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NewsTelegenic builds hi-def scanner for OB
OB company Telegenic has ploughed£5m into building a new HD scanner to service its increasing portfolio of sports contracts.
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TSI Transmission calls in the administrators
TSI Transmission - the playout arm of troubled facility TSI - has gone into administration after failing to attract a buyer.
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Video Europe kit
Broadcast rental company Video Europe has splashed out around£1m on Avid kit and broadcast HD equipment. It includes three Avid Unity Lanshares, two Symphony Nitris and 20 Adrenaline HD Systems. Video Europe has also started to build a HD flyaway system for contracts such as the 2006 Asian Games and ...
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Arqiva airs Bubble
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract to provide direct-to-home (DTH) services for the UK's first ad-free music TV channel, Bubble Hits. The deal with Creative Sounds UK is worth over£1m across a five-year period. Arqiva is providing co-location and uplinking facilities for Bubble Hits from one of its UK ...
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Platform Post grows
Platform Post is expanding its facilities to occupy all four floors of its D'Arblay Street site. Around£400,000 has been invested in upgrading its three Avid Symphony suites, and installing a fourth, which will be fully integrated with a shared media storage system. The investment also covers a 5.1 audio suite ...
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DGP invests in HD
DVD and post facility DGP has spent around£100,000 on a DS Nitris version 8. The system has a dual boot option for Symphony Nitris, dual-link RGB 444 and 5Tb of raid-protected storage. It will be used for managing all HD formats and to help clients work across platforms on both ...
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FD leaves VTR
VTR's finance director, Peter Samengo-Turner, has left the company to work in the financial sector after 11 years at the company. He has been replaced by Prime Focus' vice-president, strategy and business development, Anshul Doshi, who joined VTR's board of directors last month.
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Tapeless at Flextech
Flextech has completed the switch of its linear channels to tapeless playout two weeks before the planned date of 18 July, with the move of Living TV to Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. FTN, Bravo, Challenge, Living TV2, Trouble and associated timeshift channels are now being played ...
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Evolutions posts Sunday Service
Evolutions is working on the online and audio post for Radar Productions' Christian O'Connell's Sunday Service, a new 10 x 60-minute entertainment programme. The show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, is similar to O'Connell's radio show, with one-off features, regular items and ...
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Jump shows impact of sport
Jump has created the titles and graphics for BBC's Sport Relief 2006. The graphics were inserted in real environments with contact information on billboards and roadwork signs lighting up to show how the surrounding environment affects the way people live. Commissioned by BBC executive producer ...
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Edinburgh puts technology centre stage
The Edinburgh Television Festival's advisory chair, Alison Sharman, has put the changes being wrought by technology at the heart of this year's event.
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Download team films Love Island footage
ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...
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NewsFountain TV Studios up for sale
Media company Medal Entertainment & Media (MEM) has put Fountain Television Studios up for sale.
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NewsNTL completes acquisition of Virgin Mobile
NTL has completed its acquisition of Virgin Mobile prompting Sir Richard Branson to announce, 'You ain't, as the saying goes, seen nothing yet-'
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Beastly Behaviour on mobile phones
Honeycomb Animation's cult animated series Beastly Behaviour is set to launch on The Comedy Channel on Vodafone Live in the UK, following a deal with mobile content specialists Mobile Streams.
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NewsAardman strikes mobile deal in Singapore
Singapore-based mobile operator M1 is to launch a video channel featuring clips from some of Aardman Animations most popular series, in a deal that was completed by mobile content publisher Starcut.
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ITV tests HD
ITV has installed a trial HD playout facility at its Southern Transmission Centre. The facility, installed by system integration specialist Broadcast Network, was built to coincide with ITV's HD coverage of the World Cup in Germany. The contract included designing, building and commissioning a new HD playout channel to be ...
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Arqiva uplinks
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract with interactive TV specialist Cellcast to provide the uplinking facilities for interactive channel Majestic TV. Arqiva also uplinks four other channels managed by Cellcast via the Eurobird satellite onto the BSkyB platform, including Get Lucky TV, You TV, You TV3, and Game Network.