Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has signed a contract with ATP Media, the broadcast rights and production arm of the ATP World Tour, to provide live global distribution of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series, Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, and the ATP World Tour 500 series. Arqiva has provided ATP Media with global distribution for three years and the renewed contract is supporting ATP Media’s move to global High Definition distribution of the prestigious tennis tournaments.

Producer Steve Mac has joined a growing band of music recording professionals who are happy to endorse Prism Sound’s high quality Orpheus FireWire computer interface.

The recent X Chili Cook-Off 2011 outdoor music festival combined blazing music with offerings from some of the area’s hottest chili chefs. Held at the Richmond Raceway Complex in Virginia and hosted by radio station 102.1 The X, performers such as Seether, Sick Puppies, 10 Years, Saving Abel and The Dirty Heads, were mixed through two of HARMAN’s Soundcraft Vi4 digital consoles, deployed by Soundworks.

Premier systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) has hired Frank Gigliotti as Senior Project Manager, effective May 2. An industry veteran, Gigliotti will oversee all ABS integration projects, managing engineering teams and providing on-site training and support.

Cinemartin SFV are portable devices for recording video at up to 1080p60 either uncompressed or in high quality codecs.
Thanks to its internal open codec arquitecture it allows you to record on supplied MPEG2-I 300mbps codec among others (Mjpeg, Cineform* as optional, lagarith, etc..). Transcode to virtually any kind of format is featured, easy and fast; including Quicktime, Avid DNxHD, etc.. ready for edit in FCP, export for the web, etc ..

Snell today announced that CTV, Canada's largest private broadcaster, chose Snell's Alchemist Ph.C – HD motion-compensated standards converters for the network's coverage of the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29.

 Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a leading provider of content archive and storage management software for media and entertainment, has today announced that Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) has upgraded its digital archive to include SGL FlashNet alongside Grass Valley’s Digital News Production System (DNP). The tight integration between the two systems provides significant improvement in speed and workflow procedures and replaces Grass Valley’s NewsBrowse system.

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium is a 25,000-seat outdoor football stadium in Montreal, Canada. Owned by McGill University, Molson Stadium is home to the McGill Redmen of the Quebec University Football League and the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. The stadium opened in 1919, and has seen a number of upgrades over the years, most recently with a new audio system featuring HARMAN JBL VERTEC® line arrays and AE Series loudspeakers. Solotech, a systems integrator with eight locations in Canada, the U.S. and China, handled the design and installation.

Systems Integration specialist Broadcast Networks has launched a new service that will help broadcasters and media companies to reduce the cost of deploying new technology by releasing the residual value of old infrastructure to fund new projects.

With only one week to go before Sportcal's '20 Years of Sport', when over 200 leading sports executives will gather to reflect on the last 20 years of sport and discuss and debate what the next 20 years might hold for the sports industry, Sportcal is delighted to announce that Francis Tellier, CEO of HBS, Paul Bristow, Managing Director of deltatre Media and Melcior Soler, consultant and former head of sports rights acquisition for Sogecable, will be joining the Media, Internet and Technology panel.

SOMMER CABLE GmbH follows the current trend towards digital transmission technology and now also delivers LWL solutions through their homebrand HICON. The roadproof HICON HI-FIBER Connection System is based on four LC fibre optic lines which are protected by a rugged, compact metal housing technology. It consists of a cable plug and a panel jack in the compact D-flange format, which may also be used as a universal cable connector socket for extending and cascading purposes.

Swedish sound company Center Stage has purchased its first Soundcraft Vi1 digital desk from local distributors Septon AB. Set up by experienced former Spectra Stage & Event Technologies technicians, Robert Berglund and Mikael Andersson in 2007, their mission was to expand the Center Stage audio inventory and develop close customer relations, providing complete technical solutions for corporate events, theatre, dance, music shows and installations.

Vimond Media Solutions announced today that its CEO, Helge Hoibraaten, will deliver a session at the Vizrt Days event on May 10. Titled "Monetizing Online Video," the session will discuss the opportunities for profitable over-the-top (OTT) services, using examples from current implementations by major broadcasters.

Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand, is proud to announce that its Vision blue pan and tilt head and tripod system has won a pair of coveted awards at the NAB 2011 convention and exhibition in Las Vegas. Vision Blue won both a TV Technology magazine STAR award (Superior Technology Award Recipient) and a DV Magazine Black Diamond award (Best of Show) at the NAB 2011 (National Association of Broadcasters) convention and exhibition in Las Vegas.

Presteigne Charter, one of the world’s leading broadcast dry hire and systems rental specialist has been awarded the prestigious contract to supply the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) facilities for the 34th America’s Cup World Series, a global programme of regattas ahead of the legendary America’s Cup itself. The contract has been awarded on the basis of a very strong technical proposal, the reputation of Presteigne Charter and the experience of our personnel and engineering team.