Broadcast News Archive for January, 2011
13/01/2011 NRK Commisions Sold!
Property guessing game Sold! has been recommissioned for a second season by Norway's largest public broadcaster NRK, Karoline Spodsberg, Managing Director of Banijay International, has confirmed. Sol

13/01/2011 OConnor Chosen As Best Support For Leverage
OConnor, a Vitec Group brand, has announced that cinematographer Dave Connell has again chosen the 2575 Ultimate fluid head to support TNT's hit series Leverage. Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton fro

13/01/2011 Primera Launches New Disc Printers And Publishers
Primera Technology, a leading manufacturer of CD/DVD and Blu-ray Disc Publishers, has announced its DP-4100 Series Disc Publishers. DP-4100 Series Disc Printers and Publishers are the fastest in thei

13/01/2011 Rosco Appoint New UK Sales Executive
Rosco has expanded its UK Sales force with the appointment of Laurie Giraudeau as Sales Executive. Laurie has experience within the entertainment industry having previously worked as Marketing Manage

13/01/2011 SKY Network Television New Zealand Migrates Operations To Pilat Media's IBMS V6
Pilat Media Global, a leading supplier of business management software to the media industry, has announced that SKY New Zealand has completed a successful migration to version 6 of the company's Inte

12/01/2011 Avid VENUE SC48 Powers HammerFall's New Album And World Tour
HammerFall, Sweden's most successful heavy metal band, are back in the studio recording the follow-up to their gold album No Sacrifice, No Victory. The yet-to-be-titled album is being produced by leg

12/01/2011 CyberLink To Integrate SENSIO Hi-Fi 3D Technology Into Media Player Software
SENSIO Technologies and CyberLink Corporation has announced an agreement through which SENSIO's 3D decoding technology will be integrated into the CyberLink PowerDVD media player software for retail s

12/01/2011 First Technology & Engineering Emmy Award For Linear Acoustic
The innovators of Linear Acoustic, a leader in television audio control from production to transmission, received their first Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering/Technical Developmen

12/01/2011 Japanese Children's Brand Selects Pixel Power For HD
Pixel Power, the leading supplier of broadcast graphics systems, has announced that its Clarity graphics technology has been selected by the leading Japanese children's brand to assist in its switch t

12/01/2011 New Appointment For MediaCityUK
Former ITV Head of Technology John O'Shaughnessy has joined MediaCityUK as Head of Technology Operations. John, who has worked for ITV North for the past 25 years, has wide experience of managing dep

12/01/2011 Skillset Supports BAME Media Workshop
The Indie Training Fund will deliver a free one-day motivational workshop for TV professionals from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds on how to take the next step in their career on Februar

12/01/2011 Smith & Foulkes Get A PC Of The Action For Intel
Nexus Directors, Smith & Foulkes, have created a dynamic new spot for Venables and Bell and Intel's incredible new Core i5 processor - a breakneck, all-action chase scene which is the perfect showcase

12/01/2011 TalkTalk To Trial Technicolor's New MediaNavi Content Platform
Technicolor has launched its new MediaNavi platform designed to make navigating the universe of content simple, seamless, and social for consumers everywhere. MediaNavi serves both consumer electroni

11/01/2011 Amazing Spectacles Helps Ogilvy Dublin Promote Turner Exhibition
Amazing Spectacles' has recently completed work on a 20-second commercial for Ogilvy Dublin, which has been directed by Martyn Pick. The commercial has been created to promote the Turner exhibition a

11/01/2011 Blackmagic Design Offers Free DaVinci Resolve Workshops At BVE 2011
Blackmagic Design will host a series of free DaVinci Resolve workshops at BVE 2011 during February 15 - 17 at Earls Court in London. The workshops will cover everything from colour grading for beginn

11/01/2011 Global Leader In 3D Conversion Comes To Chandigarh
Prime Focus, one of the world's largest entertainment services groups, has announced the launch of its new facility in Chandigarh, Northern India. This is the tenth Prime Focus facility in India. Th

11/01/2011 Off The Fence Sells Content To Eastern Europe And Mena Territories
Leading global distributor Off The Fence (OTF) has announced sales amounting to over 700 hours of programming to major Eastern Europe and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region broadcasters. The

11/01/2011 Tannoy & Lab.gruppen Launch New Product At ISE 2011
Tannoy and Lab.gruppen will be exhibiting alongside each other on Stand 5N98 at the forthcoming Integrated Systems Europe 2011 in Amsterdam, having attended the show separately in previous years, with

11/01/2011 Technicolour Launches MediaNavi Content Platform
Technicolour recently announced the launch of its MediaNavi multi-screen content platform designed to make navigating the universe of content simple, seamless and social for consumers everywhere. Me

11/01/2011 Thunderbirds Get Stamp Of Approval
Royal Mail is celebrating the iconic TV work of Gerry Anderson on a new set of stamps just issued. The archive is represented by ITV Studios Global Entertainment which worked with Royal Mail to produ

11/01/2011 Universal Networks International Appoints Managing Director, Central Europe
Tariq Syed has been appointed in the newly created role of Managing Director, Central Europe, Universal Networks International (UNI) to drive the ongoing expansion of NBC Universal's international pay

10/01/2011 Argosy Lights Up BVE With Infrastructure Products
Argosy, a leading UK-based international supplier of HD broadcast cables and studio infrastructure products, will debut its latest range of high-definition (HD) broadcast infrastructure components at

10/01/2011 Automatic Depth-Chart Generator For Cel-Scope3D Stereoscopic Analyser
A major new addition to the Cel-Scope3D stereoscopic analyser will be introduced by Cel-Soft on Stand L20 at BVE 2011 in London's Earls Court, between February 15 - 17. A new automatic logging optio

10/01/2011 Bright Space Allows Touchscreen On Stargazing Live Over Fibre
Bright Space Technologies, trade distributor to the AV and broadcast industry has provided a MultiDyne USB 2000 fibre link to BBC2's groundbreaking programme Stargazing Live. The MultiDyne USB 2000 w

10/01/2011 Europa Birthday Celebrations For TV
A Belfast icon and veteran of NI's Troubles that is "as sacred and valuable as the Titanic slipway" is celebrating an anniversary this New Year - with a television special already underway as part of