Riedel Communications today announced that its Artist and Acrobat intercom systems were used throughout the 2013 Wimbledon Championships to facilitate communications across the All England Lawn Tennis Club. RG Jones Sound Engineering, provider of all live audio and communications solutions for the tournament, deployed the Riedel intercom solutions for use by Hawk-Eye operators, statistics collectors, scoreboard operators, and other staff, including the team supporting on-court presentations following the victory of the U.K.'s Andy Murray over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the men's final.

Fairlight is proud to announce the partnership with Adobe, through its Technology Partner Program. This collaboration enables the development of tactile hardware control surfaces for Adobe® Premiere® Pro and Adobe® Anywhere.

Leading Media Systems Integrator Media Group International has consolidated a period of rapid expansion by announcing three new staff appointments.

Vitec Videocom has appointed Jay Dishong as Vice President, Channel Sales for the Americas. Dishong will be based from Shelton Connecticut, where he will have responsibility for continued development and execution of the organisation’s channel partner structure across the US, Canada and Latin America.

The reality TV format The Mole has proved extremely popular in Bulgaria. The concept, not unlike that of Big Brother, involves the participants – including in some cases celebrities, such as the former basketball star Dennis Rodman – living together for an extended period, in this case twelve weeks, during which time their every movement is captured by over 60 cameras that spy on them tirelessly round the clock. The recently broadcast Bulgarian final was watched by over 500,000 viewers, winning the channel in question, TV7, a 78 per cent share of the market among the target group of greatest interest to advertisers.

HHB Communications Ltd. provided Megahertz Broadcast Systems and Timeline Television with professional audio equipment - including over 100 Genelec loudspeakers - for the video editing and audio dubbing areas in the recently launched BT Sport studios operated by the UK’s newest sports broadcaster.

JVC will be demonstrating three main product areas at IBC2 013: cameras, monitors and our new tour truck. The main highlight of the show will be the live streaming feature offered by the latest version of the GY-HM650 camcorder, which has the ability to stream broadcast-quality images whilst also recording full HD. In order to demonstrate this convergence of conventional broadcasting and streaming, JVC will broadcast a twice-daily show, streamed live from IBC, introducing the advantages of live streaming via the GY-HM650 camcorder.

Broadcasters and film makers who are searching for a high quality boom microphone capable of capturing audio in challenging locations need to look no further than DPA Microphones’ IBC 2013 booth (8:D76).

Matrox® Video today announced that Vizrt, the world's leading provider of real-time broadcast graphics, has chosen the Matrox DSX LE3 4K card to power the next generation of the Viz Engine rendering engine and compositor. Viz Engine is the heart of all Vizrt graphics and video solutions (CG, Virtual Set, Weather, and more). It renders animated 2D and 3D scenes in real time, producing high-end animations in SD, HD and 4K.

At this year's IBC, Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH (DVS) will present its flexible SpycerBox storage solution which offers unparalleled performance for broadcast and post production environments. The web-based SAN Remo management GUI simplifies the administration and configuration of storage architectures like never before.

NewTekTM today unveiled the next generation of its industry-standard, professional TriCaster multi-camera production systems, introducing three new models—TriCaster 860, TriCaster 460, and TriCaster 410—and major enhancements to the company’s flagship system, TriCaster 8000.

As part of Sky’s on-going innovation in technology, on August 31st its research and development teams successfully broadcast the UK’s first ever live event in Ultra HD at its West London HQ. The broadcaster filmed Saturday’s 3pm Premier League football match between West Ham and Stoke City and transmitted the whole match live over satellite through its Studio facility.

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK and its main NTT telco are working with TV Globo and Brazilian telcos to test-transmit 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ video from Brazil to Japan.

AJA Video Systems has been working closely with MLB Network, Major League Baseball’s 24/7 cable TV network, to bring the soon-to-be-released AJA TruZoom software to market for highly detailed region-of-interest (ROI) extraction from 4K video.

Cinegy Live is the newest member of the IP-based solution family, and provides broadcasters with the ability to mix and cut audio and video IP streams into a new stream while remaining in the software world.