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Morphus opens in Soho
A new multi-million pound dry-hire facility, Morphus, opened last week in Soho.The facility offers a choice of eight suites plus 1,200 sq ft of configurable work space. Managing director and one
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Thorpe to leave NTL in rejig
NTL group managing director of interactive services Jeremy Thorpe is expected to leave the company after his brief, which includes the interactive content fund, was taken over by former Cable &
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NOTHING REAL LAUNCHES SHAKE ON LINUX SYSTEM
Los Angeles-based Nothing Real's high-end compositing software Shake is now available on the Linux operating system. Version 2.3 is the company's first release to support Linux and the company claims it
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RUSHES ONLINE JOINS THE MARKETPLACE
Rushes is the latest posthouse to launch an online service for clients.Rushes Online will enable clients to make bookings online for services such as broadcast playout of commercials to the ITV
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Oscar winner joins Manex
Senior compositor Jon Thum is leaving Soho's Computer Film Company (CFC) to join Manex Visual Effects in San Francisco, writes Joanna Scott.Thum was recently lead compositor for CFC's effects work on
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Thompson: new ITV news must stay
BBC director of television Mark Thompson has urged the Independent Television Commission (ITC) not to move the ITV Nightly News back to 22.00, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Speaking at a Royal Television Society
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NOW jobs may go
New internet TV venture Network of the World (NOW), which is backed by TWI and Asian media giant Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), is bracing itself for a wave of job cuts,
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PEARSON GOES INTO GAMES
Pearson Television Enterprises is to launch a 'major initiative' next year looking into setting up an interactive games channel. The as-yet-unnamed channel will be available across all digital distribution platforms -
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FUTURE OF ITV - Vision of a unified state
As the federalist ITV moves inexorably towards becoming one harmonised body, Colin Robertson asks what kind of future the respective chiefs of Carlton and Granada, Michael Green and Charles Allen, plan for the Network Centre.
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SKILLSET SPOTLIGHTS FREELANCERS' WORK PATTERNS
Broadcast industry training body Skillset is conducting an industry-wide survey of freelancers in an attempt to identify work patterns and skill gaps. The project updates a previous survey conducted in 1993/94
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Pizazz and Framestore pick up Leafs
Framestore and AKA Pizazz each won two gongs at Tuesday's London Effects and Animation Festival (Leaf) awards, writes Barbara Marshall.Framestore director Tim Webber won the titles, idents and stings category with
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FOX KIDS RESTRUCTURES MANAGEMENT TEAM
Fox Kids UK has restructured its management team into commercial and content divisions and named former BSkyB head of research Tim Patterson (right) as channel editor. Fox Kids UK's commercial director
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INTERVIEW - A moveable feast
Dick Emery, head of UKTV - the BBC/Flextech joint-venture - wants it to be all things to all viewers, and with new sport, music, comedy and drama output planned, he may be about to get the recognition he is chasing.
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Endemol Entertainment UK rejigs for growth
Endemol Entertainment UK has announced a reshuffle in a bid to bolster the group's growth, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Production arm Initial managing director Malcolm Gerrie steps up to become chief executive, with
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OFF THE RECORD - Emotional rescue
Emotions are the new Harvard MBAs, it seems. The new touchy-feely BBC is eschewing the old hard-arsed training techniques which rely too heavily on those overrated qualities: logic, rational thought and
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EMAP SIX-MONTH FIGURES SHOW INCREASED PROFITS ..
Emap (Broadcast's publisher) has announced its interim results for the six months ending 30 September 2000. The results reveal music network Emap Performance increased operating profits by 55 per cent, year
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Tonight gets new editor
Granada controller of current affairs and features Jeff Anderson is to hand over his editorship of the Tonight programme to DMA Media managing director and former ITV news editor David Mannion.Mannion
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EastEnders to up production
The BBC is understood to be in talks to introduce a fifth episode of its flagship soap EastEnders, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Discussions over running five episodes of the soap a week are
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EALING USES OWTANET FOR LOCATION FINDING WEBSITE
Web design company Owtanet has designed a website for Ealing Film Office to promote its location finding service to Hollywood producers. The site will host information about property and locations in
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HORSE-RACING - Down to the wire
The look and feel of TV racing coverage is set to be revolutionised and given broader appeal, despite the debacle over bids to secure global media rights to the UK's 59 race courses.