A ACE
=
American Cinema Editors= Arts Council England
AIB = Association for International Broadcasting
AIC = Alice in Chains (band from Seattle) {courtesy of
Topfife}
ASC = American Society of Cinematographers
ASM = Assistant Stage Manager {courtesy of Moblogger OJ and the BBC}
AFP = Advertiser Funded Programming
ACL = Anterior Cruciate Ligament (which footballers damage just when they are most needed) {courtesy of Paul Chappel}
ATV
= Automated Transfer Vehicle [launched by the ESA (= European Space Agency) in March 08 bound for the ISS (International Space Station)]
= Appointment to View {courtesy of Hideous Productions}
ADP = Automatic Data Processing
ASD = Autistic Spectrum Disorder {courtesy of Siren's Cry}
AWS = Amazon Web Services (see 4iP)
API
= Compulsory Advance Passenger Information for the Spanish authorities (required if you are flying from the UK, Republic of Ireland, Switzerland or Morocco to Spain) {courtesy of Ryanscrewthemforeverypennyair}
= Application Programming Interface
APP = Assessing Pupil Progress (another educational assessment initiative)
AIG - American International Group
AET = After Extra Time (in sad rememberance of Carling Cup Final 1st March 09 in which Spurs lost on penalties AET)
ATM
= Airtime Management (Channel 4)
= Automatic Teller Machine AKA Hole in the wall (banking)
= Army Training Memorandum {Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms}
= At the moment {courtesy of
Alfie}
ATP = Adenosine Triphosphate (in cellular respiration)
AFM = American Film Market
ACR = A Certain Ratio (Factory Records band as seen in 24 Hour Party People)
BBDA = Big Dumb Advertisers / Big Dumb Agencies
BIS = Dept. for Business Innovation & Skills (aka Mandelsonia)
BNC = Bayonet Nut Connector ("y’know, the locking connectors like what you use to join co-ax together") {courtesy of Mat}
BPB =
Brighton Photo BiennialBFF = Best Friend Forever {courtesy of Lisa Devaney}
BOF = Beurre Oeufs Fromage [a blackmarketeer in wartime occupied France - read in Murder in the Marais by Carla Black]
BBC = Bucks Boarding Centre {sticker on the tube today 11.1.08}
BAA
= British Animation Awards {
4mations}
= British Airports Authority
= Bibliotheque d'Art et d'Archeologie (Geneva) which includes the CdE = Cabinet des Estampes
= Bachelor of Applied Arts {Simon Mayo & Mark Kermode's film review}
BRB = be right back
BTP = British Transport Police
BOA = British Olympics Association (to mark this first day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics 08/08/08 )
BEA = British European Airways (BBC Radio 4 1968 Day-by-Day)
BGT = Britain's Got Talent
BoE = Bank of England (to mark the credit crunch meltdown)
BBW = big breasted woman
BYO = bring your own bottle
BIP = Brand Information Page (channel4.com jargon)
BOD = Brian O'Driscoll (in commemoration of Ireland-England 6 Nations international at Croke Park at which BOD scored a telling try and drop goal 28th Feb 09, watched at McKevitt's in Carlingford)
BMC = British Motor Corporation (responsible for creating the Mini whose 50th anniversary was this month Aug 09)
BME
= British Music Experience (launched 3.3.09 by Harvey Goldsmith at the old Millennium Dome)
= Black and Minority Ethnic
BPD = Baltimore Police Department (The Wire)
BFC =
Britain's Forgotten Children, forthcoming season on Channel 4 starting 9.v.09 - not to be confused with BFG = Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl) {courtesy of Jodie Morris} or KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken
BSG = Broadband Stakeholders' Group (which I helped establish in 2000)
BSD = Bullshit Detector {courtesy of The Clash - and me}
BSL = British Sign Language {courtesy of OAD Alex Horstmann}
CC4C = Channel 4 Corporation (Digital Britain report)
CCC
= Cork County Council
= Clapham Community Centre (The London Pigeon Wars, Patrick Neate)
CCE = Central and Eastern Europe (international TV sales territory)
