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Globecast goes HD
Satellite service provider GlobeCast is planning to kit out all its satellite newsgathering trucks for high-definition broadcasting. GlobeCast has one of the largest fleets in Europe, with more than 40 newsgathering vehicles, and the largest fleet in France. GlobeCast is a subsidiary of France Telecom.
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News6m go interactive with BBC Olympics
More than six million viewers have so far used the BBC's ground-breaking Olympic interactive service, the corporation has revealed.
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E4 tunes up new idents in-house
E4 Creative Services has created a set of 10 continuity idents for the channel. The idents feature a group of five lounge-lizard musicians clad in E4-purple-coloured retro velvet suits playing muzak in a variety of different locations, including an aircraft hangar and the balcony of a council flat. The original ...
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C4 unlocks racing revenue with Sky deal
Channel 4 has opened up a new revenue stream after asking Sky Bet to provide an interactive gambling service for its horse-racing coverage.
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IBC award to Turner
International media mogul Ted Turner has been awarded the IBC International Honour for Excellence award in recognition of his skill in exploiting the potential of media technology advancements within broadcast delivery. Turner's CNN was the first news channel to become a 24-hour service and was a pioneer of the video-on-demand ...
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Blue finishes Blakeway's Diana
Blue has finished work on Diana for Blakeway Productions. The 90-minute documentary, a follow-up of Blakeway's The Queen's Story of 2002, examines the impact on the royal family of the princess's death and the constant posthumous revelations. Online editor Clive Mattock completed the online, colourist ...
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VTR restructure pushes out Cadle
The VTR Group is undergoing a major restructure in which Dave Cadle has been replaced as Blue's managing director by Danny Whybrow, former managing director of The Machine Room.
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Two Way names CTO
Two Way TV has appointed Simon Teppet as its new chief technology officer. Teppet leaves his position of vice president of technology, interactive services division at Chello Broadband. He was previously head of new media technology at Sky. Two Way TV's previous CTO, Richard Kydd, left to join NTL as ...
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Outpost Digital opens HD site in move to Noho
US Facility house Outpost Digital is opening a purpose-built HD facility in Gresse Street, north of Oxford Street in London, so it can compete in both short-form and long-form markets.
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Farm Group posts Love for Ealin
The Farm Group has completed post on The Great Love Swindle for Ealing Studios. In the six-part series four self-proclaimed expert daters compete to get a woman to say 'I love you'; However, the women are actresses briefed to make their lives hell. The titles ...
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Saunders joins Evolutions
Evolutions Television has taken on Saunders and Gordon founder Robin Saunders as dubbing mixer to staff its new audio suite as it pursues short-form business.
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Molinare hiring
Compositor Stuart Highsted has joined Molinare from M2. Highsted, who has previously worked on rebranding for MTV and Discovery, joins the Fouberts Place facility to drive its new HD Nitris. Managing director Mark Foligno said: 'Stuart's been brought in to bolster our high-end visual effects and CGI team as we ...
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The Mill upgrades
Visual effects company The Mill is centralising its workflow by upgrading its 26 Flame, Smoke, Inferno and Backdraft systems and is purchasing a new Smoke. The new versions give the systems multi-resolution capabilities, which make it easier to deal with projects that have been shot across a range of formats. ...
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Wright picks Skin
Max Wright has turned down the role of creative manager at Discovery Networks to join design agency Skin as copywriter/director. Wright joins from Bruce Dunlop Associates where he was a creative manager for the Hallmark Channel's promo output. He also worked across projects for Simple, Ford and Land Rover. Wright ...
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Aardman takes two awards at Rushes Shorts Festival
Aardman Animation picked up two awards at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival last week.
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Alias to buy Kaydara
3D graphics company Alias is set to buy fellow Canadian company Kaydara, a developer of real-time 3D character animation and motion-editing solutions. Kaydara provides services across film, video game and interactive mediums with products such as Motionbuilder and FBX. FBX allows animators to transfer assets between tools. Alias has pledged ...
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St Anne's posts romantic drama
St Anne's Post has post-produced the new Channel 4 drama NY-LON. The series follows a passionate love affair that spans 3,000 miles from London to New York. Senior online editor Simon Brook used Avid Nitris to create a split-screen environment in which events in separate ...
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MPC fx appointment
The Moving Picture Company has brought Bill McNamara on board as a senior visual effects artist. Recent work includes Basement Jaxx promo Good Luck. McNamara arrived in the UK in 1997 from New Zealand. McNamara worked his way through the ranks at Rushes before freelancing at The Mill.
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BBC Post bears Olympic torch
BBC Broadcast and BBC Post Production have produced the titles for the BBC's Olympic coverage. The sequence follows a torch bearer as he passes through Greece and is confronted by the natural elements rising up in the shape of athletes, which were created by using green-screen technology with Inferno, Shake ...
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Bectu studies skills
Bectu is currently studying the training needs of post-production workers in the capital and looking at whether a learning centre in the area is a viable proposition. The study, which will look at a variety of companies, is being carried out on behalf of the London Central Learning and Skills ...