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BBC Bristol puts£500,000 into HD
BBC Post Production Bristol has bought more than£500,000 worth of high-definition tapeless equipment after winning the tender to finish flagship BBC show Planet Earth.
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Queen's Award for Kemistry
London-based branding company Kemistry has won a Queen's Award for Enterprise for its international broadcast design work.
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BBC Broadcast in video-on-demand deal
BBC Broadcast is creating a video-on-demand tool that will allow users to search for tele-vision content and have it sent to their home computers and mobile phones.
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Cadle plans major new Soho facility
Former Blue managing director Dave Cadle is set to open a large Soho facility to compete with The Farm and The Moving Picture Company.
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Mortimer to Blue
Blue has appointed Chris Mortimer as its new head of visual effects. Mortimer has previously worked on projects including Walking with Dinosaurs, feature film A Life Less Ordinary,as well as idents for CNN, Film Four, the BBC and ITV. He joins from fellow Soho facility Red ...
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Filmlight bought
Framestore CFC and Molinare have both invested in FilmLight film scanning equipment. Framestore has invested in two Baselight Eight grading and finishing systems and a Northlight scanner, in total worth around£1m. Molinare has bought a£280,000 Northlight film scanner. Its technical director, Darren Woolfson, completed the deal at the NAB conference ...
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HDcam for Pepper
Covent Garden post facility Pepper has bought the first SRW-5500 HDCam SR recorder in the UK. The high-definition recorder, which was unveiled at NAB this week, costs up to£79,100 with all options attached. The kit will be delivered by the beginning of May. A Sony spokesman said that a number ...
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Help for starters
First Post, the Skillset-backed post-production initiative for industry starters, closes its doors to applications on Friday 29 April. The scheme, which has been designed to help London post-production companies train junior staff, will support up to 25 new starters. It will cost£900 a head and is subsidised by the London ...
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Animal Logic's toon campaign
Cartoon Network has used Animal Logic to create its new promo campaign. Animal Logic created 360-degree CG models of both Cartoon Network locations and everyday situations, which were then populated with the channel's cartoon characters. For instance, Samurai Jack and Johnny Bravo meet off-duty doing their washing at a local ...
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Saint titles Love My Kids project
Saint has designed and produced the titles and graphic elements for BBC1 series Love Me, Love My Kids. The RDF Media-produced six-part series aims to help single parents find companionship. The twist being that the kids are in charge. The titles take the viewer round the ...
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Allen turns down top comedy post
The BBC's comedy commissioning structure has been left in limbo after comedy editor Kenton Allen turned down the top job. Allen was offered the post of head of comedy commissioning following the departure of current head Mark Freeland but he rejected the offer, saying he wanted to stay in comedy ...
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Hit extends bidding deadline
Hit Entertainment has extended the deadline for rival bidders to step in and scupper a£489m offer from Apax Partners. Hit, the company behind Thomas the Tank Engineand Bob the Builder, said it would give two potential bidders a further 25 days to ...
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BBC News 24 to work to rule over cuts
Staff at BBC News 24 have announced a 'work to rule' in protest against job cuts that would mean the channel losing seven broadcast journalists. Union heads at the NUJ have warned the action could have a major effect on coverage of live events. The action is the unions' first ...
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New-look Men and Motors launches
ITV is launching its revamped Men and Motors channel on Freeview on 2 May, as a broader men's lifestyle channel with a completely new programming line-up. ITV is also weighing up plans to use the earlier part of the 18-hour Men and Motors slot to launch a children's channel. The ...
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Broadcast backs skills day
Broadcasthas teamed up with Skillset, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BSkyB, Pact and Bectu to back National Skills Day on Thursday, 26 May. The day will highlight the need for a skilled workforce with a series of events from job swaps to yoga lessons. For more information visit www.skillset.org.
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Pilsworth launch
Mick Pilsworth, the former Chrysalis TV chief has launched his new company, Motive Television plc, with plans to buy up to 10 medium-sized independent producers. The plans have been kicked off with Pilsworth heading a management buyout of Setanta Television, the TV production arms of sports broadcaster Setanta. He now ...
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NewsSalmon takes on chief exec role at TV Corp
Peter Salmon is to become chief executive of TV Corporation, after quitting as head of BBC Sport.
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News2.7m see Paxman v Blair
Jeremy Paxman's confronation with the Prime Minister Tony Blair may have gained acres of media coverage but the interview could only manage a peak audience of 2.7 million (13%) at the end.
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Diverse packs off rude Brits to India
Indie producer Diverse is giving ill-mannered Brits the chance to brush up their behaviour at an Indian finishing school, in a new series for Channel 4.