Broadcast News Archive for February, 2014
05/02/2014 BFI Future Film Festival Returns
The BFI Future Film Festival returns this year from 21-23 February, bringing a line-up of workshops, masterclasses, screenings and Q&As for 15 – 25-year-olds to BFI Southbank. For the second year run

05/02/2014 Clear-Com Supplies Eclipse-Median Digital Matrix Intercom
Clear-Com is providing KVIE-TV, Sacramento's PBS member station, with communication systems for its original programming. The station has installed an Eclipse-Median Digital Matrix Intercom, along wi

05/02/2014 Look Listen Experience Roadshow Brings Kit To The Regions
Following the Look Listen Experience roadshow in 2012, which hosted over 1,000 attendees, Visual Impact is taking to the road again with major production and post production manufacturers, as well as

05/02/2014 NUGEN Audio Prepares For BVE 2014
NUGEN Audio is to showcase a range of its products, including the new MultiMonitor software for loudness and true-peak monitoring, at this year's BVE show in London. NUGEN Audio's Loudness Toolkit wi

05/02/2014 Riedel To Showcase At CABSAT
Riedel Communications is to showcase the following products at this year's CABSAT show in Dubai. MediorNet Grass Valley Camera Interface Card for MediorNet Compact The MN-C-OPT-GV-2 for Med

05/02/2014 RTW Selects Professional Audio Technology As Aus/NZ Distributor
RTW has selected Professional Audio Technology Pty. Ltd. (PAT) as its exclusive distributor in Australia and New Zealand. Established in 2010 in Hornsby, Australia, PAT caters primarily to the broadc

05/02/2014 Sennheiser ADNs Installed In German Court
Sennheiser ADN conference systems were installed in two rooms in Germany's Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) at the end of 2013. Studio-Elektroakustik GmbH was given the job of installing the sys

05/02/2014 TSL Brings SoundField Mics To BVE 2014
TSL Products is to showcase a range of its SoundField surround sound microphones, control units and upmix/downmix processors at BVE 2014 on Stand H25. The company's lineup will include the DSF-B Digi

05/02/2014 UK Creative Industries Generate £71.4 bn
The UK's creative industries contribute £71.4bn a year to the UK Economy, according to the Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS). The government has said the Creative Economy accounted for 2.55

04/02/2014 All Smoke & Mirrors
Robin Howell of Wire Broadcast discusses its recent project facilitating London visual effects and post-production company Smoke & Mirrors' relocation to Poland Street. Smoke & Mirrors had b

04/02/2014 Anevia Acquires BackstreamTV
Anevia, a provider of video streaming and infrastructure solutions for OTT, live TV and Video on Demand (VoD), has announced the acquisition of BackstreamTV. Currently based in southwest France, Back

04/02/2014 BBFC Announces Poster Competition Winners
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has announced the winners of its CBBFC poster competition, which was held to mark the launch of its new website for children. Children from around the

04/02/2014 FOR-A Receives 2013 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award
The FOR-A Group has received a 2013 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Art & Sciences (NATAS). The award recognises "excellence and innovation in technology

04/02/2014 Forbidden Announces FORscene Enhancements For BVE
Forbidden Technologies has revealed it will be exhibiting at this year's BVE show in London. The company will showcase new enhancements to its FORscene cloud platform, including: •Timeline overlay

04/02/2014 Gravity Pulls In AMPS Award
The Association of Motion Picture Sound has presented Chris Munro, Glenn Freemantle and Skip Lievsay its inaugural AMPS 'Award for Excellence in the Craft of Sound for a Feature Film' for their work o

04/02/2014 PLASA Focus Registration Opens
Registration for this year's PLASA Focus opened at the end of last month, marking the beginning of preparations for one of the biggest entertainment technology events in the north of England. The sho

04/02/2014 Sky Commits £600m In 2014
Sky has committed to investing £600m in British content across its channels in 2014. A new marketing campaign has been launched on terrestrial television channels ITV and Channel 4, along with promot

04/02/2014 Sonnet Now Shipping Echo Express With Thunderbolt 2
Sonnet Technologies has announced that its Echo™ Express III-D (desktop), Echo Express III-R (rackmount), and Echo Express SE II (desktop) Thunderbolt™-to-PCI Express® (PCIe®) card expansion chassis a

04/02/2014 UK Film Investment Increases 14%
Investment in UK film production rose by 14% to £1.075bn in 2013, indicating a marked rise from £945m in 2012, according to statistics released by the British Film Institute (BFI). £868m of the total

03/02/2014 CA Impacts Ways Businesses Interact With Customers
CA, cloud-computing powerhouse Salesforce is impacting the ways in which enterprise businesses interact with customers, partners and employees. Its popular CRM and sales applications have attracted

03/02/2014 Cinecolombia Selects IDC's Digital Cinema Distribution Technology
International Datacasting Corporation has announced that Cinecolombia, one of the region's leading movie theatre chains, has selected IDC's digital cinema distribution technology. IDC's Latin Americ

03/02/2014 FOR-A To Present Vision Mixers At BVE
FOR-A is presenting featuring its latest vision mixers at BVE 2014. These include the new compact yet powerful HVS-XT100 and the established HVS-390HS mixer. New Compact Vision Mixers The

03/02/2014 Ministers Meet To Discuss Welsh Broadcasting
The Minister for Culture and Sport, John Griffiths and Ed Vaizey, UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, have met to discuss a number of issues including broadcasting in Wale

03/02/2014 Polar To Showcase New Products At BVE
Polar have a number of new products to be shown at the BVE show in London stand A32. Facilis TerraBlock Version 6.0 The leader in high speed shared storage will be showing the latest new feat

03/02/2014 RCS Launches First Satellite Office
Reality Check Systems (RCS) is strengthening its global footprint with the launch of its first satellite office. Located in West London, the new facility will serve as an extension of the company's