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Presteigne builds HD unit
Equipment hire company Presteigne Broadcast Hire is spending around£750,000 on creating a high-definition fly-away unit.
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Fine Point and O21 buy into HD
Outside broadcast company 021 Television and hire company Fine Point Broadcast are committing£2m between them to cover high-definition sports and arts programming.
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Siemens appointees
Siemens Business Services has appointed Kevin Newport head of media and entertainment business development while Craig Dwyer is to lead media and entertainment solutions. Newport, a former BBC executive producer, joins Siemens from Cable and Wireless.
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ProVision in Manc
Granada-owned ProVision, the Leeds-based location equipment hire company, is set to open a Manchester office in early April at ITV Granada, Quay Street. The ProVision Manchester site will be headed by newly appointed operations manager Stuart Grant and supported by equipment co-ordinator James Jones. Grant joins from 3sixtymedia and Jones ...
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Pink MD on UK post
Anita Nandwani, managing director of Bristol's Pink House Post Production, has been voted onto the UK Post board as the second regional representative, joining Barcud Derwen managing director Bryn Roberts. Nandwani won her place by receiving over 30% of the regional members' vote. Nandwani highlighted increasing network commissions outside London ...
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Inman joins input
Mike Inman, the former executive producer for sport at Carlton, is joining production and post company The Input Video Group as executive producer. Inman is the second appointment in as many weeks, following head of business development Richard Markell. Inman brings a wealth of sports experience having been involved with ...
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Promax UK awards
Promax UK is launching its annual student awards aimed at promoting the broadcast promo and marketing industry within colleges and universities. The competition involves challenging students to brand and promote a celebrity showdown format or an idea of their own choosing. The 2005 Promax Student Awards competition is being run ...
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Golden Square gets mobile
Soho's Golden Square Post Production has completed work on sponsorship idents for Formula 1 on ITV and T-Mobile. The idents feature a mobile phone passing itself off as various parts of a Formula 1 racing car, such as the car's wing-mirror or a spinning wheel, but soon reveal that the ...
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Addiction gives us H Side Story
Addiction has just finished a title sequence and content graphics for Blaze Television's H Side Story. The series follows pop group Steps' H as he embarks upon a musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. The sequence illustrates H's journey from pop megastar to ...
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Blue executes Murder in Rome
Post facility Blue has completed full post on Murder in Rome, the first episode of the new series of Timewatch. The re-enactment is based around a trial taking place in an amphitheatre in Rome in 81BC. Audio post was undertaken by Blue ...
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FX lands Fat Actress for UK
Multichannel broadcaster FX has acquired exclusive UK rights to Cheersstar Kirstie Alley's much-hyped new comedy reality show, Fat Actress.
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Lion follows Dickens' trip
Lion TV Scotland is to produce a major new documentary for the BBC chronicling Charles Dickens' travels around the US.
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C4 suffers Friday night slump
Channel 4 suffered its second worst peaktime performance on a Friday since 1992 as comedy Nathan Barleydrew an average of just 700,000 (3.3%) at 10pm.
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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...
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VFG hire in administration
VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...
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Fox quits capital after 17 years
Capital Radio drivetime DJ Neil Fox has quit after 17 years and will be replaced by former Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon. Bacon, who has DJ experience on Capital-owned Xfm, BBC Radio Five Live and digital station BBC7, will take over the slot this spring. The move ...
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Thomson to make HDTV boxes for BSKYB
Thomson is to be the first manufacturer of the set-top box for BSkyB's High-Definition Television (HDTV) service, set to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin on Wednesday (2 March), Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein also announced that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar ...
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News5.5m tuck-in to Jamie's School Dinners
Channel 4's series Jamie's School Dinnerswent from strength to strength last night with the second episode hitting a peak of 5.5 million (24%) at the end.
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NewsSpooks captures interactive Bafta
Spooks Interactivelast night won the top iTV accolade at the Bafta Interactive Awards. The red button offering picked up Bafta's Interactive TV award and was among three trophies that the BBC grabbed at the Café Royal, London.