The IBU Open European Championships in Osrblie, Slovakia opened on 25 January with a big Ceremony in Brezno’s main square. Until Thursday 02 February, men, women and junior men and women will compete for European Championship medals. On 26 January, the junior athletes started with sprints, followed by the senior athletes on 27 January. On Sunday all age groups have fought for pursuit glory and all the action was covered by Reckords HD OBVan REC 5 HD in high definition. For transmission the Signal was down-converted to SD.

Audio specialist Sennheiser makes protecting its global customers a central theme of its corporate strategy against product counterfeits. "After all, trademark protection is also customer protection. The risks that consumers take when purchasing counterfeited products is by no means clear to everyone," explains Volker Bartels, Speaker of the Executive Management Board.

Sencore, a leading provider of signal quality and video delivery solutions, today announced the launch of a dual-input DVB-T/T2 interface module that enables monitoring of DVB-T and DVB-T2 broadcast signals directly from an antenna. The latest member of Sencore's VideoBridge™ monitoring family, the VB252 is ideal for use by broadcasters to monitor their own transmissions, or by cable, IPTV, and satellite providers to monitor the local broadcasts they receive for distribution.

Leading manufacturers, Adobe, Avid and Sony, will offer invaluable advice, information and hands-on experience to visitors at BVE and TPS (14-16 February 2012, Earls Court, London) with three full days of free-to-attend seminars and workshops.

Panasonic Corporation announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Panasonic Corporation of North America, and the NBC Sports Group will partner to make the London 2012 Olympic Games available in 3D to all U.S. distributors who carry Olympic coverage on cable, satellite and telco -- nearly 100 percent of the multichannel industry. The effort will mark the first time that the Olympic Games will be distributed in 3D. Panasonic is NBC's exclusive Flat-Panel HDTV and Blu-ray Disc Player advertiser for the London Olympic Games.

Following extensive trials and appraisals Sky News are to re-equip all of their ENG  cameras with Wisycom radio microphone systems supplied by Raycom.  Sky will be taking almost 200 channels worth of MCR42 slot-in receivers and a selection of matching hand held, belt pack and plug-on transmitters.  Raycom are also supplying Sky News with DPA microphones for some of the systems.

Editec, UK and Ireland’s Ultra Motion specialist and sole distributor of I-Movix products, have announced that at BVE 2012 in London they will have on show and demonstration both mainstream products from I-Movix, the I-Movix X10 solution and the I-Movix SprintCam Vvs HD system.

iPad support has been added to tOG-Sports. This allows use of the iPad as a hand held touchscreen device that delivers the full range of telestration, analysis and VT control that is featured in tOG Sports.

Snell today announced that western Spain's Canal Extremadura is using a Sirius 620 router and multiple control panels along with two MV Series multiviewers and a 2-M/E Kahuna multi-format production switcher — all linked by an Aurora router controller — to support productions at its Mérida facility. The flexibility of the integrated Snell systems allows Canal Extremadura to optimize the handling of video sources across the broadcaster's control room and studio.

Exclusive One on One Demo with 3D STORM team, a chance to try out the latest NewTek TriCaster 450 and 3Play 820.NewTek will also showcase the latest version of the Award-winning 3D animation software, LightWave™ 11.

A system comprised of MediorNet, Artist and RockNet equipment from Riedel Communications was used to distribute video, audio and communication signals for the renowned alpine skiing competition at the Swiss "Chuenisbärgli" in Adelboden.

Katy Perry’s engineering team relies on DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headsets for all the pop superstar’s live performances, including her current California Dreams world tour. With the fast-paced, high-action set mechanics of the tour, Perry’s front-of-house engineer Peter Keppler needed a mic that could adapt to any situation. The smooth design of the DPA 4088, which makes the mic almost invisible, combined with its ability to eliminate feedback and background noise, make it the ideal choice for a high-octane tour like Perry’s.

TV SKYLINE's multifunctional van can be used as a control or sub-control room, for 2D or 3D as well. Furthermore, also work places for EVS, Character Generator or Autocue operators can be installed. During productions for corporate clients the van can be used as a dubbing area with USB station and Final Cut Pro edit suite. Currently the van accompanies the FIS women’s downhill tournament through Europe as an unilateral control room.

The distributor and system integrator Qvest Media is expanding its portfolio. The Dubai-based company is now responsible for the exclusive distribution of IPTV solutions for Teracue AG in the Middle East.

Contrary to popular belief in the West, when Russian officialdom decides something needs to be done it can and will, pull it off with alacrity and precision. "The important factor is to analyse exactly what is required, identify the correct tools to achieve this then implement it." Alexander Fetisov talking about a complete refit of RIA Novosty, Russia's largest and most significant news agency.