01/12/2000 BRIEF ENCOUNTERS REVEALS RECORD FESTIVAL
BRIEF Encounters, one of the UK’s leading short film festivals, awarded three major new prizes and played host to some big names in a record breaking festival. This year saw a record number of filmma

01/12/2000 MICROSOFT AND TWO WAY TV PLAN JOINT STRATEGY
MICROSOFT TV and UK-based Two Way TV have announced the signing of a letter of intent for a strategic alliance to bring Two Way TV’s advanced games and services to the Microsoft TV platform. The pote

01/12/2000 NEW CEO FOR RTL BROADCASTING SERVICES
MIKE Southgate, currently Managing Director of Pearson Television Operations, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the RTL Group’s newly combined technical broadcasting services. In his new

01/12/2000 ONDIGITAL APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF INTERACTIVITY
ONDIGITAL have appointed Matthew Seaman as their Director of Interactivity to expand the broadcaster’s position at the forefront of interactive innovation. The internal move, from his position as Dir

01/12/2000 RUSHES SPIN BT ‘SPIDER’ COMMERCIALS
LONDON post production facility Rushes recently completed three new commercials for BT. The commercials seek to promote BT’s new talk and surf time scheme and had briefs that created a complicated wo

01/12/2000 SKILLSET TARGETS TELEVISION SCRIPTWRITING
SKILLSET’S Investment Committee have decided that training for television scriptwriters is to be a top priority in next year’s funding allocations. The committee, who decide where money from Skillset

01/12/2000 VIDFILM INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRES ANVIL STUDIOS
VIDFILM International Digital, a leading full-service audio and video post production house, has announced the acquisition of Anvil Post Production Sound Studios. Anvil, adjacent to the Vidfilm Europ