Gearhouse Broadcast, a supplier of technical facilities, crew and services used to capture the world’s most watched content, has promoted Ed Tischler, its head of projects, to managing director of its UK business. He replaces Kevin Moorhouse, who vacates the position in order to focus fully on his role as chief operating officer of Gravity Media Group (GMG) continuing the mission to provide outstanding technology, solutions and exceptional client support across the globe.

Dejero, an innovator in blending IP networks for video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has announced a collaboration with Newtec, a specialist in the design, development, and manufacture of equipment and technologies for satellite communications, for the recently unveiled Dejero CellSat solution. CellSat will be showcased at the Dejero stand 12.B42, at the Intelsat stand 1.C71 and at the Newtec stand 1.A49 during IBC 2017 (15-19 September 2017, RAI Amsterdam).

Capital supplied two trucks of equipment, including the bulk of the MLA, MLD, MLX and MLA Compact enclosures, while Martin Audio’s Polish partners, Musnicki, provided the remainder of Martin Audio’s flagship PA for the 25th edition of this landmark event. Featuring daily capacity crowds of 90,000, the event is dubbed the Island of Freedom (due to its picturesque location on the Danube).

In addition to main stage, Martin Audio premier PA systems once again featured on the Colosseum and Europe stages, courtesy of the manufacturer’s Hungarian partner, BG Event.

Ross Video, a leader in smart production, announced multiple IP-related initiatives at next month’s IBC show, as the industry looks to data center technology as the future. Following last year’s IBC announcement that Ross Video is a key technology partner in the delivery of live production workflows over IP at the YouTube Space London facility, the company is looking forward to sharing its advancements over the past year related to the ability to move high bandwidth, real-time, studio quality video over IP networks and address the need to integrate proven broadcast control systems into these new workflows and networks.

Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has supplied Studio Berlin, a German full-service provider for live television production solutions, with a suite of equipment for its outside broadcast (OB) trucks and TV production studio facilities, including 41 LDX 80/82/86/86^N Series Cameras and LDX C80 Compact Series Cameras plus six K-Frame Video Production Center switchers capable of producing in 4K UHD. The camera purchase is part of a three-year contract with Grass Valley. Studio Berlin is planning to substitute a significant total of 70 LDK Cameras with the new LDX models within that period.

As part of its demonstration at IBC 2017 in Amsterdam, Grass Valley will be showcasing several new and upgraded products including the K-Frame V-series with GV Korona 3-stripe panel, GV STRATUS 6.0 with advanced social media management and XRE transcoder, LDX C86^N Compact Series cameras, GV Matrix SDI hybrid router, K2 Dyno S Replay System, and Ignite v10 Automated Production with new innovative playlist and event manager enhancements as well as advanced signal processing for UHD and HDR. All of Grass Valley’s offerings will be demonstrated at stand 1.D11, showcasing integrated, end-to-end solutions that enable broadcasters to control the way they work with and deliver content, reflecting the changing nature of viewership and consumption today.

Broadcast 3.0 is under way, with Lawo providing the solutions for tomorrow’s broadcast production requirements – based on IP transport, software-defined processing, orchestration and seamless control of network resources, and automated workflows. IBC 2017 will see Lawo to demonstrate a unified infrastructure for audio, video, data and control in practical applications, as well as discuss the industry’s migration to Broadcast 3.0.

Mobile Viewpoint, a leading IP contribution solutions company, has today announced the latest addition to its revolutionary product range with the WMT UltraLink, the company’s most powerful yet portable 4K-enabled mobile transmitter. The ground-breaking product is commercially available as of today and will be available for demonstrations at IBC2017.

ChyronHego today announced that the company has been honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy^® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The Emmy Award recognizes ChyronHego and its partners, TrackMan and MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), for their work on Statcast, a complete ecosystem for real-time sports tracking and visualization that combines TrackMan’s radar-based ball-tracking system and ChyronHego’s TRACAB optical player-tracking solution and state-of-the-art broadcast visualization tools.

AJA Video Systems released FS-HDR, a versatile 1RU, rack-mount universal converter/frame synchronizer for real time HDR transforms as well as 4K/HD up/down/cross conversions. FS-HDR delivers breakthrough real time High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut

Following its investment in several XT4Ks earlier this year for its new 4K production trucks, NEP Switzerland is again deploying the live production servers – alongside several other EVS solutions. This technology drives end-to-end UHD-4K production inside a new broadcast center built in Zurich by NEP for the recently-launched Swiss MySports channels, which are owned by UPC Switzerland, the country’s largest cable television operator and subsidiary of Liberty Global.

AVIWEST, a global provider of live IP video solutions, today announced the AIR320, a powerful and ultra-lightweight video uplink system that will be available in Q4 and on display at IBC2017, Sept. 15-19 in Amsterdam. By integrating best-in-class H.265/HEVC and H.264/AVC hardware encoders into a portable solution, the brand-new AIR320 enables broadcasters and video producers to stream live interviews and events seamlessly, and store and forward recorded content even in the midst of unpredictable and unmanaged network conditions.

Sony Professional Solutions Europe is unveiling VENICE – its first full-frame digital motion picture camera system. VENICE is the next generation of Sony’s CineAlta camera system, designed to expand the filmmaker’s creative freedom through large-format, full frame image capture of filmic imagery with natural skin tones and expressive dark areas. VENICE was designed through close collaboration and careful research with the creative community, fulfilling the various requirements from filmmakers and production professionals.

Cool, credible and creative, Chance the Rapper is enjoying plenty of popularity and critical comment in general, and on his past US tour in particular, which featured an eye-catching show designed by another rising star in our own industry, Michael Apostolos. Like the artist, Michael is also based in Chicago. They met through Chance’s management team four years ago, when Michael started as LD, and he is now the creative director as both their career trajectories have soared.

SMPTE^®, the organization whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology, today announced the program for the SMPTE 2017 Symposium: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in Digital Media Creation: The Promise, The Reality, and The (Scary?) Future." The Oct. 23 event, which will take place at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California, immediately precedes the SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE 2017).