Grass Valley Adds Bill Hadsell as Product Manager for Digital Media Workflows

“These two product families play important roles in the operations of our customers, automating production and enhancing broadcast graphics,” says Hadsell. “I’m looking forward to building on the success already enjoyed by these solutions and working with our development team to add even more features that address the needs of the market. My passion is for this market—it’s exciting to be working with a leader such as Grass Valley.”

The Ignite automated production system is the industry’s first and most complete link between the control room and the newsroom—one that provides an unmatched return on investment with single-operator capabilities. A leader in its class, Grass Valley Ignite allows a single operator to manage control room devices used to produce live newscasts and event programming. With Ignite technology, users can easily control on-air timing, accommodate last-minute show changes and direct any type of production on the fly. The solution also provides more opportunities to repurpose content for digital multicasting and webcasts, increasing overall production value.

The Vertigo Suite for branding graphics automation and asset management is designed for easy and highly productive graphics generation. Scalable to meet the needs of a wide variety of broadcast environments without the high operating costs, Vertigo simplifies the creation of sophisticated, multilayer graphics combining text crawls, animated graphics, DVEs and audio inserts. Vertigo delivers a choice of highly productive workflows and a choice of dynamic rendering models using graphics templates, which suit even the most demanding applications, such as business news graphics.

“Bill brings a real depth of industry experience to his role,” notes Steve Ronneberg, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Grass Valley. “Our customers will benefit from his strategic leadership and knowledge of the market. Broadcasters are in the midst of a number of changes, requiring robust solutions tailored to their specific needs. Bill understands those needs better than anyone.”

About Grass Valley
The new Grass Valley keeps broadcasters, content owners and service providers future-ready as they navigate the changing landscape of television. With the most comprehensive collection of workflow solutions in the industry, Grass Valley delivers end-to-end television production and content distribution workflows that enable the efficiency and flexibility broadcasters need to stay competitive today—while offering technological foresight they need to keep pace with consumers’ desires for more content on more devices. Grass Valley, headquartered in Montreal, leverages the collective expertise and depth of the Grass Valley Group and Miranda Technologies, each having been acquired by St. Louis-based Belden Inc. Belden delivers a comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise and broadcast markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed for today’s applications, Belden is at the center of the global transformation to a connected world.