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    Directors join up to fight for extra cut

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    A host of television directors are threatening collective action against TV companies in a bid to up their share of repeat fees and programme sales.Around 200 directors, who want extra payments

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    Trent serves up MA in TV journalism

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Nottingham Trent University is launching what it claims is the first MA course dedicated solely to TV journalism.The course kicks off on 6 September this year and intends to offer up

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    BBC Radio 3 has commissioned Festival Productions to make what is believed to be the first documentary profile featuring Yoko Ono as an artist rather than the wife of John Lennon,

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio 3 has commissioned Festival Productions to make what is believed to be the first documentary profile featuring Yoko Ono as an artist rather than the wife of John Lennon,

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    Government 'ignoring' ITV regions

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The Prime Minister's decision to use more regional media has not translated into extra coverage for the ITV companies, according to regional political journalists, writes John Lewis.Simon Mares, Central Television lobby

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    Docu-soap kings clash at digital production festival

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Suds might fly at The Production Show 1999's Digital Production Festival as leading docu-soap exponents line up for what should be a colourful debate. Headlined by Grant Mansfield and Jeremy Gibson,

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    ADVENT PUMPS£2 MILLION INTO POST IMPRESSIONS

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Venture capitalists Advent has invested£2 million in Post Impressions, the hardware manufacturing and development company set up last April by MC Patel, Discreet Logic's former director of engineering. Patel said

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    LIGHTBODY BAGS FIRST FOR AURASOFT LIGHTING SYSTEM

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Optex technical consultant Derek Lightbody will become the first British individual in collaboration with a UK company to win an Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Award when he is

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    MCLAREN TAKES CREATIVE DIRECTOR POST AT SCI-FI

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Sci-Fi has appointed Tor McLaren, former head of creative services at XYZ Entertainment Australia, as its new creative director. The appointment follows the promotion of Sci-Fi's previous creative director, Michael Barry,

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    FRONTIER POST EXPANDS WITH TWO NEW EDIT SUITES

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Soho post-production facility Frontier Post is embarking on a£150,000 expansion of its Wells Street operation with the addition of two new edit suites. The suites will increase the company's offline

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    IPC ADDS TRIO OF NEW EDITORS TO ITS BOOKS

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Post Company (IPC) is to take on three new editors, starting on Monday (1 March). Michael Pearce, who is best known for his fast turnaround shows, joins after freelancing

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    MWC WARNS ON MILLENNIUM MIKE USE

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The New Millennium Experience Company has appointed Mike Weaver Communications (MWC) to 'police' the use of radio microphones, walkie-talkie, radio talkback and other radio devices at the Millennium Dome. Weaver said

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    AUDIOMOTION HIRES JONES TO MANAGE DIGITAL PRODUCTION

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Animation-to-motion capture facility AudioMotion has appointed David Hugh Jones as its new digital production manager. Jones, who previously worked as a digital effects supervisor on the film Legionnaires, has also been

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    BAKER SWITCHES TO SALES ROLE AT MAD EDITING

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Suzanne Baker, formerly sales and marketing director with Baraka and Evolution, has joined Mad Editing in the same role. She will also act as post-production producer. Mad has also taken on

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    THE FOUNDRY SELLS KEYLIGHT COMPOSITING TOOLS

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Software development specialist The Foundry has sold three Keylight compositing tools to Mill Film. Keylight enables artist to composite blue and green screen shoots more easily by modelling the interaction of

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    Megalomedia to sell CFC's US arm

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Megalomedia is selling the Los Angeles arm of its effects subsidiary, the Computer Film Company (CFC), to US film effects company Manex Visual Effects.William Sargent, Megalomedia board director and CFC's UK

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    Shaw drops Coats for Cintel board role

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Men in White Coats (MIWC) managing director Steve Shaw is quitting the company to join telecine manufacturer Cintel as its new technical director.Shaw's unexpected departure comes little more than a year

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    ITK's Millennium Machine limbers up for IBC debut

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Innovation TK's (ITK) forthcoming high-definition telecine will make its prototype debut at this year's IBC in September.ITK managing director Stuart Hunt said the new telecine, codenamed the Millennium Machine, was being

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    ICS spins off 3D graphics

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Intergraph Computer Systems (ICS) is planning to spin off its graphics division, Intense 3D, into a new company in an attempt to bolster its position in the market for add-on professional

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    Manwatching

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Molly Dineen once asked Tony Blair: 'Why aren't you a Tory?' This ability to catch men off-guard makes her a unique TV talent, says David Wood.

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    Martin Jackson

    1999-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Here we go again. Flush with a£30.5 million kickback on their breakfast franchise from the Independent Television Commission, the Scottish and Guardian Media groups are saying 'good morning thank you'