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Framestore CFC turns Japanese
Framestore CFC was invited by its client PMC to pitch ideas to Wowow, Japan's biggest satellite channel, for a 10-second channel ident, with a completely open brief. Designer Adam Parry came up with two, both of which have been adopted by the channel. The first ident is called Wave and ...
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Clear doubles in size
Clear Post Production has spent£650,000 on doubling the size of its Soho premises. According to managing director Greg Caplan, most of the money has gone on building new suites, restructuring the offices and buying kit. Clear bought more space in its Great Marlborough Street office in September last year.
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War coverage first
News crews from CNN and Sky have begun using a standard videophone system connected to a specialised tracking satellite phone antenna to shoot what they are calling 'historic images' during coverage of the war with Iraq. CNN told Broadcastthat the antenna has the ability to ...
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National Geographic homes in on hellish creepy-crawlies
National Geographic Channel has commissioned indie Steel Spyda to produce Insects from Hellkicking off with a one-hour special Mosquito Hell. Insects from Hell,is a 6 x 30-minute series, presented by Jake Willers, which looks at ...
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Sony and Panasonic make staff cuts
Two of the industry's biggest kit manufacturers, Sony and Panasonic, have been forced to make a small number of job cuts in their UK operations as a result of the struggling broadcast technology market, writes Sam Espensen.
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Disney to play Faking It for kids
Disney Channel has commissioned a new in-house series with shades of Channel 4's Faking It, which will give young sport stars a crash course in a completely new discipline, writes Paul Revoir.
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Ferdenzi to triangle
Soho 601's Sinead Ferdenzi has joined Triangle Post Production as head of bookings. Ferdenzi had been at the Ascent Media company before it merged with SVC to become One Post, but turned down the offer of a senior role. Managing director Tom Horton said that Ferdenzi's experience with big facilities ...
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Foyle's War to run and run
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott looks to have found his elusive long-running detective series to replace Inspector Morse, writes Jon Rogers.
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Frontline offers HD
Frontline Post Production is to offer HD editing from April, after upgrading its Avid DS. The suite was bought through Root 6 and runs version 6.02 of the software. Managing director Tim Mein told Broadcast: 'We continuously monitor the needs of our clients and feedback tells us that this is ...
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Sci-Fi's latest landings
Sci-Fi channel has picked up the latest series from Buffy the Vampire Slater creator Joss Weedon as part of a batch of programmes from 20th Century Fox. Firefly, set in the wake of a civil war 500 years in the future, will air in 15 ...
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NewsSky/BBC encryption row hits stalemate
The row over the BBC's decision pull out of Sky's encryption services appeared to have deepened this week when a meeting between the two parties ended without any agreement, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsShare gloom for Capital
Capital Radio shares fell 6% today after it predicted first-half radio revenues would be down 5% and said the short-term advertising market was 'uncertain', ahead of the company's interim results due on 15 May, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsRichards lands Ofcom role
Prime Minister Tony Blair's top media advisor - one of the key architects behind the communications bill - has been awarded a principle role in Ofcom, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsThompson re-fuels BBC/Ofcom debate
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has reiterated his call for the BBC to be brought under the new regulator Ofcom, claiming the new regulator will lack vital public service knowledge if the corporation is left to govern itself, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsBBC's Adams blasts bosses over bias
BBC defence correspondent Paul Adams has slammed the corporation for what he has called its 'one-sided' coverage of the war with Iraq, writes Luke Satchell
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Carlton hangs on in fight with investors
ITV broadcaster Carlton Communications survived a shareholders' rebellion yesterday when some powerful City investo...
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Missing ITN cameraman 'was taken injured to Basra'
The cameraman of dead ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was taken injured to a hospital in Basra, it was reported last night...
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Carlton escapes early effects of the war
Carlton Communications, the ITV broadcaster proposing a£2.7bn merger with Granada, has said it is too early to gau...
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Peers fight to prevent press barons buying TV channels
Lord Puttnam, the film producer, is heading a drive by peers to force the Government to ban newspaper proprietors, ...