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    OMNEON'S NEW SERVER.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions. The

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    SONGS OF PRAISE PLANS NHS TRIBUTE.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Peter Williams Television has been commissioned to make a special Songs of Praise edition paying tribute to NHS staff. The 30-minute special, due to air on BBC 1 in mid-June, will

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    World Service for NY Times.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    BBC World Service content is to be made available to users of the New York Times website after the BBC completed one of the first agreements of its kind, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Trade Talk - Sharp operator.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Given his undoubted intellect and political nous, does it matter that new LWT boss Christy Swords has little experience of programme-making?

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    In My View - Simon Shaps.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    On how heritage TV drama could have more staying power internationally than formats

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    TEEN SPIRITED.

    2002-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 controller of acquisitions June Dromgoole has bought a 22 x 30-minute teen comedy series from the creators of Frasier for C4

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    BBC 2 beats sister channel with Food Junkies

    2002-04-11T14:41:00Z

    First part of study on the nation's eating habits sees off BBC 1's wildlife documentary Serpent but night belongs to Manchester United and ITV 1

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    PROMAX & BDA Europe 2002 Award Winners

    2002-04-11T11:49:00Z

    Promotion Categories:Best Television Image CampaignGold: The Lines You Wish You Said?,Turner Classic Movies, UKSilver: Do Not Campaign,MTV South, ItalyBest Television Image PromoGold: Network

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    Kasenna scoops $20m

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Kasenna, the SGI spin-off that provides video-on-demand (VOD) technology, has raised $20m (£14.4m) in its latest round of funding.Backing came from Sun Micro Systems and SGI among others. According to

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    BBC and Channel 4 win raft of gongs at Promax

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has scooped several gold and silver awards in the promo categories at the Promax and BDA Europe awards, writes Will StraussThe company picked up best on-air programme campaign for

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    Discreet adds asset server to FX family

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Discreet has used NAB this week to unveil a new non-linear digital production environment that, the Montreal-based company claims, is not a replacement for Flame or Inferno but is another complementary

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    Panasonic ties up with Apple

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Panasonic this week unveiled details of 25 new products as well as announcing it is collaborating with Apple on two technologies for the professional video industry, writes Barbara Marshall from NAB in Las Vegas

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    Avid opens up its kit

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    In a bid to further open its technology to third parties, Avid has launched a new partner programme on the back of its MetaSync technology that allows third parties access to

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    Boujou launches

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    2d3 has launched new Boujou products at NAB 2002, aimed at both high-end film applications and entry-level television production.Boujou2 and BoujouVE are extensions of the company's highly rated automated tracking

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    Sony chief says it's digital's year

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Sony president and chief operating officer Kunitake Ando has hailed 2002 as 'the year for digital', writes Barbara MarshallSpeaking at NAB in Las Vegas, Ando singled out the growth of digital

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    Star Wars colour first

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones has been colour graded on Snell & Wilcox's Picasso correction system.Engineers from Industrial Light & Magic used the real-time, disk-based non-linear suite

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    Omneon's new server

    2002-04-11T11:39:00Z

    Omneon Video Networks has launched a next generation media server at NAB which the company hopes will further its position of being the most cost-effective provider of shared storage solutions.The

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    Radio 1 commissions bootleg programme

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Somethin Else has been commissioned by BBC Radio 1 to produce 30-minute programme Get Ur Bootleg On.The programme, to broadcast as part of Lamacq Live at 23.00 on 22 April,

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    Splinter produces C4/QTV rock show

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Splinter Films has been commissioned by Emap Performance managing director of rock Dave Henderson to produce a 4 x 15-minute series for QTV.New To Q will feature various Q magazine

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    Endemol bursts into song for C4

    2002-04-11T11:32:00Z

    Endemol UK production arm Initial has been commissioned to produce a three-part series on the singing voice for Channel 4, which will offer wannabe singers the chance to learn trade secrets