Broadcast News Archive for August, 2000
31/08/2000 BFI LAUNCH 100 FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMMES
THE BRITISH Film Institute (bfi) is to launch the 100 favourite British TV programmes this week. The list is a result of a poll conducted this year amongst members of the television industry UK-wide.

31/08/2000 CHANNEL 4 FACES BIDDING WAR FOR 'BIG BROTHER'
CHANNEL 4 is expected to face stiff competition from rival channels over the second series of 'Big Brother'. It is understood that ITV Director of Programmes David Liddiment is currently in discussi

31/08/2000 IMAGINE PRODUCT LAUNCH FOR IBC 2000
IBC 2000 will see Imagine Products release its DV Log Pro, a new Windows application for cataloguing video from a FireWire camera or deck. With DV Log Pro, the producer can play video on the computer

31/08/2000 ITC SUSPEND SONY COMMERCIAL
TELEVISION watchdog, The ITC, has suspended a commercial for a Sony Digital Music Player, calling it “unacceptably offensive.” The commercial featured a speeded-up sequence of a teenager being rushed

31/08/2000 KIRCHPAYTV SELLS ITS BSKYB SHARES
GERMANY’S biggest pay-television company KirchPayTv, GmbH has announced that it has sold off all of its 58 million shares in BSkyB. Representing 3.1 per cent of the company, the sell-off will help Ki

31/08/2000 LONDON FILM FESTIVAL GETS NEW TITLE
THE LONDON Film Festival have announced a new title sponsor and a new official name, The 44th Regus London Film Festival (RLFF. This move guarantees funding of more than £1 million over the next thre

31/08/2000 MAJOR PRODUCT LAUNCHES AT IBC FROM PHILIPS
PHILIPS Digital Networks, supplier of digital video broadcast, distribution, transmission and consumer electronics, will demonstrate advances in digital convergence at this year's International Broadc

31/08/2000 MEDIA 100 REMOTE FIELD EDITOR IMPROVED
MEDIA 100 has announced the relaunch of its portable Remote Field Editor (RFE). The unit, designed to be operated under a wide variety of field conditions, has been trimmed down to 30lbs, including

31/08/2000 NEWS 24 AND BBC BULLETINS WILL NOT CHANGE
THE BBC have denied all rumours that it has been considering plans to merge the output of News 24 and BBC News bulletins to form a single centralised news supply. A BBC spokesman said: “There is no

31/08/2000 OMNEON EXPANDS EUROPEAN TEAM
OMNEON Video Networks has appointed Nallathamby Hari as manager of regional development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA region). The company provide networking and storage infrastructur

31/08/2000 RTS QUESTIONS BROADCASTING FUTURE
THE Royal Television Society is set to question the future nature of broadcasting and television in the United Kingdom. The RTS Conference in October will try to identify the winners and losers from

31/08/2000 SCHNEIDER OPTICS, INC.
THE SALES and marketing arm of Schneider-Kreuznach, the German parent company, is providing high-quality filters and lens accessories to help improve the making of motion picture and television featur

31/08/2000 SONIC FOUNDRY AND REALNETWORKS BROADCAST SOLUTION
UNITED States digital media developer Sonic Foundry has announced that Vegas Video will be featured as a video content creation component of a special RealNetworks RealServer Pro 100 broadcast solutio

31/08/2000 TWO FOUR MOVE UP CORPORATE RANKINGS
UK production company Two Four Productions, is now ranked fourth in UK corporate video top ten, based upon commissions, turnover and number of programmed hours. The company’s corporate portfolio incl

31/08/2000 WRITER/DIRECTOR JOINS SCRIPTNET TEAM IN GHANA
WRITER and director Robert Dyke is to join a group of professional screenwriters in Ghana later in the year as part of a Scriptnet 2000 project. Dyke, who wrote and directed the short film ‘Ticks’, w

30/08/2000 AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR AT IBC
WITH movie credits including the multi-Oscar nominated Leaving Las Vegas, director Mike Figgis will be discussing his latest work at IBC 2000. As well as directing other well known movies such as Sto

30/08/2000 BBC CONTROLLER TO BE REPLACED?
ANOTHER radical shake-up at the BBC may result in Peter Salmon, BBC controller being replaced. The on-going changes at the BBC under director general Greg Dyke have caused a great deal of media specu

30/08/2000 BBC GO ALL OUT FOR OLYMPICS
THE BBC has set-up a complex technical operation for coverage of the Olympic Games in Sydney. BBC Resources chief technical coordinator Paul Mason, alongside outside broadcasting engineering manager

30/08/2000 CHANNEL 5 TO END SOFT PORN IMAGE
THE OWNERS of Channel 5 are planning to increase investment in order to distance itself from its image as British Television’s home of soft pornography. RTL Group, the pan-European broadcaster that c

30/08/2000 COMMUNITY CHANNEL LAUNCHED ON SKY
THE MEDIA Trust's Community Channel, the UK television channel dedicated to promoting the work of the charity and voluntary sector, is all set for transmission on Sky Digital this September. The fir

30/08/2000 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOR SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND’S ongoing freedom of information debate took another turn today, as it was reported that Justice Minister Jim Wallace is to hold talks with the Irish Government on the issue. Scotland’s prop

30/08/2000 HART SHARP BOARDS SECOND UK FILM
HART SHARP, a New York based production outfit, has boarded its second UK picture within a year. ‘Lily and the Secret Planting’ will be co-produced with the UK’s Sarah Radclyffe Productions and Straw

30/08/2000 ITV2 AND NTL AGREE CARRIAGE TERMS
ITV2 is to become available across ntl franchises from this autumn in a deal that completes the channel’s UK cable distribution. From Friday 8 September ntl’s digital customers in England and Wales w

30/08/2000 MANAGEMENT BUYOUT PLANNED AT HTV
THE FORMER management of HTV, the ITV franchise for Wales and the west of England, is planning to make a bid for the broadcaster when it goes on the block next month. The franchise is to be put up fo

30/08/2000 MTV RETURN TO JAPAN
MTV Networks, the leading music television group, are to make a multi-million dollar investment in Japan to launch a 24-hour cable channel. The MTV channel will be a joint venture with H&Q Asia Pacif