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Playout players plan next push
The playout and transmission market is on the brink of massive change, so how are providers and broadcasters geared up for a future of content-to-mobile and HDTV? A Broadcast survey took their pulse. By Chris Forrester.
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NewsRoobarb & Custard go mobile
Roobarb & Custard, the 1970s children's cartoon series recently relaunched on Five's Milkshake strand, is set to leap into the world of new media with its own mobile phone content deal.
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NewsBBC2 via broadband on the cards
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has unveiled plans to launch a broadband version of the channel, which would make it the first terrestrial channel to do so.
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NewsITV and 3 hook up for mobile deal
ITV and mobile operator 3 have signed a one year content partnership agreement covering shows including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
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NewsEndemol exec calls for advertson TV over mobile
Endemol UK's director of digital media Peter Cowley has called for the introduction of an advertising model for TV over mobile.
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NewsLittle Britain duo completes hat-trick of craft wins
Costume designer Annie Hardinge and make-up artist Lisa Cavalli-Green won their third consecutive RTS Craft and Design Awards last night.
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NewsSaddam Hussein trial available on TV over broadband
Court TV Extra, the US online subscription service that streams live TV over broadband from courtrooms, is to air the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Baghdad.
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NewsEarly adopters uninspired by mobile TV
8am: There is dampened enthusiasm for mobile TV in the UK, suggesting even technology savvy consumers have little interest in watching live content on their phones, according to new research.
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NewsBT poaches C4I sales chief
10.45am: BT has poached C4 International's sales manager, Alison Sainsbury-Stack, as head of programme acquisitions of its Television Services business.
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NewsPVR owners watch ads, says US research
8am: Fears that Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) will have a fatal effect on the advertising market may prove ungrounded, according to new research from the US.
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NewsLittle Britain goes mobile
Little Britain is going mobile with full-length episodes of the hit BBC comedy being made available on phones.
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Jump goes movie mad for ITV1
Jump has designed and produced the titles and programme graphics for Movie Music Mania from ITV Productions for ITV1, which features popular performers singing songs from hit films. Ordered by ITV's Lee Connolly, the titles show film strips containing images from various films, intertwining with models of the films' logos. ...
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Red Bee to buy subtitling company for£3.2m
Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast) is set to acquire subtitling outfit Australian Caption Centre (ACC) for£3.2m.
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BDH titles history series for C4
Rob Hifle of BDH has designed and directed the title sequence for Wall to Wall Television's new series, Not Forgotten. Ian Hislop presents the 4 x 60-minute series for Channel 4 uncovering the stories behind Britain's war memorials. The title sequence, shot on DigiBeta, centres on a single statue in ...
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Red Bee campaign
Little Britain is invading the airwaves on Thursday (17 November) when the show's narrator, Tom Baker, will be BBC1 guest continuity announcer. Red Bee Media created the campaign to promote the channel's Thursday night line-up, as well as the continuity announcements and 16 teasers for Little Britain, which will run ...
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DNE unveils new playout centre
Discovery Networks Europe unveiled its new playout centre in Chiswick this week, touted as one of the biggest in Europe.
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Crow TV to merge sites
Post-production house Crow TV is to close down its Chiswick site and merge its suites into its Shepherd's Bush facility in January.
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Facilities survey
Broadcast is asking facilities to take part in its 2006 post-production survey, highlighting the changing face of the industry, the most successful companies within it and what concerns the sector has. The results will be published in a pullout section in January 2006. The questionnaire can be downloaded from www.broadcastnow.co.uk ...
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Queen's Sister job is Farmed out
The Farm Group has completed the post on Touchpaper Productions' drama The Queen's Sister for Channel 4. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones and produced by Kath Mattock, the two-hour drama explores the late Princess Margaret's tempestuous relationships with the men in her life. The Farm's graphic designer Barney Jordan composited ...
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Foundation first
The Foundation has finished filming its children's programme Finders Keepers at the Maidstone Studios. The show, presented by Jeff Brazier, was the first to be shot in Maidstone's new 12,000ft studio, which was completed in October. The programme, for ITV1, first aired in the early 1990s, when it was originally ...