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    C4 to launch free docs platform

    2005-03-10T07:49:30Z

    Channel 4 is set to launch a broadband platform for budding documentary-makers as part of chief executive Andy Duncan's commitment to new media.

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    UK's Stringer to head Sony Corp

    2005-03-08T10:48:21Z

    Sir Howard Stringer has become the first non-Japanese head of the electronics-to-media giant Sony.

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    Spooks captures interactive Bafta

    2005-03-03T11:59:31Z

    Spooks Interactivelast night won the top iTV accolade at the Bafta Interactive Awards. The red button offering picked up Bafta's Interactive TV award and was among three trophies that the BBC grabbed at the Café Royal, London.

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    A job worth doing

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Maxim Jago thinks that small budgets are the best way to judge the talent of newcomers to the industry.

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    So you wanna be in the mobiles?

    2005-03-03T08:00:00Z

    Third generation mobile phones have tremendous potential, and the race is on to produce the first really compelling content. Peter Keighron reports.

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    Pinewood eyes up Whitfield St

    2005-03-03T07:49:20Z

    Pinewood Shepperton Studios is in talks to buy into central London audio facility Whitfield Street Studios.

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    New bids for BBC Broadcast

    2005-02-24T08:30:00Z

    BT, Siemens and Crown Castle have joined the list of companies expected to bid for the BBC's£150m broadcast business.

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    Graf becomes chair of broadband group

    2005-02-24T08:30:00Z

    The government's broadband advisory group has selected former Trinity Mirror chief executive Philip Graf to drive its broadband agenda.

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    Smoke and Mirrors finishes graphics on C4's The Exorcism

    2005-02-24T08:30:00Z

    Smoke and Mirrors has produced graphics work on the promo for Channel 4's programme The Exorcism. The graphics were created on Nitris by DS artist Dan Andrew who worked with director

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    ITN signs up 02 to mobile news delivery

    2005-02-24T08:30:00Z

    ITN has signed a distribution deal with O2, which will give the mobile phone operator's customers news and archive content dating back 50 years. The service, which launches this month as part of O2's new 3G offering, is the latest in a series of 3G mobile phone deals ITN has ...

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    Animation's digital revolution

    2005-02-24T08:00:00Z

    Having played second fiddle to US and Asian imports for years, UK animation is back on track - with the help of advances in technology. Michael Burns reports.

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    ITN signs 3G deal with O2

    2005-02-23T10:11:19Z

    ITN has signed a major distribution deal with O2, which will give the mobile phone operator's customers news and archive content dating back 50 years.

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    Enteraction buys into a 3G future

    2005-02-17T08:30:00Z

    Enteraction TV, the company that runs Thomas Cook TV and the new London TV channel, -has bought interactive specialist Red Fig in a deal worth an estimated£3m.

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    Reuters on web

    2005-02-17T08:30:00Z

    News agency Reuters has launched its first interactive TV channel for the UK market, delivering news stories over the internet into the home. The service has already been launched in the US and will use the latest video news footage sourced from Reuters' 197 worldwide bureaux. Chris Ahearn, president of ...

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    Cheesbrough: BBC to move to HD by 2010

    2005-02-10T08:30:00Z

    All BBC programmes will be made in high definition by the end of the decade, according to the corporation's head of technology production, Paul Cheesbrough.

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    Hollyoaks in text message spin-off series

    2005-02-10T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 New Media and Conker Media - Mersey Television's digital development and production division - are launching an improved mobile phone soap opera that will run alongside Channel 4's Hollyoaks.

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    Sanctuary Post faces the music

    2005-02-10T08:30:00Z

    Sanctuary Post is post-producing BBC Entertainment's new series Facing the Music. The series for BBC2 is presented by husband and wife vocal coaching team, David and Carrie Grant, who attempt to teach members of the public to use singing to say something special to someone in ...

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    Hackenbacker takes on Morris

    2005-02-10T08:30:00Z

    Hackenbacker Audio Post production has completed work on the Chris Morris production Nathan Barley. Certain sequences needed to appear as if the viewer was looking directly at the internet so an old analogue system was used to give a different, more metallic sound. The series was ...

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    Subtitling industry hit by slow adoption of Ofcom rules

    2005-02-03T08:30:00Z

    Subtitling and voiceover services provider Independent Media Support Group (IMS) is being forced to look to mainland Europe for work after UK broadcasters delayed signing up to Ofcom's new subtitling rules.

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    Dinnin for Facility

    2005-02-03T08:30:00Z

    Dean Street post-production house The Facility has brought in designer Alex Dinnin. Dinnin, who joins from Octagon CSI, had previously worked at Tele-Cine and XTV. Previous broadcast credits include work for football world governing body Fifa, the FA Cup final 2004 and Nickelodeon UK. Business development consultant ...