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ALIAS WAVEFRONT ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT RESHUFFLE
Alias Wavefront has announced four key senior management changes. Doug Walker (right), previously vice-president of worldwide field operations and marketing, has been appointed president of the software company. Former president Warren
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NewsSimmons leaves Chrysalis for rival GCap
Chrysalis Radio group head of programmes Pete Simmons is to leave the company and join GCap Media as group programme director for content and digital.
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RAINBOW USES MPEG-4 TECHNOLOGY FOR DISCOVERY EDITS
Rainbow Post Production is using MPEG-4 technology to send rough and final cuts of programmes direct to the Discovery Channel in the US. The executive producers in Washington DC are able
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LONDON EFFECTS AND ANIMATION AWARDS AWAITS ENTRIES
The London Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF) is now accepting entries for its seventh annual computer-generated animation and special effects competition. The deadline for entries is 15 September and entry forms
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ITFC DONATES OLD EQUIPMENT TO BOOST KOSOVO TV SERVICES
The Independent Television Facilities Centre (ITFC) has donated redundant broadcasting equipment to help restore television services in Kosovo. Through a chance meeting, ITFC manager of technical quality David Willis learned that
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NewsPEER POLL: Who's the best?
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Who is the best anti-hero on TV - Frank Gallagher or DCI Gene Hunt?
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Trade Talk - Money spinner
Dull, sharp, clean, dirty - contradictory descriptions but no one denies David Chance will drive Granada Media forward.
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News Analysis - Netting mister average
From September On Digital will offer internet access via television sets. But it may have made a mistake in thinking subscribers will be happy with a reduced internet service.
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Opinion - United loser in ITV summer sale
Summer is officially on hold in the TV industry - and this has nothing to do with the unseasonal weather. With ITV consolidation continuing apace - albeit in a direction that
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NewsGlastonbury rights sold to NBD Television
NBD Television, the distribution arm of DCD Media, has acquired the rights to distribute television highlights of this year's Glastonbury Festival.
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Debate - Back to the drawing board
With the TV industry undergoing a period of 'unparalleled revolution', seven seasoned players discuss whether programme-making is still a creative art. Forum chaired by Broadcast editor Lucy Rouse and features editor Katy Elliott
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Interview - A leap in the dark
Sports trivia nut and creative director Jason George has gone from living off his pub quiz machine winnings to selling half his interactive media production company Victoria Real to GMG Endemol for 'an eight-figure sum'
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OFF THE RECORD - Out of the loop
The frisky, meadow-frolicking joys of summer freedom last week bounced back at folk trying to email BBC music entertainment czar Trevor Dann, who was made redundant last week. His out of
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OFF THE RECORD - Gender benders
Never accuse TV execs of expecting programme participants to do things they would never do (well, apart from Big Brother and a few hundred other programmes). A handful of people will
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NewsStephen Merchant to headline Comedy Forum
The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant will provide the keynote speech at Broadcast's TV Comedy Forum later this month.
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - my arse
Marvel at the resemblance between these two hairy-faced telly stunnas, ITV-to-BBC kids programming chief Nigel Pickard (pictured here in No 73) and The Royle Family dad Jim Royle, played by Ricky
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Granada poised to announce£1.75 billion United News & Media deal
Media group acquires Anglia, HTV and Meridian franchises to become clear-cut ITV leader
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NewsBBC3 to screen six comedy pilots
BBC3 has commissioned six new comedy pilots including a sketch show presented from a gay perspective and a sitcom about teenage life written by an 18-year-old.
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Dyke shuffles BBC interactive
Telewest's Ashley Highfield to run BBC New Media as BBC Online director Nigel Chapman crosses to BBC World Service