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New kit at Tele-Cine.
Post-production facility Tele-Cine has added a Virage video logger to its encoding and compression department to provide indexing for encoded video clips used for streaming on the internet. Video logger processes
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Viewers rise at ITV.
ITV increased its viewing share in the fourth quarter of last year to 38.7 per cent following a poor third quarter (35.7 per cent), according to the Institute of Practitioners in
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ITC reviews ITV remit reduction.
ITV is expected to be allowed to scale back key public service television obligations once the new communications act comes into force. Broadcast has learnt of plans being considered by the Independent
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TX - In-depth investigation.
When asked by the BBC to come up with an undercover crime series, Peter Jukes immersed himself in the subject matter in a way few other writers might consider. Rather than
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Hollis quits S&M.
Co-founder of high-end post house Smoke & Mirrors (S&M) Jon Hollis has left the company to become a full-time director. An Inferno artist at S&M, Hollis leaves after five and a
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Giant ups RTL stake.
German media giant Bertelsmann has bought a further 30 per cent stake in the RTL Group, effectively giving it control of the company. It now owns 67 per cent of RTL
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In my view - Wayne Garvie.
After Nigel Lythgoe, isn't it time we saw more TV execs coming out in front of the camera?
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Live video-to-web transfers made faster.
The Grass Valley Group (GVG) is to market an internet encoder which it claims will speed up the process of taking live video straight to the web by combining all the necessary steps into one box, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Off the record - Jargon guide from an exile.
Tip o' the cap to a former Broadcast hotshot who has been exiled to Poland after doing time as a development producer. We'd love to name her but we can't read
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New Eurosport owner undergoes rights review.
The core rights contracts that underpin Eurosport are being renegotiated between the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the channel's new ultimate owner, French broadcaster TF1, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Discovery opens doors.
Discovery Networks Europe is to host its second producers' open day on 1 March for companies looking to produce for the US networks. DNE managing director Joyce Taylor will open the
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Off the record - No relief for SM:TV's Dec.
The Broadcast Awards was awash with the usual schmoozing last week. But M2's commercial lad, Peter Walton - who dished out a whole bunch of money to sponsor one of the
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Hewitt for DCMS?
E-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt is tipped to succeed media secretary Chris Smith if a post-election reshuffle sees him moved. Another name in the frame for the post is schools minister Estelle
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Digital Czar lobby.
On Digital chief executive Stuart Prebble this week urged the government to appoint a senior civil servant as a 'digital czar' to give impetus to the switchover from analogue to digital
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Digi cost too high.
Broadcasting minister Janet Anderson has called on digital radio makers to bring down their prices in an effort to stimulate the market. Speaking at a reception organised by the Commercial Radio
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Comedy zone returns.
BBC 2 is relaunching its former Friday night Comedy Zone on Mondays, writes Georgina Lipscomb. Rebranded Comedy Night and trailed by a virtual Anne Robinson, the dedicated comedy slot will kick
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UKTV reveals first cluster of orders.
UKTV has unveiled the first tranche of orders from its£15m new programming fund, ordering six new series to run on its factual channels UK Style and UK Horizons. OR Media is
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Wark Clements and Star tie for factual offshoot.
Scottish Indie Wark Clements has joined forces with international production outfit Southern Star to set up a new factual programming offshoot, write Colin Robertson and Ashley Davies.
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Chrysalis' revamp goes for scale.
Anyone who observes the changing fashions in industry, not to mention those working for plcs, knows that the pendulum is constantly swinging between a 'small is beautiful' philosophy and a belief
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New rose category.
A new competition category for entertainment and the internet will be launched at the 41st Golden Rose festival, which runs from 26 April to 1 May in Montreux, Switzerland this year.