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France Televisions

France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the bringing together of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 (formerly La Cinquième), France Ô (formerly RFO Sat), and France 4 (formerly Festival). France Télévisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial advertising. France Televisions operate regional facilities in Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille Nancy, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse. The following HD OBVans are now presented in our online directory:

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HD PROTEK

HD PROTEK Production was established as a company of Saran Media in January 2008 to serve on live broadcasting using high definition technology. HD PROTEK is the leading TV-production company specializing in all types of production with a major emphasis on soccer. HD Protek is a production, technology and engineering company. By using high definition technology, HD Protek is the first company in Turkey who manifactured OB TRUCK with 16 cameras. HD PROTEK offers a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and services. This includes; SD and HD satellite and microwave links, HD and SD wireless cameras, OBVANs with 16 cameras each and SNGs that can work up to 6 cameras.

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schmidton

schmidton film-sound-servicewas established 1985 by Bernhard Johannes Schmid as a technical service provider for sound production in the areas of documentaries, advertisements and feature films. schmidton operates a TV studio and a surround sound recording van. Customers are (among others) ORF, RTL, Puls 4, ATV and Servus TV.

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Reality Check Systems Powers Super Bowl XLVIII Live Coverage

24 RCS “Bullet” custom hardware/software mobile graphics systems, including a “Twitter Bullet” module, to incorporate live Tweets into broadcast graphics, were in the field and were in use until the completion of the game. Several Super Bowl-related broadcasts, including NFL Network’s live international feed of the game,  also featured graphics packages built and powered by RCS’ in-house team.

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EFX Productions Support SABC 3 with ATEM

Johannesburg based EFX Productions has been providing OB services in South Africa for more than a decade, working with staging companies, transmission service providers and creative directors to produce sporting events, concerts, television series and documentaries. Founder Brendan Marsay has more recently been taking on bigger and increasingly complex productions, requiring him to upgrade the live production capabilities on his company’s OB van with the help of local broadcast systems integrator Telemedia (PTY) Ltd.

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Clay Paky Spend Thanksgiving with Lady Gaga and The Muppets

What’s Thanksgiving without The Muppets?  Or Lady Gaga?  Or all of them appearing together in ABC’s “Lady Gaga & The Muppets Holiday Spectacular” with guests Sir Elton John, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ru Paul.  It was definitely an occasion to roll out Clay Paky Sharpys and Sharpy Washes.

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Clear-Com Intercoms Drive Educational Program at Middlesex University

“The intercom systems at our previous television production studios had a limited range, which inhibited communication in some instances,” explains Barry Cooper, Television Studio Manager for Middlesex University. “Now, with the FreeSpeak and Eclipse-Median systems, we have a fully comprehensive talkback system throughout the studio facility, allowing for a highly collaborative environment. The systems broaden our students’ experiences and increase the level of knowledge they can achieve.”

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Abu Dhabi Media Installs Fifth Calrec Audio Console

"The mixer is designed for live TV broadcast and is one of the most reliable desks on the market with one of the fastest cold-start times available — which was an important requirement for us," said Abdul Farid Kabani, head of TV engineering and maintenance at ADM. "We used to have an analog audio mixer, so for audio embedded in SDI we needed to use an external de-embedder. The Omega provides that functionality as well as the ability to create multiple projects and load them instantaneously. The console is extremely reliable, with multiple backups as standard in critical areas like control and DSP."

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Turkey’s National Public Broadcaster Selects Litepanels

The two studios, home to the network’s rolling and hourly news programmes, have recently been installed with 82 of Litepanels’ renowned 1x1 Mono daylight fixtures, together with range of 2x1 manual yokes, which mount two 1x1 fixtures side-by-side. TRT has been operating out of its Ankara base for more than forty years, and transmits a wide array of international and domestic programmes, from news and live sports, to popular music and magazine programmes. The Litepanels’ equipment was selected as part of the organisation’s bid to improve efficiencies in both costs and energy savings across its multiple studios.

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Norwegian Parliament Chooses Snell for New Multi-Studio  HD Production Facility

The broadcasting arm of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) chose a Snell Kahuna 360 Compact multi-format production switcher and a Snell Sirius 830 large-scale router with Advanced Hybrid Processing (AHP) for the final phase of its migration to HD operations. Supplied and integrated by Video 4 AS and Megahertz Broadcast Systems, the Kahuna 360 Compact and Sirius 830 enable live 1080p coverage of all Parliament sessions.

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Avid to Help Power ‘Everywhere, Anytime’ TV Coverage for ARD & ZDF

At the Winter Olympics in Sochi ZDF and ARD are sharing facilities to benefit from greater operational synergies. They required a fast, efficient and robust workflow to cater to a wide range of content and distribution demands – from on-the-fly editing, graphics creation and processing to production, management and distribution of content. Together, the Avid and third party integrated workflow will enable faster and more effective collaboration among all members of the production team across a complex, multi-location environment.

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MTV to Broadcast Champions Hockey League Live in Finland

MTV will broadcast Champions Hockey League games extensively on its MTV Sport pay-TV channels as well as other network platforms. Specific plans about the number of broadcasted games will be communicated in spring. In addition, highlights and news will regularly be shown on free-TV. As part of the agreement, MTV will handle media production of games carried out in Finland, based on Infront’s high-level production guidelines developed specifically for the series.

