Broadcast News Archive for July, 2001
31/07/2001 BBC INVESTIGATE SERIOUS COMPLAINTS
THE BBC Programme Complaints Bulletin, published on July 27, underlines the BBC's commitment to investigating serious complaints independently of the interests of programme makers. It is a necessary

31/07/2001 BIDDING CLOSES FOR ITV NEWS
BIDDING for the contract to supply news to ITV closed on Tuesday July 31 with ITN facing competition from the consortium Channel Three News. The tender by Channel Three News is the first to threaten

31/07/2001 CODE RED “A REAL AND PRESENT THREAT TO THE INTERNET’
ENTROPY, the Dublin based Internet security company, has warned Irish companies to again be vigilant about the Code Red computer virus. The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Centre has issued

31/07/2001 HHB PROVIDES FOCAL POINT AT IBC
RECOGNISING that the vast array of video technology on show will place demands on the time of most IBC visitors, professional audio specialists HHB Communications are designing their stand as a refere

31/07/2001 ITC COMMENT ON BRASS EYE
THE ITC Chairman Sir Robin Biggam has spoken to Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State, and reassured her that the ITC is, and will be, fulfilling all of its obligations in relation to the complaints ab

31/07/2001 MCMILLAN APPOINT POWER TO TEAM OF EXPERTS
McMillan have announced that they have appointed Steve Power, former European Support Team Leader for Sonic Solutions, to their nationwide team of experts. The company are one of the leading reseller

31/07/2001 MY TV NETWORK ANNOUNCE PROFITABLE START
MY TV Network launched their Portsmouth station at the start of June and according to sales logs were the most successful Restricted Service Licence (RSL) to go on air. My TV Network had an income of

31/07/2001 VOD TO BE RE-LAUNCHED ON KIT
VIDEO-ON-Demand (VOD) is being re-launched on KIT, the broadband interactive television service from Hull-based Kingston Communications, which have announced that they are to carry Yes Television’s fi

30/07/2001 CHANNEL 4 LAUNCH 4CREATIVE
CHANNEL 4 ARE pioneering a new creative offering with the launch of 4creative, a creative resource specialising in the conception, design and delivery of Television related cross platform marketing co

30/07/2001 ELECTROGRAPH DELPHI TO DISPLAY NEW TECH AT IBC 2001
ELECTROGRAPH Delphi have specialised for the past three years in the development of digital technology with plasma monitors. This year at IBC, for the first time, they have on display their Direct D

30/07/2001 ITC FINE LWT £100,000
The ITC have announced a financial penalty of £100,000 on licensee London Weekend Television (LWT) for breaches of the ITC Code of Programme Sponsorship in the series ‘Club@vision’. The series, which

30/07/2001 KEMP TO JOIN ITV
MARTIN KEMP is to join ITV on a two-year exclusive contract. He will leave ‘Eastenders’ when his contract expires in April 2002 and will join ITV in May. Kemp joined ‘Eastenders’ in October 1998 as S

30/07/2001 NEW QUARTZ ROUTERS AT IBC 2001
SIX NEW exhibits plus new options for the QMC Master Control Switcher will be introduced by Quartz on stand 9.439 at IBC 2001. Quartz now offers one of the largest and most comprehensive router rang

30/07/2001 NEW SOLUTIONS CERTIFY WITH G4 POWER MAC
Media 100, one of the leading providers of digital media design and delivery solutions, have announced that their Media 100 i, and Media 100 ICE solutions, the company's high performance hardware acce

30/07/2001 TARDIS TWO HITS THE ROAD
DEMAND for the unique facilities of Total Audio Solutions' TArdiS digital recording vehicle have led the company to build a second machine. Imaginatively labelled "TArdis Two", this second vehicle is

30/07/2001 UNUSUAL NEW CUSTOMER SUITE AT AVITEL NEARS COMPLETION
AVITEL have settled in well to their new premises, and recruitment has started for administration, sales and technical staff. This has revealed a gap in their capabilities, however, since they no lo

27/07/2001 BECTU MEMBERS TO BOYCOTT APPRAISAL INTERVIEWS
BECTU HAVE told members to refuse appraisal interviews as soon as they are scheduled. BBC unions are currently running a boycott of the interviews following the collapse of talks on the Corporation's

27/07/2001 CARLTON TELEVISION HONOUR PERMANENT POSTS
CARLTON TELEVISION have honoured a pledge to give contract staff permanent posts. As part of the pay settlement agreed in March, the company promised that any staff who had been on short term contrac

27/07/2001 FILM COUNCIL APPOINT ELDRIDGE AS POLICY EXECUTIVE
THE FILM Council have announced the appointment of Pippa Eldridge as Policy Executive. Eldridge will play a key role in supporting the work of the two senior policy executives Aidan McDowell and Chri

27/07/2001 HOLDAN ANNOUNCE SHIPPING OF V2.5 SOFTWARE
HOLDAN have announced the shipping of v2.5 software for the Applied Magic ScreenPlay stand-alone, real-time NLE editing system. The upgrade is issued by CD ROM, free of charge to all registered user

27/07/2001 INPUT VIDEO'S VIRTUAL STUDIO BOOKINGS STEADILY GROW
SINCE the opening of West London based Input Video Facilities’ Orad Virtual Studio and digital gallery at the beginning of the year, the company has seen bookings for the facility steadily grow. Chan

27/07/2001 ITC APPOINT NEW MEDIA AND PR OFFICER FOR NI
THE ITC have appointed Richard Good as Media and Public Relations Officer to their Belfast office. The newly created post is part of a strategy to develop six centres of excellence across the nations

27/07/2001 MURRAYPRO OFFER EIGHT LCD MONITORS IN SINGLE 1U CASE
DESIGNED for space critical applications and available now, Murraypro’s multi-LCD Octo-Vu provides the definitive, cost effective, solution to situations where many channels require monitoring simulta

27/07/2001 RUSHES ANNOUNCE FINAL FESTIVAL SHORTLIST
RUSHES POSTPRODUCTION have announced the final short list for this year¹s festival, which will take place between July 28 to August 3 2001. The quality of this year’s entries, which numbered over 850

26/07/2001 365DIGITAL ANNOUNCE NEW MATROX PRODUCTS
MATROX DISTRIBUTORS 365digital have announced the release of additions to the world’s favourite non-linear editing platform range, the Digisuite Max. The new product release will provide opportunitie