TNDV: Television is a full-service mobile television broadcast production company with a fleet of four state-of-the-art broadcast trucks. Make that five, as TNDV: Television recently rolled out its “Vibration” truck, specifically designed to meet the needs of audio-intensive TV productions and equipped with a 256-channel HARMAN Studer Vista 9 digital mixing console.

Continuing to garner accolades for its mobile production excellence, TNDV: Television has once again been honored with multiple Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards by the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

When NewTek’s Video Toaster first arrived in 1990, it was a jaw-dropping moment as video professionals realized that you no longer needed an expensive SGI supercomputer to flip and spin video, create 3D animations, and other eye-candy video effects. The Toaster put a whole TV studio and post house on an Amiga computer for under $5,000.

Artists already on board include:

FOO FIGHTERS, MUMFORD & SONS, IRON MAIDEN, MUSE, SPICE GIRLS, KEANE, THE 1975, JACK GARRATT, IMOGEN HEAP, PASSENGER, GENESIS, THE LEVELLERS,  SIMPLE MINDS, QUEEN, ADAM LAMBERT, BILLY BRAGG, STEREOPHONICS, TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM OF FLEETWOOD MAC, FRANK TURNER

Industry figureheads David Stopps, Ian McAndrew and Tom Schroeder, alongside Andrew Lenthall and Mike Lowe from Stagehand, began the #ILoveLive Prize Draw campaign to help raise funds for all the music stage and road crew in the live music events industry that have been affected by the pandemic.

Prolific multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer Todd Rundgren has just released his hot new “Global” album, and is one of the highly innovative artists in the current portfolio of Lighting and Visuals Designer and touring Lighting Director Martin Thomas.

Pioneer in Media over IP transport technology, Media Links, announces that Tokai Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. has chosen its IP Media Switching Solution for IP infrastructure upgrades to the Tokai TV Network Operations Center (NOC).

Token Creek, one of the nation’s fastest-growing mobile HD and digital television production companies, will roll out the newest member of its mobile fleet in early November furnished with an extensive complement of Cobalt Digital’s sophisticated signal processing gear. The truck, named Chippewa, will predominantly cater to sports events.

Madison, WI-based Token Creek Mobile Television has added three XA99x8.4 ultra-wide field production lenses and four HA18x5.5 HD zooms to complement Grass Valley LDX80 cameras on its Sioux truck. The lenses have already been used for coverage of the Minnesota Vikings National Football League (NFL) home games, National Basketball Association (NBA) play and PAC12 college football.

EVS, a leading provider of broadcast and media production systems for sports, news, TV entertainment and media, has announced that Token Creek Mobile Television has invested in EVS systems to upgrade its Chippewa mobile production truck to HD. The revamped truck needed to be ready for the start of the 2012-2013 basketball season.

With 100 Days to Go to the Opening Ceremony, there are still about 15 test events for the Olympic and Paralympic Games still to be held, mostly under the READY, STEADY, TOKYO banner. The test events act as dress rehearsals for all parts of the competition, from the running of the tournament to logistical and operational capabilities so that when the Games come around, everything proceeds smoothly.However, the status of test event in artistic swimming is still to be confirmed following their initial cancellation by aquatics international federation FINA. It was originally cancelled alongside the diving test event, a Diving World Cup event, before that was re-instated following discussions involving all parties.

Increasing consumer demand for high-fidelity video and audio content is raising the bar for commercial advertising. While legacy 3G-SDI infrastructures are adequate for HD production and delivery, commercial post facilities like Tokyo-based ATELIER ARTE are seeking the latest 4K/UltraHD and 12G-SDI solutions to future-proof workflows and scale to handle higher bandwidth content. ATELIER ARTE, the post-production arm of Japanese advertising creative services provider ADK Creative One, recently teamed with technology partner Visual Graphics Inc. (VGI) to overhaul its existing post-production infrastructure with a new and robust system capable of handling 4K and HD content simultaneously with streamlined single-cable 12G-SDI transport.

To meet a growing demand for high-end web content, Tokyo-based studio ALAMODE provides end-to-end production services for YouTubers and social media influencers, corporate enterprises, and entertainment industry clients, including ad planning and design, graphic services, studio and location shoots and video delivery. On the production side, ALAMODE’s in-house studio is fully equipped to produce and stream a range of web content, encompassing video interviews, shows and commercial content, via an AJA HELO-based workflow.

Streaming is ubiquitous across entertainment, enabling event organizers to reach wider audiences through hybrid event formats. For the 25th anniversary of FUJI ROCK, the largest outdoor music festival in Japan, the live broadcast experts at Tokyo’s Nouvelle Vague Inc produced the event’s official YouTube stream, which reached a remote audience topping hundreds of thousands. To pull it off without a hitch, Nouvelle Vague Vice President & Director Masayoshi Ikeda and his team developed an efficient, reliable live production workflow comprising AJA solutions deployed at the event venue (Naeba Ski Resort) and Nouvelle Vague’s main control center. 

 

The baseball season kicks off for the Toledo Mud Hens Triple-A (AAA) minor league baseball team this month with livelier stadium video entertainment, thanks in part to the team’s new ZEPLAY multi-channel instant replay solution from Tightrope Media Systems.

Lighting designer Tom Campbell is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II for the entire run of Australian progressive rock band Karnivool's European tour - and has recently upgraded to the new operating system Titan V9.