Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, is pleased to announce that Spain’s national broadcaster, Televisión Española (RTVE), has installed Clear-Com’s FreeSpeak digital wireless intercoms at its Madrid headquarters, Prado del Rey and Torrespaña. Forming two separate networks for each station, the systems together comprise 40 FreeSpeak antennas and 70 FreeSpeak beltpacks. This setup ensures that busy staff members have fast access to consistently reliable communications, which is needed to coordinate TVE’s diverse array of channel programming.

Televisión de Galicia (TVG) has upgraded its primary production studio in Santiago de Compostela, Spain to high-definition (HD) with Grass Valley™ production technologies. As the final phase of a multi-year €1 million (US$ 1.4 million) project, Grass Valley supplied Kayenne™ XL HD production switcher.

Madrid-based Tilt, a bespoke audio and video broadcast service provider, is reaping the benefits of a 48-fader Artemis Light console from Calrec for its UM003HD mobile production unit. Tilt’s business has grown considerably in the past year as it works with a variety of customers in live production across sports, music events, commercials and documentaries.

Reality music competitions have had massive global success since first appearing in the early 2000s and with good reason. They work and fans love the format. Take Spanish singer Aitana as an example. Aitana first gained recognition in 2017 as runner-up of the Spanish reality TV music talent competition Operación Triunfo and she has enjoyed popularity and a number of hits ever since.

Atresmedia, a leading TV and media group in Spain (and formaly known as Grupo Antena 3), is outfitting its new HD studio with several live production solutions from Grass Valley including the powerful Karrera® Video Production Center switcher with K-Frame™, as well as a K2 Dyno® Replay System. Atresmedia operates eight on-air channels that deliver news, magazines, entertainment shows, top quality TV series and movies to millions of viewers across Spain. This new solution from Grass Valley will enable Atresmedia to double its on-air studio production capabilities and make its current workflow more consistent and smooth. The broadcaster expects its new TV studio to be fully operational by April 2014.

Dorna Sports, a leading international sports management, marketing, and media company, has renewed its contract with Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, for an additional four years due to the flexibility and future expansion capabilities Grass Valley technology offers.

ChyronHego today announced that Spain’s Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP) and Mediapro have renewed their agreement with ChyronHego, extending their TRACAB player tracking contract for a term of four years through the end of the 2017-18 football season. Through a continued partnership, the award-winning TRACAB 4.0 systems will continue to capture real-time digital sports data across all 42 clubs in La Liga 1 and 2.

LiveU, the pioneer in IP-based live video services and solutions for acquisition, management and distribution, has announced that Spanish audio visual services company LIVE Audiovisual (Live!), has increased its use of LiveU technology over the past 18 months, taking advantage of the company’s solutions-based approach to the market.

The ability to deliver great live sound without picking up interference from a PA system was a key reason why Spanish broadcaster RTVE chose DPA’s award-winning d:facto 4018V Vocal Microphone for its reality TV show, Operación Triunfo.
 

Paraglider Horacio Llorens became part of a flock of starlings to embrace his dream of flying like a bird. The Spaniard travelled to Denmark to witness the natural phenomenon of Black Sun, created as tens of thousands of starlings gather in the sky at one time there as a biannual event. The five-time aerobatic paragliding world champion, who took up the sport in 2000, admits it was a journey into the unknown, unsure how the birds would react and hopeful they would not become entangled in his lines.

Kronomav, expert on live broadcasts in three dimensions, robotized systems and machine vision, has been one of the three companies in the world chosen by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) to handle the 3D acquisition for the next Olympics to be held in London, between the months of July and August.

Spanish Public Broadcasting Company Canal Sur Radio and TV recently joined in as LaON Wireless Intercom users. Canal Sur Radio and Television (RTVA) is a public regional Radio and Television broadcaster in Andalusia, Spain and recently introduced two new LaON LT750 wireless intercom systems to their equipment pool. These two LaON wireless systems are used to complement and expand the intercom system by expanding the possibilities of mobility and coverage. Canal Sur especially values the system’s ease of use and configuration, the reliability of communication and the excellent quality/price ratio.

An Overon team of more than 160 people covered the Spanish general elections for both Spanish and foreign TV networks. The company deployed a comprehensive arsenal of technical equipment covering the event from the main points of news interest.

Rascular, designers of manual and automated control applications for third-party, professional video technologies, has announced that Spain-based bespoke audio and video broadcast service provider Tilt has installed Rascular’s RouteMaster router control technology as part of an extensive upgrade to its UM003 OB truck.

Established Spanish post production company, Free Your Mind, has invested in a Mistika 2K System with a DI Module to replace their existing technology and enhance the current infrastructure to maximise their strengths.  In order to meet the growing demand of commercials production, Free Your Mind has placed Mistika as their post production tool of choice as a complete system they can rely on. Mistika’s advanced set of tools is wider and more flexible than any other system, or combination of other systems, without compromising creativity or quality, while maintaining the highest output speed at the same time.