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    VTR CLAIMS FIRST UK LICENCE FOR QUANTEL PLUG-INS

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    VTR is claiming it is the UK's first facility to be licensed to run the new range of Quantel plug-ins for its three Henry suites.Created by software development company 5D in

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    PROMAX COURSE TO BOOST PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Promax UK has launched a foundation course to provide entrants to the TV and radio promotions and marketing industry with practical training. Sponsored by ITV and supported by facilities company M2

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    TVP ADDS VISION BITPACK TO SONIC SOLUTION SYSTEM

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    TVP Digital Media has acquired a second MPEG-2 encoder to add to its existing Sonic Solutions system. The company says the Digital Vision Bitpack will allow it to begin encoding for

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    PANASONIC EXPANDS INTO DIGITAL TV

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Panasonic is expanding its research and development into digital television by opening a new division of its European digital TV lab and extending its US R&D centre. The company plans to

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    COOMBS JOINS THE FARM AS AUDIO ENGINEER

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The Farm has appointed Chris Coombs as audio engineer.A former Pearson engineer, he was most recently working in Canada. He joins recent new signing, edit assistant Tom Appleby, who arrives from

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    Four Media targets Euro acquisitions

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    US facilities giant Four Media Company looks set to enter the European video and film post-production market for the first time later this year following the sale of a controlling stake

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    24P format gets NAB support

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    More than a dozen of the world's leading manufacturers of editing, effects, storage and network tools are expected to throw their weight behind a new 24-frames-per-second high-definition post-production video format at

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    Cinesite is close to finishing more than 450 effects shots for Animal Farm, the Turner Network Television and Hallmark Entertainment co-production due for release in the autumn. Directed by John Steph

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Cinesite is close to finishing more than 450 effects shots for Animal Farm, the Turner Network Television and Hallmark Entertainment co-production due for release in the autumn. Directed by John Stephenson,

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    Share plunge wipes 30% off Avid value

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Shares in Avid Technology dropped over $7 (£4.34) last week wiping nearly 30 per cent off the company's value.The drop, a second large fall in less than eight months, came as

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    C5 creative services hires Dunlop

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is to reorganise its creative services department, drafting in on-air promotions veteran Bruce Dunlop on an interim basis to replace outgoing controller of creative services Glynn Brailsford, who quit

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    KIRCH PLANS AUTUMN RELAUNCH FOR MERGED SERVICE

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The Kirch Group will relaunch its DF1 and Premiere pay-TV channels under a common brand this autumn after taking majority control of Premiere last week. Markus Tellenbach, managing director of the

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    BBC AMERICA DOUBLES COVERAGE WITH DIRECTV DEAL

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    BBC America has doubled its distribution through a deal with satellite broadcaster DirecTV, taking it to nine million homes in the US. The channel, which launched in December 1997 as part

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    C4 INTERNATIONAL TO SELL RIGHTS TO ROCK STAR FORMAT

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 International is in negotiations with several overseas broadcasters, including a Disney company, about acquiring the format rights to its six-part drama series, The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a

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    EX-PRIMETIME CHIEF LEWORTHY JOINS CASE TV

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Richard Leworthy, former CEO of Primetime, is to join independent Case Television as director. He joins founders Sue Francis and Patricia Williams and will oversee Case's production joint-venture with Canadian producer

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    NEW YOUTH CHANNEL TF2 TO LAUNCH EARLY NEXT YEAR

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    TF1 is to launch a new youth channel, in spite of the decision by Rupert Murdoch to pull out of a joint project, TFX, which had been widely touted earlier this

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    ASSET EXCHANGE STRENGTHENS MURDOCH'S SPORTING GRIP

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Rupert Murdoch has tightened his grip on the world's sports market in an exchange of assets with Liberty Media, which owns 36 per cent of Flextech.The deal sees Liberty Media give

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    NEWS CORP OPENS CHINESE OFFICE IN BEIJING

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    News Corp is expanding its operations in China by opening an office in Beijing to oversee investments in China. The company's Hong Kong-based Star TV already broadcasts to parts of mainland

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    Trio to give Corrie airing on US cable

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media has sold Coronation Street to US cable channel Trio, marking the soap's first appearance there since limited syndication in the 1970s.The deal will see Trio - which specialises in

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    RTE signs Watchdog editor

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Irish public service broadcaster RTE has poached the editor of BBC 1's Watchdog, Helen O'Rahilly, to become its new director of television production, writes Tim Dams.O'Rahilly fills the gap left by

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    SBS/CME merger creates Euro giant

    1999-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Scandinavia's SBS Broadcasting is to merge with Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in a deal worth $615 million (£381 million), forming Europe's largest broadcaster with 18 TV channels and 12 radio