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BBC Broadcast wins Flextech playout pitch
BBC Broadcast has secured its biggest ever playout deal, prising Flextech's multimillion play out contract away from Ascent Media.
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Pinewood angles for more TV work
Pinewood Shepperton is to open its doors wider to TV productions in an attempt to see its way out of the current UK downturn in film production, which saw the film and TV studios post losses of£100,000 last week.
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Cost-saving report
A report to be unveiled at IBC later this week by consultancy Accenture shows that modernisation of broadcasters' pre-production, production and post-production processes can result on an average 9% saving in programme budgets, amounting to, on average, annual savings of£49m. According to the research, carried out in consultation with major ...
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Vincent to The Mill
Former VTR colourist Mick Vincent, who jumped ship this summer to join VFX house Clear in an abortive telecine set-up, has resurfaced at commercials house The Mill. Vincent will spearhead the development of a digital intermediate workflow for commercial clients. Last month The Mill installed a new Grass Valley Spirit ...
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Root6 sales
Root6 Technology has sold its ContentAgent asset management workflow tool to more that 50 broadcast, post-production and advertising businesses - most of which were its latest XR version designed to provide an easy upgrade path to HD, 2K film and DI workflow environments. Root6 has also appointed three new resellers ...
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Sumners HD move
Sumners has installed twoVcube HD 2K hard disk VTRs, supplied by Total Audio Solutions, to link its online and da Vinci 2K grading suites. The Manchester post house can now work at resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 uncompressed HD and with more than 30 SD and HD formats.
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Harris buys Leitch
Network broadcast equipment manufacturer Harris is to acquire Leitch, the Toronto-based high-end video kit manufacturer to strengthen its position in the HDTV market. The£244m deal will enable Harris to cash in on growing demand from broadcasters for HD kit upgrades. Leitch is a leading provider of video systems for the ...
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Polecam camera
Miniature lightweight camera system manufacturer Polecam is to launch a submersible camera, Fishface, at IBC, with a new submersible pan and tilt head and camera housing which can be used to a depth of 4m.
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BDH goes to Art School for BBC2
BDH designer Carys Hull, cameraman Mark Chandler and director Steve Bell have produced the titles for Endemol's BBC2 series Art School, in which celebrities such as Keith Allen, John Humphrys and Ulrika Jonsson develop their talents at the Chelsea School of Art & Design. Shot on ...
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Blue posts BBC4's autumn idents
BBC Broadcast has come up with fresh autumn idents for BBC4 - a series of optical illusions. At first, there seems to be only one image on screen but the sequence, shot on film by Clive Tickner, unfolds to reveal four frames acting independently. Created by BBC Broadcast designers Anthony ...
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ArenaP3 posts seaside comedy
ArenaP3 created a traditional seaside postcard look for Tiger Aspect's eight-part fly-on-the-wall comedy Hotel on Sea. Produced and directed by Jonathan Hacker, the show was offlined at Tiger, with ArenaP3 editors JP Davidson and Alex Pickering onlining and grading the series using Avid DS Nitris, saturating the ...
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CanWest sets up camp in Solent
Canadian media giant CanWest said this week it would use its new Solent FM radio licence as a base for further expansion into UK broadcasting.
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New TV talent to get own channel
A channel devoted to new TV and film talent is set to launch next year.
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Homechoice to go national with eight new channels
Homechoice is gearing up for a national rollout next year by adding eight new channels and three on-demand services.
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Talkback lures development exec from Red
Talkback Thames has poached Red Productions head of development Noelle Morris to become its head of drama development.
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Leopard changes
Leopard Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Cash in the Attic, and Missing, has made two senior promotions. Susie Field moves up from head of production and chief operating officer to managing director while head of factual entertainment Bernard Periatambee becomes head ...
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Schoonmaker bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker and Macquarie Bank have entered a second application for a UK local FM radio licence - this time for Ipswich. Last month Schoonmaker and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, entered a bid for the Swansea licence under the name Radio UK Holdings. He ...
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Extreme sells poker
Extreme Entertainment has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with The Poker Channel. Extreme will look to sell both standalone programming and branded blocks of the channel internationally in all territories except the UK. The Poker Channel, which launched in March this year, has produced 150 hours of programming to ...
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Arqiva TX contracts
Arqiva has won four new 12-year FM transmission contracts for stations awarded new licences by Ofcom. Under the new contracts, Arqiva will provide transmission services for two new The Local Radio Company stations, The Bee in Blackburn and Durham FM in Durham. It will also serve Midlands News Association-owned station ...
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Corrie's Wood may cross to Mersey
Coronation Streetproducer Tony Wood is in talks to join Mersey TV as creative director. Wood has already announced that he will leave the soap at the end of the year. Mersey TV, producer of Hollyoaks, is run by Wood's former Coronation Streetboss ...