Flow stemmed

Broadcast technology consultants Mediasmiths, one of the early tenants of The Landing at MediaCityUK, have gone into voluntary liquidation. Operations in Sweden and Australia have been hived off, and continue to trade.

Set up in 2007, they became go-to guys for tapeless workflow, working with BSkyB, and up until recently acting as a preferred supplier for the Digital Production Partnership, consisting of most UK public service broadcasters.

In June 2011 they formed part of a consortium brought in by CTO John Linwood to deliver parts of the BBC's doomed DMI project, working alongside Computacenter and Vidispine. They were tasked with re-working and "enhancing" an earlier, unstable version of Media Store Control.