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SNELL WINS TUCKER
Roderick Snell has won this year's IBC John Tucker award, the international honour for excellence. Snell, who founded Snell & Wilcox with Joe Wilcox in 1973, was presented with the award
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SMOKE JOINS AAF
Smoke & Mirrors has joined the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association - a cross-industry group set up to promote open-source technology and file format compatibility. 'It's so important to the future
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CINTEL SHOWS REALITY
Cintel previewed its next generation C-Reality at IBC. C-Reality DSX sports a dirt and scratch removal feature called Oscar, which uses electro-optics to clean damaged film. Cintel claims the technology removes
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REFINERY GOES BUST
Soho animation company Refinery, previously known as Aldis Animation (Broadcast, 3.8.01), has been forced into liquidation after only two months. Animators Will Rockall and Phil Dobree will form a new partnership.
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Branded content is pointless unless the content itself is compelling, argues Adrian Pettett
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OMNIBUS CONFIRMS MBO
Glynn Powell Evans and Brian Paisley have succeeded in buying out OmniBus Systems from its German shareholder Management Data which was forced into liquidation in July (Broadcast, 27.7.01). The deal is
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NEWS SPECIAL - IBC IN AMSTERDAM 14 - 18 SEPTEMBER - BBC unveils 3-frame delay radio camera
BBC Research & development (R&D) has reduced the frame delay on its radio camera to three frames and is gearing up to make the technology commercially available, writes Barbara Marshall.The camera,
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IBC figures fall after US attack
The International Broadcasting Convention held in Amsterdam this week did not suffer as badly as some feared following last week's terrorist attacks in the US, although attendance was about 30 per
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5D brings a fresh look to grading with Colossus
A 'fresh approach' is how Band of Brothers colourist Luc Rainey described Colossus, the new turn-key grading package from 5D, writes Barbara Marshall.The real-time calibrated system aimed at the filmic end
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Pinnacle acquires Fast Multimedia
Pinnacle Systems is to buy Germany's Fast Multimedia for $15m (£10m) in a cash and stock deal, writes Barbara Marshall.In the surprise move, revealed at IBC this week, Pinnacle will acquire
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LEADER - Industry needs policy blueprint
The Royal Television Society's convention in Cambridge at the end of last week threw up some depressing truths about television today.At a time of unprecedented revenue downturn, the industry is -
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FREE TO AIR - Letting images take over
In some situations, words are wholly inadequate - a sentiment that was vividly illustrated by the unthinkable events of last week.Even the wordy broadsheets for once allowed the pictures to do
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Comment: Entertaining new ideas
Branded content is pointless unless the content itself is compelling, argues Adrian Pettett
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ANALYSIS SPECIAL
News of the events that shook the world last week briefly resulted in a spirit of camaraderie between networks and non-affiliated channels. The scramble to be first, however, is resuming rapidly.
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COMMENT - Ian Hargreaves
On the great responsibilities faced by broadcasters during and in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
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NEWS ON TAP
Simon Ellery takes a look at whether the 24-hour rolling news channels came of age in reporting the tragic events in the US.
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DEBATE - Charting the future
Following last month's Broadcast debate among leading television figures over whether broadcasting is in a creative rut, Lucy Rouse and Katy Elliott joined five twentysomethings taking part in TV25 at the Edinburgh TV Festival to find out if they too feel
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INTERVIEW - Banking on the arts
While LWT controller of arts Melvyn Bragg celebrates The South Bank Show's 25th anniversary, he offers some advice on the arts to the BBC, whose top job failed to tempt him last year.
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REGIONAL TV - Local hero stays over the border
Grampian has one of the most diverse audiences of any ITV franchise and, with a strong local following, it has a peaktime share well above the ITV average, however, it struggles to sell programmes to the network.
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TX - Unravelling a mystery
The director of indie TV 6, Richard Reisz, was filming an archaeological series for Channel 4 in Egypt when the curator of Cairo's national museum first got a call from a