Broadcast News Archive for July, 2014
08/07/2014 Ross Video Appoints Technical Sales Specialist For EMEA
Ross Video has appointed Mark Cooke as a Technical Sales Specialist for EMEA. On his appointment Mr Cooke said: "I'd been keeping an eye on Ross Video and had been impressed by the company's shrewd

08/07/2014 Video Devices For Multi-Campus Workflow
The Bethlehem Baptist Church has chosen the PIX 260i Production Video Recorder from Video Devices for the recording and playback of weekly services. The church uses five PIX 260i's to ensure the hi

08/07/2014 VSN Uses Wohler Technologies' RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform
Spain's VSN is using Wohler Technologies RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform™ as the transcoding and media transformation engine for its media asset management (MAM) product. "The

08/07/2014 XL Video Supplies Creative Video Projection At Glastonbury
XL Video supplied creative video projection and control to the Shangri La area at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. XL's Nick Diacre project managed two specialist vide

07/07/2014 Danmon Systems Complete Major Project
Danmon Systems Group has completed a major project for Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (KNR) in Nuuk. The project involved moving the entire existing facility into new premises. In 2012-13 it was decided

07/07/2014 FilmLight Adds Industry Experts To Its Team
FilmLight has added two highly experienced figures from the world of post-production to its team. Daniele Siragusano and Ram Krishna Tripathi Samaveda will provide workflow information, consultanc

07/07/2014 Gearhouse Appoint Tischler to Head Of Projects
Gearhouse Broadcast has promoted Ed Tischler to head of projects. The experienced broadcast engineer was previously technical projects manager and is currently in Brazil overseeing Gearhouse’s Wor

07/07/2014 PLASA Rigging Conference To Be Delivered As A One-Day Package
The fifth annual PLASA Rigging Conference is to be held on Monday 6th October 2014 in the North Hall Gallery Rooms, alongside the PLASA London Show at ExCeL London. For the first time, the confere

07/07/2014 TV Azteca Create New Studio Powered By Vizrt Solutions
TV Azteca have created a new studio powered by Vizrt solutions for the 2014 FIFA World Cup coverage. Four Viz Engine rendering and real-time compositing tools from Vizrt are being used to enhance T

07/07/2014 White Mark Helps Create Foley Studio
White Mark Ltd has played an important role in creating a new Foley studio for Russia's state of the art film sound facility CineLab Ltd. Designed to be the best in the world, CineLab's Foley stud

04/07/2014 Film London Awarded £1m Funding
Film London has been awarded almost £1m funding through the Arts Council England National Portfolio 2015-2018 Funding Programme. Film London will use the funding to continue to deliver its Artists’ Mo

04/07/2014 Fineline Supplies Glasto Fest
Bristol-based lighting and visuals rental company Fineline Lighting supplied lighting and rigging at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. The project this year involved ov

04/07/2014 Imagine's Charlie Vogt Receives CEO Award
Finance Monthly has selected Imagine Communications CEO Charlie Vogt to receive one of the magazine’s CEO Awards 2014, which celebrate the "success, innovation and vision of CEOs representing a number

04/07/2014 Lawo Appoints Global Sales Director
Lawo has appointed Ralf Schimmel as Director of Global Sales, with effect from 1 July. He will take over responsibility for the strategic orientation and coordination of worldwide sales activities for

04/07/2014 Portable Panasonic Projector A 'World's First'
Panasonic has announced it is due to launch the world’s first portable, high-brightness WUXGA LCD projector (WUXGA resolution projectors in the sub-5kg category, as of June 2014). The PT-VZ570 seri

04/07/2014 QSC Launches New Loudspeaker Models
QSC Audio Products, LLC has selected InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas as the platform to launch three new loudspeaker models designed for fixed installation applications. The new AD-S6T and AD-S112sw sur

04/07/2014 Sennheiser Kicks Off Capital Radio At Wembley
The 2014 Capital Radio Summertime Ball took place at Wembley Stadium on 21 June. As in previous years, Sennheiser UK provided support and technical backup to the Ball’s audio provider Adlib. The gr

04/07/2014 Shure Launches 'Play For L.A.'
Shure Europe has announced details of its 2014 guitar competition 'Play for LA'. Regional winners will each bag a Shure Beta Digital Wireless Guitar Pedal System, plus more guitar gear and will be flo

04/07/2014 Systembase IP Codecs at Brazil World Cup
Systembase C510ip Audio Codecs have been supplied to ITV and several other international television broadcasters for integration and implementation during the 2014 World Cup, taking place at various s

04/07/2014 Tedial To Showcase At IBC2014
Media IT solutions group Tedial will be appearing at this year's IBC show in Amsterdam, stand Stand 8.B41. The group will demonstrate its latest Tarsys desktop media search tools. Using either PC

03/07/2014 Al Arab Integrates Viz Mosart
Al Arab, an independent 24-hour news channel launching this year, is being built around two Viz Mosart studio automation systems. Al Arab, which will broadcast from Bahrain, is relying on Viz Mosar

03/07/2014 ARRI Announces Support For ProRes 4444 XQ
ARRI has announced support for the new Apple ProRes 4444 XQ, which will be available in the next Software Update Packet for ALEXA cameras. "Working with ProRes has been great for our customers," s

03/07/2014 arte Travel Doc Selects Blackmagic Pocket Cine Cam
European cultural television channel arte has commissioned a new series of travel documentaries on the Indochina region, shot on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Berlin-based Story House Produc

03/07/2014 Audiopole Showcases HARMAN's Studer Vista X
French distributor Audiopole recently showcased the new HARMAN's Studer Vista X and its Infinity Core technology in Paris. Held at the restaurant Archibald, Jean-Philippe Blanchard of Audiopole prese

03/07/2014 Avid Artist Suite Updates Announced
Avid has announced the availability of updates to its mixing solutions in the Avid Artist Suite of creative tools for audio, video and live sound production. "The new versions of Pro Tools | S6 an