All articles by Nicola Brittain – Page 7
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Unprofitable divisions lead to TV Set rejig
The Television Set Group is being restructured because the offline editing and standard definition telecine areas of its business are unprofitable.
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NewsAscent and Fuji offer low cost 35mm film
Ascent Media and Fujifilm are planning to sell reels of two perforation 35mm film to directors of photography for around the same price as Super 16mm stock.
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FeaturesContent Focus: Castrol performance index
The official sponsor of Euro 2008 has developed a website tracking player and team performance.
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NewsBBC sells costumes to Angels
BBC Resources has sold its costume collection to Angels The Costumiers for an undisclosed amount.
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NewsBBC Outside Broadcasts staff agree SIS terms
Bectu members working for BBC Outside Broadcasts have voted to accept a deal on the transfer of their employment to a subsidiary of Satellite Information Services (SIS).
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FeaturesCameras and kit: the DoPs' verdict
We asked four of television's leading camera professionals to reveal what they like and dislike about the technology they use in each of their fields - and their hopes and fears for HD.
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O21 wins big at the races
OB company 021 Television has won a three-year contract to provide coverage of the British Touring Car Championship contract.
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OB big gun retools to go into the Red
The two founders of Fleetwood Mobiles have teamed up to re-launch OB company Mobile One as a new company, Red TX.
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NewsWelsh companies merge to form Rondo Media
Welsh production companies, Nant and and Opus TF, are join forces to form a new company Rondo Media.
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NewsAvid cuts price of Media Composer
Avid Technology is slashing the price of its Media Composer editing software by more than half and merging it with Xpress Pro as part of a drive to re-energise the manufacturer's brand.
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NewsBBC says it could still retain post division
Following the appointment last week of a preferred bidder for BBC Outside Broadcasts and the retention of its studio business, the corporation has admitted the post division of BBC Resources may also be kept.
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BBC publishes list of preferred VFX suppliers
BBC Procurement has published a list of 51 preferred visual effects services suppliers following an eight-month procurement process that one insider described as “arduous”.
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NewsAOL to splash£418m on Bebo
Web media and marketing company AOL is to acquire social media networking site Bebo for£418m.
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FeaturesContent Focus: BBC Green
This BBC website aims to clear up confusion about what it means to be green.
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Arqiva and NGW merger approved
The merger between broadcast services supplier Arqiva and network supplier National Grid Wireless, which was announced last April then put on hold by the competition commission in August, has been conditionally approved by the Competition Commission.
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FeaturesContent Focus: Omnisport.tv
A new multiplatform sports service condenses a huge amount of programming into daily bulletins for the global market.
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NewsDigital Vision offers 4k SAN grading
The latest version of Digital Vision's Film Master will allow colourists to grade in real time at resolutions of up to 4k directly from an open storage area network (SAN).
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Broadcasters urged to speed up tapeless move
Broadcasters came under fire at Broadcast's Mastering Digital Workflows conference last week with Paul Stevenson of ITV News arguing that they are wasting their time worrying about technology standards.
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Exposure adds to offline offering
Exposure Post Production has opened four new offline suites at its Newman Street facility.
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NewsFour join Top Gear post house Evolutions
Evolutions has appointed four new members of staff and won a competitive tender to continue post-producing Top Gear for the BBC.