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Silicon gambles with add-on cards
A technical abberation in Silicon Graphics' new NT workstations has rendered them incompatible with up to two-thirds of currently available add-on video cards necessary to turn them into non-linear video and
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BFC confirms 15% drop in UK film production in 1998
Investment in UK film production during 1998 fell by just under 15 per cent from the previous year, according to the latest figures from The British Film Commission (BFC).British Film Commissioner
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Digidesign upgrades AudioVision
Digidesign, the specialist audio division of Avid that manufactures the ProTools non-linear audio editor, has developed an upgraded version of the AudioVision sound-for-picture workstation, writes Kevin Hilton.
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Resources set for giant OB contract
BBC Resources Ltd looks set to secure one of the largest outside broadcast contracts ever when it helps broadcast Music Live 2000, five days of music in celebration of the new
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Showtime jumps at Granada series
Granada Entertainment USA is turning the camera on its own business as it produces a new 22-hour comedy drama series to air on US cable network Showtime.The show, Beggars and Choosers,
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Mentorn scoops France 2 slot for new format
Mentorn International, an arm of UK independent Mentorn Barraclough Carey, has won a primetime format commission from France months before the show goes out on BBC 1, writes Lucy Rouse.
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BBC Worldwide, UK independent Halo Productions and Montreal animation studio Cinar are finalising a $4 million (£2.4 million) co-production with the BBC's Bristol animation unit for BBC 2. The an
BBC Worldwide, UK independent Halo Productions and Montreal animation studio Cinar are finalising a $4 million (£2.4 million) co-production with the BBC's Bristol animation unit for BBC 2. The animated sitcom,
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DirecTV set to acquire Primestar
US digital satellite TV operator DirecTV is to acquire rival Primestar, reducing the number of players in the satellite market from three to two, writes Claire Atkinson.
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ANXIETIES MOUNT OVER FRENCH PAY-TV FILM RIGHTS
Concern over control of French pay-TV film rights rose to fever pitch this week as French broadcasters battled for control of television and cinema group Pathe. Pay-TV group Canal+ bought up
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THE ALPHABET GAME SPELLS SUCCESS FOR ACTION TIME
Action Time has won a new commission for its gameshow format The Alphabet Game from Italian commercial broadcaster Canale 5. The channel has commissioned an initial 66 episodes, which will be
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3DD SELLS CHIPPENDALES ONE-OFF INTO EUROPE
Distributor 3DD Entertainment has pre-sold a one-off special, The Chippendales - For One Night Only, to a number of European pay-TV broadcasters.The show airs exclusively in the UK on Sky Box
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REGIONS MOVES IN WITH EURONEWS AT LYONS
ITN-owned news channel Euronews is to share its Lyons headquarters with the French documentary channel Regions. The French cable and digital satellite channel, which began broadcasting in May last year and
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BAZALGETTE AND SILVERMAN JOIN MONTE CARLO PANEL
GMG Endemol Entertainment creative director Peter Bazalgette and William Morris head of international packaging Ben Silverman will be on the panel of a new format conference at the Monte Carlo market
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BBC WORLD HITS 135 MILLION HOMES MARK
The BBC's 24-hour international news channel BBC World is now available in 135 million homes around the world, according to latest figures from the broadcaster. The number of homes receiving BBC
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HELKON GAINS ACCESS TO ENDEMOL'S PROGRAMMING
From this month, Endemol International Distribution programming will be exclusively licensed in German-speaking territories by German company Helkon Media. Endemol bought a 51 per cent stake in Helkon last year, and
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THE COMMENT PAGE - The opening of Gates to cable
A 5 per cent stake in the UK's third largest cable operator does not exactly add up to world domination. Yet NTL's rivals in the British cable market must be feeling
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Street-fighter wanted to punch for Auntie - Comment
Perhaps the BBC missed a trick. Two accomplished spin doctors, slightly tarnished but with plenty of mileage left in them, have recently come on the market. The newer, shinier one was
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Unkindest cut
What is the way forward for the World Service in a post-Cold War era of multiple information sources and diminishing Foreign Office funding?
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Charge of the lifestyle brigade
The dark-haired host, who looked strangely familiar, pulled a card from the desk and read a single word to a brooding figure slumped to his right. Just an innocuous couple of
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GENRE AUDIT - Watching the soaps slide
David Wood charts the steady decline in the popularity of soap operas and asks what can be done to return the genre to its position as the broadcasters' guaranteed ratings puller.