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Extra chance to be idol
The deadline for entries for Extreme Idol, the Broadcastand Extreme Music search for a production music star, has been extended to 14 March 2003. Designed to find the UK's best new composers, Extreme Idol is open to anyone with a passion for making TV music. ...
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844/x kit improved
US product manufacturer Media 100 has announced both HD and SD applications for its 844/X editing/compositing product, an expansion of its Genesis Engine media processor. HDX will be demonstrated at NAB in April (and the Production Show in May), and comprises new software and a high-density HDX PCI card that ...
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4MC becomes St Anne's
Post facility 4MC's creative services department - telecine, editing, sound editing and mixing - has been rebranded St Anne's Post as part of Ascent Media's (formerly Liberty Livewire)£5.5m investment in the company. Ascent has put£1.3m aside to build and improve the HD and SD telecine department, headed by colourist Vince ...
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NewsSky One's Marsh moves on
BSkyB has confirmed its deputy director of broadcasting Kate Marsh will be joining News Corporation's Italian pay-TV outfit Stream, to develop new channels, following the company's appointment of Sara Ramsden as controller of Sky One, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBBC's Stevenson quits
BBC joint director of factual and learning Michael Stevenson, the driving force behind the BBC's Digital Currriculum, has quit the corporation following allegations over improper dealings with a potential partner for the initiative, writes Luke Satchell
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Born loser
Marion and Geoff, a series of 10-minute TV monologues by a jilted minicab driver, made a surprise star of Rob Brydo...
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Suicide bid on CCTV may herald new privacy law
A man whose suicide attempt was captured by his local CCTV cameras and released to newspapers and TV companies won ...
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New TV boss
Jane Lighting, who runs the cable a satellite TV company Flextech, is to become chief executive of Channel Five. ...
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BBC slated for free school software
RM and 17 other educational software providers yesterday demanded clarification from the Government over its decisi...
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£7,000 award for man after suicide bid is show on TV
A man whose life was saved when he was filmed by a security camera as he tried to cut his wrists in a town centre w...
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Celebrity fights KO'd
The BBC has scrapped a series of celebrity bouts after the British Boxing Board of Control threatened to revoke the...
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C-word allowed to make debut on BBC television
BBC switchboard operators are braced for a tide of complaints tonight, on a scale not seen since the newscaster Pet...
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Gwyneth to play Wallis
America's most-feted young actress is to play America's most controversial divorcee in one of Britain's greatest lo...
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NewsBBC plans ?Iraq Day'
The BBC's landmark day of programming devoted to transport issues - the third in its current affairs series following those on the NHS and crime - is to be postponed in order to make way for special programming on Iraq, it has been confirmed, writes ...
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NewsTelewest launch for Discovery Health
Discovery Networks Europe has renewed its carriage deal with cable operator Telewest in a new three-year arrangement that will see Discovery Health launched on the platform for the first time, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsJowell moves to safeguard Five programming
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell has moved to head off a showdown with the House of Lords amid fears peers will try to bar Rupert Murdoch from making a bid for Five, writes David Rose
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NewsBBC 4 resurrects After Dark
Seminal late night live discussion show After Dark, which famously saw actor Oliver Reed try to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by digital culture channel BBC 4, writes Leigh Holmwood