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    Pinewood to invest in digi studio

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Pinewood Studios has announced a seven-figure investment in television facilities while construction and remodelling begins on a 9,000 square foot digital television studio due to open this autumn, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    AUTOCUE BOUGHT IN MBO BACKED BY VENTURE CAPITALISTS

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Autocue has been bought by its management in a $28m (£18.7m) deal backed by venture capitalist 3i and Royal Bank of Scotland acquisition finance. The company, which says it is expanding

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    BBC DENIES REPORTS OF 'OVERSTAFFING' OLYMPICS

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has moved to quash reports that it will be sending 500 staff to cover the Olympic Games in Sydney next month. In a statement issued this week, the BBC

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    QUANTEL ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDE HENRY INFINITY

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Quantel has announced a raft of enhancements and a new line-up for its editing family, including the infinite superlayer Henry Infinity. That now comes with Maya on Quantel and 24fps universal

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    ICHOOSETV AND MICROSOFT IN STREAMED VIDEO TIE-UP

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    IchooseTV.com, the personalised internet TV service, has entered a technical and promotional partnership with Microsoft TV for streamed video on the IchooseTV website. The two said the deal allowed for potential

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    BT BROADCAST SERVICES TO UNVEIL DIGITAL RANGE AT IBC

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    BT Broadcast Services will demonstrate its internet video streaming product, MediaStream, and digital content management service, MediaReel, at IBC next month. It will also showcase its portfolio of European and transatlantic

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    SILICON GRAIL TO INCORPORATE KODAK'S CINEON INTO RAYZ

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Silicon Grail is collaborating with Eastman Kodak's entertainment imaging division to incorporate Cineon software code into Silicon Grail's next generation compositing tool Rayz. Kodak has bought licences of Rayz to provide

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    BBC RESOURCES KICKS OFF BOTSWANA TV WITH SOCCER

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources consulting and projects unit has helped launch Botswana TV (BTV) with a live football match from the country's capital, Gaborone. The Botswan government decided it needed an indigenous TV

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    TRADE TALK - Wave goodbye?

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Sky's James Baker is no stranger to new roles, having had three different titles in the past year alone. Simon Ellery considers his postition post-rejig.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Hold on to your hats

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    For the most part, non-executive directors have a useful symbiotic relationship with their employers, sharing wisdom and kudos in return for cash. Georgina Lipscomb reports.

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    OPINION - C4's Big Brother is a psycho coup

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Those of us who were sceptical about the impact Big Brother would have are rapidly carving up slices of humble pie. Broadcast's view that the show's appeal is too niche to

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    PSYCHO GAMESHOWS - Games without frontiers

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Will the no-holds-barred brand of voyeurism and public humiliation that has made Channel 4's Big Brother such a success provide the template for a new era of copycat shows or will it turn out to be a mere flash in the pan? James Curtis reports.

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    INTERVIEW - Game for a laugh

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Head of BBC comedy Geoffrey Perkins is under pressure to deliver the laughs - and not just by re-running old successes. He has a string of new shows and funds to cross-fertilise BBC 1 and 2 ideas, but will he pull it off?

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - Children's power

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Even among four to sevens adult shows such as Coronation Street are topping the ratings, while eight to 11 year-old girls are giving kids' shows the cold shoulder.

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    OFF THE RECORD - No news like old news

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Off the Record was delighted to hear that all is well over at Radio 4. The nation's most respected radio news network has its finger on the pulsing button of topicality

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    OFF THE RECORD - It takes deadication

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Tofu-eating Big Brother loser Sada could learn a thing or thing or two from one of the game birds taking part in BBC 1 doc Surviving the Iron Age which has

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    OFF THE RECORD - What a load of crop

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    As if those crazy cats at the GWR radio empire haven't got enough to do. Not content, it seems, with integrating the radio assets of the Daily Mail and General Trust,

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    OFF THE RECORD - Change the record

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    OTR's favourite thrusting TV exec James Baker has made headlines again. It seems the latest reshuffle over at Isleworth sees the erstwhile Sky One sultan lose his entire TV production empire.

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    OFF THE RECORD - T-birds storm the web

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Interest in the return of The Thunderbirds to our screens is growing apace. Set to relaunch (that's Thunderbirds are go) on BBC 2 in September, publicists are this week keen to

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - you're so vane

    2000-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Reel at the similarities between these two hot telly smoothies, retired weather uberlord Ian McCaskill and Campaign for Quality TV czar Ray Fitzwalter.While one keeps his finger on the pulse of