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BBC comes under fire in Lords debate
The House of Lords turned the spotlight on the BBC last week, as the debate about the corporation's future role as a public service broadcaster intensified.Last Wednesday (3 March), former chairman
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RDF scores raft of C5 commissions
Channel 5 has commissioned a raft of factual programmes including an exploration of the orgasm from RDF Television, writes John Plunkett.
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Hollick denies interest in SMG
United News & Media's (UNM) chief executive Lord Hollick has poured cold water on reports that he was preparing a bid for Scottish Media Group (SMG), owner of Scottish Television, writes Tim Dams.
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INTERGRAPH TO PRESS AHEAD WITH ACTION AGAINST INTEL
Intergraph Corporation is expected to go ahead with its own anti-trust court case against chip-maker Intel, despite the surprise agreement reached on Monday (8 March) between the US Federal Trade Commission
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FOUNDING EYE ANIMATORS WAKE AND BASSETT QUIT
Eye founding animators John Wake and Alan Bassett have quit the company.Both men are understood to have left the animation facility last month.Wake is to join Big Finish, the holding company
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NAB DEBUT FOR PINNACLE'S THUNDER VIDEO SERVERS
Pinnacle Systems is to unveil the first in an expected line-up of Thunder video server products at NAB in April. The Thunder MCS 4000 and MCS 2000 are the company's first
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S&W UNVEILS NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Snell & Wilcox (S&W) is setting up a new business development unit in an attempt at widening the market for its video processing technology.The new venture will be headed by Naresh
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CHAPMAN NAMED CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT IBC
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) has appointed Sharon Chapman to the newly created role of chief operating officer. Chapman, who was commercial and conventions director of the Cable Communications Association for
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RAMSAY JOINS POST-IMPRESSIONS AS SALES DIRECTOR
Post-Impressions has appointed former Discreet Logic head of Asia-Pacific operations Peter Ramsay as director of sales and marketing. Ramsay becomes the third Post-Impressions director to be recruited from Discreet Logic alongside
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WRIGHT TO HEAD COMMERCIALS AT AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
Aardman Animations has appointed Heather Wright as its new head of commercials. She replaces Julie Lockhart, who left the company at the end of last year. Wright, who has worked for
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124 HIRES BOOBYER TO SUPPORT SENIOR EDITING TEAM
124 Facilities has appointed former London Post editor Paul Boobyer.Facilities director Catherine Houston said Boobyer had been hired in response to increasing demands from outside clients. Last year 124 said around
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VISIONS ANNOUNCES DEADLINE FOR 1999 DESIGN AWARDS
Visions, the BBC-backed initiative attempting to provide the next generation of professional film and television designers, has announced a deadline of 20 April for its 1999 Design Awards. Categories for the
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Avid may cut price of Symphony
Avid Technology is understood to be considering dropping the price of its uncompressed non-linear editor Symphony at NAB in an attempt to boost sales.It is believed that the price-cut will bring
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Sony BPE slashes Euro and UK jobs
Sony Broadcast & Professional (BPE) is cutting its European and UK workforce by around 8 per cent in a bid to cut costs.Forty-four jobs will go at its European headquarters in
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West-1 mulls Soho move
Soho facility West-1 Television is planning to move its sister audio company, West-1 West, into Soho. The move, which is expected to be finalised in the next few weeks, could see
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Spirit heads Nats' upmarket push
Soho Square facility Nats is making a bid to move upmarket by acquiring a Philips Spirit high-end telecine and Softimage 3D system.Nats managing director Charlie Leonard said that the purchases would
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Resources wins Navy film deal
BBC Resources Ltd has won a£2 million contract to make a feature-style film for the Royal Navy. It is understood to be the company's largest corporate contract since it was
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Pearson TV shoots soap for ProSieben
Pearson Television's German production subsidiary is making an ambitious daily soap, shot on location in Majorca, for German commercial broadcaster ProSieben.Mallorca, a 30-minute show due to launch on ProSieben in a
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Gori eyes up Stream deal
Telecom Italia, the owner of Italian digital platform Stream, has played down press reports that media mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is to take a stake in the pay-TV platform.Cecchi Gori told
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Bravo and BBC to make Soundtrack
The BBC Sales Company, the BBC Worldwide/Discovery Communications US distribution joint-venture, has brokered a co-production deal between BBC features and US cable arts channel Bravo for a major new music series, writes Jason Deans.