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Recession hits Red Pepper ID
Post facility Red Pepper ID has become the first casualty of what many within the Soho production community are calling 'the beginning of a recession'.A major downturn in fortunes for the
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Passion wins Soho prizes
Passion pictures directors Pete Candleland and Jamie Hewlett snatched the ITK music video award at the third Rushes Soho Shorts Festival for their work on animated virtual band Gorillaz' debut single, Clint Eastwood, writes Jon Rogers.
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5D TO UNVEIL CYBORG
5D will expose its new playback/output system, Cyborg (Commander), to the European market at this year's IBC. Developed in association with leading film facilities in LA and London, Cyborg (Commander) provides
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STATIC GAINS CRUZ
Static Design, the broadcast design wing of visual media company Static 2358, has poached senior broadcast designer Luiza dos Santos Cruz from Deepend. Cruz's new role will focus on bridging the
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TOSHIBA SIGNS UP DGP
DGP has become the only UK facility with access to the Toshiba DVD encoding and authoring system after it reached an agreement to become the sole UK sub-licensee of California Video
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LEADER - The hidden risk of playing safe
As BBC 1 this week launches a fourth weekly episode of EastEnders (as first revealed by Broadcast in January last year), it's time to reflect on the state of the terrestrial
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NewsShameless welcomed back by 3.5m
The fourth series of Channel 4 drama Shamelessstarted strongly at 10pm with 3.5 million (18.5%), the highest audience ever for the show.
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FREE TO AIR - Conspiracy of self-interest
There are certain defining moments in the relationship between state and media, whether it is the Oz trial, Death on the Rock or even the Sex Pistols saying 'shit' - and
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TRADE TALK - Saturday fights
The Saturday Show producer Annette Williams is set to 'custard pie' ITV viewer magnets Ant and Dec with CBBC's new offering.
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ON THE BOX - Neighbours from hell
Jason Thorp, director of programming at Universal Studios Networks, liked Take Me but wished he'd looked away from Crimes on Tape.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Big fish and small fry
Not all independent television production companies are the same size, nor do they have the same ambitions, but how can the rise of the so-called super-indies help bolster the competitive position of their smaller brethren?
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NewsBBC ordered to publish Dyke documents
The BBC has been ordered to publish minutes of the post-Hutton governors meeting at which it was decided to sack director general Greg Dyke.
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INTERVIEW: MARK BYFORD - Spreading the word
As the BBC's World Service achieves new audience heights, plans to consolidate its success by rolling out a greater FM presence and exploiting the opportunities the internet affords are taking shape.
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INTERVIEW - Survival of the fittest
'The policy of an organisation is not the stuff that sexy TV is made of. Our agenda is not to empower people but to get ratings up'.
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INDIE FINANCE - Cottage industry to City slickers
Despite the best efforts of indies to shed their cottage industry roots and raise capital from the City, a report by business advisory group Grant Thornton argues that they are hampered by confused accounting.
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TX - The history of crime
Makers of historical documentaries probably don't expect to find themselves amid a hail of bullets in Brazil or in a helicopter that Texan prison officers are threatening to shoot down, but
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Viewers welcome back Home and Away on C5
It was a red-letter week for Channel 5 as Home and Away returned to British television (Monday 18.00). With an audience of 2.25 million and 14 per cent share it fell
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Off the Record - Avid sales on
Avid Technology, purveyor of fine edit systems and graphics stations, has been on the sales war path again in Cliff Richard-stylee with a bright red double-decker demo bus. Rather than being,
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NewsUnions to ballot over BBC news compulsory job cuts
Unions will ballot BBC news staff over taking strike action after the corporation said it would push ahead with plans for compulsory job cut jobs within the department.
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Off the Record - Wrong place at the right time
As is commonplace following major disasters, TV news programmes covered the Ealing bomb blast last week by showing the ubiquitous 'amateur footage' of the incident. The so-called 'amateur' in question this