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Crow TV opens second facility
Crow Television is doubling its capacity by setting up shop on the doorstep of Endemol, Atlantic Productions and National Geographic.
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Deayton to host guru series
ITV1 has commissioned a six-part, studio-based entertainment series, fronted by Angus Deayton, which explores the world of self-help gurus.
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Digital triumphs in Xmas ratings
The terrestrial broadcasters suffered their lowest combined Christmas audience share ever as multichannel broadcasters continued to gain ground.
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Ofcom urges digital radio expansion
Ofcom has proposed a radical expansion of the radio industry, including the launch of at least 100 local digital stations. In the first of a two-stage industry review, a block of local licences is proposed to plug gaps in the UK's digital radio map. On medium wave, 10 new analogue ...
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Sky goes early with Five news
Five brought forward the handover of its news operation from ITN to Sky News by two days following the Asian tsunami disaster. Instead of launching on Monday (3 January), Sky News produced two short updates on the disaster that were broadcast on Five at 9pm on Saturday and Sunday (1 ...
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TSI hires YTA finalist
TSI Post has hired BroadcastYoung Talent Awards best young editor 2004 finalist and non-linear editor Duncan Hill. Hill had worked at Skaramoosh for two years as an offline editor and his credits include Paul Burrell: A Royal Servant, a documentary for October ...
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Resolution gets flint
Resolution has bought Flint and Smoke on Linux, boosting its compositing and visual effects capabilities. The kit was bought through Discreet reseller XTFX.
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New MD for FOR-A
Equipment manufacturer FOR-A has appointed Jackson Kitahara and Haruyuki Tomihara as managing director and technical director. Kitahara returns from the US after setting up the UK branch in 1985 and replaces Hiroshi Nakao who returns to the Tokyo headquarters. Tomihara also moves from the US, where he had been west ...
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Gearhouse serves
Gearhouse Broadcast will be providing host facilities for Australia's Seven Network for the Australian Tennis Open in 2005. Facilities being provided include three edit suites, 59 cameras and seven vision mixers.
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Second outing for The Smoking Room
BBC comedy The Smoking Roomhas been commissioned for a second series. The 8 x 30-minute BBC3 and BBC2 co-commission, which features the humdrum lives of a group of work-based smokers, is due to air in the autumn. It will again be written by Brian Dooley, produced ...
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Smoke for Solden Sq
Soho's Golden Square Post has set up a suite equipped with Discreet's Smoke after buying two Tezros workstations. It has also upgraded another suite with Smoke. Managing director Phil Gillies said: 'The extra Smoke gives us the flexibility to deal with the high-end projects that keep getting thrown at us.'
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NewsReporting the disaster
Broadcasters, like the rest of the world, were caught on the hop when the massive tsunami slammed against the coastlines of a dozen south-east Asian countries early on Boxing Day morning.
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NewsTop ITV Sport job goes to Sharman
Former Sky Networks deputy managing director Mark Sharman is set to be named as ITV's new controller of sport, following Brian Barwick's departure to take over at the Football Association.
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NewsBrook to float Nation 217 on stock market
The Optimistic Network, the interactive business set up by former Channel 4 director of strategy David Brook, is set to float on the Stock Exchange later this month at a value of£27m.
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NewsSky premieres new series of 24 on Freeview
Sky is to show the first episode of the new series of 24on its free-to-air channel Sky Travel as well as Sky One in a bid to lure Freeview viewers who get hooked on the cult series to upgrade to pay-TV.
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First-hand account: Tsunami
Matthew Chance is a London-based CNN correspondent and a member of the international network's team reporting the aftermath of the Asian tsunami.
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Discovery offers Younge US role
BBC Sport head of programmes and planning Pat Younge is set to follow his former BBC colleague Jane Root across the Atlantic after being approached by Discovery Communications to run its Travel Channel.
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BBC pulls plug on Supervolcano
The BBC has shelved its flagship£3m docu-drama about a volcano erupting underneath Yellowstone national park following the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Multichannel the 2004 share victor
Multichannel viewing increased by 11% in 2004, overtaking both BBC1 and ITV1 for the first time.
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BBC slated over Springer
The BBC has received more than 15,000 complaints about its decision to screen an uncut version of Jerry Springer - The Operadays before it has even aired.