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Dubbs axes nine
Soho duplication service Dubbs has laid off nine members of staff in what chairman John Reiss called 'a proactive initiative to protect the staff that remain'. Reiss attributed the decision to cut the staff to the technological changes that have affected the duplication business and said: 'We hate doing this ...
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Glassworks flames
Glassworks has bought four HD-compatible Flames to cater for an increase in HD work. Managing director Hector MacLeod said: 'The new Discreet suites can work at HD but when they work at standard definition the difference will really be noticed.' Glassworks is due to work on the new Robbie Williams ...
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Fifty Fifty sci fi deal
Fifty Fifty Post Production has signed a two-year deal to set up and manage in-house audio services for the Sci Fi channel. The Sci Fi channel will pay a monthly management fee to the Soho company, which will supply two in-house audio engineers to operate and service the HD Pro ...
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New pepper kit
Pepper has installed Finaliser, the Edifis colour processor and finishing system, to replace the Ursa Diamond that it sold to TK One in May. Finaliser provides extensive creative capabilities in disk-based and tape-to-tape colour correction, in HD as well as standard definition. Managing director Patrick Holzen said: 'We were looking ...
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HD first for UK TV
Metro Broadcast, BowTie TV and ntl last week aired the UK's first commercial 4:2:2, MPeg-encoded, high definition transmission in Dolby 5.1 surround. NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, chose Metro to project manage the first European transmission of Nodojiman , the long-running Japanese karaoke entertainment show. It ...
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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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Pepper shakes up love story
Pepper has completed picture post on BBC2 drama When I'm 64. The film is an unconventional love story about two gay men who reach retirement, and look back on the difficulties they experienced coming out in their youth. Colourist Chris Beeton graded and Simon ...
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Oasis posts Olympic Dream
Oasis has completed My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream , a Bite Yer Legs production for BBC3. The documentary followed Radio 1's part-Greek DJ Nemone for 12 months, as she chased her dream of competing at the Olympics, trying to prove that she ...
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Govt backtracks on switchover
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.
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BBC3 to air Graham Norton's US show
BBC3 has acquired Graham Norton's US chat show in a move that will keep the camp comic exclusively on the BBC.
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S4C prepares to go digital
Welsh channel S4C is to bolster its art, current affairs and children's output in preparation for its switch to a digital-only Welsh language service.
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Kilgarriff brief is extended
The head of Turner Broadcasting's kids channels, Richard Kilgarriff, has been given responsibility for all the company's UK entertainment channels.
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Ofcom imposes subtitle rules
Minority channels including Sky One and E4 are to be forced to provide subtitling and audio description for the first time.
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C4 ties up Ramsay
Channel 4 has locked Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay into an exclusive three-year UK deal. The deal, which will run until July 2007, gives C4 exclusive rights for all of Ramsay's UK television output. Over the next three years, Ramsay will star in a range of shows produced by indie Optomen ...
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Zig Zag hires crick
Zig Zag has hired its first head of development, poaching Ed Crick from the BBC's factual entertainment department. Crick, whose credits include My Family and Autism , joins immediately reporting to Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton. His arrival coincides with the 70-strong indie's move ...
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BBC disabled target
The BBC has set a target of 4% of its 28,000 jobs to be staffed by people with disabilities by 2007. Around 2.7% of BBC staff currently identify themselves as having a disability compared to 10.1% of the population as a whole. The new target sits alongside improved targets for ...
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UBC reports sales up
UBC Media, the group developing Channel 4's first radio venture, has reported a 78% rise in sales at its commercial division in the first quarter. The commercial unit, which produces and sells news bulletins to radio stations around the country, accounted for 40% of group revenues last year.
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Zeppotron's new MD
Endemol UK subsidiary Zeppotron has appointed Annabel Jones as its new managing director. She fills the role vacated by Paul Gilheany eight months ago. Jones was previously Endemol's head of business development and will not be replaced.
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The digital clock ticks on
Despite the government's move to a more realistic digital switchover date, unanswered questions remain.
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Ofcom fines porn channel£50,000
Ofcom has imposed its first fine on a broadcaster. Satellite channel XplicitXXX, owned by the Digital Television Production Company, was ordered to pay£50,000 for broadcasting unencrypted hardcore sex between 8.30pm and 10pm on 8 April this year by mistake.