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deltatre Powers the Carlsberg Live Match Centre for the Barclays Premier League

The fully responsive match day portal, available at live.premierleague.com, creates for the first time a digital destination for the Premier League’s global fan base. The site aggregates live informational and editorial content from across the League as well as personalised elements unique to individual users.  Among the components working together in real-time to generate this fan experience include:
·    Live scores and statistics plus as it stands/live league tables
·    Live blog, text commentary and social media content
·    Individual user Fantasy Premier League scores
·    Pre and post match manager interviews and other non-match video content
·    Information for all 2013/14 matches
·    Exclusive live photos

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“Lots of bells and whistles“: grandMA2 joins Luke Bryan

Luke Bryan has rolled out his “That’s My Kind of Night Tour”, and Elite Multimedia Productions in Nashville is providing grandMA2 consoles as Bryan once again takes to the road. The popular country artist’s new tour is named after his latest single, which has catapulted to # 1 in the country charts. “We just concluded the Dirt Road Diaries Tour with Luke; his new tour will run from January 2014 to the end of October”, says Tom Wilson, vice president of event productions at Elite Multimedia Productions. Lighting designer Justin Kitchenman of Fade Up Design Group points out that Bryan “wants all of his productions to be big, ambitious and with lots of bells and whistles. When someone walks into this show they’re walking into a party.”

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David Guetta Rocks Brazil with Robe

Guetta’s lighting is designed by Jonathan ‘Leggy’ Armstrong – well known for his imaginative and stylish shows which have graced several leading dance acts including Basement Jaxx. The touring team works with entirely locally sourced productions wherever they play, and lighting on the road for this leg of the ongoing world tour was overseen and operated by two Lighting Directors – Alex ‘Junior’ Cerio of Smash Productions and Sam MacLaren of LightLab – both also LDs in their own right. Between them and the video visuals produced by Ben Brett’s amazing and unique Pilot video control system, operated by Nick Briggs, Guetta gets a dynamic world class show wherever he plays.

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Vislink: Brit Awards Shown Live Online for First Time

“The Brit Awards is just the latest example of increased competition from online players putting the pressure on broadcasters to deliver the best possible coverage of live events across multiple platforms, in a bid to keep viewers away from their competitors. Live TV – whether viewed on TV or online – demands quality and reliability, and as the whole world will be able to watch the Brit Awards on YouTube it’s going to be more important than ever for the broadcaster to provide consistent HD footage free from breakup or glitches."

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Two New JVC GY-HM800 Series Shoulder Mount Camcorders

Both the GY-HM850 and GY-HM890 models utilise a very nicely-weighted shoulder-mount form factor, with the GY-HM890 also designed for use as an HD studio camera or multi-camera field production camera. It has a multi-pin connection that accommodates JVC fibre or multi-core camera modules and is compatible with a full range of studio components, including customised studio sled, zoom and focus controls, CCUs and 8.4-inch LCD viewfinder, as well as box-style lenses from Canon and Fujinon.

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ARRI Now Taking AMIRA Orders

Flexibility of configuration is the key to ARRI’s pricing structure. Temporary and permanent software upgrades allow owners to adapt AMIRA according to the changing professional needs of their evolving careers, extending the return on their investment. AMIRA is a versatile camera that combines exceptional image quality and affordable CFast 2.0 workflows with an ergonomic design optimized for the shoulder-mounted lone operating typical of ‘run and gun’ documentaries. Ready to pick up and shoot straight out of the camera bag, AMIRA is rugged enough to take anywhere and suits a wide range of different production types and shooting environments.

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DYVI Brings World’s First IT Production Platform to the US

HPA Tech Retreat  will be the very first opportunity in the US to see the future of broadcast production: During the event in Indian Wells, CA, February 17 to 21 DYVI live will showcase the industry’s first fully IT-based production platform, using industry-standard hardware and optimized software. DYVI signals the end of hardware-based production switchers and opens up broadcast production to a more flexible, IT-based world.

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EVS to Provide 4K Zooming and Key Live Production Capabilities

For Super Bowl XLVIII, multiple 4K XT3 servers are being deployed for FOX Sports’ game-day coverage, as well as pre- and post-game programming. Xsquare and XTAccess solutions will manage file delivery and transcoding, while the LSM Connect tablet solution for advanced clips and playlist management will be used in conjunction with the the industry-standard LSM Controller. Approximately 30 EVS IPDirector production management suites will be used across the multi-site network for ingest control, metadata management, on-the-fly editing and playout scheduling. This year, Ultra-HD will figure prominently as EVS’ Epsio Zoom for 4K zooming extraction provides clearer close ups of content such as controversial calls and key replays and brings viewers even closer to the action.

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DVS: The Phantom Flex 4K Available for Rent in Europe

Designed for the cinematographer, the Phantom Flex4K is a high-speed camera providing exceptional flexibility through its frame rate capabilities and by adapting to different shooting styles. The super-35mm 4K sensor provides sharp, detailed images with extremely low noise and high dynamic range.  The Flex4K is capable of shooting from 15 frames-per-second (fps) up to 1,000 fps at 4K, and up to 2,000 fps at 2K/1080p. The full-featured on-camera control interface eliminates the need to connect to a computer on set. All camera parameters can be set from the built in menu on the right side of the camera body, and controls for capture, playback, saving and monitoring can be found on both sides.  Shortcuts are available for popular functions and multiple user presets exist to allow for a quick setup.

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NIMB TV Relies on Softron for UltraHD Playout from Micro-sized Mobile Unit

Powering the 4K playout from the pioneering mobile unit, Softron’s OnTheAir Video Express delivers convenient and reliable high-quality UltraHD performance from standard MacOS hardware. Designed for news production and live shows, OnTheAir Video Express supports the major codecs, and provides an essential feature set that includes with mix-and-match resize, GPI triggers, cue mode, seamless playback, multiple outputs on one Mac, clip trimming, clip end behaviours, and scrubbing.

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