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BBC 2 to look at black America
Wall to Wall has boosted its coffers by£3.5m after securing a slate of commissions from the UK and abroad, writes Jon Rogers
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Ellard to Resolution
Post house Resolution has appointed Satu Ellard as the company's new facilities manager. Ellard will team up with facilities co-ordinator Louisa Styles, who was also at Soho Editors. They will be based at the Soho branch of Resolution
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SVC appoints martin
Facilities house SVC has picked Matt Martin to head up its sales department. New Zealand-born Martin was previously running Young and Rubicam's TV department in New Zealand. He has over 10 years TV experience and said: 'I relish the opportunity of promoting SVC's wealth of talent and developing a fresh ...
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YTV opens new facility
Yorkshire Television's engineering and technical services departments have ordered a new multi-format technical facility for video standards conversion. The new facility will produce programme tapes for consumer retail and also for re-sale on a global basis to other broadcasters. Outputs will be available in a range of formats including: IMX, ...
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Sky adds gamepads
Sky is set to launch gamepads for its set-top boxes. The game controllers, available from next week, will cost£14.99 each. Games available reportedly include Asteroids, Boggle, Bust-A-Move, Centipede, Pinball, Pong and Space Invaders
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Paisley leaves Omnibus
Veteran broadcast technologist Brian Paisley is leaving his post as managing director of Omnibus Systems to join Quantel. He will join the equipment manufacturer next week as director of broadcast. He will be responsible for developing and selling Quantel's generationQ products
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TSI TX hires for growth
TSI TX has underlined its promises of imminent expansion by creating and filling a new post of operations manager. Previously operations manager at international news agency APTN, Kate Ivens starts her new job this week. Mike Severyn, managing director at TSI TX said: 'Kate will be instrumental as we move ...
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Elephant Egg wins second satire series
Elephant Egg, the animation studio jointly owned by UK based media company Elephant Productions and animation company Fictitious Egg, has been commissioned to animate a second series of its quick-turnaround satirical sketches for the BBC Choice show The State We're In, ...
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Caught on camera
Comedy producer Phil Clarke has come up with an ingenious way of delivering a character's point of view in a sitcom - he's putting cameras on the actors heads, writes John Oates
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4Active accused of targeting kids with interactivity
Four Active - Channel 4's delayed interactive service launched this week in time for the start of Celebrity Big Brother- was hit by complaints that the service was intrusive and aimed at children, writes John Oates
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Clear Cut credits location with business boost
Eleven-year-old post-production house Clear Cut is celebrating a year of increased business and expansion and is crediting its location in the wilds of west London for the success, writes John Oates
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BBC moves to allay fears over Bristol
Post-production facilities in Bristol will welcome news that a BBC 'post-production procurement group' set up to sort out the best possible service deals for BBC Bristol's factual department and the Natural History Unit will not reduce the amount of work outsourced to the local market ...
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United deliver for Fergie but not for ITV
ITV 1's midweek formula of soaps and live European Champions League football suffered a setback last night (27 November), as BBC 1 picked itself up after a string of poor peaktime performances, writes Luke Satchell
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Pace shares fall
Pace Micro shares have fallen over ten per cent today on news that the set-top box maker is likely to miss its earnings for the year, writes John Oates
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Granada seeks to rescue London's Burning
The future of long-running drama London's Burning could go up in smoke following an ITV ultimatum to Granada executives that they must refresh the ailing show to halt its ratings slide or else see it dropped, writes Luke Satchell
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Docherty quits Telewest
Telewest managing director of broadband content David Docherty has announced that he will be leaving the company in the next few days, writes Paul Revoir
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ITV unveils post merger strategy
Granada and Carlton this week fleshed out their strategy to establish a single ITV, unveiling plans to cut more jobs at the network centre and push for the new company to operate a single sales house, writes Steve Aston
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Government responds to pressure for BBC indie radio quota
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has ordered officials to examine extending mandatory indie production quotas to radio, write David Rose and Georgina Lipscomb
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Jowell lends support to proposals
The government this week gave a strong hint that it would accept the bulk of the ITC's recommendations and agreed to ensure that anything it did approve would be included in the Communications Bill, writes Colin Robertson
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ITC backs indies' claims
The future of indies is now back in the hands of the government after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) programme supply review this week recommended wholesale changes to the 20-year old sector, writes Jane Marlow