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PEARSON BACKS DUNN SCHOLARSHIP WITH£25,000
Pearson Television has kicked off the funding for the Richard Dunn Memorial Scholarship at the National Film & Television School with a£25,000 donation. The school is looking for additional donations
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BENSON ENTERS RING AT MEDIA CIRCUS
Graham Benson, chairman of indie Blue Heaven Productions and Isle of Wight-based restricted service licence (RSL) TV station TV12, has been appointed non-executive chairman of commercial and music video producer Media
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SUNSET + VINE FINDS TAKERS FOR WILDLIFE SERIES
Independent Sunset + Vine (S+V) has sold its Toyota World of Wildlife series to more than 100 broadcasters worldwide including Channel 5 in the UK. The 26 x 30-minute series comprises
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BBC idents set for new year revamp
BBC Television is to refresh its main terrestrial idents in January, introducing four new balloon images for BBC 1 and seven new '2s' for BBC 2.The BBC 1 idents, produced by
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New bill threat to FM licence review
The Government's review of the allocation of FM radio licences enters its next stage in January amid fears that it could be sidelined by the build-up to the next broadcasting bill,
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Channel 4 orders new run of Johnny Vaughan Film Show
Channel 4 head of film programming Nick Jones has commissioned a second series of Johnny Vaughan's Film Show from World's End but is rethinking the show's scheduling, writes Ashley Davies.The 8
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United Productions has been commissioned by ITV
United Productions has been commissioned by ITV controller of documentaries and features Grant Mansfield to make two natural history specials featuring presenter Nigel Marven, writes Jason Deans.The two 60-minute films -
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GILBERT CREATES TITLES FOR C4 MILLENNIUM SERIES
The titles (left) for Channel 4 millennium series On The Line were designed by Grant Gilbert of C4's creative services department utilising some of the footage from the show. The programme
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INSCRIBER DEVELOPS INTERFACE FOR CYBERSET
Inscriber Technology has developed a new interface for Orad Systems virtual studio product Cyberset, which will allow direct placement of 3D text and graphics within the different layers and depths of
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ITN WEBSITE TO COVER MILLENNIUM JOY IN EIGHT CITIES
ITN has launched a new website that will broadcast live pictures and audio over the internet of the millennium celebrations in eight cities around the world. www.itn.co.uk will show live video
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TRIUMPH AND APTN TO OFFER LONDON LIVE NEWS FEEDS
Associated Press Television News (APTN) has teamed up with Triumph Communications to offer a number of pre-cabled stand-up correspondent positions for live news feeds for foreign broadcasters to send back continuous
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EX-SONY MAN HUCKFIELD MOVES TO PANASONIC
Panasonic Broadcast Europe has appointed David Huckfield as general manager, UK broadcast sales, based at Panasonic's European headquarters in Wokingham, Berkshire. Huckfield spent 10 years working at Sony Broadcast, where he
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LLOYD JOINS DISCREET FROM SGI
Discreet has appointed Nick Lloyd to be UK broadcast manager with a remit to develop sales of all Discreet's products to broadcasters and post-production houses in the UK and Ireland. He
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Avid may reprieve Illusion software
The threatened Media Illusion compositing software could be in for a reprieve, as Avid Technology renews negotiations with Blue Software to take over responsibility for the product.Avid confirmed only two weeks
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Sinclair plans more COFDM tests
Sinclair Broadcast Group in the US is to carry out further tests on the COFDM digital TV modulation standard - this time to demonstrate its hierarchical coding capacity. The move marks
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Granada Film Production drama
124 Facilities senior colourist Mike Panchaud created the master grade for Granada Film Production drama Longitude, based on the Dava Sobel novel. For the film, which moves between eighteenth-century seascapes and
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Pace Micro set-top box wins millennium award
Pace Micro Technology has become the first and only set-top box designer to be awarded Millenium Product status for its digital cable set-top box, developed for Cable & Wireless digital cable
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MACTAGGART TAKES UP FILM ROLE AT WORLDWIDE
BBC Worldwide has drafted in Ivan Mactaggart to the new role of films manager, calling the appointment a 'further demonstration of its commitment to develop a feature film business'.Mactaggart joins from
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GRANADAWEST TO FINANCE ARTEMIS WILDLIFE SLATE
GranadaWest, the joint-venture set up in February by Granada Media and Western Australian development agency ScreenWest to fund TV projects, has signed up newly formed factual indie Artemis International. GranadaWest will
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20TH CENTURY FOX HANDLES RELEASE OF SKY'S SAVING GRACE
The UK theatrical release of Sky Pictures' Saving Grace will be handled by Twentieth Century Fox. The film, starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson, is the first Sky film to have