Broadcast News Archive for December, 2001
12/12/2001 QUADRILLE AUTHOR SWISS DVDs
QUADRILLE have worked closely with Redfern Animation to author eight DVD’s for the opening of the premier Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe’s new multi million pound museum in Geneva. The DVD’s featur

12/12/2001 RED CREATE SPIRITS AND GRAPHICS FOR ‘A CHRISTAMAS CAROL’
CHRISTMAS wouldn’t be Christmas without a performance of Dickens 'A Christmas Carol', but this year the classic has been given a modern twist in the form of back-projected spirits and graphics created

12/12/2001 SKILLSET INFORMATION DAYS HAILED A SUCCESS
THE recent Media Careers Information Days which Skillset sponsors and attends have been a massive success with approximately 15,000 people attending the four events in November. For the first time an

11/12/2001 BBC HELP TO DELIVER LEARNING SOCIETY OF 21ST CENTURY
THE BBC have the opportunity to play a central role in the development and introduction of the world’s first comprehensive ‘Curriculum Online’ service, which was announced by the government. The anno

11/12/2001 DISCREET APPOINT DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT MANAGER
IN a further strengthening of their key management team, Discreet have appointed Paul Jeffries as their new Distribution Support Manager for the UK. In his new role, Jefferies has overall responsibil

11/12/2001 GRASS VALLEY SCOOP PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
FROST & Sullivan, one of the leading international strategic market consulting and training firms, have announced that they have given their prestigious Market Engineering Leadership Award to the Gras

11/12/2001 HOLDAN CAN JUICE UP YOUR PRODUCTIONS
HOLDAN are pleased to announce that they have recently been appointed as European distributor for the popular Digital Juice Jump Back series. Digital Juice are the people who make many of those great

11/12/2001 LACEY SCOOPS SKILLSET AWARD
PAUL Lacey, of Caernarfon, is the first Apprentice in the UK to achieve the new Skillset Modern Apprenticeship framework in Camera. His new professional qualification includes Key Skills and the Skil

11/12/2001 POLAR GRAPHICS MOVE INTO HIGH DEFINITION
POLAR Graphics, the distributors of Ultimatte Blue Screen technology and Digital Voodoo 10 bit SDI QuickTime cards announced that they are fully committed to the High Definition market place and are a

11/12/2001 REEVES DIRECTS NEW CINEMA ADVERTISEMENT
STEVE Reeves has directed an outrageous cinema spot through Another Film Company, produced by CDP-Travissully for ultra-fashionable lingerie company Agent Provocateur. The ad, titled ‘Proof’, stars K

11/12/2001 RFI EXPAND PRO-BEL MADI AUDIO ROUTER
RADIO France International (RFI) are reaching a wider audience thanks to the recent expansion of their Pro-Bel MADI audio router. RFI first purchased their MADI audio router in 1998. The original siz

10/12/2001 FROM MUTUAL TO MEDIA DIRECTORSHIP
BRIAN Davis, Chief Executive of the Nationwide Building Society, has joined the board of twofourtv as a non-executive director. Davis, who has been at the helm of the Nationwide for the past seven ye

10/12/2001 GEE BROADCAST APPOINT EUROPEAN SALES & MARKETING MANAGER
IN ORDER to expand on their rapidly growing market share of the European Video Server business, Gee Broadcast have appointed Rafael Dubois as European Sales and Marketing Manager. In his new position

10/12/2001 HARRIS DELIVER DECODERS TO TDF
HARRIS Broadcast Europe (HBE) has delivered 150 additional decoders to TDF(Télédiffusion de France) for feeding synchronous FM transmitters via satellite. The transmitters enable motorists in France

10/12/2001 ITC INVITE APPLICATIONS FOR SERVICE LICENCE ON CHANNEL 5
THE ITC today have issued a formal invitation to apply for an additional service licence to use spare capacity within the analogue terrestrial signals on Channel 5. Applicants are free to propose any

10/12/2001 ITC REQUIRES MTV BASE TO BROADCAST APOLOGY
THE ITC have directed the digital music channel MTV Base to broadcast an apology for transmitting the video for Prodigy's ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ during family viewing time. Showing scenes of drug-taking

10/12/2001 PLAN TO SAVE DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TV IS WELCOMED
A PROPOSED coalition to save terrestrial DTV has been welcomed by BECTU. In a paper submitted to the UK Parliament Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee, the union gave their

10/12/2001 PLATFORM POST OPENS ITS DOORS WITH A SMOKE
PLATFORM Post, a new Soho facility set up by Editor Simon Cruse and Graphic Designer David Tasker, has opened its doors with a Discreet smoke on-line non-linear editing and finishing tool. The system

10/12/2001 SQU CHOOSE JVC D-9 FOR THEIR NEW STUDIO
SULTAN Qaboos University (SQU), the university in Oman, have chosen the JVC D-9 digital video format for their new studio. The installation includes three JVC KY-D29E digital processing cameras and s

07/12/2001 AXIS FILMS AND GHS SCOTLAND CHANGE NAMES
AXIS Films and GHS Scotland have been trading under separate identities since the merger of the two companies in August 1998. Whilst both companies have their distinct markets, from January 1, 2002,

07/12/2001 BBC TWO UNVEIL £77 MILLION CHRISTMAS LINE-UP
A disturbing warning from the future, unseen footage of two of cinema’s greatest icons and recovered gems of lost episodes of one of the nation’s best loved comedies line up to take the chill off a £7

07/12/2001 CWMNI DA TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTARY FOR BBC WALES
CAERNARFON based independent Cwmni da have been commissioned by BBC Wales to produce a 30-minute documentary on the life and work of Susan Williams-Ellis - the creative genius behind Portmeirion Potte

07/12/2001 FRAMESTORE GET INTO GEAR WITH EDIFIS
FRAMESTORE, London's leading high-end post-production facility, have purchased an Edifis Gearbox format-independent signal store and interface. The disk-based Gearbox is being used for fully non-comp

07/12/2001 HOOVER DAM SCHEME PROMOTES SCOTTISH MUSICIANS
THE Glasgow Film Office are joining forces with Sigma Films and The 8 1/2 Short Film Factory to launch the charity Starfish and a new music project Hoover Dam. Starfish was founded as a registered ch

07/12/2001 PYSER-SGI TO EXHIBIT NEW PRODUCTS AT VIDEOFORUM
PYSER-SGI will be exhibiting their own manufacture MicroTest video monitors, image enhancers and field test equipment, plus a section of the latest Fujinon lenses, including HD primes, cine and ENG st