Broadcast News Archive for August, 2001
20/08/2001 KIT ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT WITH YES TELEVISION
VIDEO-ON-Demand (VOD) is being relaunched on KIT, the broadband interactive television service from Hull-based Kingston Communications, which have announced that it is to carry Yes Television’s film a

20/08/2001 LEARN ABOUT MAKING MOVIES AT THE EIFF
SKILLSET'S INDUSTRY panels at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will guide you through all you need to know about making movies. The sessions are being held in the Scottish Screen Indu

20/08/2001 OPENTV DEPLOY MORE THAN 18.2 MILLION STB’S WORLDWIDE
OPENTV, ONE of the world's leading interactive television and media solutions company, have announced that their middleware has been installed in a market-leading 18.2 million digital set-top boxes (S

20/08/2001 S4C UNVEIL NEW PRESENTERS FOR RUGBY COVERAGE
S4C HAVE unveiled their two main presenters for this year’s television rugby coverage. The channel announced that two of Wales’ most experienced presenters Rhodri Williams and Gareth Roberts will fro

20/08/2001 TURBO SQUID FORM ALLIANCE WITH SOFTIMAGE
TURBO SQUID Corporation, one of the world’s fastest growing marketplace for 3-D models and digital assets, have announced they have formed a strategic alliance with Softimage a division of Avid Techno

17/08/2001 ARTESIA TECHNOLOGIES TO EXHIBIT TEAMS AT IBC
ARTESIA TECHNOLOGIES have announced that they will be exhibiting TEAMS at this year’s IBC. TEAMS enables organisations to capture, manage and dynamically re-express valuable rich-media assets – video

17/08/2001 BBC LONDON OPERATIONS ACCEPT NEW PROPOSALS
BBC LONDON Operations members have voted to accept new proposals to resolve a long-running dispute. The ballot result follows industrial action carried out in Resources London Operations department s

17/08/2001 MCEWEN TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT IBC
THIS YEAR'S IBC Keynote speaker will be Michael McEwen. As well as holding the posts of Secretary General of the North America Broadcasters Association (NABA) and President of the World Digital Audio

17/08/2001 MILL FILM INSTALL 5D CYBORG [COMMANDER]
PIONEERING EFFECTS developers 5D have announced that Academy Award-winning, digital visual effects facility, Mill Film have installed 5D Cyborg [Commander], 5D’s new real-time, 2K film and video playb

17/08/2001 NOBLES GATE SECURE COMMISSIONS FROM CHANNEL 4
SINCE OPENING a production office in Scotland three years ago, Nobles Gate in Edinburgh have secured a slate of commissions from Channel 4 and their subsidiary, FilmFour. The company's two young dire

17/08/2001 RIVALS.NET TEAM UP WITH NICKELODEON
CHRYSALIS-BACKED sports network Rivals.net have teamed up with the kids cable and satellite TV channel Nickelodeon to run a series of football promotions and content share. On a monthly basis, Nickel

17/08/2001 TV PRODUCERS CAN LOOK FORWARD TO A GREAT FUTURE
IT LOOKS like there could be a great future for TV producers running their own video streaming websites. A unique collection of internet domain names has been put on sale by Genesis Media, the Cardif

17/08/2001 UTV DECLINE OFFER FROM ITV SPORT
UTV DECLINE OFFER FROM ITV SPORT UTV have declined an offer from ITV Sport for use of UTV’s digital television channel. Rejecting the offer UTV claimed that ITV Sport had made a ‘derisory offer’ for

16/08/2001 ‘BIG BROTHER’ PROVED TO BE A BIG BENEFIT FOR E4
‘BIG BROTHER’ was clearly an exceptional piece of event programming demonstrating how well Channel 4 and E4 work alongside each other, but the programme has also benefited E4, bringing new viewers to

16/08/2001 BBC ENGLISH REGIONS CHOOSE QUARTZ ROUTERS
QUARTZ AUDIO routers are currently being installed for the BBC as part of a major project throughout England. The multiple order, calling for 40 mono and stereo routers, were placed by systems integr

16/08/2001 FILM SCHOOL IN WALES INTRODUCE MA COURSE IN FILM WORK
THE INTERNATIONAL Film School have introduced a full-time Masters course aimed at film work in fiction, faction, animation and non-genre. The MA course runs for a calendar year January - December 200

16/08/2001 MEDIAGENIX SECURE CONTRACT WITH ZDF
ONE OF the leading European scheduling and traffic specialists, MediaGeniX, have secured a contract this month to supply their WHATS’On channel management software to one of Europe’s largest broadcast

16/08/2001 PROTOCOL TESTER COMPLIES WITH BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATIONS
THE PROTOCOL Tester PTW60 from Rohde & Schwarz now offers more than 100 verified test cases that comply with the latest version of the Bluetooth specification. The PTW60 is the first instrument world

16/08/2001 RTE AND THE IRISH FILM BOARD ANNOUNCE SHORT CUTS
RADIO TELEFIS Eireann (RTE) and The Irish Film Board have announced Short Cuts, the awards scheme for new short Irish fiction films. Short Cuts, established eight years ago, aims to add to the range

16/08/2001 SMITH CONFORMS AND COMPOSITES PROMOTIONAL TRAILERS
PIXELUTION'S CUSTOMER, online editor, David Smith at Oasis Television, conformed and composited all three 30 second promotional trailers for ‘I love the 1990s’ entirely in JALEO. BBC 2 regularly broa

16/08/2001 SPOHRER JOINS ORAD UK AS MANAGING DIRECTOR
RICHARD SPOHRER, former International Product Manager for Softimage, has joined Orad UK as Managing Director. Spohrer's aim, utilising his past experience in broadcast and post-production, is to exte

15/08/2001 ADOBE APPOINT MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR UK AND IRELAND
ADOBE SYSTEMS, one of the leaders in Network Publishing, have provided a boost to their marketing operations with the recent appointment of Mark Floisand as Marketing Director for Adobe UK and Ireland

15/08/2001 BBC ONE SPEND £233 MILLION ON PROGRAMMES
BBC One are presenting a slate of ambitious new drama, new generation entertainment and innovative factual programming in a £233 million season of quality programmes. Travelling back in time to follo

15/08/2001 FILMMAKERS TO BE INTERVIEWED IN EDINBURGH
Two of USA's most influential documentary filmmakers, D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, will be interviewed live on-stage by Nick Fraser of BBC's storyville on August 22 Filmhouse 1, Lothian Road, Edi

15/08/2001 ITV SPORT CHANNEL GOES LIVE
On August 11, the ITV Sport Channel went live and televised sport in the U.K now has a new player. The channel gives football fans what they want, 135 live matches and exclusive football programmes.