Broadcast News Archive for March, 2012
05/03/2012 Unions Say BBC Pay Offer 'Unacceptable'
Negotiators representing thousands of BBC staff have reacted angrily to an offer of a 1% pay rise in August this year. Responding to a claim from BECTU, NUJ, and Unite, for an increase of inflation p

05/03/2012 Zee News Chooses Harris Corporation To Upgrade Its News Production Facility
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, announced that India's Zee News will upgrade its news production and playout facility in New Delhi using a compl

02/03/2012 ATEME Announces Its Market Leader Position For Digital Television Encoding
ATEME, the leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 video compression solutions, announced today that it has deployed more than one hundred Kyrion hardware encoders for High Definition terrestrial broadcastin

02/03/2012 Australian Film & Television School Chooses Ross NK Router
Australian Film & Television School (AFTRS) chooses a Ross NK 96 x 96 Router for their Moore Park facility in Sydney to provide central routing services across all of their studios, suites and teachin

02/03/2012 BBC's 1% Pay Offer "Unacceptable" Say Unions
Negotiators representing thousands of BBC staff have reacted angrily to an offer of a 1% pay rise in August this year. Responding to a claim from BECTU, NUJ, and Unite, for an increase of inflation p

02/03/2012 Fllm Company Fined After Cameraman Hurt On Set
A production company has been fined after a cameraman fell more than three metres from the set of a forthcoming major film. The 62-year-old was working on the set of 47 Ronin at Shepperton Studios, M

02/03/2012 New VP Sales And Marketing Strengthens DPA Microphones
DPA Microphones has taken further steps to strengthen its market position and future growth by employing Susanne Seidel as executive VP sales and marketing. Seidel joins on 1 March from Sennheiser Ele

02/03/2012 Sontay Introduces New Catalogue
Sontay, the field controls and peripherals expert, has recently launched its 2012 catalogue which is packed full of products selected to provide value for money, improved functionality and outstanding

02/03/2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Goes Under The Knife With Addictive TV
For the first time in gaming history, two video games publishers have joined forces, mashing-up two games into one where Street Fighter and Tekken series' characters all fight it out! Joining in th

02/03/2012 UTV Wins Prestigious Award
UTV has won a prestigious Royal Television Society award for its Insight programme 'The Resurrection of Brendan Smyth' in the Nations and Regions Current Affairs and News category. 'The Resurrection

01/03/2012 Content Television Secures BBC Thriller 'Line Of Duty'
Content Television, a division of Content Media Corporation, has acquired international distribution rights to major new BBC drama Line of Duty and will debut the highly anticipated primetime series t

01/03/2012 Four Mistika-Related Projects Scoop Awards
SGO have revealed that four outstanding Mistika-related projects have received awards from the International 3D Society this week in Hollywood. The Mistika-related projects include: The Animated 3D

01/03/2012 Grand Slam Success For Gearhouse Broadcast
Gearhouse Broadcast have completed the successful delivery of comprehensive technical facilities for the Australian Open host broadcast and unilateral broadcasters at this year’s Asian/Pacific Grand S

01/03/2012 Larson Studios Installs Jünger Audio's Loudness Solution
The need to comply with the recently introduced CALM Act on broadcast audio loudness has led Hollywood-based Larson Studios to invest in two Jünger Audio T*AP Television Audio Processors. These have n

01/03/2012 Nominations Released For IVCA Awards 2012
The IVCA has revealed the nominations for the most prestigious awards ceremonies in the visual communications industry's calendar. A broad range of leading companies from across the communication in

01/03/2012 PSI Takes Out The Family Fortunes
Production Services Ireland (PSI)'s Dublin branch kicked off 2012 with the supply of full lighting production, trussing and associated rigging for two high profile TV series - Take Me Out (Ireland)

01/03/2012 Softel Publishes New Executive Briefing
Softel have announced that it has published a new executive briefing that helps content owners and distributors understand how they can best comply with the latest FCC Communication and Video Accessib

01/03/2012 Tektronix Expands Its Waveform Monitor Line With WFM2200
Tektronix, the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, today announced the availability of the portable WFM2200 waveform monitor, the latest addition to the company’s