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Flextech hiring
Flextech has poached the BBC's director of rights Debbie Manners to become its director of rights. As part of Flextech's senior management team, she will oversee business affairs and the company's distributor Minotaur. She will be responsible for making the most of Flextech's programming assets, increasing international content sales and ...
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Video Europe in£1m rental
Equipment rental company Video Europe has won a£1m contract with Dubai-based broadcaster Taj Television to supply the production equipment for all international cricket in Pakistan and Sri Lanka for three years.
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Blue posts Strangest Village doc
Post facility Blue has completed the post production on The Strangest Village in Britain for Landmark Films. The Channel 4 documentary takes a look at Botton, a village whose 236 inhabitants are people with learning difficulties and co-workers who all form part of the same community. Dubbing mixer Matt Skilton ...
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Arenap3 finishes Martha & Me
ArenaP3 has just completed work on Martha & Me for BBC2. The 50-minute documentary follows filmmaker Jamie Campbell as he rents a caravan in the trailer park opposite disgraced domestic goddess Martha Stewart's prison and follows her home-making ideals in an attempt to understand her rise and fall. ArenaP3 editor, ...
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AHC completes football idents
AHC post has finished the high-definition post-production on idents for the Confederations Cup. The Confederations Cup, which pits continental football champions against each other, kicks off on 15 June with coverage on Five. Senior editor Victor Riva offlined the project on a Quantel editbox, using down conversions of the rushes ...
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Music vision award
Rushes' VFX team has picked up the best special effects prize at the CADS Music Vision awards for its work on Dizzee Rascal's Dream, beating off competition from U2's Vertigo and UNKLE's Reign. Vfx artists Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin and Dave Bannister claimed the award.
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Willey joins Pepper
Post-production facility Pepper has appointed Paul Willey as a new business executive across broadcast and film projects at its Covent Garden headquarters. Willey comes direct from broadcast facility VTR Media Services company Blue. He had previously worked at fellow VMS company The Machine Room.
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Show visitors rise
Last week's Broadcast Production Show recorded a 19% increase in visitors year-on-year to over 9,400 and has laid out plans for expansion in 2006. Arqiva - formerly NTL Broadcast - has already signed up to create a new Content and Delivery Zone at next year's show. Keynote sessions will be ...
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New location guide
The 2005 edition of The Location Guide, which is about to launch its seventh edition with over 100 countries covered as filming destinations, has been expanded to include locations such as Uganda and Macedonia. The book, which acts as a guide to production service companies and ...
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Abery steps down
Crown Castle chief executive Peter Abery is to step down by the end of the year to make way for chief operating officer Steven Marshall. Abery will remain heavily involved in the broadcast side of operations in the role of deputy chairman at the company. He will ...
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HQ for assimilate
Digital Intermediary developer Assimilate last week opened its European headquarters in central London. European sales manager Marie Buckley, who has previously held sales management positions for 5D and SpeedSix, will head up Assimilate's new office. Film post-production facility Cinesite recently bought four Assimilate Scratch DI systems.
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BBC Sport records HD tennis first
BBC Sport is to produce its first high-definition recording for broadcast at The Hastings Direct International Championship next week.
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UK Post looks to fill board places
The Farm Group managing director Nicky Sargent and Framestore-CFC managing director William Sargent have stepped down from the board of UK Post ahead of its elections.
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NewsBBC2's Secretary takes 3.5m
BBC2 had a strong performance throughout peaktime last night with its most popular programme The Secretary Who Stole£4 Millionattracting a peak audience of 3.5 million (17%) at the end.
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CNN wired for broadband
Global news channel CNN International is set to be available to internet users from the autumn as part of planned new broadband service.
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Discovery looks to develop modern history channel
Discovery Networks Europe is considering setting up a contemporary history channel in the UK.
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Smooth FM sets 1 million target
Flextech-owned Living TV is hoping to persuade Freeview homes to upgrade to pay-television by broadcasting a taster of one its most popular shows, Most Haunted Live, on its sister channel, FTN.
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Ofcom poised to reveal Manchester FM licence winner
Ofcom will today (Thursday) announce who has won the FM radio licence for Manchester - one of the few major licences the regulator is putting up for grabs.
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Sopel to replace Marr in Politics Show
BBC News 24 reporter Jon Sopel is to take over from Andrew Marr as the host of BBC1's The Politics Show. He will take on the role in September and will also remain with News 24 for four days a week. Marr, the BBC's outgoing political editor, is trying to ...
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Ofcom raps ITV for skydiving footage
Ofcom has slammed ITV after it broadcast footage of a skydiver plummeting to his death in a daytime entertainment show. A viewer complained to the watchdog after ITV2 programme Sally Jesse Raphael showed two skydivers colliding in mid-air, leading to one of the men dying and the other being crippled. ...