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AUTODESK SHARES PLUMMET AFTER PROFITS FALL SHORT
Shares in Autodesk, which recently acquired editing and effects manufacturer Discreet Logic, fell sharply last week after the company warned of weaker than expected first quarter results. Autodesk shares dropped nearly
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M2 TAKES STAKE IN ROCKERS FM
Soho facility M2 is taking a stake in Rockers FM, the consortium bidding for London's last remaining analogue FM licence. M2 managing director Bill Cullen said the company was looking at
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NewsCNNi to join Jalipo TV
Online TV service Jalipo is to distribute CNN International's 24-hour news and feature programming to its subscribers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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CROZIER SIGNS ON FOR OPTICAL IMAGE
Midlands-based facility Optical Image Broadcast has appointed David Crozier as head of production and development. Crozier, who has recently worked for independent producers Workhouse and Look Lively TV, will spearhead Optical's
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BROADCAST ASIA 2000 PICKS IBC AS CONSULTANT
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) will act as consultants to Far East show Broadcast Asia 2000. IBC has appointed Martin Salter, formally director of strategic marketing for Philips Digital Video Systems,
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PANASONIC HAILS US SUCCESS OF LATEST VTR
Panasonic is claiming to have sold its latest AJ-HD150 DVCPro vtr to over 70 stations in the US. The vtr, launched at last month's NAB exhibition, features an optional HD upconverter
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SVC shuts White City studio
Soho commercials facility SVC is to close its White City motion control studio, the last remaining large-scale motion-control operation in central London.SVC head of digital effects Tom Horton said the closure
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Euro venture MAX leaves UK in cold
The exclusion of UK involvement in new pan-European facilities alliance MAX, due to launch at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (May 15), is not a 'snub' to British facilities, claims
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Media 100 snaps up Terran Interactive
Media 100 has acquired US internet-video, DVD and audio compression specialist Terran Interactive for an undisclosed sum. It will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100 from its California
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The Computer Film Company (CFC) has completed what it claims is the first successful and commercially distributed video-to-film transfer for Imax. Tunnels, showing at the Pepsi London Imax theatre, is
The Computer Film Company (CFC) has completed what it claims is the first successful and commercially distributed video-to-film transfer for Imax. Tunnels, showing at the Pepsi London Imax theatre, is the
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Four Media plans further acquisitions
Four Media Company looks set to make further UK and European acquisitions in addition to last week's takeover of the TVP Group (Broadcast, 6.5.99).Four Media vice-president of investor relations Sandra C
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Euronews' Baer is replaced by deputy
James Baer, managing director of ITN-operated Euronews, has unexpectedly left the pan-regional 24-hour broadcaster.Baer resigned at a board meeting last Friday (7 May) and has been replaced by his deputy, Martyn
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NRW plans Cologne programming market
Former RTL maniging director Helmut Thoma is working with the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government in Germany to launch an international TV programming market in Cologne next year, writes Martin Blaney.NRW
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Unseen BBC footage on web
The BBC is to post unaired footage from genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?on a website linked to a new tie-in magazine.
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Fox takes majority stake in NatGeo
Fox Entertainment Group, the US arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has confirmed it is to take a 50 per cent majority stake in the National Geographic Channel (NGC), writes Colin Grimshaw.
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NBC TO SPIN OFF INTERNET BUSINESS
NBC is to spin off its internet interests into a stand-alone outfit, NBC Internet, which has projected revenues of up to $70 million (£42.7 million) this year and a stock market
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CANAL+ SUBSIDIARY SETS UP INTERNATIONAL CO-PRO ARM
Le Sabre, a subsidiary of Canal+'s principal production arm, Ellipse, is setting up an English-language international co-production arm, Pole International de Co-productions Televisuelles de Reference Europeenne (Picture). The new outfit is
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ZDF DRAWN TO BBC WORLDWIDE EVEREST FILM
BBC Worldwide has pre-sold Lost on Everest, the BBC feaures documentary about the successful search for the body of climber George Mallory, to ZDF in Germany. Worldwide has invested in the
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DEBATE BEGINS ON NEW FRENCH BROADCASTING LAW
Parliamentary debate is to start on France's new broadcasting law, personally sponsored by prime minister Lionel Jospin, on Tuesday (18 May). Culture and communication minister Catherine Trautmann has promised the legislation
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REUTERS TV OPENS DOORS ON NEW EUROPEAN BUREAUX
Video news agency Reuters Television has opened four new bureaux in Europe, bringing its total number of offices in the region to 22. Four video journalists have been appointed to staff