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TRIBUTES FOR WILCOX
Industry figures have paid tribute to veteran documentary-maker Desmond Wilcox this week, following his death on Wednesday morning (6 September).BBC Scotland head of network programmes Colin Cameron who worked with Wilcox
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Tremor now on Spirint platform
Post Impressions will launch Tremor on its Spirint HD platform when IBC opens this week. The workstation, which started shipping in June, is the first to run the new compositing software
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SNTV offers sports news over the net
Trans World International and APTN joint sports news service SNTV is expanding onto the internet, creating around a dozen new jobs.SNTVi launched on the web last Friday (1 September), providing sports
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OFF THE RECORD - Money troubles
The response to Broadcast's Rich List has spoken volumes: some of those featured have been daft enough to suggest they are even more loaded, while others - particularly in those special
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TIGER TO MAKE SCRATCHCARD MILLIONAIRES FOR LOTTERY
Tiger Aspect Productions, which has teamed up with Richard Branson's The People's Lottery to produce a National Lottery show if he wins the contract, is understood to be planning scratchcards and
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - soaperstar revival
People who don't get out much just can't stop marvelling at the similarities between Carlton Communications chairman Michael Green and the debonair Crossroads' motel owner, David Hunter, played by the late
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OFF THE RECORD - Networking know-how
Did Channel 5 supremos Dawn Airey and David Elstein know quite how worth their while it would be to buy Home and Away from Australia's Seven Network?As a special thank you
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Pinnacle launches new kit
Pinnacle Systems is launching a PAL version of its digital production switcher at IBC on Friday (8 September). The PDS 9000, which was first seen at NAB earlier this year in
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Mentorn mulls opening new regional indie
Mentorn Group is considering opening a new regional office, according to Chris Rowlands, chief executive of the indie's parent company The Television Corporation, writes Tara Conlan.Unveiling a rise in TV Corp's
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MIKE REID TO PRESENT 'RISQUE' HOME VIDEO SHOW FOR ITV
ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has ordered a new six-part home video show from Granada Television, fronted by Mike Reid, alias Frank Butcher from BBC 1's EastEnders. Mike Reid's Late
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OFF THE RECORD - On the hair
There was a time when Disney Channel pontiff Paul Robinson, formerly of Talk Radio, was satisfied with having a face for radio. But telly does funny things to a man and
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Goodwin to quit TWG
The Wireless Group (TWG) managing director Jonathan Goodwin is leaving the radio outfit at the end of September and will not be replaced, writes Georgina Lipscomb.From October his duties will be
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SAT-COMM TO SHOW OFF FLY-AWAY UP-LINK AT IBC
Newmarket-based systems integrator Sat-Comm will be making its debut at IBC this year and will be showing three of its products. Chameleon, a fly-away up-link, is a fully redundant MPE^G2 4:2:2
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - VENICE UNVEILS PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL TV FESTIVAL
A new international television festival is to be held in Venice from 2002, with the plans due to be unveiled this week at the Venice Film Festival. The new event will
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Just Group expands in US
Children's specialist producer Just Group has made its first major strike on the US by hiring a chief executive officer for the country and selling 150 hours of programming to the
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EX-GINGER PRODUCERS LOOKING FOR INVESTORS
Former Ginger Television producers David Grainger and Will McDonald are understood to be looking to raise funds for their new internet/television content venture and have revealed that the start-up will be
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ENTERTAINMENT - Goodbye mainstream, hello niche programming
Tim Ewington lays out the challenges for the major broadcasters as they are increasingly forced to choose between new niche viewers and the heavy-viewing, but gradually disappearing, older audiences.