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RDF media recruits investment specialist
RDF Media has hired private equity expert Jonny Slow to help it identify new acquisition and investment opportunities. He joins as director of corporate development from Sand Aire Private Equity - a London-based private equity firm that specialises in investing in small to medium-sized firms.
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Indigo opens LA office
London-based distributor and co-producer Indigo has set up an office in Los Angeles to boost its US ties.
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'Inappropriate' Humphrys taken to task
The BBC has reprimanded veteran BBC presenter John Humphrys after a video leaked to The Timesshowed him deriding senior Labour cabinet members. His comments prompted a BBC investigation, and in a statement director general Mark Thompson said Humphrys' turn of phrase was 'inappropriate'.
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Sumners HD move
Sumners has installed twoVcube HD 2K hard disk VTRs, supplied by Total Audio Solutions, to link its online and da Vinci 2K grading suites. The Manchester post house can now work at resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 uncompressed HD and with more than 30 SD and HD formats.
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Extreme sells poker
Extreme Entertainment has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with The Poker Channel. Extreme will look to sell both standalone programming and branded blocks of the channel internationally in all territories except the UK. The Poker Channel, which launched in March this year, has produced 150 hours of programming to ...
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Endemol in mobile first
Endemol is claiming a UK TV first by shooting scenes from its new Channel 4 soap Totally Frankexclusively for mobile phones, at the same time as shooting the TV show.
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Duo launch TV genius search engine
Bob Eggington, the launch director of BBC News Online, and Tom Weiss, former vice-president of T-Mobile Europe, have set up a search engine called TV Genius dedicated to finding UK TV shows. The service allows users to search listings for all UK TV channels, films, sports, comedy, drama and documentaries. ...
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Talkback lures development exec from Red
Talkback Thames has poached Red Productions head of development Noelle Morris to become its head of drama development.
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Cost-saving report
A report to be unveiled at IBC later this week by consultancy Accenture shows that modernisation of broadcasters' pre-production, production and post-production processes can result on an average 9% saving in programme budgets, amounting to, on average, annual savings of£49m. According to the research, carried out in consultation with major ...
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Corrie's Wood may cross to Mersey
Coronation Streetproducer Tony Wood is in talks to join Mersey TV as creative director. Wood has already announced that he will leave the soap at the end of the year. Mersey TV, producer of Hollyoaks, is run by Wood's former Coronation Streetboss ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Robert Curran
Discovery Networks International vice-president, production and development, believes surprising viewers is the way to stop audience erosion, wants to deliver uplifting programming and is a Lost fan.
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Format focus: Ciao Darwin
A durable hit in Italy, contestants battle it out in challenges designed to test their evolutionary mettle.
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Homechoice to go national with eight new channels
Homechoice is gearing up for a national rollout next year by adding eight new channels and three on-demand services.
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New TV talent to get own channel
A channel devoted to new TV and film talent is set to launch next year.
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Leopard changes
Leopard Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Cash in the Attic, and Missing, has made two senior promotions. Susie Field moves up from head of production and chief operating officer to managing director while head of factual entertainment Bernard Periatambee becomes head ...
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Emap and GCap to extend CD:UK
Emap Radio and GCap Media have joined forces with ITV pop show CD:UKto launch a new cross-media interactive chart.
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CanWest sets up camp in Solent
Canadian media giant CanWest said this week it would use its new Solent FM radio licence as a base for further expansion into UK broadcasting.
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Polecam camera
Miniature lightweight camera system manufacturer Polecam is to launch a submersible camera, Fishface, at IBC, with a new submersible pan and tilt head and camera housing which can be used to a depth of 4m.
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Harris buys Leitch
Network broadcast equipment manufacturer Harris is to acquire Leitch, the Toronto-based high-end video kit manufacturer to strengthen its position in the HDTV market. The£244m deal will enable Harris to cash in on growing demand from broadcasters for HD kit upgrades. Leitch is a leading provider of video systems for the ...
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Small business to get channel
Former BBC executive producer Martin Everard is launching a new channel aimed at small to medium businesses and entrepreneurs.