FCC’s Mobile Broadband Agenda
The US’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled a Mobile Broadband Agenda which will include reallocating spectrum from other users and applying network neutrality standards to wireless broadband, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
Playin’TV wins award
Visiware, the leading worldwide publisher of games for pay television has won the "Special Award for Best Game Service in Interactive Television' for Playin’TV, its all-audiences game channel
Studio Zoo cleaned out
Studio Zoo was broken into on Wednesday 7 October and they were cleaned out of all their equipment. Adi Leach says that it looks like a pro job as they took rasterizers, eQ suites, Avid suites, Graphic workstations - the lot! "They even stole our eQ archive drives with 10 years of work! Irreplaceable.'
European Film Awards honour Huppert & Loach
French actress Isabelle Huppert (Madame Bovary, A Judgement in Stone, The Piano Teacher) and British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Looking For Eric)
US TV shows pirated overseas
TorrentFreak, the weblog dedicated to all news regarding the BitTorrent filesharing protocol, reports that US TV shows such as Heroes, House, Entourage and How I Met Your Mother, are being massively and illegally downloaded overseas using BitTorrent clients.
D9 tops R9m
After six weeks of release on the South African circuit, Neill Blompkamp’s blockbuster District 9 has generated R9.1m at the box office.
SA artist’s short film selected for Edinburgh
Paul Emmanuel’s artist’s film, 3SAI: A Rite Of Passage has been selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Africa-in-Motion Film Festival 2009. The festival opens on 26 October.
Global animation market suffers impact of downturn
The Global Animation Industry, a new report from media analysts Screen Digest (www.screendigest.com) features exclusive research indicating which countries and companies are leading the industry in annual animation output.
TVIEC makes progress
The website of the South African Screen Federation (www.sasfed.org) reports that the SABC interim board has committed to paying independent producers the outstanding amounts owed to them by the crisis-stricke public broadcaster.
French public broadcasters increase film support
Proving that there are some places in the world where public broadcasters actually support their indigenous feature film industries, France Televisions ( the country’s public television group) has increased investment funding from 2009 to 2012 in film co-production and pre-sales.
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