Broadcast News Archive for June, 2001
26/06/2001 BRITISH COUNCIL TO ATTEND VANCOUVER FILM FESTIVAL
INDEPENDENT film and content producers looking to work with the Canadian market will have the opportunity to promote their work at a co-production event staged by The British Council at the Vancouver

26/06/2001 CHANNEL 4 LAUNCH ANIMATED COMEDY LAB
CHANNEL 4 are drawing on the success of their entertainment strand 'Comedy Lab' by launching a Lab specifically for animation. They are looking for ideas which feature strong writing talent and innov

26/06/2001 ENVIVIO UPDATE SOLUTIONS FOR IBC
ENVIVIO have announced they will introduce a variety of new updates to their end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive commercial broadcasting solutions at IBC 2001. Utilising MPEG-4's rich set of integrated str

26/06/2001 FINAL CUT PURCHASE XYTECH SOFTWARE
LONDON and New York based Final Cut have announced the purchase of an Enterprise System from Xytech Systems Corporation. Xytech Enterprise is the solution for fully integrated facility and asset man

26/06/2001 PREBBLE SETS OUT PLAN OF ACTION
STUART Prebble, Chief Executive of ITV, has set out a plan of action to ensure that digital switchover happens within the Government’s timetable. Giving the Annual Goodman Derrick Lecture at the Roya

26/06/2001 PRINTOUT LAUNCH DUPLICATION SERVICE
LONDON based Printout Video Publishing have responded to customer demand by adding CD and short-run DVD-R duplication to their growing list of services and facilities. Printout Video Publishing speci

26/06/2001 WINNERS OF BAFTA CYMRU AWARDS ANNOUNCED
THE winners of the BAFTA Cymru Awards, which took place recently at St David's Hall in Cardiff, have been announced. Journalist, writer and broadcaster, Trevor Fishlock scooped the top prize at the B

25/06/2001 ALIAS|WAVEFRONT AND MENTAL IMAGES FORM ALLIANCE
ALIAS|WAVEFRONT, an SGI company, have announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance with mental images, makers of the world-renowned, mental ray renderer. The two companies will work tog

25/06/2001 BRIEF ENCOUNTERS AT BRISTOL
ENTRIES have been invited for DepicT! 2001, the Brief Encounters competition which challenges budding international film-makers to make a world beating micro-movie of up to 90 seconds long and get the

25/06/2001 FILMLINK CELEBRATE FIFTH BIRTHDAY
FILMLINK, the Film and Television Commission for Hertfordshire, celebrated their fifth birthday on June 26. In 1996 Filmlink launched their service to develop the film and television industry in Hert

25/06/2001 IRISH FILM BOARD ANNOUNCE KEY APPOINTMENTS
THE IRISH Film Board today announced new appointments to the company in light of continued expansion and consolidation in the Irish film industry. The primary role of the Irish Film Board is to promo

25/06/2001 KEEP ON TRACK WITH MISS JUNE
THE UPCOMING feature film ‘Miss June’ is to be funded in part by member-sponsors, who will, like their on-screen counterparts, track Miss June’s progress as she moves through production, into the fest

25/06/2001 MEDIA 100 OFFERS CLEANER 5 SUMMER SPECIAL
MEDIA 100, provider of digital media design and delivery solutions, are teaming up with training specialists Magnet Media to offer a red-hot summer deal. Up until the August 24 2001, customers who p

25/06/2001 OUT OF THIS WORLD GRAPHICS FOR EQUINOX
CREATING photo-realistic re-constructions of various outer space phenomena for a programme in the new Equinox series was the challenge facing the animators at visual communications facility, Red. Wo

25/06/2001 YOUNG FILMMAKERS TO WORK WITH FILM COUNCIL
THE Film Council have today announced the first stage of their innovative First Light project aimed at helping children and young people to make short digital films. The £1 million Lottery-funded pro

22/06/2001 BBC TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES DIGITAL TRANSMISSION
BBC Technology have announced that they have placed a contract with Chyron to upgrade their Digital Transmission Area (DTA). The new facilities provided under the contract include MPEG video servers

22/06/2001 CRYSTAL VISION'S NEW DESK TOP BOX
CRYSTAL Vision have developed a new-style desk top box - the DTB-AV - to offer customers a low-cost solution for applications involving just one or two boards. The DTB-AV replaces the DTB-2 which had

22/06/2001 LOTTERY GRANT £1.7M TO SCOTTISH PRODUCTIONS
IN the latest round of Scottish Screen Lottery Awards for film production, five projects have been awarded a total of £1.7 million. John Archer, Chief Executive of Scottish Screen commenting on this

22/06/2001 MPC EQUIP WITH EDIFIS SERVERS
MOVING Picture Company (MPC) have become the first London facility to install Edifis servers in all of their telecine suites. Following on the success of the Sting Server installed in January this ye

22/06/2001 NEW GOLDILOCKS KICKS BEAR BUTT
THE NEW impertinent Goldilocks is the star of an animated commercial for Kellogg’s cereal ‘Just Right’. Designed and directed by Oscar Grillo of Klacto Animations and launched by J. Walter Thomson, t

22/06/2001 ORAD TO LAUNCH NEW PRODUCT LINES
ORAD Hi-Tec Systems, a world leader in virtual sets, on air graphics and sports production systems, will be presenting this year at IBC a wide range of new products, new applications and new studio/OB

22/06/2001 PRO-BEL AUTOMATION FOR TBS SUPERSTATION
THE PRO-BEL division of Chyron Corporation have recently completed a dual redundant automation system for Turner Broadcasting System’s TBS Superstation and WTBS, Atlanta. TBS Superstation is Turner

22/06/2001 VINTEN SUPPORT BROADCAST ASIA
VINTEN Broadcast have announced that they are equipment suppliers to the EMPC complex and ERTU, venue for Broadcast Asia, and are showing, on the Integrated Systems stand, the latest versions of model

21/06/2001 CHANNEL 4 LAUNCH PRODUCER’S RESOURCE
CHANNEL 4 have announced the launch of 4Producers.co.uk, a new online independent commissioning guide for Channel 4. This is the latest in a series of sites related to Channel 4 which also includes F

21/06/2001 DISAPPOINTMENT AT ITV REGIONAL COMMITMENT
SIR ROBIN Biggam, Chairman of the ITC, has said that the ITC are disappointed by ITV's failure to embrace the need for new and different commitments to the regional services. He said that while the I