Broadcast News Archive for August, 2001
07/08/2001 TOTAL MEDIA TO HANDLE £2M IN NICKELODEON BUSINESS
NICKELODEON UK, the children’s cable and satellite channel, have appointed Total Media to handle their £2 million media planning and buying account. The agency picks up the account following an intro

07/08/2001 WILKINS LEAVES ITV
FOLLOWING THE restructuring of ITV, Jeanette Wilkins, Finance Director at ITV Digital, is to leave the company. Wilkins joined ITV Digital in May 1998 from Granada UK Broadcasting. Stuart Prebble, C

06/08/2001 'WHAT’S COOKING' TO SPICE UP BITE THE MANGO
BITE THE Mango, one of the UK’s biggest celebration of Black and Asian cinema, returns for a seventh year at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television on September 21 to the 29 2001. The

06/08/2001 ALTERED IMAGES COMPLETE CONTRACT FOR CHRYSALIS
ALTERED Images, the fast growing London-based digital broadcast systems resellers, have just completed a major supply and installation contract for Chrysalis Television’s programming operation. The n

06/08/2001 BBC NI INVITE SUBMISSIONS FOR NORTHERN LIGHTS
BBC NORTHERN Ireland will commission two short films of nine minutes in duration for series 7 of Northern Lights. The deadline for submissions is October 1 2001. BBC Northern Ireland will put up £

06/08/2001 GRADING SCHEME TO INCLUDE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS
A NEW joint industry grading scheme is proposed involving unions and employers. Preliminary discussions have taken place involving BECTU, Equity, PACT, BBC, Carlton and Granada to introduce a new str

06/08/2001 ITV TO KICK OFF ‘THE PREMIERSHIP’
ITV WILL transform Saturday evening football coverage when the FA Barclaycard Premiership kicks off on 18 August with the complete service for terrestrial viewers. The channel will screen a new highl

06/08/2001 PM LOBBIED AS ITV CRISIS GROWS
BECTU HAVE urged Tony Blair to defend programme choice and quality on ITV. Union concerns about the future of ITV have been raised within the last fortnight by a series of announcements underlining t

06/08/2001 RESERVE A TICKET FOR EIFF'S BBC WRITER'S Q&A SESSION
SCOTTISH SCREEN have announced that the BBC Writer’s Q&A session will take place on August 24 at 12.30 pm in Edinburgh's Filmhouse 1. The session is described as "a fantastic opportunity" for writers

06/08/2001 SCREEN GEMS SEEK SHORT SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
Screen Gems short film scheme, are inviting writers and directors to come up with innovative and engaging three-minute scripts for films suitable for cinema and broadcast distribution. Screen Gems sh

03/08/2001 CONVERA SHOWCASES ASSET MANAGEMENT AT IBC 2001
CONVERA, formerly Excalibur Technologies, the leading provider of cross-lingual, multi-media, search and content management solutions, will be showcasing its latest improvements to Screening Room, whi

03/08/2001 FAST TO LAUNCH SEVERAL NEW PRODUCTS AT IBC
This year's IBC sees several new innovative products from the R&D labs of FAST Multimedia, but by far the most exciting is the launch of the much-vaunted blue native digital editing system, representi

03/08/2001 IFB MAKE KEY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
BORD Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board is set for a major expansion in its organisation and activities, and has made two key appointments. Teresa Mc Grane will take up the position of Head o

03/08/2001 iQ HELPS BLOCKBUSTER HIT THE SCREEN
QUANTEL’S iQ has provided much needed horsepower to French feature film Vidocq starring Gerard Depardieu, following a request for help from the movie's producers. Quantel stepped in when it became ap

03/08/2001 RUSHES ANNOUNCE SHORTS WINNERS
RUSHES Postproduction have announced the winners of the Third Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2001. The Artsworld Short Film Award was won by ‘Talk’, Directed by Matthew Parkhill of Winkle Films. The Dis

03/08/2001 SKILLSET WINS £200K FOR INDUSTRY IN LONDON
THE LONDON Development Agency has awarded Skillset a grant of nearly £200,000 to invest on a number of training initiatives across London. Some of the money will be used to repeat the highly success

03/08/2001 TEKTRONIX ENABLES DIGITAL BROADCAST INNOVATION
AT IBC 2001 Tektronix will demonstrate its commitment to enabling customers to realise their vision of the digital broadcast future. The global test, measurement, and monitoring company will exhibit

03/08/2001 THE EARTH MOVES WITH PIXELUTION
PIXELUTION have supplied equipment used on a trailer for ‘The Day the Earth Moved’, Discovery Channel’s themed evening of programmes about earthquakes and landslides. Pixelution's customer, Chris Gil

02/08/2001 £66 MILLION INVESTMENT PLANNED FOR ADVANCED STUDIO
THE FULL Picture Company launched today announcing an agreement that has been reached in principle to secure £66 million in funding from British backers. The Company plans to build the premier and m

02/08/2001 BRIGHTBLUE SIGN UP TWO WAY TV
ENERGIS INTERACTIVE’S new interactive television service brightBlue have signed up Two Way TV as their number one games channel, giving Two Way TV immediate access to 5.25 million digital satellite ho

02/08/2001 MCMILLAN ADD ANIMO TO 3D PORTFOLIO
DIGITAL MEDIA specialists McMillan have added leading 2D software, Animo and the plug-ins, Swiffworks and Inkworks from Cambridge Animation Systems to their extensive supply portfolio. A flexible pac

02/08/2001 NEW US OFFICE FOR HAMLET
UK Based Hamlet Video International, well-established developer of broadcast test and measurement devices, has announced the opening an office to serve the US market. Hamlet's new sales office is in

02/08/2001 NIFC ANNOUNCE NEW DIGITAL SHORT FILM SCHEME
THE NORTHERN Ireland Film Commission (NIFC) announced the first series of DEVIATE, a new digital short film scheme for Northern Ireland, at the Ormeau Baths Gallery. Funded by the NIFC, Belfast City

02/08/2001 ORBAN PREVIEWS IBC 2001
ORBAN, a leading name in audio processing technology for radio, television and webcasting, will exhibit its range of audio processors at the forthcoming IBC. Following last year's successful launch,

02/08/2001 THOMAS TAKES ON TOP SALES ROLE AT GVG
UNDERPINNING its commitment to the European market, the Grass Valley Group have announced the appointment of Niels Thomas as the Sales Director, (northern region) for the company’s Europe, Africa and