Broadcast News Archive for March, 2007
22/03/2007 High Resolutions Lighting And E\T\C UK Collaborate To Project St Patrick's Day In Dublin
A collaboration between Dublin-based High Resolution Lighting and London based E\T\C UK resulted the first large format PIGI projections to grace Dublin’s world famous Saint Patrick’s Festival. The p

22/03/2007 Iceni Make Top 5 UK Corporate Video Production Companies
iceni, a Midlands corporate video production company has climbed the chart to be one of the top five production companies in England with a head office North of London. iceni is once again the leadin

22/03/2007 Impossible Pictures Commissioned To Make Landmark Series 'Natural Wonders'
BAFTA and Emmy award-winning indie, Impossible Pictures, has been commissioned by Discovery Channel to make 'Natural Wonders', a new six-part science series. In a seamless blend of geology, geography

22/03/2007 Pharos Communications From Tranmission To Archive At NAB
Pharos Communications has encapsulated the entire process of broadcast channel operation from ingest right through to transmission and archive. Easy to understand and easy to use, Pharos Mediator is

22/03/2007 The Look Chooses Quantel eQFX
The Look, the new boutique HD/DI facility in London, has chosen a Quantel eQFX system to sit at the heart of its workflow. Founder Thomas Urbye selected the eQ to enable him “to build a business on j

22/03/2007 UNAM Chooses Dayang's Generator And Graphics Animation System
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Campus Acatlan has chosen Dayang's D-Cube-CG 3D character generator and graphics animation system to brand its UNAM-CCTV educational television chan

21/03/2007 Autoscript Sell Portable Prompting Systems to Doordarshan
Autoscript has announced the sale of eight portable prompting systems to Doordarshan, the official public broadcasting television channel in India. Autoscript has supplied eight portable prompting sy

21/03/2007 BBC Appoint Executive Producer Current Affairs In Manchester
BBC Current Affairs has announce that Liz Molyneux has been appointed as the Executive Producer for network TV Current Affairs in Manchester. She is currently Head of Development for BBC Knowledge in

21/03/2007 Christie Appoint Film Cinema Product Manager
Christie continues to strengthen its commitment to film projection technology with the appointment of Jim Dukes as film cinema product manager in its Entertainment Solutions business division. In his

21/03/2007 FORscene Used To Log Spanish-based Documentary Rushes
FORscene was chosen for 'Marbella Belles', a documentary series charting the lives and loves of British women living and working in Spain's coastal resorts. Filmed in Spain, the production team used

21/03/2007 HSL Light Up Lily Allen's 'Smile' On UK Tour
HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew for Lily Allen’s just completed UK theatre tour – featuring her largest production to date. Lighting for the feisty British singer/songwriter, renowned for he

21/03/2007 Red Bee Media Signs First French Subtitling Contract with M6
Red Bee Media has signed the first contract for its newly opened French office with French national broadcaster M6. From mid-March, Red Bee Media, from its offices in Paris, will be subtitling a numb

21/03/2007 UK Lags Behind In Paid Online Video Content
Pioneer Online cites lack of content in mainstream channels and earlier exposure to paid video downloads as reasons for US lead. Pioneer Online, an Internet TV specialist created by UK independent pr

21/03/2007 Zoran Licenses Redkey MHEG Engine From Strategy & Technology


Strategy & Technology Limited (S&T) has announced that Zoran, a leading provider of digital solutions in the growing digital entertainment and digital imaging markets, has licensed the company’s RedKe

20/03/2007 Antena3 Purchases Three Further Quantel eQs Systems
Quantel has strengthened its position as the preferred editing solution for Spanish broadcaster Antena3. The Madrid-based broadcaster has purchased three eQ editing/ effects/ colour grading/ delivera

20/03/2007 Bowden Provides Illustrated Lecture As Part Of Wrexam Festival
One of the special animation events for the Wrexham Science Festival there will be an illustrated talk by Chris Bowden, Executive Producer at Cosgrove Hall Films. Cosgrove Hall Films was founded in 1

20/03/2007 Broadcast Video and Corporate Film Production Company Goes Climate Neutral
A Midlands-based business video production and digital design agency, is offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from every mile of road, rail and air travel, on every project in 2007. Iceni said that th

20/03/2007 Digidesign Adds Value to Pro Tools Systems with New Ignition Pack 2 Bundles
Digidesign has released the new Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 and Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro — powerful bundles of creative software and tools available free with all Digidesign Pro Tools|HD and Pro To

20/03/2007 Geevs Multi-Screen Servers – The Ideal HD Source For Studio Videowalls
With the increasing trend to use large Video Walls in TV Studios, Gee Broadcast Systems has released a special 'Multi-Screen' application based on their Geevs MR+ server for HD (or SD) Playback to Mul

20/03/2007 London Celebrates Local Film-making Talent
ITV Local London, ITV’s regional broadband TV service in the London area, is entering into a partnership with Film London, in order to raise the profile and celebrate London’s emerging film-making tal

20/03/2007 Ofcom To Investigate Pay TV in UK
Ofcom has announced that it will investigate the pay TV market after receiving a submission from BT, Setanta, Top Up TV, and Virgin Media. The regulator said that following "careful consideration" it

20/03/2007 Producer Rachel Stones Joins Golden Square
Producer, Rachel Stones, is joining Golden Square from K Post where she was producer in charge of the facility, based in the JWT building, Knightsbridge. Rachel joined K Post in March 2006 from Todd

16/03/2007 'Once In A Lifetime' Animation Events At Wrexham Science Festival
The North Wales School of Art and Design at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) has been heavily involved in organising a range of special animation events for the Wrexham Scienc

16/03/2007 Bradford Film Festival Debate Celebrates Study Of Film
A convention to celebrate the study of film will take place next week as part of the Bradford Film Festival 2007. The Crash Cinema Symposium, which will feature presentations from academic film exper

16/03/2007 Empire Cinemas Launches First All Digital Cinema
Empire Cinemas has announced the launch of its first all digital cinema at its site in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Empire Cinemas, in partnership with Kodak, Barco and Bell Theatre Services, is pi