Broadcast News Archive for March, 2001
16/03/2001 OFCOM TO HAVE SEPARATE CONTENT FUNCTION
A REPORT from the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has partially supported a call by BECTU for new regulatory body OFCOM to have a separate section to deal with content issues. Recognisin

16/03/2001 PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE BACK ITV'S REGIONAL ROLE
PARLIAMENT'S Culture Committee have announced that they have supported safeguards on ITV programming. In their response to the Government's White Paper on Communications, the Select Committee on Cult

16/03/2001 ROOT6 EXHIBIT HAMMERHEAD AT THE PRODUCTION SHOW
ROOT6, solutions providers of leading technologies such as those from Avid, Cisco Systems, Sonic and Sony Data, chose the Production Show to announce their first product, HammerHead. HammerHead is a

16/03/2001 SSL TO INSTALL THEIR LARGEST CONSOLE IN EUROPE
OXFORD based Solid State Logic (SSL) are to install the largest SL 9000 J Series console in Europe with Paris based Studios Guillaume Tell. The studio are replacing an existing SL 9080 J series conso

16/03/2001 TYRELL EXHIBIT FULL PRODUCT RANGE AT PRODUCTION SHOW
AT the Production Show 2001 Tyrell, Avid’s largest premier resellers, exhibited their full range of products, including a preview of Nothing Real’s latest product Tremor. Alongside Tyrell were Digide

16/03/2001 UNION ACCUSE CARLTON OF SCARE TACTICS
Carlton TV have been accused of intimidation as Midlands union members vote on action. In a letter circulated to members BECTU say Ian Squires, Carlton’s Midlands Region Managing Director, has threat

15/03/2001 ALTERED IMAGES DEBUT SYMPHONY HARMONY
ALTERED Images, one of Avid’s key London based premier resellers, are using their debut at The London Production Show 2001 to give demonstrations of Symphony. This is the first UK showing of Avid’s p

15/03/2001 DTT OVERVIEW COURSE COMES TO THE UK
FOLLOWING the successful implementation of the world’s first commercial DVB-based Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service in the UK, a three-day overview course has been organised at the Universi

15/03/2001 FILM COUNCIL FUNDS FIRST PREMIERE PROJECTS
THE Film Council have announced the first three feature film projects to be backed by the £10 million a year Premiere Fund. The fund, sourced from the Lottery, is investing £2,000,000 in ‘Gosford Par

15/03/2001 FRAMESTORE AND MCDONALD'S STRIKE GOLD
THE new McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets advertisement is definitely very old world but the technology required to imitate this result is far from antiquated. It was less Klondike and more Croydon for th

15/03/2001 HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL UNVEIL PROGRAMME
THE full programme for this year’s Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Ritzy cinema in London has been unveiled. The fifth festival, from March 29 to April 5, will show a total of 2

15/03/2001 SCOTTISH SCREEN ANNOUNCE STUDENT COMPETITION
SCOTTISH Screen have announced that the ‘Scottish Students on Screen’ event will be held this year in Dundee Contemporary Arts on March 23 to 24 2001. Now in its second year, Scottish Students on Scr

15/03/2001 SOHONET AND XTREME SIGN ARCHIVE ACCESS DEAL
SOHONET, a part of neoscorp and a leading UK provider of high-bandwidth, end-to-end communications solutions, have signed a contract with Xtreme Information to create high-speed, cost-effective custom

15/03/2001 SONY BROADCAST APPOINT DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR
SONY Broadcast & Professional Europe have announced the appointment of Gary Pepler as Divisional Director of Marketing Communications. Pepler joins Sony from Nortel Networks Corporation and will be b

15/03/2001 VINTEN'S NEW CAMERA MOUNTS IN ACTION
VINTEN have announced the launch of additions to their Vision Pan and Tilt range of professional tripod systems. Utilising many design upgrades the Vision range of durable heads comprises six systems

14/03/2001 AVID DEBUTS ‘THE AVID VILLAGE’ AT PRODUCTION SHOW
AT the Production Show 2001, Avid Technology have teamed up with four of their Premier Resellers to create The Avid Village, a large area of the show floor dedicated to the latest technology to ‘Make,

14/03/2001 BBC BRISTOL SELECT CUSTOM CONSOLES
CUSTOM Consoles, designers and manufacturers of technical furniture to the broadcast industry, have recently completed the design and installation of a custom designed ‘smart desk’ for the BBC’s Post

14/03/2001 CARLTON SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE TECHNICOLOR SALE
CARLTON Communications, one of the UK’s leading commercial broadcasters, have announced that their shareholders formally approved the sale of Technicolor to Thomson Multimedia at an Extraordinary Gene

14/03/2001 CHYRON AT THE PRODUCTION SHOW
AT the Production Show in London this week representatives from all four Chyron divisions demonstrated products and services spanning broadcast graphics, signal processing, routing and internet stream

14/03/2001 MCMILLAN INSTALL V4 AVID DS AT THE FINISHING POST
BROADCAST specialists McMillan are working with postproduction company The Finishing Post to install the newly arrived Avid DSVersion 4.0. The installation is likely to make The Finishing Post one of

14/03/2001 NOMINATIONS GALORE FOR HTV WEST
THREE programmes from HTV West, the ITV Broadcasters for the West of England, have been nominated in award ceremonies. ‘Just Desserts’, a 30-minute drama, screened last summer has been nominated for

14/03/2001 PINNACLE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE STUDIO ACTION
PINNACLE Systems have announced Studio Action, a fun, educational video editing package for junior editors that gives them the creative tools they need to make their own movies. Studio Action include

14/03/2001 RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY EXHIBIT SAN BENEFITS
RED Lorry Yellow Lorry, the Soho based full-service support company, are demonstrating the benefits of a full Storage Area Network (SAN) at the Production Show. The system shows how differing sizes o

13/03/2001 BAZALGETTE APPOINTED TO CHANNEL FOUR BOARD
THE ITC have announced that Peter Bazalgette has been appointed to the Channel Four Board. Bazalgette, the Creative Director of Endemol Entertainment UK, is the creator of popular television series i

13/03/2001 EYEHEIGHT LAUNCH ‘EYEDENTIFY’ SDI VERIFIER
WATFORD based manufacturer Eyeheight have announced the launch of their new ID-1000 eYeDentify, designed for use in a broadcaster's main transmission area to ensure total verification of an SDI signal