Newsletter from 26/05/2014
Live Production Directory 2014
We will have a closer look at the service offerings of the big players like NEP, EMG, Mediatec, tpc or Mediapro. With their large fleets of OBVans , support and specialty trucks , flypacks and studio facilities they execute, deliver and display entertainment, sports and event productions for any multi-media platform around the world. The allocation of aerial filming, slow /ultra motion production, technical management and engineering support, playout, postproduction, set design and construction has established them the biggest full service providers for any kind of live-production.
On the contrary to these mega broadcasting companies smaller solutions become more and more popular. Nimb TV has realized one of them. This Danish production start up has built the smallest Ultra HD OBVan around a number of Blackmagic Design Ultra HD products including the ATEM 4K Production Switcher and the Smart Videohub video matrix. This three wheeler van can be positioned easily at the heart of a live production. So does nobeo's @-car. Equipped with NewTek's Tricaster 8000 this small HD OBVan can be used for any live streaming into the internet. This years Live-Production Special is the ideal platform for advertising your live production gear to the decission makers of the worldwide operating TV Live Production Community. Please contact Evelyn at [email protected] she gladly will make you an individual insertion proposal.
MOBILE PRODUCTION
MTV Networks
MTV Networks is a division of media conglomerate Viacom that oversees the operations of many television channels and Internet brands, including the original MTV (Music Television) channel in the United States. MTV Networks operates three HD OBVans (Barrie, Nereus and Pegasus) and one Surroundsound truck (Audio8). The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 400 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, AddictingGames, Shockwave, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, SPIKE, TV Land, Atom, GameTrailers and Xfire.
Specs for Audio 8
Specs for Barrie
Specs for Nereus
Specs for Pegasus
Proshow Broadcast Maestro
Proshow Broadcast is a highly capable and innovative team of people who proudly deliver industry-leading quality to broadcasters and producers in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Proshow provides mobile production facilities, often known as OB vans, in Western Canada and throughout the Pacific Northwest; Proshow routinely moves HD mobile production trucks to events in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alberta. Whether you’re looking for a highly capable and portable HD flypack or a full-featured TV mobile, Proshow has a solution to meet your needs.
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Mira Mobile M-12HD
MIRA provides high-end remote video production services for live events and taped programs from sports, corporate, and entertainment venues throughout the U.S. and Canada. MIRA Mobile is the largest western U.S. based mobile facilities provider and has been in business since 1982. MIRA maintains offices and/or field shops in Portland, Oregon, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, BC. Our current fleet numbers nine high definition mobile units. The majority of our trucks have been launched within the last three years. MIRA Mobile Television is a partner in Alliance Productions.
Specs for M-12HD
STUDIO PRODUCTION
SPORTSCENTER Flagship Studio Lighting
Ferri Lighting Design & Associates (FLDA) has designed and installed the lighting for the new flagship ESPN ‘Sportscenter’ studio, at ESPN’s headquarters facility in Bristol, Connecticut. The new studio design, which is almost fully LED lit, is the first LED studio deployment for ESPN. FLDA has also leveraged Prism Projection’s Power Net – a data-over-power solution – that bypasses standard DMX cable runs to distribute studio power directly over power lines. The ESPN ‘Sportscenter’ installation is currently the largest Power Net installation in the world. FLDA has also designed and installed lighting in ESPN’s Sky Deck, a suspension grid system that flies above the studio set.
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New Virtual Reality Studio Gives Viewers an Immersive Election Experience
BBC Studios and Post Production is supporting BBC News’ local and European elections broadcasts from New Broadcasting House by delivering a series of live programmes from Elstree. BBC Studios and Post Production’s Elstree Studio D has been transformed with a brand-new virtual reality tracking system to enable Jeremy Vine to engage BBC viewers with his inimitable analysis of the full election experience. The Elstree Studio D facilities include a new virtual reality environment with a green screen set for Jeremy Vine. To enable Vine to be completely and virtually immersed with graphics and up-to-the-minute statistics, BBC Studios and Post Production is utilising brand-new virtual reality technology.
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PacTV Los Angeles Evolves into Global Broadcast Campus
Pacific Television Center (PacTV), a Los Angeles-based independent global transmission and production company, is proud to announce it has completed the acquisition of its headquarters, located at 3440 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, California. This purchase cements the future of the firm’s physical location, which now spans three buildings along Motor Avenue. The expanded real estate hosts the company’s Los Angeles Master Control Room (MCR), three HD studios, neutral colocation (colo) space, administration offices, client bureaus/offices and a 15-dish satellite park. PacTV is now poised to successfully expand its Los Angeles facility into a global broadcast campus, providing clients with a neutral and affordable POP in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
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SPORTS
Riedel Supports Red Bull-Sponsored Wings for Life World Run Staged Across 34 Countries
Riedel Communications provided the global communications backbone for the Wings for Life World Run, sponsored by Red Bull and supporting research to cure spinal cord injuries. An extensive installation of Riedel's Artist digital matrix intercom system and MediorNet real-time media network supported race-day communications worldwide, as well as production of a television broadcast and a live streaming broadcast with updates from all 34 participating countries. RecordLab TV & Media GmbH was responsible for providing the broadcast infrastructure for the event. On May 4 at 10 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time, more than 35,000 runners began the race simultaneously in 34 countries on six continents. Half an hour later, two "catcher cars" at each site began pursuit at 16 kmph (approximately 10 mph), using sensors to mark the time each athlete was caught and passed. The last woman and man to be "caught" earned the title of Wings for Life World Run Champion. The global winner was Lemawork Ketema of Ethiopia, who covered 78.58 kilometers (48.83 miles).
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Feelit, it is here ...!
