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NewsJamie's School Dinners grabs five Promax nominations
Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has clinched five nominations for the Promax UK Awards to be held on 5 November, including Best Launch and Best Television Campaign.
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NewsFirst Big Brother birth live
4pm: The first Big Brother birth in the world took place in Holland at 11.16am this morning, streamed live on the internet.
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NewsTV Corp's Hawk-Eye gets official approval
3.45pm: Indie TV Corp's ball-tracking system Hawk-Eye has been cleared by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for use as an official umpiring aid.
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NewsProducers slam BBC's desktop editing drive
The BBC's drive to bring in desktop editing for its factual department came under fresh criticism today, as producers slammed it as an unwise way to shrink production budgets.
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NewsSky plots move into broadband
11.45am: BSkyB is said to be planning a£1bn move into the broadband telephony market with one of its possible acquisition targets being IPTV service Homechoice.
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...
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Blue completes Biggest Loser
Blue has completed the online editing, grading and audio work on the promos for Flextech's The Biggest Loser UK, a reality show in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. Blue's Andy Sawyer, Davide Pascolo and Steve Miller used Combustion to matt footage of the contestants floating in water. Blue's ...
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Diverse buys Edifis
Factual indie Diverse's in-house facility has purchased an Edifis Finaliser which will be used to colour correct and create HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables from a single HD or SD edit master. The£150,000 purchase was prompted by the decision to establish a dedicated grading facility at the indie. Diverse will ...
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Crown rebranded
Crown Castle UK, the main provider for broadcast transmission infrastructure, has been rebranded as National Grid Wireless, after its merger with National Grid-owned Gridcom earlier this year. It delivers the BBC signal, providing analogue transmission across the UK.
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Two Way in Flextech deal
Two Way TV has signed a deal with Flextech Television to provide interactive red button services for Challenge TV and Bravo.
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Rendermedia engineers jet
Rendermedia, the 3D animation studio, has completed its animation of the Whittle jet engine prototype for Quanta Films' Whittle - The Jet Pioneer, a documentary about the development of the jet engine in the 1930s. Rendermedia's animator Mark Miles and creative director Steve Green created the model, particle and air-flow ...
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Roll To Record goes up for sale
Reality TV specialist Roll To Record has become the latest OB outfit to put itself on the market with its management team citing personal reasons rather than financial difficulties as reasons for selling up.
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Turquoise hiring
Branding and marketing consultancy Turquoise has recruited Conran Design Group's Nick Coomber as its senior production designer to spearhead its corporate identity production department. The newly created position sees Coomber work alongside Turquoise's creative directors Gareth Mapp and Scott Manning. Recent Turquoise branding campaigns have included work for NTL, BBC ...
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So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless.
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NewsBroadcast Freelancer job site launches
Broadcast will launch a new job-finding website for tele-vision freelancers on Monday (17 October).
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Goswami in new TV over broadband venture
2.15pm: Former BSkyB's commercial director Martin Goswami is launching Aggregator, an IPTV service designed to compliment Freeview.
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NewsUK groups line-up for inauguralMobile TV awards
8am: Interactive specialist Yoomedia and Buena Vista International are two of the UK-based nominees shortlisted in the inaugural Mobile TV Screenings and Awards, being handed out at Mipcom next Wednesday (19 October).