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RUSHES PUTS£250,000 INTO NEW FLAME AND V6 UPGRADE
Commercials facility Rushes has spent around£250,000 up-grading its existing Henry V6 to Infinity specification and adding a second Flame suite. The new additions will add to the company's existing two
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HBO PREPARES FOR MARCH LAUNCH OF 24-HOUR HDTV
US cable network HBO has committed over $3 million (£2.4 million) on Panasonic's D-5 high-definition format VTRs in anticipation of the launch of a 24-hour HDTV service from 6 March. The
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RED POST HIRES ANDREWS TO OVERSEE SOFTIMAGE DS
Red Post Production has taken on former Happy Fish and Aura editor Dan Andrews to run its recently acquired dual stream Softimage DS. Andrews' appointment coincides with the arrival of the
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DISCREET LOGIC BAGS PRIZE FOR FLAME AND INFERNO
Discreet Logic's effects systems, Flame and Inferno, have won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Scientific & Engineering Award. The award, due to be presented at a ceremony in
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TELE-CINE COMMITS TO DVD WITH MAESTRO PURCHASE
Tele-Cine's new media division is installing Spruce Technologies' DVD Maestro authoring system and Digital Vision's BitPack encoding system. Tele-Cine general manager Jeff Emerson said the new technology demonstrated the company's commitment
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FIRST CUT INSTALLS AVID'S SYMPHONY
Bristol facility First Cut Digital Post Production has become the first facility in the west country to install Avid's Symphony. First Cut managing director John Lomas said the uncompressed non-linear editor
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OMNIBUS SERVES UP AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSES
Omnibus Systems, which manufactures broadcast automation systems, is to provide training courses to freelance journalists and broadcasters beginning this spring. Omnibus technical director Ian Fletcher said that freelancers would be given
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London Post hit by departures
London Post senior editor John Pearce and acting managing director Charles Taylor are both quitting the company, just weeks after parent Aspen Group confirmed it was looking for a buyer.Pearce, who
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Silicon gambles with add-on cards
A technical abberation in Silicon Graphics' new NT workstations has rendered them incompatible with up to two-thirds of currently available add-on video cards necessary to turn them into non-linear video and
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BFC confirms 15% drop in UK film production in 1998
Investment in UK film production during 1998 fell by just under 15 per cent from the previous year, according to the latest figures from The British Film Commission (BFC).British Film Commissioner
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Digidesign upgrades AudioVision
Digidesign, the specialist audio division of Avid that manufactures the ProTools non-linear audio editor, has developed an upgraded version of the AudioVision sound-for-picture workstation, writes Kevin Hilton.
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Resources set for giant OB contract
BBC Resources Ltd looks set to secure one of the largest outside broadcast contracts ever when it helps broadcast Music Live 2000, five days of music in celebration of the new
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Showtime jumps at Granada series
Granada Entertainment USA is turning the camera on its own business as it produces a new 22-hour comedy drama series to air on US cable network Showtime.The show, Beggars and Choosers,
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Mentorn scoops France 2 slot for new format
Mentorn International, an arm of UK independent Mentorn Barraclough Carey, has won a primetime format commission from France months before the show goes out on BBC 1, writes Lucy Rouse.
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BBC Worldwide, UK independent Halo Productions and Montreal animation studio Cinar are finalising a $4 million (£2.4 million) co-production with the BBC's Bristol animation unit for BBC 2. The an
BBC Worldwide, UK independent Halo Productions and Montreal animation studio Cinar are finalising a $4 million (£2.4 million) co-production with the BBC's Bristol animation unit for BBC 2. The animated sitcom,
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DirecTV set to acquire Primestar
US digital satellite TV operator DirecTV is to acquire rival Primestar, reducing the number of players in the satellite market from three to two, writes Claire Atkinson.
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ANXIETIES MOUNT OVER FRENCH PAY-TV FILM RIGHTS
Concern over control of French pay-TV film rights rose to fever pitch this week as French broadcasters battled for control of television and cinema group Pathe. Pay-TV group Canal+ bought up
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THE ALPHABET GAME SPELLS SUCCESS FOR ACTION TIME
Action Time has won a new commission for its gameshow format The Alphabet Game from Italian commercial broadcaster Canale 5. The channel has commissioned an initial 66 episodes, which will be
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3DD SELLS CHIPPENDALES ONE-OFF INTO EUROPE
Distributor 3DD Entertainment has pre-sold a one-off special, The Chippendales - For One Night Only, to a number of European pay-TV broadcasters.The show airs exclusively in the UK on Sky Box
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REGIONS MOVES IN WITH EURONEWS AT LYONS
ITN-owned news channel Euronews is to share its Lyons headquarters with the French documentary channel Regions. The French cable and digital satellite channel, which began broadcasting in May last year and