Newsletter from 18/11/2014
Television Industry Unites for UN "World Television Day"
MOBILE PRODUCTION
Mobile TV Group 36HDX
Established in 1994, Mobile TV Group is celebrating its 20th anniversary with continued dedication to technological innovation, customer service, maintenance, and competitive pricing. The company was initially launched as Mountain Mobile TV (in Colorado), then added Lone Star mobile (in Texas), Western Mobile TV, and eventually combined operations into Mobile TV Group (MTVG). It is privately owned. Since the beginning the primary focus of the company has been on regional sports production. Starting with just the Denver Nuggets, MTVG now provides mobile unit services to the networks that telecast the games of about 50% of all NBA, NHL, and MLB teams. In recent years MTVG has added an increasing number of national events, college sports and some entertainment events, totaling over 4,000 events annually.
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tpc HD-4
tpc (technology and production center switzerland ag) is a wholly owned subsidiary of SRG SSR (Schweizerische Rundfunk Gesellschaft). As the technical service provider of SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, or Swiss Radio and Television), tpc is responsible for the production and all technical aspects relating to the TV, radio and multi-media requirements of SRF. Constantly striving for technical innovation, tpc has become one of the leading providers in the Swiss broadcast industry. tpc's high definition infrastructure is state of the art – including studios from 200m2 to 1000 m2 and OB vans of various sizes and equipped in a variety of ways. tpc also provides customers with news-gathering crews, post production, software developing teams, engineering, technology services and fully equipped workshops for creating props, event installations and exhibition stands.
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OTS TV Upgrades OB VAN to HD with Grass Valley Equipment
Grass Valley has supplied OTS Novosibirsk, a regional television company in Russia, with a suite of high-definition (HD) equipment for its outside broadcasting (OB) van. Grass Valley’s Russia and CIS office, with the support of local system integrator OKNO-TV, facilitated the upgrade, integrating nine LDX Flex advanced imaging cameras, XCU (eXchangeable Control Unit) base stations, Imagestore-Modular master control, the Densité 3 Frame and NVISION routing switchers into the OB van. The LDX Flex studio camera is the entry-level offering in Grass Valley’s high-quality line of software-upgradable LDX cameras that also includes the LDX Première, LDX Elite and LDX WorldCam.
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Calrec Installation in South Africa Marks Milestone Success for Summa Audio Console
Calrec Audio has sold its 20th Summa audio console, the newest in its lineup of advanced digital audio consoles. Since July, Calrec has been delivering Summa desks into the U.S., China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Turkey, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, and Kuwait. The most recent two Summa sales were made to SuperSport Outside Broadcast in South Africa. Having standardized its fleet of large OB trucks on Calrec, SuperSport is installing the two Summa consoles to replace the other audio desks in its smaller OB-7 and OB-8 units. The small OB trucks will be used for sports coverage throughout South Africa.
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DirectOut Supplies 1+1 Media Group in Ukraine
1+1 Media Group is one of the largest media conglomerates in Ukraine. It is comprised of eight Ukrainian TV channels and also includes a fully-fledged production company. 1+1 Media recently installed an ANDIAMO.XT AES/MADI converter and two powerful M.1k2 MADI routing systems from DirectOut as the audio core in their brand new eight-floor TV Center, plus a number of ANDIAMO.XT AES/MADI converters in two of their OB vans which have been converted to full HD facilities.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
Studio Hamburg Builds London TV Studios for Al Jazeera
Major project successfully completed: Studio Hamburg Workshops have finished building Al Jazeera’s new London bureau studios. The contract from Al Jazeera Media Network for its English satellite channel Al Jazeera English comprised the design, manufacture and construction of the new television news studios and adjoining newsroom on the 16th floor of “The Shard” building in central London. The client gave the go-ahead for construction to begin in January 2014 after a final test in Studio A1 in Hamburg, for which a replica full-scale model of the set was built.
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ORTM has chosen Studiotech Belgium as partner for the development of its second TV channel
Studiotech Belgium has completed and commissioned a new installation for ORTM’s second channel TM2 in the West African state of Mali. Studiotech was awarded the tender for the construction of a new building in Bamako and the supply and installation of production equipment. Studiotech Belgium’s challenge was to complete the project in the record time of six months, a challenge that has been fully achieved and has met with full customer satisfaction.The design and development of the project was entirely planned and managed by Studiotech Belgium, who provided the latest broadcast equipment and systems for this ambitious television project.
