Newsletter from 09/09/2014
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
TV Skyline Equips Flagship HD OB Van With Riedel Artist
Broadcast service supplier TV Skyline's new OB 7 HD van is outfitted to support twice as many operator positions as the company's other HD units, and it is equipped to support Ultra HD. Boasting three separate control rooms, it is designed for use in a variety of productions ranging from high-end entertainment shows and concerts to sports. Intended to feel like a fixed studio environment, the truck features large multipurpose rooms with movable glass walls. The Artist system makes it easy for TV Skyline to configure and manage all the communications necessary for production of international events of any size.
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AXS TV Upgrades its Largest OB Truck With a Studer Vista 9 M2 QS Audio Console
AXS TV, a premier cable network dedicated to providing the best in music programming and festivals, comedy performances, current events and mixed martial arts promotions, recently acquired a HARMAN Studer Vista 9 M2 QS console as part of an upgrade to the existing infrastructure of its largest OB truck. Technical Producer and Flyaway Engineer Jeff Carman wanted a digital console that could not only fit into the existing MADI infrastructure, but also provide the expandability of additional inputs and outputs. These options led to the purchase of the Studer Vista 9 M2 QS. The Vista 9 M2 QS sets a new benchmark for system redundancy, with advanced Quad Star CPU architecture and optimized system design, providing the ultimate in security and peace of mind in critical live production applications.
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British Touring Cars Get On-Board With Videosys
The British Touring Car Championship is one of the most famous motor racing championships in the world, in which 31 drivers compete in two-litre engine versions of their road cars over 10 races at circuits around the UK each year. Established in 1958, the BTCC only trails Formula 1 and America’s NASCAR stock car series in terms of the longest history of professional motor racing. Working closely with Cloudbass and using Cobham Broadcast’s Solo 4 HD TX transmitter and PRORXB eight-way receiver/decoder unit, Videosys devised new onboard camera transmission systems for four BTCC cars, two support cars, four pit lane cameras and one pit lane return vision monitor; plus a bespoke fibre link and live switching system designed by Videosys.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
The One Show Depends on EVS
Flagship BBC daily television programme, The One Show, broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD, is using EVS’ live video production solutions to drive its live entertainment production workflow. The EVS kit sits at the heart of BBC’s purpose-built studio at BBC’s Broadcasting House headquarters in London. Dega Broadcast Systems was the systems integrator for the studio and technology build. A live magazine programme, The One Show boasts a daily average audience of four million people who tune in to watch big celebrity names discuss topical stories. As the live programme airs daily, there are heavy demands placed on the BBC production team to turn around the content quickly and efficiently.
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BBC Selects Clear-Com for Northern Ireland Facilities
BBC will install the Eclipse® HX digital matrix and the new FreeSpeak II™ wireless intercom systems across its sites in Belfast and Londonderry. This is one of the first worldwide installations of the new FreeSpeak II system, which will be unveiled for the first time in Europe at IBC next month. The equipment, supplied by Tyrell, will be installed by AVC at the end of September, and the system is scheduled to be commissioned by the end of October. The FreeSpeak II wireless intercom system allows large numbers of wireless beltpack users to simultaneously roam across an expansive production area without compromising on performance.
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FLDA Lights NBC's `Football Night in America´ Set
FLDA has designed the lighting for the new ‘Football Night In America’ set, at NBC Sports in Stamford, Connecticut. The set is part of the NBC Sports complex in Stamford, for which FLDA designed the lighting in 2012-2013. NBC’s new set has its debut on Sunday, September 7th, with the opening NBC ‘Sunday Night Football’ game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos. FLDA has also designed and installed the lighting for Telemundo Sports, part of the NBC Sports family, with a 100% LED set. Separately, FLDA has a long history with NBC overall, including groundbreaking work for CNBC, as well as ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘The Today Show,’ and ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,’ among many others.
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SPORTS
World Equestrian Games, a Complex Organisational Challenge
From 23 August to 7 September, Normandy was welcoming the World Equestrian Games.8 World Champions, 1000 competitors, 7 competition sites... and 500 million television spectators. As a regular at big events, AMP VISUAL TV took up position on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with an impressive equipment set. The World Equestrian Games are the biggest equestrian event in the world. They take place every four years and see representatives from 76 nations compete in the eight official disciplines of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.
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RaceTech Invests in Ikegami HDK-55 cameras
"The decision was not only based on Ikegami performance, though this was a key factor, but also on the long-term support and warranties that were offered by Ikegami. Many of our courses are triax equipped so we needed the option of running the cameras over long and often unreliable triax cable. Longer term the courses will be upgraded to fibre and these cameras will allow us to phase this change in as it happens, whilst still easily allowing courses on triax to use the same cameras. Our racing fleet works pretty constantly and we cannot afford to factor camera compatibility into our logistics planning. We have begun the replacement of standard-definition equipment and purchase of extra equipment to meet our ever-increasing workload. We see a long and successful relationship ahead with Ikegami and their UK team."
