Grass Valley Outfits Star India’s Sports Studio with Suite of Live Production Solutions

New router, switcher and signal processing enhance live sports coverage

Star India Ltd., one of the leading broadcasters in India and a wholly owned subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, Inc., has engaged Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to equip its sports studio at Mumbai with a suite of live production solutions. The new equipment will provide the flexibility and productivity to deliver compelling content across multiple platforms, in less time.

Equipment purchased includes the Densité modular platform, offering signal management solutions with unmatched simplicity for audio and video signal conversion to save time, money and space for single-function applications or processing thousands of signals. The Karrera K-Frame S-series combines the ultimate mid-range switcher performance, proven workflows, and simplified control of complex productions with multiformat support to deliver unmatched creative freedom for highly produced content. When paired with Grass Valley’s NVISION router, designed specifically for broadcast and packed with features to keep audio and video signals flowing smoothly, Star India will be “Future Ready” to grow its network to better meet viewers’ needs.

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“Grass Valley is honored to partner with such a highly regarded network that is often seen as an industry leader for adopting the latest broadcast technologies and business models,” noted Andrew Thornton, vice president of sales, Asia Pacific, Grass Valley. “Our end-to-end product portfolio was developed to help organizations expand on their own terms, and we look forward to working alongside Star India to support the growth of Star Sports studios.”

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.

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