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Quantel opts out of NAB
The global financial crisis continues to have an impact on the broadcast equipment manufacturing sector with Quantel the latest company to announce that it will not be exhibiting at NAB this year.
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Ionoco adds real-time voting apps
Ionoco is launching new voting and opinion polling applications within its viewer participation products.
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Thomson to sell Grass Valley
Thomson has put its Grass Valley division up for sale after revealing a fall in year-on-year revenues and admitting that it is ‘likely' to breach a debt covenant.
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Framestore producer joins Big Buoy
Big Buoy has recruited post producer Ian Harland from Framestore CFC.
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Clear Cut adds more FCP
Shepherd's Bush facility Clear Cut Pictures has installed a tenth Final Cut Pro (FCP) online and Color grading suite in order to cope with further demand for Mac technology-based post-production and finishing.
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Competition Commission blocks Project Kangaroo
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have failed in their bid to launch a joint video-on-demand service after the Competition Commission blocked their joint Project Kangaroo proposal.
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Response from the Kangaroo partners
The scrapping of Project Kangaroo was 'a missed opportunity' to provide choice for British viewers, the joint venture partners have said.
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Timeline: Project Kangaroo
The life of Project Kangaroo from the first announcement in November 2007 to its demise in February 2009.
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BSkyB seals Premier League rights
BSkyB will remain the dominant force in live Premier League TV coverage until at least 2013 after it retained its existing rights to the competiton.
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BBC drops Carol Thatcher
The BBC has dropped Carol Thatcher as a presenter of BBC1's The One Show after she called a professional tennis player a “golliwog”.
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Super Bowl breaks ratings record
Nearly 100 million viewers tuned in to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday night, making it the most-watched sporting event in US TV history.
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At-a-glance: Project Kangaroo coverage
Browse Broadcastnow’s full coverage of Project Kangaroo including reports, comment and analysis.
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Vinnie Jones to shadow hard cops for ITV4
Vinnie Jones will be returning to ITV4 for another round of World Toughest Cops, but this time will travel around the world to meet them on the front line.
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ITV1 struggles with emergency shows in peak
ITV1 struggled in the key peaktime hours between 8pm and 10pm as shows about the medical and police services failed to make an impression and the commercial network was outgunned by BBC2, Channel 4 and BBC1.
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GTV's football rights set to be sold
The African broadcast rights to the English Premier League, previously held by liquidated pan-African broadcaster GTV, are close to being sold to a new buyer.
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Why Kangaroo stalled
The Project Kangaroo partners failed to convince the Competition Commission that their last-minute proposal for ITV and Channel 4 to sell catch-up rights separately would give third parties a fair chance to buy shows at a fair price.
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Linsey named BBC entertainment commissioner
The BBC has appointed Mark Linsey the new controller of entertainment commissioning, following Elaine Bedell's defection to ITV.
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Parthenon bids to profit from struggling market
Parthenon Entertainment Group chief executive Carl Hall believes distributors will face a tough year and is on the lookout to acquire companies that have “hit the rocks”.
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ITV to reveal more cuts on 4 March
ITV chief operating officer John Cresswell has warned staff to expect more swingeing cost saving measures on 4 March.