Broadcast News Archive for May, 2001
04/05/2001 SKY NEWS GIVE TOTAL INTERACTIVE COVERAGE OF ELECTION
SKY News, one of the UK’s original and leading 24-hour news services, have announced a programme of cutting-edge, informative coverage of the forthcoming General Election. The channel will have a tea

03/05/2001 BBC TECHNOLOGY TAKE CONTROL AT NAB
THE BBC Technology’s systems in their NAB booth was controlled by their unique Broadcast Network Control System (BCNS). The booth’s ‘Master Control Room’ system handled the local video and audio rout

03/05/2001 DVS HELP CHELSEA FC AND VIRGIN TO GO INTERACTIVE
DIGITAL Video Systems (DVS), The Science Museum, and Dicoll have won an order for six interactive kiosk systems for Chelsea FC. Peter Bailes, SM Interactive Media Unit, designed and created the conte

03/05/2001 FAIRLIGHT ANNOUNCE QDC TECHNOLOGY AND PRODIGY-2
FAIRLIGHT have announced that their QDC technology allows post producers to work on a full 48 tracks at 96 kHz/24-bit audio at the same time on the one hard drive. The QDC Technology engine offers un

03/05/2001 FILM COUNCIL APPOINT EUROPEAN BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
The Film Council have announced the appointment of Jan-Jacob Lousberg as European Business Executive. Lousberg will play a key role at the Film Council working in conjunction with the production, dev

03/05/2001 GLASGOW TALENT SCREENS IN US
DNA's ‘Beautiful Creatures’, which filmed in Glasgow in 1999 and was released in UK cinemas earlier this year, opened in the US on April 6 2001. The film, which stars Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch, wa

03/05/2001 INSCRIBER’S QSCRIBE SHIPS WITH QUANTEL IQ
INSCRIBER Technology Corporation have reported that Quantel are now shipping the new iQ system that integrates Inscriber’s text and graphics technology into Quantel’s revolutionary new platform. Insc

03/05/2001 ITV ANNOUNCE ELECTION COVERAGE PLANS
ITV have unveiled the senior team that will spearhead the network’s coverage of the General Election and outlined the comprehensive special programming scheduled throughout the campaign. ITN’s Politi

03/05/2001 MTV3 CHOOSES OMNIBUS SOLUTION FOR NEW UPGRADE
LOUGHBOROUGH based OmniBus Systems have been selected to complete an end-to-end automation solution for Finnish national commercial television channel, MTV3. The deal, which was unveiled at NAB 2001,

03/05/2001 NEW HEAD OF PRESS AND MARKETING FOR BFI EXHIBITION
ANDY Cole, currently Head of Marketing at the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been appointed Head of Press and Marketing for the British Film Institute’s (bfi) Exhibition with effect from June 2001. B

03/05/2001 VI[Z]RT ANNOUNCE NEW UPGRADES AND 3DV PLUG-INS
AMONG vi[z]rt’s announcements at NAB were the introduction of three new products and six software upgrades, including a ZCAM plug-in, for its range of real-time graphics solutions displayed at NAB 200

02/05/2001 BAKER TILLY PUBLISH ‘2001 AN ANIMATION ODYSSEY’
BAKER Tilly have published ‘2001 – An Animation Odyssey’, and is a ‘must-have’ for one of the world’s fastest growing and most lucrative industries. The report is packed with the latest news on devel

02/05/2001 BBC TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCE ACQUISITION OF INTEL
THE BBC's new commercial subsidiary BBC Technology have announced the acquisition of Intel's European streaming capacity, which will strengthen significantly the new company's business capabilities.

02/05/2001 EDITBOX CHOICE PROGRAMME INTRODUCED AT NAB
QUANTEL introduced their Editbox Choice programme that offers a ‘build to order’ option for their successful editing range and showcased Version 8.2 software at NAB. The latest software further enhan

02/05/2001 GLASGOW WINNER AT BAFTA AWARDS
ED MCCARDIE scooped the ‘Best New Writer’ award at the BAFTA Craft Awards for his work on ‘Tinsel Town’, beating off competition from ‘Cold Feet’, ‘The Bill’ and his brother’s work on ‘Tinsel Town’.

02/05/2001 MADE IN WALES DIRECTORY NOW IN PRODUCTION
THE 2001-2002 edition of the Made in Wales directory is currently being produced by the European Union’s MEDIA Plus office in Cardiff, with the support of Sgrin, the Welsh Independent Producers and th

02/05/2001 MANY BUSINESSES EXPECT TO USE STREAMING MEDIA BY 2003
WITH streaming media again at the forefront of numerous companies’ development and services infrastructure programmes at NAB, a recent survey indicates that many businesses expect to be using streamin

02/05/2001 OPTEX INTRODUCE THE OTM 1690 WIDESCREEN MONITOR
THE OpTex OTM 1690 widescreen 16:9 or 4:3 switchable colour monitor offers a 5.8"Active Matrix TFT LCD screen which is bright enough to be used in full sunlight and has a very wide viewing angle. OpT

02/05/2001 PINEWOOD INVEST £250,000 IN NEW CAMERA LENSES
PINEWOOD Studios, which launched their own dedicated TV studio complex at the end of last year, have invested more than a quarter of a million pounds in four state-of-the-art new camera lenses for pro

02/05/2001 STARZ ENCORE ACQUIRE SOLUTION FROM OMNIBUS
UK BASED Omnibus Systems have announced that the Starz Encore Group, one of the largest provider of cable and satellite-delivered premium movie channels in the United States, have selected solutions f

02/05/2001 VINTEN DEMONSTRATIONS AT NAB 2001
BURY St. Edmonds company Vinten, have announced the next phase of their partnership with InterSense, market leaders in precision motion tracking technology that allows people to easily interact with 3

01/05/2001 BBC TECHNOLOGY AND IBM FORGE ALLIANCE
BBC TECHNOLOGY and IBM have announced an alliance to deliver rich media solutions and services to customers in Europe and the Americas. The alliance will blend the media technology and production exp

01/05/2001 CHANNEL 4 OUTLINE PROGRAMME PRIORITIES
CHANNEL 4 have outlined their programme priorities for 2001/2002, pledging to “engage a younger generation in the values of public service broadcasting” and be the “benchmark’ for quality and innovati

01/05/2001 GILBERT AWARDED FELLOWSHIP BY BFI
BRITISH Film Institute (bfi) Vice Chair, Rick Senat, awarded the 53rd bfi fellowship to the distinguished and prolific director Lewis Gilbert at a special screening gala on April 30. Gilbert has been

01/05/2001 GLASGOW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SCOOP AWARDS
GLASGOW University Student Television (GUST) have received several awards in this year's National Student Television Association (NaSTA) prize ceremony. The station came first in five out of the twel