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NewsBT selects Phillips to make IPTV boxes
11.45am: BT has said it will use electronics company Philips to supply its TV over broadband set top box.
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NewsBBC join with DJs Coldcut to launch contest
8am: A website offering clips from the BBC archive has attracted a quarter of a million visitors since launching last month, and now hip-hop duo DJs Coldcut have created a music video from the footage.
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Endemol to launch mobile channels
Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette unveiled plans for two mobile phone 'channels' and a new UK production division dedicated to mobile content as he addressed delegates at Mipcom's Mobile Day last week.
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NewsDesperate Housewives picks up Mobile TV Award
10.30am:Desperate Housewives weekly mobile recaps made by Buena Vista International scooped the Orange grand prize for best innovation in mobile content at the inaugural Mobile TV Awards.
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NewsPost house of the year
Broadcast is searching to find the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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Extreme alliance
Extreme Video has collaborated with unmanned blimp specialist 2PiR to develop 'tele-eye', the world's smallest and lightest remote-controlled HD aerial TV camera system. It was used for the first time this month for Sky TV's coverage of the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham's NEC.
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BBC factual to phase out DigiBeta cameras
The BBC's plan to cut production costs has gone a step further, with its factual and learning department's proposal to phase out the use of DigiBeta cameras for the department's programmes.
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BBC World on net
BBC World is the latest channel to be made available on IPTV network GreenGrass as part of its beta trial. It will join ITN and motor-sport channel Revs TV in the trial ahead of GreenGrass' full consumer launch in January. The channel will go live and be announced to consumers ...
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Directors Cut posts pop doc
Directors Cut Films has completed the post-production for BBC music entertainment's Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop, a 4 x 60-minute documentary series about British pop music from the 1960s onwards and how it affected attitudes to sex and sexuality. DCF's Andy Willsmore, Guy Crossman and Claire Guillon did ...
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Experts raise doubts over move to tapeless
'Less tape' is more likely than 'tapeless' for programme delivery in the near future was the message that emerged from last Thursday's Broadcast Tapeless Production conference at Carlton Towers Hotel in London, writes Richard Dean.
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Somethin' Else in Motorola podcast tie-up
Indie Somethin' Else has signed a deal with mobile phone operator Motorola to make a series of podcasts for its new iTunes phone.
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Nats grades Five Hannibal job
Nats Post Production has performed the grading for Hannibal of the Alps, a two-hour HD special from Atlantic Productions charting the life of the legendary commander. The programme draws on the latest evidence in archaeology, science and military history to tell his story. Nats colourist Nick Adams graded the documentary ...
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Glassworks hire
Glassworks has recruited VTR post-producer Anthea Mousley to join its production department. Mousley, who worked on the latest Rimmel and Dairylea campaigns during her 18 months at VTR, will join producers Tim Phillips, Jonathan Davies and Romilly Endacott. Her addition to the team is part of an expansion at the ...
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Whitfield St kit sale
Whitfield Street Studios' recording and post-production equipment will go under the hammer in a webcast auction on 15 November, following its closure last month (Broadcast, 26.9.05). Auctioneers firm Edward Symmons is hoping to shift equipment including an SSL 9000J series 72-channel mixing console and a comprehensive range of outboard equipment. ...
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Technicolor move
Technicolor Creative Services is injecting£500,000 into the expansion of its DVD facility in west London. The facility has opened up 32 new positions within its DVD and UMD compression and authoring arm, boosting the number of staff to more than 70. The expansion includes three Sony UMD authoring stations and ...
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VooDooDog talks popcorn for Sky
Sky Creative Agency and animators VooDooDog have created a series of trailers for the Sky Movies channels, featuring talking popcorn. Viewers were recorded talking about their favourite films and the voices were then edited to three 30-second spots and adapted to the popcorn, which VooDooDog's Charlie Lovett animated on Maya ...
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Promax shortlist
Promax has announced the nominations for this year's Promax UK Awards. Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has been nominated in five categories, including best launch and best television campaign. BBC Broadcast, Five, ITV and BSkyB are also among the nominations alongside independent design agencies Angelfish, Devilfish and Skin. The ...
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Why Rome wasn't built in a day
The BBC and HBO's attempt to create a lavish costume drama with Rome nearly came to grief as production was halted after three episodes had been shot - so began an epic campaign to save it. Andy Stout reports.
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NewsC4 launch 'living war memorial' online
3.30pm: Channel 4 has partnered with the Imperial War Museum to launch online, Lost Generation, a 21st Century war memorial.
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NewsEndemol launches mobile TV channels
Endemol is to make further inroads into the mobile market, launching two new channels and a separate UK division to oversee the burgeoning area.