Broadcast News Archive for June, 2014
12/06/2014 IMT Announces BroadcastAsia2014 Showcase
Integrated Microwave Technologies is bringing its Nucomm and RF Central digital microwave video systems to BroadcastAsia2014, Asia's leading event for the broadcast and entertainment industry. "IMT

12/06/2014 iVE Brings World Cup To Mexico
Unified Video Technologies will bring football fans in Mexico closer to the FIFA World Cup action with its interactive iVE second screen platform. Grupo Televisa, the largest media conglomerate in La

12/06/2014 Sennheiser Announces Further Sound Academy Courses
Sennheiser UK has announced further dates for its UK Sound Academy courses. The 'Basic Wireless Microphones and Monitoring' course, aimed towards achieving practical setup of small RF systems, will ru

12/06/2014 Soho Editors Hosts AVID Everywhere Event
Soho Editors has announced it will be hosting an AVID Everywhere event in Bristol on 24 June, powered by Hewlett Packard. The event will feature technology from Sonnet, Blackmagic Design and Quadrus.

12/06/2014 TCB Media Reports Scandinavian Sales
TCB Media Rights has reported a string of sales to broadcasters across the Nordic territories, with five of Scandinavia's key broadcasters — SVT Sweden, NRK Norway, TV4 Sweden, TV2 Denmark, and Viasat

11/06/2014 Giant Pirates Adopts Forscene
California-based production company Giant Pirates Entertainment has adopted Forbidden's Forscene into its post-production workflow in order to hasten editing of 'The Feed', a new reality-based televis

11/06/2014 Globecast Provides Services For D-Day Commemoration
Globecast has revealed how it supplied ad-hoc services as well as international coverage for the 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration on 6 June in France. Across Normandie, a huge range of events w

11/06/2014 Litepanels LEDs Perform Highly On TLCI Tests
Litepanels has announced the results of recent TLCI-2012 colour reproduction testing conducted by colour science expert Alan Roberts. The Litepanels LEDs all measured in the top category with the 1x1

11/06/2014 Riedel Inks Agreement With Batelco
Riedel Networks is extending its presence in the Middle East and Persian Gulf region through a new agreement with Batelco, Bahrain's leading telecommunications provider. The bilateral supply agreement

11/06/2014 Robben Ford Selects DPA Mics
American blues, jazz and rock guitarist Robben Ford selected DPA mics for his recent live performance at Shatin Town Hall Auditorium in Hong Kong. Ford used a DPA d:facto™ Vocal Microphone, while his

11/06/2014 TSL Scores At World Cup
TSL products have been selected to facilitate Guangdong TV Centre's new purpose-built HD production suite delivery of Brazil's FIFA World Cup coverage to more than 117 million viewers. TSL has supp

11/06/2014 Wohler Distributes Cinnafilm's Tachyon Wormhole
Wohler has been announced as the exclusive master distributor for Cinnafilm's Tachyon Wormhole, an automated file-based retiming solution that enables up to a plus or minus 10 per cent runtime adjustm

11/06/2014 WORK Microwave To Showcase At CommunicAsia
WORK Microwave is to showcase the latest upgrades to its DVB-S2 Broadcast Modulator, Video ACM System, and Fifth-Generation Frequency Converter Series at this year's CommunicAsia show. DVB-S2 B

10/06/2014 4K Imaging In Augmented Reality
The buzz surrounding 4K, or Ultra High Definition, has played a leading role at every key industry trade show during the last twelve months, writes Andrew Butler, applications manager, Vitec Videocom.

10/06/2014 Avid Supplies German Broadcaster
Avid has announced that Hessischer Rundfunk, one of Germany’s leading public broadcasters, has selected its solutions to power its post-production workflow. The upgrade enables the broadcaster to bene

10/06/2014 Baselight-Graded 'We Are Monster' For Edinburgh Award
We Are Monster, a feature film written and produced by Terra Rossa Films Entertainment and graded on Baselight by Splice, has been nominated for the Michael Powell award for Best British Feature Film

10/06/2014 Calrec Consoles Hit Kuwait
State-run Kuwait Broadcast Services (KBS) has installed two Calrec digital audio consoles in its Kuwait City facility as part of an effort to refurbish its radio studios and update its technology.

10/06/2014 Exset Supplies DMS For Pakistan's CMG
Exset, providers of TV ecosystems for emerging markets, has announced in advance of this month's CommunicAsia that Pakistan's Cable Media Group (CMG) has selected the company's DMS technology for a ra

10/06/2014 Grass Valley Upgrades Brazil HD Production Workflow
Grass Valley is providing Brazil’s TV Serra Dourada, located in Goiânia, with a flexible new camera setup that includes seven LDX Flex advanced imaging cameras and seven Elite XCU (eXchangeable Contro

10/06/2014 Imagine To Showcase At BroadcastAsia
Imagine Communications is to showcase the latest in its solutions portfolio at BroadcastAsia2014, taking place in Singapore, June 17-20, 2014. The Imagine Communications stand, number 5B3-03, will fea

10/06/2014 Sennheiser Releases Festival 'Best Friend'
Sennheiser has announced that its Wireless Systems Manager is now available as a free download. Described as an audio engineer's 'best friend', Version 4.1 has a new function that protects any selecte

10/06/2014 Studio Technologies Sponsors AV Networking World Conference
Studio Technologies has signed up to become part of a group of sponsors that will participate in the 5th annual AV Networking World Conference. Presented by Audinate, the inventors of the Dante digita

10/06/2014 VMI - Now Stocking ARRI's AMIRA
West-London based camcorder equipment supplier VMI has now added ARRI's AMIRA to its portfolio. Featuring the same sensor as the Alexa offering PL, EF or B4 mounts, 200fps slow motion, ProRes and supe

09/06/2014 4K OK? Understanding UltraHD... (Pt 1)
In a bid to get his head around the intricacies of 4K format ahead of this summer's landmark broadcasting event, editor Iain Todd spoke to some industry experts on the future of UHD broadcasting...

09/06/2014 4K OK? Understanding UltraHD... (Pt 2)
"The latest workstations and professional laptops are now up to the task of 4K content creation and NLE developers are all beginning to support native 4K editing," Ben Pearce continued. "Even the c