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CAMBRIDGE - Tech and info swamp audience
Time-poor viewers are being bombarded with too much technology and a surplus of information according to Martin Hayward, chairman of research company The Henley Centre, writes Katy Elliott.Speaking in a session
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INTERVIEW - Banking on the arts
While LWT controller of arts Melvyn Bragg celebrates The South Bank Show's 25th anniversary, he offers some advice on the arts to the BBC, whose top job failed to tempt him last year.
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COMMUNITY CHANNEL PLANS ARCHIVE TRAWL
Charity outlet The Community Channel, which is backed by the Media Trust, is commemorating its first year of operation with a new-look schedule from 1 October. The channel is available via
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ITV Unions takes anti-cuts stance
Newly established pan-union body ITV Unions has agreed to oppose cuts in programme budgets and any future compulsory redundancies from ITV companies, writes Simon Ellery.At its first meeting this week, the
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ANALYSIS SPECIAL
News of the events that shook the world last week briefly resulted in a spirit of camaraderie between networks and non-affiliated channels. The scramble to be first, however, is resuming rapidly.
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FREE TO AIR - Letting images take over
In some situations, words are wholly inadequate - a sentiment that was vividly illustrated by the unthinkable events of last week.Even the wordy broadsheets for once allowed the pictures to do
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CAMBRIDGE - TV enjoys golden age
There never was a golden age of television and Britain is 'on the verge of a new relationship with the winking box in the corner of our living rooms,' Endemol UK
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IBC figures fall after US attack
The International Broadcasting Convention held in Amsterdam this week did not suffer as badly as some feared following last week's terrorist attacks in the US, although attendance was about 30 per
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OFF THE RECORD - After dinner fags
Whispers from the hallowed halls of King's College during Friday's RTS Cambridge convention dinner leaked back to Off the Record scouts, perched in the rather less salubrious confines of the hack
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RATINGS - Terrorism propels viewers to current affairs
The controversial BBC 1 Question Time Special debating the terrorist attacks in the US grabbed the nation's attention last week, writes Jon Rogers.According to unofficial overnights, the discussion on Thursday (13
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Pinnacle acquires Fast Multimedia
Pinnacle Systems is to buy Germany's Fast Multimedia for $15m (£10m) in a cash and stock deal, writes Barbara Marshall.In the surprise move, revealed at IBC this week, Pinnacle will acquire
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Top execs complain about regulation
The majority of delegates at last week's RTS Cambridge convention thought the UK was over regulated but the audience was equally split on whether it mattered, according to a vote after
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SMOKE JOINS AAF
Smoke & Mirrors has joined the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association - a cross-industry group set up to promote open-source technology and file format compatibility. 'It's so important to the future
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5D brings a fresh look to grading with Colossus
A 'fresh approach' is how Band of Brothers colourist Luc Rainey described Colossus, the new turn-key grading package from 5D, writes Barbara Marshall.The real-time calibrated system aimed at the filmic end
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C4 BOSS SAYS NO TO RACE
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam this week ruled himself out of the race to become C4's next chief executive. 'Due to personal reasons, unrelated to work, he feels it
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C4 names head of sport
Channel 4 has promoted David Kerr to be its first head of sport in a bid to boost the genre as C4 deputy director of programmes Karen Brown leaves the broadcaster,
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C4 to make showbiz doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon Ellery.Ordered by commissioning editor, factual
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BBC 3 to be resubmitted
The BBC plans to get back to media secretary Tessa Jowell 'very quickly' with a revised proposal for BBC 3, following the shock of having the core channel rejected.Jowell rejected the
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NEWS SPECIAL - IBC IN AMSTERDAM 14 - 18 SEPTEMBER - BBC unveils 3-frame delay radio camera
BBC Research & development (R&D) has reduced the frame delay on its radio camera to three frames and is gearing up to make the technology commercially available, writes Barbara Marshall.The camera,
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ITV 1 deadline set for satellite launch
ITV will launch its main channel ITV 1 on digital satellite by November whether it has struck a deal with BSkyB or not, write Colin Robertson and Steve Aston.Carlton Channels chief