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Teletrex FCo deal
Broadcast monitoring services company Teletrex has signed a three-year deal to monitor British Satellite News, the news service for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Teletrax will monitor usage of the service, a daily news feed reporting UK events to broadcasters across the world. Channels monitored include al-Jazeera in the Middle ...
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Flextech Creative in crime spree
Flextech Creative Services has created the title graphics for Granada Factual's Costa Del Street Crime. The Bravo series captures the mayhem of the Costa Del Sol's package resorts through the eyes of those trying to police them. Commissioned by FCS creative director Anthony Van Someren, the titles, featuring a gun ...
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Goldcrest buys kit
Soho facility Goldcrest has installed Xytech's Express Asset Management software to manage its audio mixing, dry-hire and production office facilities. Goldcrest bought Xytech's Workflow Core and Scheduling Modules at this year's IBC, and the Express software will be the reference and information source for 19 of the facility's 23 staff.
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Broadcast Live to launch in June
Broadcast Live - a new event which focuses on all stages of content creation, management and delivery - will launch in the summer, replacing the Broadcast Production Show.
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Frontier brings cheer to Slough
Frontier Post has completed the post on Optomen Television's Making Slough Happy for BBC2. The 4 x 58-minute series follows six specialists as they try and improve the contentment of Slough residents. Niels Bellinger and Francis Buchanan did the offline on Avid with John-Paul Davidson doing the online and grading ...
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Dudley goes to Blue
Editworks has lost its general manager, Rachael Dudley, to Blue Post Production, where she has been appointed head of business development. Dudley spent 18 months at Editworks, working with clients at production companies such as Celador and Avalon. She had previously worked at Alliance Atlantis and Granada International. Dudley will ...
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Evolutions sets up design and branding arm
Post-production house Evolutions is unveiling its new dedicated design and branding arm which will focus on titles, motion graphics and idents.
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Structuring the void
Scriptwriting gurus Robert McKee and Syd Field point out that structure, conflict, storytelling and character are the central ingredients of any drama - but how can these elements be applied to the documentary process? Jane Marlow quizzes four acclaimed documentarians on the art of their craft.
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C4 pushes for 30-day rights window
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan is seeking a 30-day new media primary rights window, including mobile and video on demand, for all its shows.
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NewsSky high over BBC HDTV move
BSkyB has welcomed the move by the BBC to launch a trial of a high definition service, and predicted that almost one in 10 homes will have an HDTV-ready set by the end of next year.
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NewsAvanti to move into supplyingHDTV and broadband
Avanti Screenmedia, the largest supplier of TV to pubs, shops and retail chains in the UK, said it has raised£25m to fund its venture into broadband and high definition television.
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NewsBBC to trial HD over World Cup period
8am: The prospect of the 2006 World Cup broadcast in high definition came a step closer today as the BBC announced it will trial HD broadcasting next year.
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NewsDisney buys European mobilegame developer
10.15am: The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) has bought top Munich-based mobile game developer and publisher, Living Mobile, in preparation for the European rollout of Disney Mobile.
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NewsCapital radio launches podcasting
8am: GCap's Capital 95.8 has become the latest station to launch a podcasting service, highlighting the best bits of its weekday schedule.
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Skaramoosh titles thriller
Skaramoosh has completed the titles for The Best Man, a two-part thriller from Touchpaper Productions about two best friends who share a dark secret. Skaramoosh senior designer Bob Hough conceived the sequence along with producer Hugh Warren. Warren was looking for a simple, clean, uncluttered look, and Hough wanted the ...
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Spooks goes mobile
BBC spy series Spooks has been launched as a Java-based mobile phone game. MS4:Mobile Spooks was developed by interactive media company Magic Lantern and telecoms specialist YDreams Entertainment in conjunction with production company Kudos Film and Television, and contains both stand-alone games to download and a series of mobile Missions ...
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Nat Geo subtitling
National Geographic has chosen Broadcast Text International to provide its subtitling services and signed a 'multi-year' agreement for the Scandinavian feed. The deal will enable National Geographic to access all the aggregated language knowledge within the Broadcast Text Group, including research databases and translation memories.
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Frontline posts interactive Shakespeare
Frontline Television has completed the post-production for BBC interactive drama and entertainment's Shakespeare's Stories to accompany BBC1's modern adaptation of the Bard's plays.
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Promax gets Doctor Who preview
Doctor Who visual effects supremos at Mill TV are set to give delegates at Friday's Promax conference the lowdown on work carried out on the first series of the award-winning drama, as well as outlining prospective plans for the new 13-part series. Mill TV producer Will Cohen will be on ...
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Dark Horse makes Mischief
Dark Horse FX has created the titles and branding for Mischief, a new documentary series by BBC documentaries and contemporary factual. It will deal with serious subjects, from binge-drinking to MRSA, in a subversive way. Jean Cramond accomplished the graphic design with Adrian Woodward doing the animation and compositing using ...