Broadcast News Archive for September, 2008
30/09/2008 Akamai Accelerates Rich And Interactive Global Publishing Content For PageSuite
Akamai Technologies, a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, a leading company powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, has announced that it is supporting PageSuite

30/09/2008 Avid Announces RED Support
Avid Technology, a leading provider of tools for film, video, audio, 3D animation, gaming and broadcast professionals, has announced that it has signed a R3D Software Developer's Kit (SDK) License agr

30/09/2008 Bridge Technologies Wins 'STAR' Award From Editors Of TV Technology Europe
The microVB IPTV monitoring and analysis system manufactured by Bridge Technologies, is the recipient of a 2008 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award given by the editorial staff of TV Tech

30/09/2008 Events, Formats And Factual To Debut From Zeal Enterainment At MIPCOM 2008
Zeal Entertainment, a leading distributor and part of the Digital Rights Group (DRG), will arrive at MIPCOM 2008 with a wide range of titles available to international buyers including event specials,

30/09/2008 ITV Announces Plans To Cut 430 News Jobs
ITV has announced plans to cut 430 jobs from its regional news operation. The broadcaster announced that it will have cut around 1,000 jobs by February next year. The cuts will affect journalists an

30/09/2008 Olympic Boxer To Pack A Punch As The Subject Of New Irish Documentary
The Olympic bronze medalist Darren Sutherland is the subject of the new award-winning Irish documentary 'Saviours' which is set to open in cinemas across Dublin on October 3. 'Saviours', the moving d

30/09/2008 RTS Telex Appoints Deborah Jackson As Sales Engineer
Digital Matrix Intercoms expert RTS Telex has announced the appointment of Deborah Jackson as its new Sales Engineer. Expanding the potential of the UK-based team and working alongside Head of UK sal

30/09/2008 Rycote Introduce InVision
The major launch for microphone windshield manufacturer Rycote in 2008 has been the complete range of InVision microphone suspensions, which dispense with the elasticated cradles traditionally used to

30/09/2008 STAR Award for Autoscript's New Banklit TFTs
Autoscript, a Vitec Group brand and a leading teleprompting company, has won a TVT STAR Award for its new line of TFT screens introduced at IBC2008. The STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Awa

30/09/2008 Welcome For MHEG-5 Selection
The International MHEG Promotion Alliance, IMPALA, has welcomed the recent announcement by Sweden-based pay-TV group Boxer that it has selected MHEG-5 as the interactive middleware to be included in a

29/09/2008 Ken Barnsley Joins Fairlight To Head Up European Operations
As part of an ongoing commitment to expand its sales and distribution channels in Europe, Fairlight has announced the appointment of Ken Barnsley to the post of European Operations Director, with effe

29/09/2008 New Sirius Completes Trilogy Of 3G Routers For Pro-Bel
Sirius - Pro-Bel's successful router range - can now be purchased with 3G capabilities. The announcement follows on from the successful deployment of the technology with both the Pyxis and Cygnus ran

29/09/2008 Phabrix Wins The IABM Peter Wayne Award For Design And Innovation 2008
Phabrix has won the coveted Peter Wayne Award for Design and Innovation by the IABM. Commenting on the win, Phabrix's Founder and Managing Director Phillip Adams said: "I have to say it was a very pr

29/09/2008 Pro-Bel's Morpheus ICE Wins CSI Award At IBC2008
Pro-Bel has announced that its automation product Morpheus ICE has won a 'Product of the Year' prize in the Cable and Satellite International 2008 Awards. The presentation ceremony took place at IBC

29/09/2008 REM XLs
XL Video is supplying MiTrix and SoftLED video surfaces, cameras, control and crew for the video's director Blue Leach on the current REM 'Accelerate' tour. The company's UK Project Manager Des Fallo

29/09/2008 Richard Antley Joins Digital Vision As Sales Manager - Americas
Digital Vision, a leading provider of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, has announced that Richard Antley has joined the company as Sales Manager for the Americas.

29/09/2008 Solid State Logic Manages Top Technology
A top media technology innovator, Solid State Logic has successfully demonstrated how its Gravity media production management system can now automatically populate ingested media with detailed, fully

29/09/2008 Starfish Advantage Wins DDS Commission
Deluxe Digital Studios (DDS) UK has exclusively commissioned Starfish Technologies' audio description software - Advantage - to service its theatrical audio description business. Deluxe is the sole

29/09/2008 The Belden Solution
Belden has announced that it is the first cable manufacturer to offer system integrators an innovative cable solution. The company has designed its new System Integrator Digital Coax cables especiall

26/09/2008 'State of the Internet' Report Available
Akamai Technologies, Inc, a leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, has announced the release of the second edition of its quarterly 'State of the Inter

26/09/2008 Argosy Equipment Installed At MTV Network Europe
A leading international supplier of HD broadcast, cables and studio infrastructure products, Argosy, has announced the successful supply of a range of its infrastructure products for an installation a

26/09/2008 Concrete Lionises Samsung
A London-based post company, Concrete recently completed full offline and online post work on a new Samsung viral 'Samsung Lions' for The Viral Factory. Viral approached Concrete for initial pre-pr

26/09/2008 Harris Shows Full 3 Gb/s-Ready Portfolio At IBC2008
An international communications and information technology company, the Harris Corporation, showed a complete portfolio of 3 Gb/s-ready technology at the 2008 International Broadcasting Convention (IB

26/09/2008 HHB UDP-89 Provides A DVD/CD Player Professionals Can Depend On
With CD and DVD playback being a requirement of virtually every digital media production facility, the UDP-89 Professional Universal DVD/CD player from professional audio equipment suppliers HHB, prov

26/09/2008 Megahertz Broadcast Systems Complete E.TV Contract In South Africa
Independent UK systems integrator Megahertz Broadcast Systems (MHz) has completed work on the server-based infrastructure and broadcast systems for a new 24-hour news channel at South African broadcas