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NewsPepper shows Scars for Kudos
Pepper has completed the post on Scars, a new one-off docu-drama from Kudos, directed by Leo Regan. Filmed in the style of a feature-length interview, it stars Jason Isaacs as Mark, a man who struggles to come to terms with the consequences of his violent ...
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ITV tests HD
ITV has installed a trial HD playout facility at its Southern Transmission Centre. The facility, installed by system integration specialist Broadcast Network, was built to coincide with ITV's HD coverage of the World Cup in Germany. The contract included designing, building and commissioning a new HD playout channel to be ...
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Garcia takes reins
Branding consultancy Turquoise has promoted associate director Linda Garcia to managing director. Garcia takes over from Sharon Wheeler, who will oversee the business and strategic development of Turquoise in the UK and Middle East, following the launch of Turquoise Dubai. Turquoise's recent projects include rebranding Irish broadcaster TV3.
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Sky HD encoders
BSkyB has invested in seven Snell & Wilcox Memphis encoders to master content for its new HD services. The systems will be used alongside Omneon servers to offer the broadcaster increased interoperability for playout and archiving applications.
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Condor Post closes doors and lays off half its staff
Soho-based broadcast and commercials facility Condor Post Production has shut down because of financial problems.
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Prime targets Clear for takeover
Indian media giant Prime Focus has hit the acquisition trail again buying commercials and graphic design house Clear Post Production through its newly acquired subsidiary VTR plc.
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Broadband TV for Cartoon Network
Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network is gearing up for the launch of a broadband TV service called SuperCartoonNetwork.co.uk.
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Red Bee playout win
Red Bee Media has won the contract to play out Five's new digital channels, Five Life and Five US. The new channels, launching across all digital platforms in the autumn, will be played out from Red Bee Media's Broadcast Centre in west London. Red Bee already supplies disaster recovery, signing ...
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Autodesk launch
Autodesk has launched a digital colour grading system designed for working on HD television commercials and programming, as well as HDTV film projects. The Lustre HD is aimed to offer real-time primary and secondary colour correction and real-time formatting of video deliverables using advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) technology - ...
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Arqiva uplinks
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract with interactive TV specialist Cellcast to provide the uplinking facilities for interactive channel Majestic TV. Arqiva also uplinks four other channels managed by Cellcast via the Eurobird satellite onto the BSkyB platform, including Get Lucky TV, You TV, You TV3, and Game Network.
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Addiction titles Transmission
Addiction has created the title sequence and graphics for At It Productions' Transmission with T-Mobile. The 12 x 60-minute music show, presented by Steve Jones and Lauren Laverne, features live performances from music artists in a different UK venue each week. Addiction designer Paul Clements ...
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BDA shoots Movies 24 idents
BDA has created the new channel idents for Movies 24, a new channel from Sparrowhawk Entertainment dedicated to made-for-TV movies. Each narrative ident represents different strands in the schedule and include a vase dropping to the floor and shattering, and a set of pearls falling to a desk.
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NewsRDF to launch own on-demand service
RDF Media is planning to launch its own on-demand broadband service offering viewers the chance to download programmes made by RDF and other indies.
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NewsBBC's website proves to be World Cup favourite
World Cup coverage on the BBC's website has seen it take a 58% share of traffic to sports and gambling websites during the tournament, according to figures from internet research group Nielsen/NetRatings.
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NewsBectu wants freelance recognition at the BBC
Broadcasting union hopes to get the backing of the freelance community to help it contest a new corporation-wide rate card.
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Bob the Builder goes interactive
Hit Entertainment has struck a deal with US games-on-demand network TVHead to develop interactive games based on a number of its hit characters, including Barney, Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder and ...
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BBC Motion Gallery strikes mobile deal
BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales arm of BBC Worldwide, has struck a deal with content aggregator Media Gateway to distribute BBC archive content to mobile phone and internet users in Europe and the Middle East .
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NewsMobile deal for Baby Cow world cup song
A teaser of Baby Cow's new animation Fulking Hillwill appear on mobiles ahead of a TV commission, following a deal brokered with Phones International Group by Target Entertainment.