The Qatari Television Support and Development Committee (TVSDC) has selected Grass Valley™ for a major modernisation project for Qatar TV. Grass Valley will be providing a complete master control room solution for the new Broadcast Centre in Doha.

At the Light+Building 2012 SOMMER CABLE presented their new main catalogue V5 with nearly 500 pages and also a lot of new products and cable-associated ideas. Among other things, the following products were shown at the exhibition booth:

Operating at the cutting edge of broadcasting for 25 years, Pixel Power provides innovative and award-winning dynamic branding systems, graphics-enabled master control switchers, integrated playout technology and graphics production solutions for live and pre-recorded content. With a local presence around the world the company’s award-winning solutions suit broadcasters, post-production houses and outside broadcast (OB) trucks of all sizes for distinctive, professional, reliable and cost-effective playout.

International systems integration company Gearhouse Broadcast has installed Harris signal processing and conversion technology to provide the backbone of a new mobile High Definition (HD) production facility being used by British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) to televise the 2012 Formula 1 motor racing championship. Amongst the Harris systems installed in this innovative flyaway Pod system are 6800+™ core processing, Harris fibre optics and up, down and cross signal conversion systems.

The fifth race of the season was broadcast in 72 countries and was watched live in Spain by close to 5 million viewers

Leader Instruments Corporation announces a co-operative relationship with UK-based Eyeheight Ltd. The agreement centres on Eyeheight’s legalEyes video legalizer and its unique KARMAudioRT option which provides automatic real-time control of perceptual loudness and true-peak audio level.

Visionary Solutions Inc., today announced that NASA has chosen the company's AVN443 encoder to transmit HD video signals from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth, providing NASA with a high-quality, real-time video signal that will be used to produce coverage of missions and events, documentaries, archival video, and other unique programming for NASA TV.

Shanghai Oriental TV-owned Shanghai Media Group, Inc. (SMG), recently updated its studio in Pudong with a HARMAN Soundcraft Vi1 digital audio console. Pudong is a 400 square meter studio, mainly used for production of small scale variety shows

When a high-end production being shot in New York requires aerial cinematography, chances are they call Brian Heller. And the first place he turns to is Pictorvision for the Eclipse aerial camera stabilization system.

Since the end of April 2012, the Studio Hamburg Media Consult International (MCI) GmbH is certified to have a comprehensive quality management system according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008.

Dynamics specialist Jünger Audio will focus on controlling audio loudness in the broadcast chain at this year’s Broadcast Asia convention in Singapore (June 19th – 22nd. Booth 4U3-01).

SGM Lighting and Middle East-based giants, TechnoPro, have agreed a new distribution deal that takes the relationship which the two companies have enjoyed for many years to a new level. Nabil Bourgeili (left) and Peter Johansen celebrate the new distribution arrangement at PALME Middle East in Dubai.

T-VIPS America Inc, a global leader in professional video transport solutions for contribution, distribution, and DTV, announced that Azzurro HD, a New York-based provider of broadcast-quality video transmission services, recently purchased T-VIPS’ TVG450 JPEG2000 Video Gateways to provide  a real-time contribution link for HD video streams over IP for Glenn Beck's new, online HD video network, GBTV. GBTV, www.gbtv.com, features Beck’s daily show, plus original programming, news, documentaries, reality and behind-the-scenes shows.

Bristol-based event production company SXS was recently commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich to provide sound and full technical production for the royal unveiling of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. This followed a £50m restoration project as a result of fire damage to the 143-year-old clipper back in 2007.

The 30th annual CIRCOM conference will be held in Malmö, Sweden. Mainly in Malmö university premises, in Orkanen (the hurricane). Media producers from all over Europe are invited to discuss the future of television and public service . This is the first time the CIRCOM Regional conference is held in Sweden.