Thames' death highly premature.Roger Miron, of Thames Television Thames Television was a franchise holder of the British ITV television network, serving London on weekdays between 1968 and 1992. It was both a broadcaster and a producer of television programmes, making shows both for the local region it covered and for networking nationally International (TTI TTI Texas Transportation Institute TTI Thoracic Trauma Index TTI Transmission Time Interval TTI Travel Time Index TTI Travel Technology Initiative TTI Technology Transfer Initiative TTI Traffic and Traveller Information TTI Technology Transfer Institute ), sounded abundantly ebullient, despite working for a company with a seemingly uncertain future. "But, stories of our death are highly premature," he stated. Miron presides over the worldwide sales of programs produced by and for the U.K.-based Thames, and by its U.S. subsidiary, the Reeves Entertainment Group, in Burbank, California For the community in Santa Clara County, California, see Burbank, Santa Clara County, California. For other uses, see Burbank. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2004, the city had a population of 105,400. . Miron suffers no qualms about TTI's future. "Losing the [ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). ] franchise does not affect the company's sales business. We plan to discuss joint projects with independent European producers. Basically, we will put ourselves about in different ways." TTI has access to more than 10,000 hours of programming. In addition Thames, the parent company, has the resources to become the U.K.'s largest independent producer; able to sell programs to the new Channel Three franchise owners, its established international clientele, and to Europe's developing terrestrial and satellite broadcast industry. Miron pointed out that European broadcasters are eager to buy program formats, which can be adapted to suit their culturally different audiences. "The Germans and Benelux countries are very interested in format programming," said Miron. "We recently completed a deal with JE Entertainment of the Netherlands. They bought the ideas and script for The Bill, our successful police drama series, and adapted it for their Dutch viewers." At MIP-TV, TTI launches Worldwide Entertainment News, which Thames co-produced with London-based independent Mentorn Films. The half-hour series, to be called Hollywood Reports in the U.K., is based on gossip from the Hollywood community, Britain and other European countries. The formula will be reformatted for interested European producers. New Reeves pilots include Firehouse, a one-hour drama series for ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. that portrays the everyday life of a group of Philadelphia firefighters; the soap opera soap opera Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style. for CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Beauty, starring Karen Allen, based on two high-powered women in the cosmetics business, Charring Cross (working title) a 90-minute pilot for a Bonanza-type series set in medieval Britain, and 1775, a CBS situation comedy set during the American Revolution. |
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