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Fuji TV Wakes up with Desire D60 Daylight
It was a challenge for the technical crew of Fuji Television Network Inc. (Fuji TV) and Fuji Media Technology Inc. (fmt) to find the right fixture to light a set built in the globe-shaped observation room located on the 24th floor of their building. In the end, they discovered that ETC’s Selador® Desire® D60 Daylight luminaires were the perfect fit. copyrighted by liveProduction.tv The set was built for the live morning talk/news show Mezamashi TV (“Alarm Clock TV”). Right behind the cast are windows with a view of Tokyo that creates a backlight that changes with the time and weather. The biggest challenge was balancing the natural light from the windows and the frontlight on the cast.
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SPORTS
Red Bull Air Race 2014
After a three-year hiatus, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship came roaring back in 2014. The eight-stop 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship began in Abu Dhabi in March with subsequent stops in Rovinj, Croatia in April, Putrajaya, Malaysia in May, Gdynia, Poland in July, Ascot, United Kingdom in August, Dallas/Fort Worth, USA in September , and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in October, before it arrived for the final in Spielberg, Austria, a sensational location for the sport. The Spielberg stop was the 58th overall Red Bull Air Race, a sport that has been staged in 18 countries since it was launched in 2003. Spectators around the world could watch the action at the eight venues in 2014 live. TVN Mobile Production together with its partner EURO TV and with the support of Riedel was in charge of the production of the international TV signal.
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SixPacks Essential Ingredient in Indoor Windsurfing World Cup
In August, the PWA (Professional Windsurfers Association) Indoor World Cup took place in the National Stadium of Warsaw. The games lasted for three days and more than 40,000 spectators came to cheer. Adam Tyszka prepared the hands-on light set-up for this event, implementing his and Sebastian Pachciarek’s lighting design vision. Sebastian Pachciarek elaborates on this vision: “Our goal was to create a show that displayed the windsurfing competition in a new and unexpected way. This type of event is most commonly held on coastal areas, but in this case it was in a pool, specially built for the purpose.”
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RCS Rolls Out LaunchPad™ Touchscreen Solution
Reality Check Systems (RCS) continues to shape the future of broadcast graphics with its commercial release of LaunchPad™, a customizable, interactive solution designed to simplify dynamic touchscreen analysis for soccer broadcasts. Combining RCS’ proprietary software with third-party hardware and cloud data from domestic and international soccer matches, the solution is available in a variety of configurations and gives on-air talent access to real-time analytics and telestration tools to engage fans. LaunchPad boasts a user-friendly interface that enables operators to call up touchscreen graphics for analysis of the desired league, team, player or match in any language and seamlessly transition between them.
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SHOWS
WIcreations Moves Massive LED Screens
Belgian based WIcreations applied their unique mix of engineering wizardry and ingenuity to design a custom tracking system that moved six giant columns of LED screen over 70 metres for the massive event in front of Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate to celebrate 25 Years since the ‘Fall of the Wall’. The Brandenburg Gate show, televised live by a number of international news and TV networks, was the highest profile of a number of celebratory elements staged in Berlin over the weekend of the 9th November, all commemorating the landmark quarter-century since that tumultuous moment in 1989 when the Berlin Wall metaphorically ‘fell’. It is without doubt still the most symbolic event in recent German history.
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Calamari & Robe Diet for Feed Me
London based LD Rowan Norris of Darkside Lights has been working with Feed Me, one of the intriguing aliases of highly talented DJ Jonathan Gooch - the artist whose individual sound flips between dubstep, electro-house and a bit of d’n’b have earned both critical acclaim and a serious fanbase. Rowan joined the Feed Me team as an operator back in 2012. Initially brought onboard to operate the house rigs over the top of the synchronised shows, Rowan was delighted to be asked to submit a design for ‘With Teeth Version 3 upgrade’, for which he specified Robe Pointes and CycFX 8s.
