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ITFC SCOOPS ITV AUDIO DESCRIPTION SERVICES DEAL
The Independent Television Facilities Centre (ITFC) has won the contract to supply ITV and ITV2 with audio description services for the blind and partially sighted. The first enhanced services are expected
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DARKLIGHT FESTIVAL TO SCREEN ABE'S EXODUS
The four-day Darklight Digital Film Festival, Ireland's first digital animation and film showcase, kicks off next Thursday (27 May) at Temple Bar in Dublin. Developed in conjunction with Sink Digital Media,
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ASHPOOL MOVES TO END MULTIPLE PHONE-IN HEADACHE
Ashpool Telecom has launched a new telecommunications technology that it claims will bring an end to the frustration of multiple public phone-ins. MassCall is an automated large-scale call handling platform capable
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MATROX UNVEILS PAN-EUROPEAN SUBSIDIARY VITE
Board and technology developer Matrox is setting up a pan-European subsidiary, which will operate out of its UK base near Slough. The division, which will be known as Matrox Video &
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E&S FIRES TORNADO AT HIGH-END GRAPHICS BOARD SECTOR
Evans and Sutherland (E&S) has launched its latest candidate in the high-end graphics board market. The E&S Tornado supports dual-screen resolutions of 1280x1024 and will provide sustained pixel fill rates of
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DIGITAL TV ROLL-OUT WILL BENEFIT PCS, SAYS US REPORT
The mass roll-out of digital television in the US will act as a growth catalyst for video-enabled PCs and will do little to stimulate demand for TV sets, says a new
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WAG fights for new festival
Animators in Wales have launched a new alliance, The Welsh Animation Group (WAG), which hopes to resurrect a UK animation festival following the collapse of The Vital Cardiff Animation Festival last
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Ocean acts to save skin as debts pile up
Ocean Post Productions has put itself into voluntary administration in an attempt to stave off closure. The company, set up by VTR veteran Steve Dann, owes creditors around£870,000.Dann, Ocean Post's
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Jaffe quits Sky to set up promotions agency
Sky Television director of promotions Raymond Jaffe is leaving the company to set up his own promotions agency, The Promotions Factory.Jaffe, who joined Sky in August 1992, said the new venture
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The Mill expands motion control
The Mill is expanding its motion control studio at Shepperton Studios despite last week's closure of SVC's White City rig (Broadcast, 14.5.99).Studio head Rob Delicata said the company was looking to
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Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Pau
Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Paul Smith and Oliver Reed, the
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NBC gets Cold Feet from Granada USA
Granada Entertainment USA (GEU) has secured a series commission at the second attempt from NBC for the comedy drama format Cold Feet.NBC has ordered a 13 x 60-minute run of the
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UK indie to run Olympic doc
UK independent Transatlantic Films has unveiled an international production slate for 1999 of more than 20 hours of programming, including a one-off special on the Sydney Olympic Games, writes Alice Macandrew.Guardians
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Southern Star links up with Monogram
Southern Star Circle, the UK arm of Australian distributor Southern Star, has signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with UK drama specialist Monogram Productions, writes Jason Deans.The distributor will have first
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World view
The days of CNN's Peter Arnett securing world exclusives and behind enemy lines access for the US news broadcaster are numbered, not through any reduction in quality of output, but from
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ARTE PLANS EUROPE-WIDE DISTRIBUTION VENTURE
Arte chairman Jerome Clement has unveiled plans for a Europe-wide organisation to distribute TV programming made by the Franco-German arts channel and its co-production partners. Although the exact details of the
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UK CREATIVES TO STAR IN BANFF WORKSHOPS
A number of UK television industry figures are to feature in creative workshops at the Banff Television Festival in Canada next month. Andrew Davies, the adapter of Middlemarch, House of Cards,
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PLAYERS LINE UP TO BUY DT'S CABLE TV NETWORK
Microsoft Corp and Bertelsmann are considering the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's (DT) cable TV network along with Deutsche Bank, according to a report in German current affairs magazine Der Spiegel. Bertelsmann
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PEOPLE + ARTS BUSTLES INTO MADRID
BBC Worldwide/Discovery Networks joint-venture channel People + Arts has launched on Spain's Madritel cable system. People + Arts, which first launched in Latin America in October 1997, is now available in
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STREAM BAGS TV RIGHTS TO QUARTET OF TOP SERIE A TEAMS
Telecom Italia's digital TV operator, Stream, has won the rights to televise the matches of four Italian Serie A football teams: Lazio, Parma, Fiorentina and Roma. Stream is to pay L240