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RTL Television To Showcase German Football National Team with Vizrt Sports
RTL and its production house Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC) have been customers of Vizrt since 2009. RTL is upgrading its production and playout facilities at the CBC in order to support production of the German national team games, which are among the most watched broadcasts in Europe and other regions. “We are very excited to have won the exclusive rights to broadcast the national team’s games and are making upgrades to produce the highest quality coverage possible,” says Manfred Loppe, Head of Sport, RTL. “We recognise that viewership will increase due to the team’s recent 2014 World Cup Championship, so we have to deliver a captivating broadcast and that’s where amongst others Vizrt comes in.”
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SHOWS
Colour Sound Lights Creamfields 2014 Outdoor Stages
West London based lighting and visual rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied over 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures, rigging and trussing – including for the video elements - to the North and South open air stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM extravaganza, staged at Daresbury Estate, Near Warrington. Colour Sound’s team was again led by Crew Chief Jon Rickets, and they all worked closely with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE to achieve spectacular results as the legendary clubbing event, which sold out to its 70,000 capacity, pushed new heights of production excellence.
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RML Supply Clay Paky B-EYEs for the Sky Sports Awards
Since the company’s inception in the early 1980s, Richard Martin Lighting has established a formidable reputation as a premier supplier of lighting fixtures to the television sector and now boasts a stock sheet comprising more than 5000 products. In such a demanding and fast moving industry, RML are constantly reassessing and updating their inventory and have recently taken delivery of a number of the new Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20, the fixture that has won a variety of industry awards since its launch late last year. RML only took delivery of the K20 version a couple of weeks ago and already had lots of interest in them – their first job was the Sky Sports Awards and they went out so fast RML didn’t have time to get them flight cased!
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GLP’s New X4 XL Given Impressive Workout at Nature One
With his reputation for piloting the lighting at two of Europe’s leading electronic music festivals — the German extravaganzas Mayday and Nature One — Thomas Gerdon (gerdon MEDIADESIGN) is in high demand. He describes both these events as entirely unique, with Nature One among the largest European open-air electronic dance fests and the slightly smaller Mayday its indoor equivalent. Both share the same promoter (SFX Group) and the Group’s production company (I-Motion GmbH); but the recent Nature One also gave Thomas Gerdon the chance to use GLP’s new large-format impression X4 XL for the first time at a sold-out event attended by some 72,000 people.
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PRODUCTS
Robe BMFL World Tour Announced
The global launch of the hugely anticipated new lighting fixture from Robe – the Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire – BMFL – took place earlier today via a worldwide multi-lingual video broadcast across three time zones. Watched by nearly 11,000 people who pre-registered on the special Robe Premier launch website, complete with a technical delay due to a flood of last minute requests in Europe, the broadcast took place and showed Robe’s CEO Josef Valchar introducing the brand new 1700W BMFL Spot. The BMFL is a unique signature fixture with a host of innovative features designed as a real game-changer for the moving light industry.
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Lawo Onside with IMG, Largest Independent Sports Producer
Requiring “everything everywhere”, the network is centred on a Lawo Nova73 router using net links to serve no fewer than 15 mc²56 MkII digital mixing consoles. All studios, production galleries and client service areas are conveniently situated within close proximity of each other on the ground floor of the new building. Taking just nine months to build, equip and commission, the facility includes four HD broadcast TV studios ranging from 1000-sq-ft to 2,000-sq-ft. Lawo’s involvement began with a meeting at the London BVE Show in 2013, with the initial system order being placed in December 2013. With just six weeks allocated for the installation, the system was first assembled at the premises of system integrator TSL, where it was tested and fine-tuned ahead of delivery.
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JBL Professional EON 206P Portable PA System Delivers World-Class Sound on the Move
Delivering a complete audio solution that puts legendary sound at the fingertips of anyone for audiences of all sizes, HARMAN’s JBL Professional is introducing the EON 206P Portable PA system, an all-in-one powered system that delivers professional performance and remarkable ease of use. The EON206P is ideal for a variety of applications, including: small band/solo acts, coffeehouses, clubs, schools, worship events, meetings/seminars, presentations, health clubs and more. The JBL EON 206P features a pair of 6.5 inch passive loudspeakers, each featuring a 6.5-inch woofer and a 1-inch neodymium black nylon dome tweeter, powered by a 160-watt power amp section (80-watts per channel). The EON 206P features a maximum SPL output of 113 dB, with a nominal coverage pattern of 100 x 80 degrees.
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3D / 4K ARISING
New ALEXA ProRes 3.2K for UHD Deliverables
The majority of digital film and television productions continue to capture, postproduce and distribute in HD or 2K, formats for which ALEXA provides an unmatched solution. Widespread adoption of UHD/4K post workflows, as well as availability of UHD displays in consumer homes and 4K projection in movie theaters is at least one to two years away – even in the most progressive markets. However, some film and program makers are already concerned about protecting their work for future developments. The ongoing debate regarding high dynamic range (HDR) displays, which have an even greater effect on viewing experience than higher spatial resolution, only adds to these concerns.
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