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Teletrex FCo deal
Broadcast monitoring services company Teletrex has signed a three-year deal to monitor British Satellite News, the news service for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Teletrax will monitor usage of the service, a daily news feed reporting UK events to broadcasters across the world. Channels monitored include al-Jazeera in the Middle ...
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Goldcrest buys kit
Soho facility Goldcrest has installed Xytech's Express Asset Management software to manage its audio mixing, dry-hire and production office facilities. Goldcrest bought Xytech's Workflow Core and Scheduling Modules at this year's IBC, and the Express software will be the reference and information source for 19 of the facility's 23 staff.
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Frontier brings cheer to Slough
Frontier Post has completed the post on Optomen Television's Making Slough Happy for BBC2. The 4 x 58-minute series follows six specialists as they try and improve the contentment of Slough residents. Niels Bellinger and Francis Buchanan did the offline on Avid with John-Paul Davidson doing the online and grading ...
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Flextech Creative in crime spree
Flextech Creative Services has created the title graphics for Granada Factual's Costa Del Street Crime. The Bravo series captures the mayhem of the Costa Del Sol's package resorts through the eyes of those trying to police them. Commissioned by FCS creative director Anthony Van Someren, the titles, featuring a gun ...
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Quench titles latest home show
Quench Design has created the titles and stings for Hotbed Media's Build, Buy or Restore, a 10 x 30-minute series that helps people decide how they would like to get their new house. Steve Best, Quench's creative director, designed the sequence, using stills and footage shot at high resolution to ...
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Structuring the void
Scriptwriting gurus Robert McKee and Syd Field point out that structure, conflict, storytelling and character are the central ingredients of any drama - but how can these elements be applied to the documentary process? Jane Marlow quizzes four acclaimed documentarians on the art of their craft.
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C4 pushes for 30-day rights window
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan is seeking a 30-day new media primary rights window, including mobile and video on demand, for all its shows.
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NewsSky high over BBC HDTV move
BSkyB has welcomed the move by the BBC to launch a trial of a high definition service, and predicted that almost one in 10 homes will have an HDTV-ready set by the end of next year.
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NewsAvanti to move into supplyingHDTV and broadband
Avanti Screenmedia, the largest supplier of TV to pubs, shops and retail chains in the UK, said it has raised£25m to fund its venture into broadband and high definition television.
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NewsBBC to trial HD over World Cup period
8am: The prospect of the 2006 World Cup broadcast in high definition came a step closer today as the BBC announced it will trial HD broadcasting next year.
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NewsDisney buys European mobilegame developer
10.15am: The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) has bought top Munich-based mobile game developer and publisher, Living Mobile, in preparation for the European rollout of Disney Mobile.
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NewsCapital radio launches podcasting
8am: GCap's Capital 95.8 has become the latest station to launch a podcasting service, highlighting the best bits of its weekday schedule.
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Grand Central buys e-cinema
Soho-based audio specialist Grand Central Sound Studio's£5m, two-year transition into a 'luxury' post facility has culminated in the acquisition of a range of electronic cinema projectors.
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Frontline posts interactive Shakespeare
Frontline Television has completed the post-production for BBC interactive drama and entertainment's Shakespeare's Stories to accompany BBC1's modern adaptation of the Bard's plays.
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Promax gets Doctor Who preview
Doctor Who visual effects supremos at Mill TV are set to give delegates at Friday's Promax conference the lowdown on work carried out on the first series of the award-winning drama, as well as outlining prospective plans for the new 13-part series. Mill TV producer Will Cohen will be on ...
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Avid unveils latest
Avid has unveiled its next-generation shared-storage solution, the Avid Unity ISIS. It claims to provide a real-time shared workflow to deliver increased storage of up to 64 terabytes, and client connectivity. It is designed to support digital media production environments including broadcast news and network production operations, and reality television. ...
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Nat Geo subtitling
National Geographic has chosen Broadcast Text International to provide its subtitling services and signed a 'multi-year' agreement for the Scandinavian feed. The deal will enable National Geographic to access all the aggregated language knowledge within the Broadcast Text Group, including research databases and translation memories.
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Hive hires animator
The Hive has recruited Condor's senior 3D artist Bryan Servante. Servante, who had previously worked at Banbury-based AudioMotion, was lead animator on BBC1/Box TV's The Legend of the Tamworth Two, animated for Discovery and the Disney Channel, and idents for BBC History. He joins The Hive as senior animator.
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Spooks goes mobile
BBC spy series Spooks has been launched as a Java-based mobile phone game. MS4:Mobile Spooks was developed by interactive media company Magic Lantern and telecoms specialist YDreams Entertainment in conjunction with production company Kudos Film and Television, and contains both stand-alone games to download and a series of mobile Missions ...
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Astbury in move
Ascent Media's Soho Images is losing colourist Simon Astbury to Clear Cut Pictures, where he is to work in a dedicated grading environment. Astbury spent four years at Todd-AO before moving to Soho Images where he operated Pogle Platinum and Symphony. His credits include the grading on dramas BBC/A&E's The ...