Sky News 'Back To Their Grass Valley Roots'

The world's second largest broadcast and professional solutions supplier, is to be employed to build a state-of-the-art, high-definition production control room for BSkyB's Sky News.
Grass Valley will install the new Kayenne Video Production Center and two Grass Valley K2 Summit Production Client servers. The highly rated news channel is also building a new production studio it will outfit with 12 new Grass Valley LDK 8000 Elite WorldCam multiformat HD cameras.
BSkyB will use the Grass Valley HD production equipment for Sky News' coverage of the UK's upcoming general elections, when it will become the first mainstream news channel in the country to broadcast in HD.
Jon Bennett, Head of Studio Output at Sky News commented: “As we intend to be the first news channel to go HD in the UK, we wanted to make sure we had the right equipment in place to make a significant impact in the history of news television."
He added: "The performance and reliability of Grass Valley’s equipment has served us well in the past, and we look forward to many more years of fruitful cooperation with this new installation."
Sky News is also using several Grass Valley K2 Summit servers, which will work seamlessly with the Kayenne switcher, integrating directly into the switcher's control system.
This will enable the immediate update of banners, straps, and graphics enabling Sky to continually refresh the on-air presentation in a dynamic manner not previously possible.
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