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'Soho-style' facility to drive LPC growth
RTL-owned London Playout Centre (LPC) plans to add a 'Soho-style' post-production facility to its Stephen Street base as part of a bid to become a full-service facility house, writes Barbara Marshall
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Mixdown and Arena unveil new audio suites
London-based Arena Digital and Mixdown Audio have both opened new audio suites in the past few weeks, writes Barbara Marshall
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Face-offs promote Freeview
Artem and Clear Post-Production are behind the effects for the commercial launching the BBC's digital service Freeview, writes Barbara Marshall
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QVC sells Christmas
Christmas is coming early to QVC which launches its seasonal look this weekend. Produced and directed by Chris Clarkson, the idents feature a range of costumes designed by Marlin Persson, with make-up by Andrew Savage. The images were shot in-house and composited and finished in Flint and Editbox. The QVC ...
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Presteigne buys kit
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought two wireless camera systems from Link Research making it the first hire company to offer the system. The LinkXP system won the IABM Peter Wayne award for design and innovation at this year's International Broadcast Convention and is also up for an RTS Technical Innovation ...
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King-Britton goes S&M
Visual effects firm Smoke & Mirrors has appointed Rebekah King-Britton to jointly head its 3D department in a bid to attract more broadcast work. King-Britton's recent credits include channel idents and launches for Channel 4 and Paramount Channel. She started her career at Electric Image and then moved to Drum, ...
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Pace in Irish NTL deal
Pace Micro Technology has signed a new supply contract with NTL Ireland, Ireland's largest multichannel TV operator. The contract will see Pace supply NTL Ireland with its Di300 set-top box for the next two years
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Sony profits improve
Sony Corporation has improved its year-on-year financial position in its second quarter despite relatively flat sales of Yen 1,789.7bn (£9.3bn). The electronics giant managed to convert a net loss of Yen 13.2bn (£70m) in the quarter ended 30 September 2001 into a net profit of Yen 44.1bn (£230m) in the ...
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Imagina scheduled
Imagina, the international festival for digital images, will be held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco from 3 to 6 February next year. The event, now in its 21st year, combines a conference programme with awards and an exhibition covering 3D, virtual reality and animation. It will also feature for ...
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NewsCarlton's Murphy to join Kingfisher
Carlton chief executive Gerry Murphy has finally confirmed his next move - he will quit the ITV broadcaster in February to join the retail group Kingfisher in the same role, writes Steve Aston
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NewsDyke seeks talks with Jowell over fines
BBC director general Greg Dyke is to seek talks with media secretary Tessa Jowell following her decision to impose fines of up to£250,000 on the BBC for breaches over standards, taste and decency and production quotas, writes David Rose
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Radio DJ Fox tipped off on 'twist'
POP Idol Judge Neil Fox told radio listeners on Thursday to watch out for a 'dramatic twist? on Popstars: The Rival...
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Strop Stars
Raging Pete Waterman hit back in the Popstars 'fix? row yesterday ' branding fellow telly judge Louis Walsh 'a f***...
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Hit Entertainment sells shares for£4.76 million
Hit Entertainment, the media group behind children's characters such as Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine,...
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Have I got a P45 for you
Shamed Angus Deayton was yesterday axed from Have I Got News For You over sex and drug revelations. ...
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BBC faces fines for breach of standards
The BBC should be fined for basic breaches of broadcasting rules, the Government said yesterday. ...
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AOL chief urges break-up as split grows in board
Further signs of a split at the top of AOL Time Warner emerged yesterday when chairman Steve Case was reported to h...
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There is no viable alternative to the television licence fee
Today is an important day in the development of British television, for it sees the launch of Freeview - a new digi...
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'Pro-hunt' TV show criticised
A BBC2 series featuring Clarissa Dickson Wright has been criticised for a second time for its pro-hunting bias. Te...