Broadcast News Archive for June, 2001
05/06/2001 UTV VIEWER RATINGS SOAR
UTV ratings soared on May 31 as soap fans switched on in their thousands to watch ‘Emmerdale’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘The Soap Awards’ delivering the highest share of audience for Northern Ireland t

04/06/2001 ANNUAL MEDIA CENSUS EXPANDED
THE second annual census of the audio-visual industries has been expanded to include front-of-camera occupations as well as computer games and the wider film industry. Due to the success of the first

04/06/2001 BBC INTERACTIVE SERVICES AIM TO GET VOTE
AS THE country goes to the polls on June 7, the BBC are offering digital viewers a chance to capture every result coming in with a range of interactive services on all digital television platforms, to

04/06/2001 DTS CLINCH MAJOR SALE
DTS, one of the leaders in multi-channel digital sound for cinemas and consumer audio, have clinched another major sale. Belgian DVD specialist Stay Tuned ordered a professional encoding and monitori

04/06/2001 NEW HEAD FOR MILLER EUROPE
LEADING camera support manufacturer Miller Fluid Heads have announced the appointment of Ian O’Connor as Managing Director of their European operations, Miller Fluid Heads (Europe). Based in Miller’s

04/06/2001 NIGHT AND DAY FOR AVOLITES
AVOLITES have supplied film and television lighting specialists Lee Lighting with a large control system comprising fourteen 48-way ART dimmer racks and three Pearl 2000 consoles. The system is for u

04/06/2001 PICARDY HELPS HOOK IPA AWARD
PICARDY Media Group played an instrumental role in Marr Associate’s successful television advertising campaign to promote fish, which recently netted them an award at the Scottish Institute of Practit

04/06/2001 RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
THE ninth Raindance Film Festival isopening on Wednesday October 17 2001, and is now accepting film submissions. All features and shorts must have been completed on or after 1 September 2000, and the

04/06/2001 TREMORS AT SKARAMOOSH
TYRELL, the UK exclusive reseller for Nothing Real, have announced the sale of another Tremor system to leading post-production house Skaramoosh. This is the second UK sale of the high-end compositi

01/06/2001 BACH TO THE FUTURE WITH ONDIGITAL
CLASSICAL music fans will be able to benefit from the latest digital TV technology with an enhanced service to accompany ITV's Classical Brits, exclusive to ONdigital viewers. ITV will be broadcastin

01/06/2001 BMPTVI ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP WITH BBC MEDIAARC
BMPTVI and BBC MediaArc have announced an important new agency production partnership. The deal is a first, involving a collaboration between the creative and planning pedigree of an interactive TV a

01/06/2001 IRISH FICTION FILM SCRIPTS SOUGHT
GALWAYFILMCENTRE are inviting applications for their 2001 Short Script Awards, the award scheme for new short Irish fiction films. The scheme, now in its sixth year, is designed to promote film-makin

01/06/2001 MEDIACAST, ECC AND E-CAST A GREAT SUCCESS
EXHIBITORS have endorsed the success of this year's Mediacast by signing contracts for 62 per cent of next year's space (5,046 square metres). Brendan Sherry, Vice President Europe for Planetweb supp

01/06/2001 OPENTV’S MIDDLEWARE INSTALLED IN 16M STB’S
OPENTV, one of the world's leading interactive television and media solutions companies, have announced that their OpenTV middleware is now installed in a market-leading 16 million digital set-top box

01/06/2001 ORAD’S PSY ON AIR USED FOR ELECTIONS
EMMY Award winner Orad Hi-Tec Systems, a leader in TV production technology and sports broadcasting tools, have announced the successful use of their PSY On Air Graphics for the live television covera

01/06/2001 RED POSTS OCEAN COLOUR SCENE PROMO
VISUAL communications facility Red used their flame and Spirit to add some subtle effects and grading to the video for Ocean Colour Scene's new single, 'Mechanical Wonder'. The promo was directed by

01/06/2001 WESSBERG TO LEAD EBU CONFERENCE
ARNE Wessberg, incoming President of the European Broadcasting Union, will give the keynote address at VLV's seventh International Conference. The conference will be held at the Royal Society of Art