Broadcast News Archive for April, 2014
25/04/2014 Eyeheight Reports NAB Success
Eyeheight has reported a highly successful 2014 NAB Show with increasing demand for post-production software including its BroadcastSafe range of compliance legalizer plug-ins. Exhibiting in the Cent

25/04/2014 HSL Supplies Lighting Fixtures For 'The Link'
Blackburn UK-based lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied 30 x Clay Paky Sharpies and 30 x Jarag lighting fixtures to Lighting Designer Tom Kinane for the new BBC quiz show series of The Lin

25/04/2014 Leader's Expanded Product Range Attracts High Interest
Leader Instruments reports very strong interest in its expanded range of broadcast-quality test and measurement solutions and third-party-distribution products at the 2014 NAB Show. Held in the Las V

25/04/2014 The Foundry Release New Version Of MODO
Leading software developer The Foundry has announced the release of a brand new version of its popular 3D content creation application, MODO. In MODO 801, nearly every element of the end-to-end 3D wo

25/04/2014 XL Video Assists The Stranglers
XL Video is assisting maverick rockers The Stranglers celebrate a remarkable 40 years in the music industry which kicked off with some serious attitude in 1974 at the height of punk nihilism and devel

24/04/2014 Eaton To Exhibit At PLASA Focus
Power management specialist Eaton has announced that its lighting controls business will exhibit at PLASA Focus, Leeds 2014 for the first time as part of the Eaton group of companies. Presented on St

24/04/2014 Eyeheight Reports Successful NAB Show
Eyeheight reports a highly successful 2014 NAB Show with increasing demand for post-production software including its BroadcastSafe range of compliance legalizer plug-ins. Exhibiting in the Central H

24/04/2014 FOR-A Switches Coronation Street Set
With the move of ITV's hugely popular Coronation Street production to a new home at MediaCityUK, the accompanying technical facilities included a new FOR-A MFR-5000 as the master routing switcher. A

24/04/2014 Grass Valley Announce Cross Promotion With Canon
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its widely used EDIUS multiformat nonlinear editing software, Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has announced a cross promotion with Canon. For a limited period,

24/04/2014 MNB Upgrades To Digital Broadcasting Using Ross Video Production Technology
Mongolia National Broadcaster (MNB), a state-funded television channel in Mongolia upgraded from analog to digital broadcasting using Ross Video Production Technology. MNB wanted to provide their vie

24/04/2014 Sony Adds 4K Live Streaming Support To BRAVIA™ 4K Ultra HD TVs
From August this year, every BRAVIA™ 4K Ultra HD TV owner will be able to enjoy video content streamed with the increasingly popular HEVC (H.265) standard. Available for purchase direct from Sony onl

24/04/2014 The Jewel In The Crown Is Brought Back To Its Former Glory
Thirty years after it was first broadcast on British television, BBC Studios and Post Production's award-winning Digital Media Services team has digitally restored and remastered over 30 hours of film

24/04/2014 Volicon Works With Astro To Enable Off-Air Logging For Over 200 Channels
Volicon has announced that Malaysian pay-TV operator Astro is using an Observer® Enterprise video monitoring and logging system to enable off-air logging for more than 200 channels. Focusing on key

23/04/2014 Globecast Goes Multiscreen With Anevia
Anevia, a leader in video streaming and infrastructure solutions for OTT, live TV and Video on Demand (VoD), today announced that global content management company Globecast has chosen Anevia's ViaMot

23/04/2014 Globecast Goes Multiscreen With Anevia
Anevia, a leader in video streaming and infrastructure solutions for OTT, live TV and Video on Demand (VoD), has announced that global content management company Globecast has chosen Anevia's ViaMotio

23/04/2014 Loudness Meters In Focus Ahead Of Change
With the inclusion of loudness in the DPP's delivery specifications that come into force in October, UK distributor Aspen Media found business to be brisk at its dedicated loudness management and mete

23/04/2014 Red TX Boosts Team With Key Promotion
Award-winning sound engineer Ollie Nesham is now Chief Engineer for the company, which specialises in recording live music events for broadcast. With booking already filling its diary for summer 2

23/04/2014 RTI, Ivory Coast, Takes Delivery of New PlayBox Technology CIAB Broadcast System
Accompanying image shows the new PlayBox Technology CG titling and TV playout system in use at RTI. Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI), state broadcaster for the Ivory Coast, has taken delive

23/04/2014 RTS Opens Young Technologist Award 2014
Entries are now open for the RTS Young Technologist Award 2014. The aim of the award is to advance education in the science, practice, technology and art of television and its allied fields. The w

23/04/2014 Sennheiser UK Talks Camouflage
Wireless conferencing and camouflaged loudspeakers will be the emphasis for Sennheiser UK at this year’s PLASA Focus, with Sennheiser’s ADN-W and Speech Line systems, and K-array’s new Khameleon louds

23/04/2014 TV2 Selects Avid To Boost Operational Efficiencies And Increase Productivity
Avid have announced continued momentum in Eastern Europe with TV2, one of the largest commercial entertainment channels in Hungary, bolstering its existing Avid workflow with an investment in Avid's l

17/04/2014 BBC One Drama Films At Bottleyard Studios
A new BBC drama has begun filming this week at Bristol's Bottle Yard Studios, the largest film and TV production space in the west of England. 'Poldark' stars Aidan Turner (pictured – The Hobbit Tr

17/04/2014 Cache-A Unveils New Archiving At NAB 2014
Cache-A Corporation unveiled new features in workflow templates and incremental archiving that can be used to automate a range of regular LTO-tape archive tasks at NAB 2014. "With the new Workflow

17/04/2014 HHB Ops Director Kershaw Retires
HHB Communications has announced the retirement of Richard Kershaw from his position as Director of Operations. Mr Kershaw began his career at HHB in 1983 after meeting MD Ian Jones while working

17/04/2014 Input Media Invests In Custom Consoles
UK TV sports production group Input Media has invested in Custom Consoles' Module-R furniture as part of a technical upgrade at its studios in west London. The new installation includes seven desks an