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    ITV Studios Nordic adopts Avid Everywhere to streamline media production & management

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    BURLINGTON, Mass. --

    ITV  Studios Norway, part of ITV Studios Nordic has adopted Avid Everywhere to streamline its media production and management, and facilitate remote collaboration across its facilities in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The Avid platform will enable ITV Studios Norway to accelerate its production of entertainment shows, while gaining significant operational efficiencies and cost savings.

    Part of ITV Studios UK, the UK’s largest commercial production company, ITV Studios Nordic produces or co-produces more than 40 leading international television programs for broadcasters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland–including Keeping the Nation Alive, Night Patrol, Come Dine With Me, Hell’s Kitchen, and The Chase.

    Faced with handling a rapidly growing volume of media across its sites, while working with an outdated, labor-intensive and inefficient infrastructure, ITV Studios Norway was quick to see the benefits of the Avid MediaCentral Platform. Remote collaboration has enabled production, editorial and engineering teams dispersed across the region to easily work together in real time to create, manage and distribute compelling content. By centralizing its content management workflow, the company can more efficiently and cost effectively manage its production pipeline. And automating existing manual ingest and transcoding processes has further reduced operating costs.

    “Our first priority is to create compelling and entertaining content to help our clients attract and retain audiences. But we were spending too many man-hours performing mundane tasks, and couldn’t access and manage our content easily, which led to production inefficiencies,” said Jon Sverre Høiden, COO of ITV Studios Norway. “By investing in Avid Everywhere and getting on the platform, we now benefit from a tightly integrated, open, end-to-end workflow that has vastly improved our operational processes and productivity.”

    The workflow, installed by local Avid partner VideoUtstyr, comprises solutions from the Avid Media, Avid Artist and Avid Storage Suites. Centered on the Interplay | Production Facility Package, ITV Studios Nordic benefits from Interplay | Production asset management and remote workflow capabilities, including Avid MediaCentral | UX and Media Composer | Cloud. On-premise editing is handled by Avid Media Composer | Software and the workflow is supported with Avid ISIS 5500 shared storage.
     

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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