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    Polecam camera

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Miniature lightweight camera system manufacturer Polecam is to launch a submersible camera, Fishface, at IBC, with a new submersible pan and tilt head and camera housing which can be used to a depth of 4m.

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    BDH goes to Art School for BBC2

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    BDH designer Carys Hull, cameraman Mark Chandler and director Steve Bell have produced the titles for Endemol's BBC2 series Art School, in which celebrities such as Keith Allen, John Humphrys and Ulrika Jonsson develop their talents at the Chelsea School of Art & Design. Shot on ...

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    Blue posts BBC4's autumn idents

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has come up with fresh autumn idents for BBC4 - a series of optical illusions. At first, there seems to be only one image on screen but the sequence, shot on film by Clive Tickner, unfolds to reveal four frames acting independently. Created by BBC Broadcast designers Anthony ...

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    ArenaP3 posts seaside comedy

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    ArenaP3 created a traditional seaside postcard look for Tiger Aspect's eight-part fly-on-the-wall comedy Hotel on Sea. Produced and directed by Jonathan Hacker, the show was offlined at Tiger, with ArenaP3 editors JP Davidson and Alex Pickering onlining and grading the series using Avid DS Nitris, saturating the ...

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    CanWest sets up camp in Solent

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Canadian media giant CanWest said this week it would use its new Solent FM radio licence as a base for further expansion into UK broadcasting.

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    New TV talent to get own channel

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    A channel devoted to new TV and film talent is set to launch next year.

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    Homechoice to go national with eight new channels

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Homechoice is gearing up for a national rollout next year by adding eight new channels and three on-demand services.

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    Talkback lures development exec from Red

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Talkback Thames has poached Red Productions head of development Noelle Morris to become its head of drama development.

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    Leopard changes

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Leopard Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Cash in the Attic, and Missing, has made two senior promotions. Susie Field moves up from head of production and chief operating officer to managing director while head of factual entertainment Bernard Periatambee becomes head ...

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    Schoonmaker bid

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker and Macquarie Bank have entered a second application for a UK local FM radio licence - this time for Ipswich. Last month Schoonmaker and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, entered a bid for the Swansea licence under the name Radio UK Holdings. He ...

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    Extreme sells poker

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Extreme Entertainment has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with The Poker Channel. Extreme will look to sell both standalone programming and branded blocks of the channel internationally in all territories except the UK. The Poker Channel, which launched in March this year, has produced 150 hours of programming to ...

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    Arqiva TX contracts

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Arqiva has won four new 12-year FM transmission contracts for stations awarded new licences by Ofcom. Under the new contracts, Arqiva will provide transmission services for two new The Local Radio Company stations, The Bee in Blackburn and Durham FM in Durham. It will also serve Midlands News Association-owned station ...

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    Corrie's Wood may cross to Mersey

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Coronation Streetproducer Tony Wood is in talks to join Mersey TV as creative director. Wood has already announced that he will leave the soap at the end of the year. Mersey TV, producer of Hollyoaks, is run by Wood's former Coronation Streetboss ...

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    ITV news veterans back for 50th

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    ITV News alumnae, including Selina Scott and Gordon Honeycombe, will return to present the evening bulletin for one night only, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. Mark Austin will present the 6.30pm bulletin with Scott, Anna Ford and Julia Sommerville, while Mary Nightingale will team up with Martyn Lewis ...

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    Sky offers£5,000 prize for best indie doc

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Sky One is putting£5,000 up for grabs for the best authored documentary idea to come from an indie. Entries are being accepted until 26 September and the five finalists will be announced at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Friday 14 October. Indies will then pitch to a panel of Sky ...

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    RDF media recruits investment specialist

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    RDF Media has hired private equity expert Jonny Slow to help it identify new acquisition and investment opportunities. He joins as director of corporate development from Sand Aire Private Equity - a London-based private equity firm that specialises in investing in small to medium-sized firms.

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    'Inappropriate' Humphrys taken to task

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has reprimanded veteran BBC presenter John Humphrys after a video leaked to The Timesshowed him deriding senior Labour cabinet members. His comments prompted a BBC investigation, and in a statement director general Mark Thompson said Humphrys' turn of phrase was 'inappropriate'.

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    Duo launch TV genius search engine

    2005-09-08T08:30:00Z

    Bob Eggington, the launch director of BBC News Online, and Tom Weiss, former vice-president of T-Mobile Europe, have set up a search engine called TV Genius dedicated to finding UK TV shows. The service allows users to search listings for all UK TV channels, films, sports, comedy, drama and documentaries. ...

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    It's a man's world

    2005-09-08T08:00:00Z

    Jonathan Webb is best known for his influential and successful poker programmes on Challenge. His latest brief is to move men's channel Bravo upmarket and widen its appeal to 16 to 44-year-olds. By Steve Clarke.

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    This season's must-haves

    2005-09-08T08:00:00Z

    Before industry delegates pack up their comfy shoes ready to scour IBC at Amsterdam's RAI centre, Keri Allan asked four differing TV tribes what's on their shopping list.