Broadcast News Archive for April, 2010
21/04/2010 S&T Wins Prestigious Queens Award For Enterprise
A London-based company specialising in Interactive TV software, has been awarded the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise. This recognises Strategy & Technology Ltd's (S&T) achievement in growing

21/04/2010 Telestream Vantage Wins TV Technology Star Award at NAB
A leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, announced that its new Vantage workflow design and automation software product is the recipient of the 2010 Star Award. Now in its ele

21/04/2010 Ukrainian Poll Benefits From Trilogy Intercom
A renowned communications company is pleased to have been able to play a vital role connecting presidential candidates with voters in the recent Ukrainian presidential elections. Supplied through Tr

20/04/2010 Animate Pro 2 Now Available With 3D Stereoscopic Capability
An Emmy Award-winning animation company have announced the release of Toon Boom Animate Pro 2, an exciting new version that represents a technological breakthrough in animation production with its 3D

20/04/2010 BBC ALBA Up For Eight Top Awards At Celtic Media Festival
This week the Celtic Media Festival kicks off in Newry, Northern Ireland and BBC ALBA are celebrating eight of their programmes being nominated for a range of awards. The 31st Celtic Media Festival,

20/04/2010 Iconic Rolling Stones Promo Features Rare Archive Footage
Multi award-winning Nexus Director Jonas Odell has created a clever new promo for The Rolling Stones soon-to-be-released archive track Plundered My Soul. The track is taken from their classic album Ex

20/04/2010 Netgem Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer
A provider of IPTV technology and applications to telecom operators worldwide, has announced the appointment of Yann Courqueux as Chief Marketing Officer. Yann Courqueux will be responsible for Netge

20/04/2010 New Irish Language News Service Goes Live
A new Irish language news service has launched online this week called Nuacht24. The multimedia website went live on Monday 19th April with video news and feature reports updated daily. Nuacht24.com

20/04/2010 Nexus Directors Get Webby Awards Nomination
Nexus interactive directing duo Champagne Valentine's microsite for Tate Modern's The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka ‘How It Is’ installation has been nominated for a Webby. Hailed as the "Internet

20/04/2010 Quantel Premieres World’s First Complete Stereo3D Broadcast Production Workflow
This year at NAB a developer of innovative, high performance content creation introduced the world’s first complete Stereo3D broadcast production workflow, from ingest to desktop editing and craft edi

20/04/2010 Skillset Expands Creative Industries Footprint
The industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses in the UK creative media industries has now expanded its footprint to include representation of the advertising industry.

20/04/2010 The Next Benchmark: Riedel Artist 1100 Series
A communications company renowned for pioneering advanced intercom, fiber, audio and radio technology, has presented the Artist 1100 Series OLED control panel - Riedel’s new premium control key panel

20/04/2010 Voting Opens For Channel Of The Year Awards 2010
Voting for this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival’s Channel of the Year Awards opened this week so now is the time to rewind, reflect and review the best TV of the last

19/04/2010 Allen & Heath To Showcase Latest At AES
A British mixer manufacturer will be showcasing a selection of its products from the iLive digital series and its dedicated broadcast and recording mixers at the AES London in May. Allen & Heath will

19/04/2010 BBC Archive Explores Pollster's Pendulum
As the BBC reveals the brand new Swingometer for this year's General Election, a new online collection from BBC Archive tells the story of that iconic pollster favourite, the Swingometer. Since its

19/04/2010 Blackmagic Announces Realtime 2K End to End Workflow
An innovator in high quality video editing products has announced full compatibility with the new Sony HDCAM-SR SRW-5800/2 deck for capture and playback in native 2K. At NAB 2007, Blackmagic Design i

19/04/2010 Christie Introduces Digital Canvas At PLASA
Unique MicroTiles display technology creating a virtually seamless digital canvas in almost any size or shape with spectacular, crisp visuals at any distance are now available from Christie. Christie

19/04/2010 Cinesite Ramps Up Its Compositing Department
One of the largest film visual effects houses, has heavily expanded its compositing department by investing in a site licence of The Foundry’s Nuke compositing software. This allows the facility to ho

19/04/2010 Flying TV Rising Above The Ashes
A company dedicated to the skills of aerial filming are continuing to operate legally and safely at a time when commercial airlines are grounded due to airspace closures and restrictions in light of I

19/04/2010 Live Streaming Success For TV3
Internet users can now see their favourite Irish TV programmes live. Dublin-based tv3 is allowing viewers to watch many of the most popular sports, news and current affairs programmes live, online at

19/04/2010 Newport Film Lecturer Nominated For Two BAFTAs
A Film Lecturer and Director at the University of Wales, Newport has received two nominations for the forthcoming BAFTA Cymru awards. Peter Watkins-Hughes has been nominated for his independently pro

19/04/2010 Ofcom Deregulates Commercial Local Radio
Ofcom have announced it will be introducing a number of measures to deregulate the commercial local radio sector. In recent years, declining advertising revenue combined with regulatory constraints h

19/04/2010 RTÉ Receives Planning Consent For Donnybrook Redevelopment
RTÉ has been given the green light to redevelop its Donnybrook site in Dublin. The next stage of the planning process now entails all parties having an opportunity over the next four weeks to lodge a

16/04/2010 Another Good Year For British Films At Cannes
British film is celebrating the announcement that three Lottery-funded British films and a further five made with British involvement, have been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival running

16/04/2010 Autodesk Sees Enthusiastic Response For Smoke
A leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software has seen widespread adoption of their Smoke software for Mac OS X, an all-in-one editorial finishing solution for Mac-based creativ