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    Grass Valley gains£25m investment

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Grass Valley Group (GVG) has raised $36m (£25m) in an equity finance deal led by investment bank Lazard.The money will enable the group to maintain its 'high level' of investment in

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    Molinare Sci-Fi contract loss fuels talk of sale

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Molinare has lost the Sci-Fi Channel transmission contract to Pearson TV, fuelling speculation that the post-production arm of the TV Corporation will be sold, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    BBC/ITV to go virtual for election night coverage

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    BBC and ITV are both turning to virtual reality to enhance their election coverage this week, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    ORANGE SMOKE AWARD

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    High-end facility Smoke & Mirrors has won the British Design and Art Direction (D&AD) award for special effects, writes Jon Rogers. The company, which has already bagged six other awards this

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    Floating Earth lines up high-spec truck

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Classical recording company Floating Earth has commissioned a high-spec recording and broadcast truck, writes Jon Rogers.

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    JVC SALES SHAKE-UP

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    JVC Professional has reorganised its sales operation in the wake of the retirement of Neil Burtonshaw as manager of broadcast sales. Burtonshaw is due to retire in July, having spent more

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    TREMOR AT SKARAMOOSH

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Skaramoosh has bought Nothing Real's high-end compositing tool, Tremor.Supplied by Tyrell, this is the second system to be sold in the UK since its premiere at NAB earlier in the year.

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    REILLY RETURNS

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Inferno operator Crawford Reilly has quit VTR after only six months to rejoin Glassworks. Reilly will be reunited with former Rushes colleague Ludo Fealy who moved to Glassworks at the same

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    ETSI DEAL ON MHP

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    DVB has signed an agreement with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to make ETSI the distributor of the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) test suite. Under the arrangements, ETSI will supply

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    WILDCAT EUROPE MOVE

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Graphics card developer 3Dlabs is opening up its Wildcat technology to European developers and system integrators with the launch of a partner programme. The Wildcat graphics card, which hit the market

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    Leader - A risk to the BBC's good name

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Anyone faced with the prospect of spending a whole day at home and wanting to listen to the radio knows that the BBC is good value for money.As far as broadcast

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    FREE TO AIR - Birt role beggars belief

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    There are some things which, it has to be said, beggar belief. A Swede in charge of the England football team: just about credible. Jordan standing for Parliament: far fetched but

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    TRADE TALK - Steely Anne

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's Anne Morrison is set to oversee the merger of her leisure and factual entertainment department with that of documentaries.

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    IN MY VIEW - Damian Tambini

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    On how UK broadcasters must support rules to protect impartiality in political coverage.

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    ON THE BOX - Sitting on silver lining

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Action Time's head of international and new business Caroline Beaton enjoys serious reality but balks at the nature of Greed.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Unravelling Liberty

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Last week's deal between John Malone's Liberty Media, United Pan-European Communications and its parent, UnitedGlobalCom, has added yet more twists to Liberty Media's global communications operation.

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    SCHOOLS PROGRAMMING - Lessons in digital

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Will educational output be ousted from terrestrial television - its home for 40 years - by digital technology's offering?

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    INTERVIEW - Surviving the slump

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    In spite of high-profile departures, a profits warning and a drop in audience share, Capital Radio's operations director Paul Davies has no doubt about the rosy future facing the group he's been a part of for nearly 20 years.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - TV's presentable faces lock horns

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Last year's analysis revealed Richard and Judy as the most-seen presenters on TV. But who is the nation's favourite a year down the line? Adrian Edwards reports.

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    TX. - Seeking the survivors

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    From his time as series producer of Sky's pan-European entertainment show, Showbiz Weekly, Sheldon Lazarus has developed a nose for a good story. But three times in as many years, his