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SVC Expands team
SVC has expanded its visual effects department with the promotion of VT assistant Ritchie White to junior Inferno/Flame artist. White is a fine art graduate who has been working on Inferno and Flame projects at SVC for a year. Credits include spots for Playstation 2, Virgin Megastore, Irn Bru and ...
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UPC Appoints DMC head
UPC has appointed former TV-am chief engineer Jonathan Try to head its Digital Media Centre (DMC) in Amsterdam as vice-president of broadcast operations and engineering. Try joins DMC from RTL Group where he was director of operations for UK Playout Services. Previous roles include MTV Networks Europe vice-president of technical ...
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New sales boss at BT
Digital television engineering specialist Broadcast Technology has taken on BarcoNet UK broadcast sales manager Gilbert Viegas as key account manager. Before joining BarcoNet, Viegas worked for Leitch and Avitel
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Lights poaches short
Lighting supplier Lights Camera Action has appointed Dave Short to the role of sales office manager for the Greenford office. Short has worked in the lighting industry for 15 years and joins from rival London firm Lighting Technology Sales
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Frontline hires two
Frontline Television has just expanded its team with two staff. Editor/designer James Johnson joined this week from London Post and will work on Editbox and Avid DS. Sally Brading joined last week as tape operator after working initially for Digital Arts and then as a freelancer
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Hill joins The TV set
Nats Post Production business development manager Sara Hill joined The Television Set last week, taking on a similar role but working across the group's three businesses - London Post, Arena Digital and The TV Set. Hill joins The Television Set after four years at Nats. Before that, she worked at ...
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Studio 1 is solid home
Olympic Studios, the recording facility famed for its Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix recording sessions, is the home of the UK's first XL 9000 K series console from Solid State Logic. The 80-channel desk has been installed in the recently refurbished Studio 1
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NewsITV and Sky pip BBC to Champions League rights
The BBC's best efforts to reclaim its status as Britain's premier terrestrial sports broadcaster were dashed last night as the rights to Champions League matches for the next three years were handed to ITV and BSkyB in a£249 million deal, writes Luke Satchell
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Everyone should be able to laugh at themselves even if they're in a wheelchair...that's why I'm in The Office
Actress Julie Fernandez has broken 100 bones and had 70 ops - but that has not stopped her landing a role in a top ...
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Hutchinson launch 3G with 'friendly' users
The mobile phone operator Hutchinson 3G is to launch its long-awaited third generation mobile phone services in the...
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Sky and TV win rights to total coverage in£240m deal
The BBC's latest attempt to reassert itself as a major source in sports broadcasting was thwarted yesterday when BS...
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Murdoch still in race for DirecTV
Rupert Murdoch may get a second chance to acquire DirecTV following reports that federal regulators in Washington a...
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Sky and ITV footie deal just champion
Telly giants Sky and ITV last night won the rights to screen Champions League football for three seasons. ...
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ITV and Sky secure Champions League for three years
BSkyB and ITV yesterday cone the domestic rights top the Champion League from 2003 to 2006 in a n£80 million per-y...
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DirecTV merger likely to be blocked
The proposed merger of America's two largest satellite television operator's is likely to be blocked by antitrust r...
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Emap forecasts rise in first-half profits
Emap, the magazines and commercial radio group, yesterday produced a generally optimistic trading statement that fo...
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Broadcast regulators appointed to Ofcom
The government has decided to pack the board of Ofcom, the new super-regulator for the communications industries, w...
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News Corp in cut-price deal for Telepiu
Vivendi Universal, is poised to accept a sharply reduced takeover bid for Telepiu;, its Italian pay-TV arm, as part...
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DT sweetens its cable TV move
Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications group will today announce a range of restructuring measures at its ...
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News Corp keeps eye on EchoStar merger
If creation of pay-TV giant is blocked by regulators, it could trigger renewed interest from the Murdoch camp. ...