Newsletter from 13/05/2014
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
Dome Productions Silver
Dome Productions is owned by Bell media and Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. As one of North America’s leading production facility providers, Dome Productions offers mobile production facilities, transmission services, studio facilities, and full turnkey host broadcast services. At NAB 2014 Dome Productions introduced their Silver truck to customers. Silver is Dome Production’s 12th HD television production truck. On board the truck you will find Sony cameras, QC monitors, and VTRs; Evertz router, distributions gear, and master clocks; a Calrec audio console; Belden internal video, audio cable and internal/external triax cable; EVS replay servers; and TVLogic monitors.
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Chad’s National Television Relies on RTS
Chad’s national television station ONRTV has invested in a new outside broadcast truck. Amongst others, the truck is used for shows and news in field productions. Equipped with nine video cameras, graphics, editing, post-production as well as broadcast by satellite, ONRTV went a long way to receive the ideal truck – namely all the way to Italy. The new OB truck is the work of Professional Show and ONE TV, which is specialized in high-end outdoor television productions such as the Italian Serie A football league. Together they created a truck, which is completely autonomous, offers a complete outdoor production and can broadcast on air directly.
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FOH Engineers Launch New Business Venture for On-Location Digital Audio Recording
It's Live. We Get It. Established in 2013 by renowned FOH engineers Brad Madix and Greg Price, Diablo Digital Inc. builds high-quality, easy-to-implement multitrack touring recorders that offer artists affordable, turnkey, live-recording systems for tours, installations, festivals, one-off shows, and broadcast. Providing more than just a way of capturing performances for posterity, Diablo Digital's systems enable FOH engineers to perfect the mix at each venue, make the most of limited rehearsal time, and with daily use, capture the best performances of the tour. The company's systems are custom-configured, scalable, and affordable, with turnkey systems designed to support Avid VENUE, Digico, Midas, and all mixing platforms available.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
TV Peru Selects EVS for its New Tapeless Workflow
With the help of regional distributor DIVICAM, EVS has implemented a new tapeless workflow for TV Peru based on its XS production server designed specifically for studio applications. The four-channel XS server facilitates TV Peru’s migration to HD by playing out in high definition and down converting second channels to standard definition until its migration to HD is complete. “The speed and reliability of our new tapeless workflow from EVS makes a tremendous difference in our day-to-day operations and programming quality,” said Cesar Otero, technical director, TV Peru. “The connection between different areas of our workflow, and administrator and quality control management access make for a fluid, easy system.”
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Robe Gets Smart for Čo Ja Viem?!
The new RTVS (Radio & Television Slovakia) quiz show series Čo Ja Viem?! (What do I know?!) was recorded at Mlynska Dolina film studios in Bratislava and featured a lighting design by Martin Kubanka, with Robe moving lights right at the centre of the visuals. The 13 episode show – presented by sports commentator Marcel Merčiak and currently being broadcast on RTVS1 – sees the wits and knowledge of three celebrities and 200 students in the studio pitted against one another during knock-out rounds and then the finalists competing for money. The unique twist is that the watching public can also join in to the action via a smartphone app … also potentially winning prize money!
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Behind the Scenes of The Voice Season 3
The Voice, a music talent show produced by Shine France and aired on TF1 needs no introduction. However let’s have a closer look and see how Euro Media France produces this programme. The first part consists of blind auditions, battle rounds and for the first time, knockout rounds that were pre-recorded between 04 November 2013 and 14 January 2014 at the Studios du Lendit on stage L1 and L2 and with the help of our XL1 OB truck. They were aired on TF1 from 11 January to 29 March 2014. The second part of the show consists of live episodes recorded in our studio 217 from 05 April up until the final scheduled on 10 May. The studio is 2090 m² and can host 1220 members of the public; it has VIP dressing rooms for the judges and can house all the contestants.
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WDR Selects Blackmagic Design for Signal Distribution in Education Facility
German public broadcaster WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) has built new studio facilities designed to educate the next generation of aspiring broadcast engineers. The studio has been built around a Blackmagic Design broadcast infrastructure, including the Compact Videohub, SmartScope Duo and HyperDeck Studio Pro. WDR has opened a dedicated ‘Youth Studio’, called “Studio Zwei - Die Medienwerkstatt”, in which 12 to 19 year olds can take charge of every element of magazine style television and radio production; from presenters, reporters and directors to camera operators, editors and production technicians in the gallery. WDR’s own production staff are on hand to help classes produce their own program, offering insight and expert advice.
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SPORTS
Sony Announces Companies Delivering the 2014 FIFA World Cup
As Host Broadcast Services’ (HBS) delivery partner for the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament, Sony is responsible for the provision of all HD venue facilities in each of the 12 venues across Brazil, including systems integration (SI), equipment and staff. This includes managing the provision of 12 separate production containers and 288 Sony full HD cameras, providing the production tools for HBS to deliver every minute of live match footage to broadcasters. Working with HBS, Sony has carefully selected its sub-contractors from a pool of leading facilities companies and equipment vendors that, when combined with HBS’s production crews, will be second to none. The following companies will collaborate with Sony to facilitate a full HD Live Production workflow for all 64 matches: AMP VISUAL TV, Broadcast RF, CTV, Outside Broadcast, Presteigne, Studio Berlin and sonoVTS.
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2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Takes to the Ice and Reaches out to the World
Fans in 115 countries and territories are be able to follow the event on TV – complemented by online coverage globally. In total, Infront Sports & Media, the exclusive media and marketing partner to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for its flagship tournament, has closed agreements with around 60 broadcast partners on all continents. Handling all forms of electronic media rights for the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on a global basis, Infront has distributed the television rights to over 115 countries and territories worldwide. Six CIS countries (including Georgia and Armenia) are newly covered through an agreement with MIR TV. In 2013, the event had achieved an all-time high cumulative television audience of 975.15 million.
