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Diana doc gets international airing
Diana: The Night She Died, which aired in the UK on Five in June, has been sold to Canada's CBC by TVF International, who will broadcast it to mark the sixth anniversary of Princess Diana's death. TVF International has also sold the programme to ABC in Australia, NHK in Japan ...
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All-in-one system set for IBC debut
TWI interactive, the digital media and technology arm of Transworld International, has developed what could be the world's first all-in-one digital system for producing and delivering both new media and broadcast content, writes Will Strauss.
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Waterside demise adds to Edinburgh woes
Edinburgh production and facilities company Waterside Television has gone into liquidation resulting in the loss of around 17 jobs, writes Ian White.The company, which majored in corporate and commercials work,
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Reuters touts digital news
Reuters will be the first global news agency to deliver video, scripts and story information to broadcasters in a single integrated digital file when it debuts a new service at the
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Farm's BBC coup
The key production and management team has been put in place for the launch of The Farm Group's new facility, Uncle. Andrew McKerlie, formerly the BBC's relationship manager within factual and learning, joins as general manager, which The Farm called
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Bowie at pictures
As part of the first event of its kind, a David Bowie concert will be broadcast live from Riverside Studios to cinemas across Europe next week. The show will be broadcast in 5.1 surround sound to the Odeon West End in London and theatres in Paris, Munich and Zurich. The ...
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Touch upgrade
Lightworks has released the latest version of its software for its Lightworks Touch editing system. Version 1.5 has more than 300 enhancements after seven months R&D. The most significant change is that the software now includes low bandwidth shared storage networking as a standard non-chargeable feature. V1.5 is now shipping ...
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Vitec profits dive
The Vitec Group has announced a halving in interim pre-tax profits for this year. The company, which makes camera and lighting equipment, blamed the ongoing squeeze in ad spend, a strong Euro and reduced capital expenditure by clients for the loss. Its broadcasting services division was the worst hit in ...
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NewsChambers lands Five job
Dan chambers, Five's factual programming head, took over from former director of programmes Kevin Lygo this week and pledged to focus the six-year-old channel on contemporary factual entertainment and science, writes Michael Rosser.
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Voluntary redundancies at YTV
The entire production team at Yorkshire Television's documentaries and factual department have been invited to apply for voluntary redundancy, in a bid to downsize the struggling department, writes Paul Revoir.
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TV's top chiefs share RTS stage
Carlton chairman Michael Green is to take a rare step into the limelight after agreeing to sit on a panel alongside his Granada counterpart Charles Allen at this month's Royal Television Society (RTS) Cambridge Convention, writes Colin Robertson.
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Debbie Harry fronts rock doc for Discovery
Debbie Harry, the princess of new wave, has been recruited by the Discovery Channel to present a series on rock and roll for the autumn, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Mentorn sets up drama division
Television Corporation subsidiary Mentorn is launching a drama division on the back of a number of factually based projects, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsFox rivals Sky One with new channel
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television is planning to launch a UK entertainment channel on Sky Digital in January next year - putting it in direct competition with Sky One, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsBBC unit to monitor 'hate speech'
BBC Monitoring, the corporation's government-funded arm that tracks the world's media, is to turn cyber-spy and monitor internet chat sites in a bid to pick up
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NewsRadio 4 chief sets sights on baby boomers
Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has told programme-makers to put aside stereotypes of the station's listeners as stern octogenarians and inject more 'informal irreverence' into their ideas, writes Michael Rosser.
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Blair may let TVbroadcast press briefings
Broadcasters are poised for a big breakthrough after Tony Blair signalled he is prepared to allow the government's daily briefings to be televised. The Prime Minister has asked for the idea to be explored by the committee headed by Bob Phillis, chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, which has ...
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Blue Peter's marson steps up to editor
The BBC has appointed a new editor for Blue Peter- only the fifth appointment in the programme's 45-year history. The show's series producer, Richard Marson, is to take on the role after five years on the show. He replaces Steve Hocking, who has taken on ...
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BBC admits to error over Kelly
The BBC has admitted it wrongly inflated the importance of Dr David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's source in a statement issued after the BBC governors' emergency meeting in July, it emerged this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC renews faith in docu-soaps
The BBC has given a new lease of life to the docu-soap - which went out of favour in the late 1990s after a glut of cheap imitations - by commissioning a raft of new series on subjects including the Sylvia Young Theatre School, writes ...