The sense of anticipation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ stepped up a gear at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) as the screens of the Master Control Room (MCR) began to light up. ‘Feel It, It Is Here!’, the slogan of broadcast colleagues South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) during their coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, was brought to mind as the MCR went from the blank screens of the installation phase to action images of various match feeds from the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013. The sight of the MCR becoming fully operational is a strong visual reminder to all users of the IBC of the imminent arrival of the event.
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Stadia Experience Tour
The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Local Organising Committee (LOC) will carry out the Stadia Experience Tour. Media representatives will have the chance to see what fans and journalists will experience during the FIFA World Cup. the tour will take place between May 30 to June 6 as shown in the calendar below.
26/5 – 10:30 – Rio de Janeiro
30/5 – 13:00 – Manaus
2/6 – 9:30 – Cuiaba
3/6 – 13:00 – Natal
4/6 – 14:00 – Sao Paulo
5/6 – 14:00 – Curitiba
6/6 – 14:00 – Porto Alegre
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SHOWS
Eurovision Song Contest 2014
The host broadcaster for the event was Danmarks Radio (DR) which relied on Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 for the audio transmission of the show. 96 channels of this digital wireless microphone system were deployed for the contest, the VIP area and the press centre which included part of DR’s own 24-channel Digital 9000 system. Then added to this were 28 channels of the 2000 Series for the artists’ wireless monitoring.
ESC 2014 - Sennheiser
Danish lighting designer Kasper Lange relied on 7 x grandMA2 full-size and 2 x grandMA2 light consoles, 19 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 9 x MA 8Port Node for control. Amongst numerous Martin Moving Lights and PRG Bad Boys, Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330, Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500, Philips Vari*Lite VL3500 Spot, Philips Vari*Lite VL3500 Wash and Philips Vari*Lite VL5 were in the lighting rig. Furthermore Robert Juliat Cyrano and Robert Juliat Aramis were used as follow spots.
ESC 2014 - grandMA
Several hundred pieces of GLP impression X4 LED moving lights were specified by LD Kasper Lange on behalf of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation for use at the 59th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC2014) in Copenhagen. The venue for this year’s show was the spectacular B and W Hallerne at the Refshaleøen — a former ship’s wharf that has been transformed into a Eurovision Park.
ESC 2014 - GLP
Robe To Light up Sky Flower at VIVID Sydney
Robe is supporting UK based Light Artist and Creative Director of Dark Art London, Simon Brockwell at the 2014 Vivid Festival of Music, Light & Ideas in Sydney, Australia, in the realisation of his bold and innovative light sculpture, ‘Sky Flower’. Robe is working in close collaboration with its Australian distributor The ULA Group and leading Australian Robe rental partner Elite Sound & Lighting from Canberra to supply and coordinate the equipment for Simon’s interactive installation which can be experienced live between the 23rd May and 9th June. Sky Flower is one of two installations at a new site for the festival in Martin Place, right at the core of Sydney´s buzzing CBD, adjacent to the Cenotaph and also near to Channel 7’s downtown TV studio, so it will attract a huge amount of attention.
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SSL Live Delivers the Sound for Jason Aldean's BURN IT DOWN Tour
The engineering team for Jason Aldean’s Burn It Down tour is bringing the artist’s popular brand of country rock to the next sonic level with an SSL Live console for both FOH and monitoring. A triple platinum artist who has released such albums as My Kinda Party, Relentless and Wide Open, Aldean has been wowing fans for years, packing in tens of thousands of enthusiastic attendees at each of his shows. For his latest U.S. tour, Aldean’s team is benefiting from the flexibility of Live and its trademark SSL sound quality. Chris Stephens, Aldean’s front of house engineer, has been working with the artist for the past five years and was previously with Michael McDonald and Wynonna. When he first sat down with the Live console, Stephens knew that he found his console of choice.
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PRODUCTS
Dejero to Support Broadcasters in Brazil
Continuing its ongoing support of broadcasters covering global sporting events, Dejero announced that it will provide mobile transmission services for broadcasters covering the world's largest football event in Brazil. Beginning in early June, broadcasters will be able to rent the award-winning Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitter and install the Dejero LIVE+ Mobile App on their iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, enabling them to transmit live coverage and also to store and forward video for later broadcast.
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Fujifilm Technical Support Centers to Serve Brazil’s World Cup
The Optical Devices Division of FUJIFILM North America Corporation has announced that two technical support centers have been set up to provide customer service and support to the company’s broadcast lens customers during the World Cup in Brazil running from June 12 through July 13th. One service center will be located in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Sao Paulo. During the entire World Cup, Fujifilm’s Optical Devices Division will have a engineers available at each technical center to support FUJINON lens customers. Hours of operation during the matches will be from 9:00 a.m. through 18:00 p.m.
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NewTek Reinforces Leadership in Multi-Camera Live Video Production
NewTek™ announced major enhancements for its professional line of TriCaster™ multi-camera video production systems. The new features––which further eliminate the need for racks of specialised equipment and multiple operators to produce video content that offers the same professional quality and look of a network-style television broadcast––are now available at no cost to current TriCaster 8000, 860, 460 and 410 model owners.
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3D/4K ARISING
Blackmagic Design Kick’s of Ultra HD Roadshow
Blackmagic Design’s EMEA office has just put the finishing touches on a brand new Ultra HD demonstration vehicle, developed to show the versatility and breadth of Blackmagic Design solutions. Set to tour more than 50 cities, across 30 countries the Mercedes Sprinter, which was built by systems integrator and coach-builder P.A.D. is a mobile demonstration facility that recreates some of the real world workflows that broadcast, live event and post-production customers use everyday. “Whilst the vehicle could easily operate as an OB van the design is orientated around a customer's access to, and understanding of, the solutions Blackmagic Design offer,” reveals Simon Westland, Sales Director for Blackmagic Design EMEA.
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