Broadcast News Archive for September, 2001
04/09/2001 DVB PROMOTES POOLING OF MHP PATENTS
THE DVB Project have announced that they will foster the formation of a patent pool for their Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard. The objective is to create efficient access to the intellectual

04/09/2001 EXETER BASED PANGAEA SECURES US ADVERTISING CONTRACT
SINCE ENTRY into the Edinburgh Film festival and the following critical success in the national press of their debut feature film, ‘Better Days’ Pangaea Production International have been making waves

04/09/2001 FAIRLIGHT ESP APPOINT VP OF WORLDWIDE MARKETING
FAIRLIGHT ESP have announced the appointment of Karl Seglins as Vice President of Marketing. Effective immediately, Seglins assumes complete responsibility for the development and implementation of

04/09/2001 IAWF DEMAND PROPER PAY
WILDLIFE FILMMAKERS have hit out at programme making on the cheap. Experienced freelance filmmakers are without work as cost-cutting broadcasters increasingly abandon labour intensive wild life films

04/09/2001 ROGERS APPOINTED HEAD OF DESIGN AT BBC NEW MEDIA
Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media, completed the appointment of his new team, with the announcement that Steve Rogers is to be the Head of Design and Navigation. Rogers will have responsibi

04/09/2001 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT SEEK PRODUCTION COMPANY
THE SCOTTISH Parliament's Education Service, in association with Learning and Teaching Scotland, are seeking a Production Company to produce on their behalf an imaginative and educational film explain

04/09/2001 WESTCOUNTRY TV MAKES NEWS WITH QUANTEL
CARLTON WESTCOUNTRY TV are totally updating their Plymouth, UK, news and sports production facilities as part of a planned overhaul of all the station's facilities. The new system is based around the

03/09/2001 CINEWESSEX CELEBRATE 25 YEARS IN PRODUCTION INDUSTRY
Established 25 years ago and based in Winchester, Cine Wessex is a Television and Video Facilities company which has a diverse client base in the broadcast, video and corporate production industry. D

03/09/2001 GAELIC SCREEN DRAMA BOOST
THIS has been a vintage year for new drama in the Western Isles: innovative stage performances in North Uist and Berneray; filming of the feature film Rocket Post in Harris; and shooting of the six-pa

03/09/2001 GMTV GOES ON-AIR WITH QUANTEL
GMTV, the UK national breakfast-time broadcaster, have gone on-air with a Quantel Clipbox-based news system following a total overhaul of their previously tape-based broadcasting operation. The syste

03/09/2001 METRO PROVIDE EUROPE WITH MULTICAMERA EQUIPMENT
METRO BROADCAST led the UK by providing state-of-the-art High-Definition multicamera equipment into Europe, on August 11 2001. Produced by Done and Dusted and staged at the Mungersdorf stadium in Col

03/09/2001 PEARSON TELEVISION REBRAND AS FREMANTLEMEDIA
PEARSON TELEVISION, one of the largest international production and distribution companies in the world, are to be rebranded as FremantleMedia, with immediate effect. The rebranding comes as a result

03/09/2001 RAGE SIGN AGREEMENT WITH BSKYB
RAGE, the UK-based computer games publishers and developers, have announced that they have entered into an agreement with BSkyB, one of Britain's leading providers of digital television and interactiv

03/09/2001 TERANEX NAMES CYNERGY UK DISTRIBUTOR
TERANEX, a leading provider of scalable, real-time video computing platforms, applications and services, have announced an agreement with Cynergy Broadcast, one of UK’s leading stockists and distribut

03/09/2001 VIEWERCOM APPOINT BUBBLE & SQUEAK
BUBBLE & Squeak, a leading PR and Marketing agency specialising in the broadcast, post-production and graphics industries, have announced that they have been appointed as the worldwide PR agency for V