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IOC awards NBC Olympic rights through 2032 Games
In a stunning and monumental media rights deal today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warded NBCUniversal (NBCU) the broadcast rights in the USA for the Olympic Games through to 2032. NBCU has acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription television, internet and mobile. The agreement from 2021 to 2032 is valued at USD $7.65 billion, plus an additional USD $100 million signing bonus to be used for the promotion of Olympism and the Olympic values between 2015 and 2020. NBCU, which in 2011, had acquired the right to broadcast the Olympic Games until 2020 (including the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016, the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (2018) in PyeongChang, and the Games of the XXXII Olympiad (2020) in Tokyo), will now broadcast every Olympic Games through to 2032, the host cities of which are yet to be elected. In addition, NBCU also has acquired the broadcast rights for every edition of the Youth Olympic Games through to 2032.
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SHOWS
Clay Paky with Ligabue on his 2014 Tour
After the release of his latest album entitled Mondovisione, Luciano Ligabue left on a tour of Italy consisting of a series of live concerts. They are hosted in several different types of structure ranging from low capacity provincial indoor stadiums to huge spacious big city stadiums, with a possible future extension abroad. The events are structured in two completely different ways for obvious reasons, which are technically adapted to the needs of these two almost diametrically opposite types of venue. He has just concluded the first leg in small town venues (named Piccole Città after an old song by Luciano). It consisted of a series of concerts that were in some ways "back-to-basics". It was a way of re-establishing a more direct contact between the artist and his audience, and it was no coincidence that day one of the tour took place in Correggio.
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SGM XC-5 at the 2014 IIFA Awards
The SGM XC-5 Colour Strobe played a leading role at the recent International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, held in Tampa Bay, Florida at Raymond James Stadium. The IIFA Awards, also known as the ‘Bollywood Oscars’, has been held annually around the world in cities including London, Amsterdam, Johannesburg and Toronto, to name a few. The 2014 extravaganza marked the show’s 15th year, as well as the first time the event has been held on United States soil. The IIFA Awards is a week filled with events based on Indian film, fashion, music, business, and culture, with the climax being the IIFA Award ceremony. The weekend is typically as big as Super Bowl weekend, drawing in 30,000 or more visitors, and the ceremony being broadcasted to 600 million viewers in 108 countries. It showcases the elite Bollywood ‘Royalty’, with this year featuring Hollywood actors as well, including John Travolta and Kevin Spacey, among others.
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XL Video Is Over The Moon with James Blunt
XL Video is supplying a large customised curved LED screen for James Blunt’s current “Moon Landing” world tour, together with cameras and PPU, projection and crew. The 9.5 metres high by 9 metre wide Pixled F-15 screen was specified by the tour’s show’s Production Designer Paul Normandale, who together with Lighting Director Glen Johnson and XL Video, started working with Blunt in 2005. This fourth world tour is by far the largest to date in terms of production. The idea was that the onstage video should be curved at the back and offer the appearance at times that he’s walking on it, and also be visible through the risers – which reflect the lunar landing pods. The overall vibe was to bring a spacey ‘horizon’ look to the video content, very much in the style and spirit of the 1970’s moon landings.
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PRODUCTS
Grass Valley Delivers Ultra Slow-Motion Technology to Broadcast Rental
For ultimate camera flexibility and superior image quality like never before, the Netherlands-based rental house Broadcast Rental has purchased the LDX XtremeSpeed (LDX XS) 6X ultra slow-motion camera system, along with companion XCU XtremeSpeed XF Fiber base stations and camera adapters from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand. Broadcast Rental is a full-service rental house and expert in super and ultra slow-motion cameras. It supplies leading broadcast technologies to clients around the world.
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Camera Corps Announces MeerCat Miniature HD Broadcast Camera
Camera Corps announces a major new addition to its range of speciality cameras. The MeerCat fulfils the need for a very high quality miniature HD broadcast camera which can be mounted practically anywhere without being visible to other cameras or to an audience. Developed in response to demand from sports, reality-television and stage-show producers, the MeerCat is housed in a metal case with a very small footprint, 30 x 30 mm, and is only 93 mm in height. Lens protrusion is just 25 mm. High quality NF-mount lenses are available.
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Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Red Bee Media
Ericsson has completed its acquisition of Red Bee Media, a leading media services company headquartered in the UK, from Creative Broadcast Services Holdings - an entity controlled by Macquarie Advanced Investment Partners, L.P. Ericsson announced its intention to acquire Red Bee Media on July 1, 2013, and the UK's Competition Commission formally cleared the acquisition on March 27, 2014. Ericsson looks forward to working with Red Bee Media's extensive list of high-profile broadcast services customers, including the BBC, BSkyB, BT Sport, Canal Digital, Channel 4, EE, UKTV, UPC, Virgin Media, and many more.
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3D/4K ARISING
Sony Develops AV over IP Interface
Sony is set to bring a number of systems to market that integrate this new AV over IP Interface technology, in order to build IP environments. These innovations will include routing AV over an IP interface in remote production systems, so as to connect devices in remote locations via an IP network. As with all AV over IP Interface technology, these systems will transmit video, audio, reference, metadata and control data signals by remote operation, significantly reducing production costs. The proprietary AV over IP Interface developed by Sony LSI Design Inc packetises video, audio, meta & control data for signal transmission between production equipment via standard network infrastructures. Sony will introduce IP packet transmission directly to all its 4K devices from cameras, monitors, XAVC servers and MVS-X switchers to Anycast Touch.
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