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    Leitch hires CEO

    2004-01-29T08:30:00Z

    Leitch Technology Corporation has appointed Tim Thorsteinson as president and chief executive. Thorsteinson joins Leitch after leaving his position at Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions where he was responsible for the broadcast product line. Formerly the president of the video and networking division of Tektronix, Thorsteinson also ran ...

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    MPC buys licences

    2004-01-29T08:30:00Z

    The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has picked up another batch of plug-in licences from visual effects sparks developer The Foundry. The company has purchased 22 remote-processing licences and four full licences of Furnace for their Shake systems. Paddy Eason, visual effects supervisor at The Moving Picture Company, said that the ...

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    Ascent Media appoints new head team

    2004-01-23T08:00:10Z

    Post-production giant Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace it's departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two new managing directors.

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    Corinthian shuts NW8 facilities

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Corinthian Television is abandoning its landmark studios in St John's Wood to concentrate business in its facility at Chiswick Park. Eighteen jobs are at risk as a result, writes John Oates.

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    Clear Cut moves to fill gap left by McMillan

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Post house Clear Cut Pictures has plucked two senior staff from defunct rental and reseller company McMillan to set up a division called Clear Cut Hires, writes John Oates.

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    Broadcast '04 post survey

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast is to reveal the results of a major piece of research into the UK post-production sector.

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    Component finishes CBBC work

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Component Graphics has completed design work on a 10 x 30-minute 'reality' series for the CBBC channel called The Stables. Created and produced by children's and youth specialist Prism Entertainment, the show centres around a charity-run stables in Newcastle and the stories of the ...

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    Baraka delivers FX for BBC3

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Baraka has created special effects for the second series of the BBC3 comedy series.

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    Jump renews hit show credits

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Jump Design has put together new opening titles for the latest series of I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here!. Once again the LWT-produced ITV series takes 10 celebrity contestants and puts them to the test in the Australian jungle. The opening titles ...

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    Ascent loses staff

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media UK is losing its finance director and the managing director of its creative and media services divisions. Sam Husain, finance and corporate affairs managing director, is going back to work for his consultancy, HEP Holdings. Simon Kay, the managing director of creative services division, is taking some time ...

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    Charter renewal

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Equipment rental company Charter Broadcast has announced that it is to spend£3.4m on new equipment this year. With major events coming up, including the Olympics, and a need to widen and update its dry-hire stock, the company will continue to invest in cameras, videotape recorders, microphones and the like. The ...

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    Emap renames show

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Emap Media has unveiled a name change for The Production Show and details of Broadcast Week. The 2004 event will be called The Broadcast Production Show and will take place from 18 to 20 May at the National Hall, Olympia. It will form an important ...

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    BT keeps it real

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) is teaming up with RealNetworks to offer broadcasters a way to keep track of video content over the internet. BTBS will use Helix DRM 10 which can protect content security and deliver video to PCs and other devices connected to the internet. The system allows broadcasters ...

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    Target wins Sky distribution deal

    2004-01-22T08:30:00Z

    Sky has handed responsibility for its entire international programming distribution to Target Entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Post-production 2004

    2004-01-16T08:53:40Z

    On March 5th 2004, Broadcast will publish the results of a major piece of research into the broadcast post-production sector in the UK.

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    Start-up fills gap left by McMillan

    2004-01-15T08:30:00Z

    Former McMillan sales and marketing director Gary Langlands has set up a broadcast equipment supplier business in his native Scotland, writes Will Strauss.

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    Discovery renews LPC contract

    2004-01-15T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Networks Europe has given itself breathing space in the continuing saga over who should transmit its 27 channels by extending its current playout contract with London Playout Centre (LPC) by 12 months.

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    Six battle for top post gong

    2004-01-15T08:30:00Z

    Six London-based broadcast facilities will battle it out for the prestigious best post-production house gong at this year's Broadcast Awards. The Farm, Molinare, Editworks, Evolutions Television, Resolution and St Anne's Post are all shortlisted. The award recognises the company that has provided not only outstanding service but also shown the ...

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    Pinewood TV head

    2004-01-15T08:30:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton Group has appointed Rachel Joseph as its director of television. Joseph joins from 3sixtymedia where she spent three and a half years. She will be responsible for the continued investment and growth in TV for the Pinewood Shepperton Group and oversee the existing studio resources, operational logistics and ...

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    Mansfield to Oasis

    2004-01-15T08:30:00Z

    Editbox editor Jim Mansfield has joined Oasis Television from Molinare. Mansfield worked at the Fouberts Place facility for five years and his credits include T4 Pop Beach, on which he completed the titles, and Wish You Were Here? on which he did both titles and stings. Other credits include Doubletake ...