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Clay Paky B-EYE Make Red Rocks Debut with STS9 Concert and Join Band’s Fall Touring Rig
Lighting designer Saxton Waller selected 22 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 LED-based moving lights for two sold-out STS9 concerts at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, the lead up to the band’s cross-country fall tour. The fixtures and console were provided by Brown Note Productions, Inc. in Thornton, Colorado. The instrumental band STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), which plays self-described post-rock dance music, is one of the nation’s top-grossing tour acts with a heavy presence in the festival circuit. Their dates at Red Rocks, September 5 and 6, preceded the start of their first tour in nearly a year. The tour will play venues in the Midwest and East, including Chicago, New York, Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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MLA Delivers Authentic Memphis Sound of Paul Rogers
Production company Capital Sound fielded its full MLA system for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall to honour a special one-off performance by Paul Rodgers and his authentic Memphis R&B band; this comprised musicians who had worked on his album The Royal Sessions, recorded at the start of the year. But Capital went a step further. In order to extract the optimum performance from the 14 MLA enclosures (plus Downfill) that formed the main front facing PA, and 14 MLA Compact (outfills) on either flank of the historically difficult venue, earlier in the week their technical manager Ian Colville had undertaken a site survey and re-evaluation.
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PRODUCTS
Monitoring Done the Easy Way
DVM-120-SPS Remote Controlled Speaker Selector / DVM-120-SPR Remote Monitor Controller: 2-channel monitoring controllers are a must-have for every studio or when doing live recordings. In a breath 2 pairs of active loudspeakers can be routed to one monitoring output. The high-quality remote control with a display simplifies the application and is connected using a standard CAT.5 network cable. While the DVM-120-SPS merely offers a switching option between the two outputs, the DVM-120-SPR controls the output level precisely to one dB via a passive resistor matrix (control range 0 dB to –76 dB). Moreover a reference level can be stored which may be recalled via the remote anytime. For the signal switching and level setting in the balanced signal path both devices use high-grade signal relays with a sophisticated logic circuit.
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OneRepublic FOH Engineer Solves Live Recording Challenge
Sonnet Technologies' rugged and portable Fusion™ F3 two-drive RAID storage system is enabling a live recording workflow for OneRepublic's current "Native" tour. With the ability to store up to 6TB of content on dual shock-isolated hard drives, the Fusion F3 reliably captures more than 100 tracks of audio from the band's nightly performances, recorded at 96kHz resolution. OneRepublic is beginning the third European leg of its "Native" tour, which began almost two years ago and so far has visited close to 200 venues in Europe and North America. Like any high-profile touring musical act, OneRepublic needs the ability to make a high-fidelity recording of each performance — both to create an archive for future recordings and live releases, and to enable the band to perform virtual sound checks.
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Edward Jones Dome Undergoes Major Upgrade with HARMAN’s BSS Audio, Crown and JBL
Opened in 1995, the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis is no stranger to bringing new attractions to town. Owned by the St. Louis Regional Sports Authority and operated by the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, the facility is part of the city’s convention center complex and seats up to 68,000 people. Its new HARMAN Professional audio system, featuring BSS Audio, Crown and JBL VERTEC® loudspeakers, is part of the continuous program to improve the experience of attendees at a variety of sporting events, as well as large conventions, religious gatherings, and much more.
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3D/4K Arising
Ross Video's Acuity Proves its Ranking with Live Tennis Production
The ATP World Tour Finals have been running last week at London’s O2 arena and the event provides a thrilling finale to the men’s 2014 tennis season, with the sport’s top ranking players – including Murray, Federer and Djokavic – battling to end their competitive year on a high. As part of this year’s event, Ross Video was invited to partner with Gearhouse Broadcast, one of Europe’s leading system integration companies, to provide live 4K productions throughout the tournament. With Hitachi already on-board providing four 4K cameras, Gearhouse Broadcast needed a production switcher for the week-long event, and Ross Video’s latest Acuity switcher represented the perfect doubles partner.
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2014 Hertz British Grand Prix MotoGP Event Captured in Ultra-High Definition
Sony Professional's 4K live production solution was used to capture highlights of the 2014 Hertz British Grand Prix MotoGP at Silverstone in stunning ultra-high definition. Working with Dorna Sports, Sony captured the high-octane action from both the qualifier and the race itself in crisp ultra-high definition detail, marking a world first in live production for motorsports and representing another significant milestone in the acceleration of 4K sports production. A dedicated production team captured the immersive detail of the MotoGP action live in ultra-high definition using two PMW-F55 cameras, recording using Sony’s PWS-4400 4K server.
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