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    BBC hires Blomberg

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has appointed Thomas Blomberg - former managing director of the UK arm of global subtitling group, SDI Media - in a newly created role as its head of language services. The position was created to facilitate BBC Broadcast's expansion in the translation broadcast market; it will now offer ...

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    Brand new look for The Den

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    RTE Two's children's channel The Den has been given a facelift, with a range of idents and logos for use off and on air. Creative agency Dunning Eley Jones designed and produced the new look, which shows doors opening out of the show's title to reveal the programme content. The ...

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    Everest to Charter

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Borehamwood-based hire firm Charter Broadcast has confirmed that Ed Everest, managing director of one of the UK's largest OB firms, 021 Television, is to join the company next month in the same role. Broadcastrevealed in July (7.7.05) that Everest would be leaving Birmingham-based 021 to join ...

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    Mansi to Clear Cut

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Clear Cut Pictures has appointed online editor/colourist Bruno Mansi to head the company's online team. Mansi joins Clear Cut from Hillside Studios where he was senior editor for four years. His recent credits include 90-minute doc The Spy Who Stole my Lifefor Five and C4's ...

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    Tax doubts hit film-making

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Continued uncertainty over tax breaks for the UK film industry could cost the UK economy£1.4bn a year, according to research published this week.

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    MPC wins Emmy

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    MPC has won an Emmy award for its 3D work on Discovery's Virtual History: the Secret Plot to Kill Hitler, produced by Tiger Aspect. MPC creative head of 3D, commercials and TV picked up the award in the category of outstanding individual achievement in craft; graphic ...

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    Morph job for kids health show

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has created animated morph sequences for Honey, We're Killing the Kids, BBC3's new 6 x 60-minute series which aims to transform UK families' unhealthy habits. The morphs, by designers Martin Shannon and Ruth Abrams, show the accelerated effect of an

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    JVC moves UK HQ

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Camera manufacturer JVC Professional Europe is moving its headquarters to new purpose-built premises at Staples Corner, north London next month, bringing its UK-based consumer and professional divisions under one roof. JVC has also launched the tapeless DR-HD100 40GB and 80GB hard disk drive as its latest ProHD recorder, to enable ...

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    Saint titles for Rock School

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    RDF's new show Rock Schoolrolls up next week with a title sequence by design agency Saint. The programme follows Gene Simmons of Kiss teaching kids in an independent school how to rock and roll and form a band. Creative directors Nicky Thompson and Matt Cosserat designed ...

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    Audio SOS: emergency treatment

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...

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    Whitfield St calls in administrators

    2005-09-22T07:49:40Z

    Whitfield Street Studios, one of London's largest recording facilities, has called in the administrators after negotiations with Pinewood Shepperton to buy the central London business collapsed.

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    BBC spends£2m on HD upgrades

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC Post Production has ploughed£2m into HD upgrades of its operations in London, Birmingham and Bristol.

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    3sixtymedia titles Gameshow

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    3sixtymedia Creative produced titles and graphics for ITV1's Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathonfrom Granada/Talkback Thames. Creative director Paul Kearton and designer Sue Bodicoat designed and directed the opening sequence in which Ant and Dec appear in seven old gameshows. Bluescreen footage was shot of the duo ...

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    The Hive animates UKTV idents

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    VTR design house The Hive has created new idents for UKTV Gold's latest season of programmes. The concept is simple - the new programmes arriving are represented by an animated box with UKTV Gold's logo on it falling at high speed through a brightly coloured cloudy sky. Designed by Dunning ...

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    Yoomedia develops Baywatch game

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    Baywatchand Blockbustersare being made into interactive TV games on the YooPlay games portal. Telewest and NTL have approved the games, developed by YooMedia under licence from Fremantle Media. All UK digital cable subscribers can play the new games, which allow players to win prizes, on a ...

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    BBC website revamps to plug key shows

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    The BBC TV channels' website is to be revamped to focus promotion on just a few key programmes.

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    HD cameras at IBC

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    The camera wars heated up at IBC this year with Grass Valley launching its new Infinity camcorder, a low-end HD camera aimed at taking on Sony's HDV market. Sony completed its line-up of HD formats with the launch of the HD version of its tapeless XDCAM, positioned between its HDV ...

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    Terrestrial channels sign up for mobile trial

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    Fourteen of the 16 channels lined up for Arqiva's mobile television broadcast trial, scheduled to begin later this month, have been confirmed, with BBC1 and BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, Channel 4, Five and BBC News 24 all signing up to take part.

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    Sport deal renewed

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    Arqiva has renewed its contract with British Eurosport in a five-year deal worth over£6m. The channel will move from Arqiva's Langley studio to the company's Broadcast Media Centre at Feltham, which will be British Eurosports' production and administration base. Arqiva receives worldwide feeds and provides playout to Sky at Osterley ...

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    Dubbing expands

    2005-09-15T08:30:00Z

    Glasgow-based audio post facility The Dubbing Theatre has moved to the city's The Waterfront Studios and doubled its capacity because of increased bookings. It now offers five studios with Protools, Avid Audiovisions and Digital performer.