where he was also
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CHARRET INVOLVED IN CINEPOSIUM CO-PRO SESSION
Gaumont chief executive Christian Charret is taking part in a television co-production session at this week's Cineposium event. Held from Friday (16 July), the symposium aims to bring together UK producers
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UPC CONSOLIDATES WITH DEALS IN SWEDEN AND HUNGARY
United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) has consolidated its position as second largest cable operator in Europe after Deutsche Telekom with deals to buy Swedish cable company Stjarn TV and Hungarian cable company
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FRENCH CULTURE MINISTER SLAMS DIGITAL FOOTBALL DEAL
The decision by French digital platforms Canal+ and TPS to jointly buy broadcast rights to championship matches of the French Football League for more than FFr2 billion (£207 million) per year
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STAR TV TO MANAGE NAT GEO'S INDIAN DISTRIBUTION
National Geographic has linked up with Star TV, allowing the News Corp-backed company to manage Nat Geo's distribution and advertising sales in India. Star adds National Geographic to its bouquet of
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CNNI LAUNCHES PLANS TO INCREASE ASIAN VIEWING
CNN International (CNNI) has launched its regionalisation strategy to increase viewing in Asia. Initially, CNNI is airing 19 hours of local language programming per week, with $8-9 million (£5-5.8 million) earmarked
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The new draw
When Camilla Deakin was made animation chief at C4 last week, many animators' first reaction was to ask who she was. Ashley Davies reports.
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John Willis
On how the success of Malcolm and Barbara could herald a new dawn for serious documentaries.
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Behind the Birtspeak
A heartfelt plea for public service broadcasting - or the self-serving speech of a man keen to secure his place in history? What was Sir John's New Statesman Lecture really about, asks Peter Keighron.
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OPINION - What happened to children's radio?
John Birt recently reminded us in his tub-thumping New Statesman media lecture, The Prize and The Price, that we exist in an age of media saturation. Well spotted, Sir John. And