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124 HIRES BOOBYER TO SUPPORT SENIOR EDITING TEAM
124 Facilities has appointed former London Post editor Paul Boobyer.Facilities director Catherine Houston said Boobyer had been hired in response to increasing demands from outside clients. Last year 124 said around
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VISIONS ANNOUNCES DEADLINE FOR 1999 DESIGN AWARDS
Visions, the BBC-backed initiative attempting to provide the next generation of professional film and television designers, has announced a deadline of 20 April for its 1999 Design Awards. Categories for the
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Avid may cut price of Symphony
Avid Technology is understood to be considering dropping the price of its uncompressed non-linear editor Symphony at NAB in an attempt to boost sales.It is believed that the price-cut will bring
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Sony BPE slashes Euro and UK jobs
Sony Broadcast & Professional (BPE) is cutting its European and UK workforce by around 8 per cent in a bid to cut costs.Forty-four jobs will go at its European headquarters in
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West-1 mulls Soho move
Soho facility West-1 Television is planning to move its sister audio company, West-1 West, into Soho. The move, which is expected to be finalised in the next few weeks, could see
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Spirit heads Nats' upmarket push
Soho Square facility Nats is making a bid to move upmarket by acquiring a Philips Spirit high-end telecine and Softimage 3D system.Nats managing director Charlie Leonard said that the purchases would
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Resources wins Navy film deal
BBC Resources Ltd has won a£2 million contract to make a feature-style film for the Royal Navy. It is understood to be the company's largest corporate contract since it was
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Pearson TV shoots soap for ProSieben
Pearson Television's German production subsidiary is making an ambitious daily soap, shot on location in Majorca, for German commercial broadcaster ProSieben.Mallorca, a 30-minute show due to launch on ProSieben in a
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Gori eyes up Stream deal
Telecom Italia, the owner of Italian digital platform Stream, has played down press reports that media mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is to take a stake in the pay-TV platform.Cecchi Gori told
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Bravo and BBC to make Soundtrack
The BBC Sales Company, the BBC Worldwide/Discovery Communications US distribution joint-venture, has brokered a co-production deal between BBC features and US cable arts channel Bravo for a major new music series, writes Jason Deans.
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Minotaur unveils Mip-TV line-up
All Saints, a hospital drama from the Seven Network in Australia, will be among the Minotaur International shows making their Mip-TV debut, writes Jason Deans.
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Itel on the attack at Mip with Dinosaur
UK distributor Itel will be taking more than 150 hours of new factual programming to Mip-Doc and Mip-TV next month.Itel's Mip line-up will include United Productions' Dinosaur Attack, a 60-minute special
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BBC WORLDWIDE MAKES£2.5 MILLION IN BRIGHTON SALES
BBC Worldwide concluded£2.5 million in new sales business at its annual BBC Showcase event in Brighton last month, with further deals expected to follow. Australian state broadcaster ABC bought a
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NBD LANDS RIGHTS TO PARTY IN THE PARK '99
UK indie distributor NBD Television has picked up the international TV rights to The Prince's Trust's Party in the Park '99. NBD, which also distributed the 1998 event, has already pre-sold
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REGENCY, TF1 AND FILMFOUR STRIKE FILM FINANCE DEAL
FilmFour, TF1 and Regency Enterprises have struck a joint-venture deal to finance a minimum of three feature films a year. Based at FilmFour's London offices, the partnership will focus on low
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SUMMIT TV TAKES NEWS FROM FT AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
London-based Associated Press Television News (APTN) and the Financial Times are supplying international input for South Africa's first business news television channel, Summit TV. The service is to be supplied by
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FOXTEL IMPROVES OZ ACCESS WITH SATELLITE PLATFORM
Australian pay-TV cable channel provider Foxtel has launched a satellite platform that will give it potential access to an extra two million Australian TV homes. The move follows a deal with
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TALENT AIMS TO SCORE WITH SCRABBLE GAMESHOW
UK indie Talent Television will be taking a new TV gameshow format based on the Spears boardgame Scrabble to Mip-TV next month. A pilot for the 30-minute show, presented by Mary
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BBC TRIUMPHS AT MONTE CARLO TV FESTIVAL
The BBC picked up five awards at the 39th Monte Carlo Television Festival last month. Tony Doyle won a Silver Nymph for best actor in a mini-series, for BBC Northern Ireland's
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TRADE TALK - Doing the biz
By concentrating on feuds and crises Robert Thirkell has made business programmes sexy - and he's won awards too, reports David Wood.