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NewsC4 site to share birth stories
Channel 4 has launched a site featuring video feeds from 40 cameras fixed within maternity wards to support documentary series One Born Every Minute.
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NewsCinedeck debuts multipurpose DDR tool
US company Cinedeck is debuting a camera-mounted, cinema-grade direct-to-disk recorder (DDR) that has the potential to replace several components in a production workflow.
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NewsPrime Focus adds Technicolor’s Mitchell
Prime Focus has made four recent appointments in London, including a new commercial director for its content services and two new staff within its broadcast division.
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NewsPPL goes Gaga over new video store
PPL, the music licensing company, is launching a new service at BVE 2010 that will give producers online access to back-catalogue and modern day music promos.
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NewsDTG concerned about disengaged Project Canvas
The Digital Television Group (DTG) has turned against Project Canvas, stating that its members are concerned that the proposed joint-venture companies have not fully engaged with the rest of the industry.
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News"Cautious" product placement approved
Product placement is to be allowed on British TV but the Rovers Return won’t be able to sell real beer brands after the government opted for a “cautious approach”.
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NewsBBC spent £229m on talent last year
The BBC paid on-air talent more than £229m last year, including £54m for presenters paid over £150,000.
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NewsTrue-May: Midsomer will thrive with new Barnaby
The producer of Midsomer Murders says he is confident the programme will remain successful, despite shaking up the cast by replacing John Nettles.
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NewsMotive raises £400k to develop DTT
DTT technology firm Motive Television has raised £400,000 by issuing new shares and has an eye on making acquisitions.
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NewsMerger creates new broadcast fitness firm
Former ITN chief executive Mark Wood is to lead a new new health and fitness broadcast company following the merger of two lifestyle channel operators.
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NewsBBC2 re-orders comedy double
BBC2 has greenlit second runs of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and Dave Gorman’s show Genius.
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NewsC4 to offer viewers a third Gok fix
Gok Wan is to re-team with fashion buyer Brix Smith-Start for a third series of Channel 4 series Gok’s Fashion Fix.
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NewsSky sells 10.4% ITV stake at £348m loss
BSkyB sold 10.4% of its stake in ITV for around £196m this morning – a loss of about £348m.
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NewsBBC4 doc vies with Avatar at green awards
A BBC4 documentary is to vie with James Cameron’s record-breaking movie Avatar for an environmental prize at the Cinema for Peace Awards next week.
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NewsBBC to reveal stars' pay to MPs only
The BBC has agreed to reveal licence fee-funded payments to some of its leading sports presenters to a House of Commons spending watchdog but not to the public.
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NewsBBC criticised for "sloppy" spending on events
The BBC’s accounting is “sloppy” and its refusal to open its books to the National Audit Office looks “inexplicably evasive and self-indulgent,” the House of Commons public accounts committee has said.
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NewsRefine to rent out P2 cards
Content processing and re-purposing business Refine is buying 30 Panasonic P2 memory cards that it will make available to production companies on a rental basis.
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NewsPro Motion Hire adds Varicams
Pro Motion Hire has widened the selection of tapeless cameras available within its hire fleet with the acquisition of Varicam camcorders from Panasonic.
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Evolutions picks up ContentAgents
London post-production company Evolutions has purchased three ContentAgent re-purposing systems from Root6 Technology.
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Atempo to unveil new FCS capabilities
Atempo will give visitors to BVE 2010 a sneak preview of a new version of its Digital Archive (ADA) technology that can keep track of Apple Final Cut Server metadata information on archived assets.