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  • News

    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - EMI Music selects Tele-Cine

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    EMI Music has chosen Tele-Cine for all its short-form duplication needs following the facility's installation of the UK's first Omneon Video Network integrated server and storage system, writes Barbara Marshall.Part of

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Softimage jobs go as Stojda moves up

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Softimage has shed 47 staff including general manager David Pritchard, just nine months after buying Pritchard's games and web animation company, The Motion Factory.Mike Stojda, who was product director of the

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Digital transfer is a 'shambles'

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The transition from analogue to digital television in the UK was described as being in a 'complete shambles' at a Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference on digital TV last

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Flotation or sale for Snell & Wilcox

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Broadcast equipment manufacturer Snell & Wilcox is seeking to raise capital for what it sees as necessary expansion, writes Adrian Pennington.According to director of communications Kevin Melia, the company hopes to

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC MediaArc picks Barker

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    BBC Mediaarc, the corporation's newly created design agency, is expanding with the appointment of Carol Barker to the new role of head of animation and the addition of three 3D artists,

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - DIBS REVAMPS AS GO

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Sony's interactive technology business, Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBS), has relaunched as Go interact tv. The spin-off, which acts as technology partner to interactive producers and worked with Simply Money

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    RUSHES APPOINTMENTS

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Commercial facility Rushes has signed Allen Sillery and Phil Man to its Inferno team. Sillery joins the Old Compton Street facility from rival VTR, where he worked across Flame and Henry.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - ROOT6 R&D GROWS

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Root6 is expanding its R&D department and has appointed Jim Bentley as an additional software developer to work on HammerHead, the outfit's hardware-independent streaming media automation tool. Bentley has joined from

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TAMBORINE EXPANDS

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Sound facility Tamborine Productions is expanding with the opening of a second studio at its Soho site and has plans to open a third in the next 18 months. The company,

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    Digital plans need rethinking

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The prime minister's decision to set back a general election date by at least a month until June prompts a glance at the list of unfinished government business for this industry.

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    FREE TO AIR - Say no to Tweenie tat

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    When it comes to the 'power of television' over the young mind I have always been pretty ambivalent. I spent many hours of my early years sitting in front of any

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    TRADE TALK - An original touch

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Former executive producer at Carlton Rob Pursey has set up his own indie, Touchpaper, eager to put his passion for new drama into practice.

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    IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    On how awards for news sit uneasily with glamorous ceremonies at swanky hotels.

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    ON THE BOX - The bear necessities

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    BBC editor, mainstream LE Jonathan Glazier finds Grizzly Face to Face a little uninformative but As If an all-round delight.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Treading a fine line

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The threat of legal action against the producers of Pop Idol for format plagiarism shows how difficult it is for programme-makers to tell the difference between copying another show and being inspired by it.

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    BBC WORLDWIDE - The BBC's catch-22

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The review of BBC Worldwide, begun nearly a year ago, is still going on and insiders are suggesting there won't be much to say once it is completed. Have Greg Dyke's commercial instincts for once let him down?

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    INTERVIEW - Sense of Wellbeing

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Wellbeing joint managing director Paula Carter is confident that the Boots/Granada 'brandcaster' has the edge over digital rivals like Discovery Health.

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    News moves fail to make a splash

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    When the BBC/ITV news at 22.00 battle started, critics and the ITC were shouting about lost ratings but, six months on, the fuss seems to have come to nothing with viewers tuning in much as they did before.

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    The apostles rise again

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    ITV's The Apostles follows hot on the heels of Son of God, the BBC's landmark religious series. Both programmes explore the historical and archaeological evidence to shed new light on some

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    Holby City comes back to prop up Tuesday night

    2001-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Back to earth with a post-Comic Relief bump for BBC 1 - Coronation Street returns to the top of the stack in the top 50 and all except one primetime night