CGT = capital gains tax (commonly avoided through 'flipping' - see Neologisms)
CLG = Communities and Local Government
CMF = Canada Media Fund
CMN = Contemporary Music Network {Arts Council = ACE}
CMS = Content Management System
CRR = Contract Rights Renewal (ITV)
CTA = Call to action {courtesy of Adam Preloaded}
CSF = Customer Says Faulty {East Finchley Library - DVDs or CDs}
CSF = Comic Sans FTypingerror / Cerebro-Spinal Fluid {courtesy of Mobloggers Seaneeboy and Hildegard}
CPF= Close Personal Friend {Mojo - used with irony i.e. celebs/musos you don't really know properly but pretend you do}
CPH = Copenhagen [to mark my visit to CPH:DOX documentary film festival, Nov 09]
CPR = Courtesy Professionalism Respect {NYPD}
CPZ = Controlled Parking Zone, a means for local councils to extort money from their residents and visitors
CDO = Collateralized Debt Obligations [what made Goldman Sachs even richer this year - i.e. dumping them]
CBT = Cognitive Behaviourial Therapy or Computer-based Training (so if you do an online course you could find yourself doing CBT CBT)
CSF = Cheltenham Science Festival (where we recently filmed Richard Dawkins speaking on Charles Darwin)
CPO = Chief Petty Officer
CPM = Cost Per Thousand
CRT = Cathode Ray Tube (which provided digital storage for The Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, made in Manchester in 1948)
CIM = Come in Mouth
CPD = (Continuing Professional Development) + Compulsive Price Disclosure [as in 'Oh this top, £5 from Primark' or 'these shoes, £20 in the sale'] {courtesy of Technokitten, she's outdone herself}
CDN = Content Delivery Network {courtesy of Mint Digital} + Cultural Diversity Network
CWU = Communication Workers Union (arch-enemy of Royal Mail)
DDAD = Die Another Day (movie)
DOG = Digital On-screen Graphic [those watermarky things on the corner of on-line video and digital tv channels]
DTO = Download to Own {courtesy of Gareth RDF}
DIC
= Dubai International Capital [who want to dic about with Liverpool FC]
= Death is Coming [medical term]
= Detective in Charge {Kevin Smith, film director}
DSS = Dinosaur Space Service [Astrosaurs]
Dgl = Donegal {courtesy of Maura Logue of Ballyshannon}
D2T = Direct to Tribe ["marketingspeak - not 1 to 1, not 1 to many, but 1 to some"] {courtesy of Technokitten}
DCD = Digital Cinema Distribution {courtesy of UK Media Desk}
DRC = "(not so) Democratic Republic of Congo" {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
DSA = Daily Supplementary Allowance
DPA = Data Protection Act
DFI = Different Fucking Idea (production crew codeword on TV shoots) {courtesy of Sarah Mulvey, Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, Channel 4}
DIY = Don't Involve Yourself (Roy on The Archers 28Nov08 )
DFP = Documentary Film Program (1/09 the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Sundance Film Festival announced a new partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program to take the innovative documentary pitching forum, the Good Pitch, on the road in North America)
DHC = Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (BNW = Brave New World - Aldous Huxley)
DHS = Department of Homeland Security
EEAP = Employee Assistance Programme
The E.N.D. = The Energy Never Dies (by Black Eyed Peas) {courtesy of Noah}
EOF = End Of File {courtesy of Mat}
EDP = Education Projects {Pirate, heart of the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of Channel 4 commissioning}
EMP = Electro-magnetic Pulse {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown}
EAB = Education Advisory Board {courtesy of Channel 4 Education - some lovely peeps involved}
ETB =
Embarrassing Teenage BodiesEPC - Elasto Plastic Concrete {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
ECM = Editions of Contemporary Music + Every Child Matters
ECB = England & Wales Cricket Board (Wales doesn't get its dubya) + European Central Bank
