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Turner awards major facility contract
Snell & Wilcox has won a multimillion pound deal to equip the world's largest broadcast centre at Turner Entertainment Group's new Atlanta headquarters , writes Barbara MarshallThe 193,000 square foot facility, due
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World Wide covers satellite launch
The launch of Envisat - Europe's largest satellite - last Friday (1 March) was the climax of a year's work by indie World Wide Pictures for the European Space Agency (ESA)
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Blue hires three
Blue has made three appointments this month. Andy Brown joins from Soho 601 to head the Flame department, Lucy Cotter has left Rushes to take a senior bookings role and Tracey
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Discreet staff moves
Jeremy Lutterloch has been promoted to Discreet UK regional manager, replacing Patrick Jocelyn who became director of Europe, Middle East and Africa last month (Broadcast, 8.2.02).
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4mc in£2.5m hd push
4MC has just taken delivery of the Sony HD Cam and Panasonic HD D5 VTRs as part of a£2.5m investment in high- definition equipment across the Liberty Livewire group.In
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McMillan expands
Broadcast equipment supplier McMillan is expanding its London operation with a move to a new Soho site. As part of the move, the firm is recruiting four extra staff and has
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MCR directorships
The Machine Room has made four of its senior managers directors. David Clarke, Wendy Field, Simon Brigg and Darryl Huxley have been with the company for between two and five years
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Farm ups non-linear
The Farm group is doubling the size of non-linear facility The Shed with the addition of six rooms.Due to open at the beginning of April, the new rooms will include
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Titschmarsh loses viewers
BBC 2's How to be a Gardener drops 800,000 but still gives BBC 1's lottery a run for its money
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Pop Idol company finds role for Eyre
Former Pearson TV chief executive joins Pop Idol creator in non-executive role
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C5's Newman boosts indies with first slate
New controller of entertainment puts faith in independents with commissions for Radar TV, Princess and Monkey Productions
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BBC political head moves to Blakeway
Anne Tyerman joins London office as indie's new programme director
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BBC and C4 'should lose free spectrum'.
The BBC and Channel 4 face having to pay 'tens of millions of pounds' to continue broadcasting, as part of a government drive to improve the efficiency of UK digital and
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ITV Digital should be frozen, says City.
ITV Digital should stop marketing to new subscribers and shareholders Carlton and Granada should freeze the troubled business, senior City sources said this week, writes Simon Ellery.
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Single plays at risk, warns drama head.
The current trend for long running populist dramas and soap operas is in danger of killing off one-off specialist films, according the head of BBC Northern Ireland drama, Robert Cooper, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Savage brings BBC 3 gravitas.
The BBC is backing up its commitment to produce more serious-minded programmes for BBC Choice by appointing a new head of current affairs for the digital youth channel, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C5's Newman boosts indies with first slate.
Channel 5 controller of entertainment Andrew Newman is championing new indies with his first raft of commissions for the broadcaster since his arrival last year, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BOB BOOST FIXES HIT.
Hit Entertainment has seen half-year profits jump fourfold following the global roll-out of Bob the Builder and Barney the Dinosaur, writes Simon Ellery.
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Thompson: C4 new broom.
New Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has kicked off a review of editorial output but has promised executives there will be no sweeping changes for at least two months.Thompson, who
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Ex-media sec Smith heats BBC Ofcom row.
BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies' move to reform the BBC board of governors was this week roundly criticised by MPs, commercial broadcasters and consumer bodies who reiterated calls for the corporation to face the same regulation as other broadcasters, writes Da