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Racing camera
BBC Outside Broadcast's special camera team has developed a new camera set-up for horse-racing. The system, dubbed the 'starting stalls camera', is mounted on the moving part of the starting gate. The cameras are set to be used on BBC2's coverage of racing from Goodwood this Wednesday and Thursday (18 ...
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Mobile freeview
French technology group Thomson is due to launch a handheld TV that will allow people to watch Freeview digital channels on the move. The handset is expected to be on display at the German technology show Internationale Funkaustellung in September and will be available in UK stores in time for ...
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Blue in A Company of Soldiers
Blue has completed post-production on BBC4 Storyville documentary A Company of Soldiers. The 90-minute piece, produced by October Films, follows a US army division around Baghdad for a month. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton's biggest challenge was dealing with footage from when the production team came under ...
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Suite posts Secrets of Sistine
Suite has post-produced Secrets of the Sistine Chapelfor ZCZ Films and Channel 4. Presenter and director Waldemar Januszczak reveals the hidden meaning behind one of the most famous pieces of art in the world, taking him from the Vatican to Texas to Jerusalem. Colourist Jim Hogan ...
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Woof and Hothouse brand BB
Branding agency Woof and special effects company Hothouse FX have teamed up to produce the promos for this summer's Big Brother. One thousand Big Brotherfans were invited to a secret east London location to grab their part of£100,000 of prizes after winning ...
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NewsViewers continue to divorce ITV1's island celebs
ITV1's Celebrity Love Islandcontinued its downward spiral with the third episode only attracting 3.4 million (17.1%), a fall of 600,000.
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NewsHunt appointed as BBC Daytime controller
Former Six O'Clock Newseditor Jay Hunt has been appointed as the BBC's new head of daytime.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC strikes
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Will next week's BBC strikes see the unions achieve their demands?
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NewsTV Wrap delivers petition to No 10
The pressure group TV Wrap will take a petition to Downing Street today (Friday 20 May 2005) in its continued effort to improve working conditions for freelancers.
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NewsMentorn chief quits
Mentorn managing director Charles Thompson has quit after three years in the post with no new job lined up.
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NewsHolmes joins Sky News
Former GMTV anchorman Eamonn Holmes is joining Sky News to host its breakfast show Sunrise.
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NewsLove Island goes mobile
Footage of ITV's ratings disaster Celebrity Love Islandis to be offered to mobile phone users next week, as part of a new TV service from Orange.
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NewsLove Island appeals to 3.9m
Viewers haven't quite deserted ITV1's Celebrity Love Islandjust yet as the reality show picked up an extra 500,000 viewers last night to average 3.9 million (20.2%) at 10pm.
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NewsAnglia axes 50 jobs
ITV axed more regional jobs, with nearly 50 redundancies set to be made at Anglia.
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NewsStrikes chaos hits BBC
Up to 13,000 BBC staff across the country have joined the first in a series of 24-hour strikes today, causing chaos in the corporation's TV and radio schedules.
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NewsGrant Mitchell back in Albert Square
BBC drama chief John Yorke has made his first significant move to get the flagship soap back on track after persuading Ross Kemp to reprise his role as hardman Grant Mitchell.
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NewsC4 shifts Hamburg Cell to South America
Channel 4 International has sold Mentorn's award-winning drama-doc Hamburg Cell, which explores the lives of the people behind the September 11 bombings, to Latin America.
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NewsC4 under-threat racing up for awards
Channel 4 Racing is in the running for three Royal Television Society sports awards tonight, in the same week channel executives decide whether or not to axe racing coverage because of costs.
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NewsBBC DG to speak at religious conference
BBC director general Mark Thompson is to offer an olive branch to religious groups by making a key speech at a conference on religion and media.
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News12.8m see Arsenal lift FA Cup
BBC1's coverage of the penalty shoot-out in the FA Cup Final gave the channel a peak audience of 12.8 million (67.1%) at 5.30pm, its highest audience for the game since 1996.