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Turquoise brief
Design and branding company Turquoise has won a contract to rebrand Middle East pay-TV platform Arab Radio and Television (ART). The project includes a brand audit and the subsequent rebranding of ART's 14 channels. Managing director Sharon Wheeler worked with ART chief executive Assad Abulgadail when he worked for Middle ...
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Sony lands contract to bring HD to Royal Opera House
Sony has won a contract to turn the Royal Opera House into a high-definition broadcast studio.
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Magic brings in Park to crack London
Emap has appointed former Capital Radio director of programming Richard Park to spearhead a full strategic review of its Magic 105.4 easy-listening station as part of a plan to build its share in the crowded London market.
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LRC's Liverpool buy
The Local Radio Company (LRC) has made its first acquisition in Liverpool. Music station KCR FM, which launched in June 2001, has been bought for£507,000 and is the 26th station in LRC's portfolio. The station, which will receive its first audience figures from Rajar in January, broadcasts to listeners in ...
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Laughton to head new Celador children's division
Celador International has hired the former managing director of Nelvana Enterprises, Cathy Laughton, to head a new division dedicated to children's programming.
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Moov titles celeb gameshow
Moov has created the title sequence for new BBC1 comedy 29 Minutes of Famefor Angst Productions. The Bob Mortimer-hosted gameshow takes a sideswipe at the overinflated world of celebrity and fame. Designers Nevil Appleton, Graham Clarkin and Jane Aspinwall used 2D still imagery to create a ...
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Five plans children's digital channel
Five is developing a digital channel based on its early morning children's strand Milkshake. A spokesman said Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson was behind the idea, but added that plans had not extended beyond an initial discussion stage. The channel would be called Milkshake.
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Channels scale down tsunami operations
Broadcasters have started to pull resources back from south-east Asia following the Boxing Day tsunami, although all insist they will continue to cover the aftermath of the tragedy in depth.
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Clear Cut posts latest Horizon
Clear Cut Pictures has posted an edition of Horizon: Global Dimming. Dox Productions reveals how global warming could be a more serious, immediate and complicated issue than previously believed, unleashing cataclysmic climate change. Film editor Horacio Queiro cut the offline, colourist Mike Curd graded and onlined. ...
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Granada distribution for comedy duo
Granada International has acquired two new comedies for distribution from indie Red Production, including the ITV1 series Dead Man Weds. The 6 x 30-minute series stars Johnny Vegas and Phoenix Nightsactor Dave Spikey, and began its run last week ...
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Oasis completes Twisted Tales
Oasis Television has completed post-production on the first two series of Twisted Talesfor BBC Manchester. The first two runs of the dark comedy will be shown back to back. Senior editors Marc Eskenazi and Robert Burchell graded and onlined the first series, Tim French and Jon ...
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DB refits QVC
Systems integrator DB Broadcast has completed work on a new suite of control rooms for UK shopping channel QVC. They replace the channel's original control room, which was built in the early 1990s. DB supplied equipment including eight vision racks, a triax patch panel designed to connect as many as ...
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Telewest deals
Telewest has secured deals to broadcast a trio of new channels, including Channel 4's new venture More 4, which is set to launch in September. The cable company will also carry Teachers' TV and Eurosport 2, formerly Eurosport News, launching this week. Terms have also been renewed with C4 for ...
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No election debate
Prime minister Tony Blair has said he will not participate in a televised debate ahead of the next general election. 'We answer this every election campaign and, for the reasons I have given before, the answer is no,' Blair said at his monthly news conference last week.
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Format Focus: The Dinner Party
First impressions and self-perception collide in this daring mix of reality and quiz show.
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Four new faces to spearhead Diverse factual push
Diverse, the indie behind Channel 4 talent shows Operatunity and Musicality, has begun its push into factual entertainment by appointing four new executive producers.
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NY EastEnders row
EastEndersfans in New York have been told to come up with $29,000 (£15,400) by the end of January to save the BBC soap from being axed by a local public television station. New York station WLIW, which has broadcast the soap since 1996, will stop airing it by the end ...
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VTR loses Endacott
VTR producer Romillie Endacott will join Glassworks as a senior producer from the beginning of next month. Endacott, who resigned last week, replaces senior producer Zoe Rogers who has, coincidentally, joined VTR North. VTR Media Services company Blue has lost two commercials staff, who have joined Ascent Media's One Post: ...
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MotionFX expands
London-based digital film facility MotionFX has added a second Quantel iQ system, Eyeon Digital Fusion vfx workstations, two Thomson Viper FilmStream digital cinematography cameras and a 2K digital screening unit. Justin Lanchbury has joined the company as group sales manager from rental firm VMI.
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ITV lines up pop families in peak
ITV1 is to give two families the chance to become popstars for a night in a Saturday primetime entertainment series.