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NewsCharity CD release
Production music library publisher JW Media Music has teamed up with the charity WaterAid for the release of its latest production music CD. The CD, Water Music, features a range of music designed for TV programmes with around 60% of the royalties going to WaterAid, ...
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OB co offers post
OB company Fleetwood Mobiles has launched a new post-production facility at its headquarters in Denham. The studio will offer live sound recording, mixing, mastering, sound to picture dubbing and DVD encoding for its music and broadcast customers.The studio is equipped with a 104-channel Euphonix CS3000 console and has 5.1 surround ...
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Lau to Designlab
DVD and post company Designlab has recruited TMR designer Stan Lau. At TMR, Lau had worked on titles including K-Paxand Nanny McPheefor major studios and independent film distributors such as Fremantle Media, Revolver and Artificial Eye.
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New DVD service
IBF (International Broadcast Facilities) new media division the Garden has launched a new content generation service, Garden Extra. The service aims to provide DVD companies with a cheaper option for generating additional content for their DVD releases by creating and editing content in-house using Final Cut Pro. Garden Extra recently ...
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Prime moves to set up vfx facility
Indian super-facility Prime Focus' restructure of the VTR Group is poised for the next step - merging commercials facility VTR with design arm The Hive and newly acquired graphics outfit Clear into The Hive's 37 Dean Street premises.
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NewsLife on the road in an OB outfit
What are the challenges that OB engineers have faced on the road?
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NewsMaidstone Studios wins Trisha series
Warring audience members will now be housed under a new roof as Five's The Trisha Goddard Show moves from Teddington Studios to Maidstone in a two-year,£1.75m deal.
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Red Bee goes back to the 1960s
Red Bee Media has created the promo for UKTV History's 60s Season - a strand featuring original programming such as The Beatles' Decade, with personalities of the time such as Mary Quant explaining how the world changed during the 1960s.
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Skaramoosh engineers promo
Skaramoosh has completed the logo design and promo for Discovery Channel's Industrial Revelations: Best of British Engineering, a six-part series celebrating our greatest engineering icons including Concorde, the Channel Tunnel, the Routemaster Bus and Tower Bridge.
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Smoke & Mirrors speaks for E4
Smoke & Mirrors has created E4's new Espeak idents, which give viewers the lowdown on festivals such as the V Festival and Joust 2006 in a vox pop style.
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NewsGoogle rolls out UK video service
Google has launched a new online video service allowing consumers to upload their own videos and view content from a selection of television networks and independent producers.
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News87% of kids want mobile TV
Almost 90% of children would like to be able to watch TV on their mobiles, according to research exploring mobile phone use among 10-12 year olds carried out by Quaestor.
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Envy launches 3D graphics arm
London-based facility Envy is to set up a 3D graphics arm to provide graphics for broadcast, commercials and channel branding.
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TSI Transmission calls in the administrators
TSI Transmission - the playout arm of troubled facility TSI - has gone into administration after failing to attract a buyer.
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Arqiva airs Bubble
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract to provide direct-to-home (DTH) services for the UK's first ad-free music TV channel, Bubble Hits. The deal with Creative Sounds UK is worth over£1m across a five-year period. Arqiva is providing co-location and uplinking facilities for Bubble Hits from one of its UK ...
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Metro to expand broadcast arm
Hire, events and post facility Metro Broadcast is looking to spend an estimated£2.5m on a new Soho facility in a bid to expand its broadcast post-production business and reposition itself in the market.
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Telegenic builds hi-def scanner for OB
OB company Telegenic has ploughed£5m into building a new HD scanner to service its increasing portfolio of sports contracts.
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Edinburgh puts technology centre stage
The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.
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DGP invests in HD
DVD and post facility DGP has spent around£100,000 on a DS Nitris version 8. The system has a dual boot option for Symphony Nitris, dual-link RGB 444 and 5Tb of raid-protected storage. It will be used for managing all HD formats and to help clients work across platforms on both ...
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Video Europe kit
Broadcast rental company Video Europe has splashed out around£1m on Avid kit and broadcast HD equipment. It includes three Avid Unity Lanshares, two Symphony Nitris and 20 Adrenaline HD Systems. Video Europe has also started to build a HD flyaway system for contracts such as the 2006 Asian Games and ...