Turner Sports Central’s new asset management system has been shortlisted in the content creation category of the IBC2012 Innovation Awards. EVS, a leading provider of broadcast and media production systems for sports, news and TV entertainment, provided a centralized ingest and playout workflow for the system, which was developed in-house to track, log and retrieve 27,000 live recording hours of content from more than 6,000 individual events each year.

Top US broadcaster Turner Sports has selected EVS solutions to provide a centralized ingest and playout workflow for its live sports and webcast events. EVS, a leading provider of broadcast and media production systems for sports, news and TV entertainment, supplied XS and XT3 video production servers, among other tools, to enable constant recording and a fail-safe workflow.

Turner Studios, the in-house production facility of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, has upgraded its Atlanta, Georgia Studios by choosing a LYNX Technik fiber solution to improve the HD video distribution over 204 single mode fiber I/O paths to four of their six studios.

Lawo is pleased to announce that Turner Studios, the broadcast production division of Turner Entertainment Group that provides turnkey services for film, video, and audio production for all of the Turner Entertainment Networks, has taken delivery of a second Lawo mc²90 production console.

Turner Studios’ Sports Central system has won the Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award for ‘New Studio Technology – HD’. EVS, the leading provider of live video production systems, provided a centralized ingest and playout workflow for the system, which was developed in-house to record, log, edit and broadcast 27,000 live recording hours of content from more than 6,000 live sports events each year.

Cobalt Digital (www.CobaltDigital.com), manufacturer of award-winning 3G/HD/SD-SDI conversion gear for broadcast environments, recently installed a complement of terminal gear in Turner Studios’ latest mobile units. The announcement was made by Cobalt’s svp of sales, Bob McAlpine, from company headquarters in Urbana, IL.

Two hundred and fifty Astera battery powered, wirelessly controlled LED lighting fixtures made a spectacular impact in Frankfurt, Germany, lighting the iconic Paulskirche building for the 70^th anniversary of Human Rights Day on 10^th December 2018.

Norwia AS, develops and manufactures optical distribution products to the broadcast and communications markets, announces that Norway’s leading private broadcaster TV 2 selected the Norwia miniHUB platform at Vasaloppet in Sweden. Labelled the oldest, the longest, and the biggest participated cross-country ski race in the world.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that TV 2 Norway – together with Vizrt partner SterGen High-Tech Ltd (www.stergen.tv) – will broadcast live football to TV 2's IPTV and web viewers. On October 15th, using SterGen's high-quality 3D conversion technology, TV 2 will broadcast the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool, pioneering 3D to the Norwegian sport viewers over IPTV infrastructure and over the web.

TV 2 Norway, the country’s largest commercial broadcaster, has purchased a PHABRIX QxL rasterizer to provide 25G UHD IP ST 2110 video and audio generation, analysis and monitoring at its Bergen headquarters. PHABRIX’s authorized distributor Logical AS supplied the system. Svein Henning Skaga, Solutions Architect, TV 2 Norway, said, “We are highly impressed with the QxL’s fully-flexible architecture, covering all our UHD signal monitoring and generation requirements in both 12G-SDI and 25G IP ST 2110. We will be using the QxL within our test network, but also on UHD sports productions. With its value for money, easy to access via VNC functionality and compatibility with all the devices in our media IP network, the QxL is an excellent solution for high quality signal generation, analysis and monitoring.”

When TV 2, the largest commercial television station in Norway, decided to upgrade its set for covering the 2016 European Football Tournament, it had one major problem - space. The area they were working with was only 5.9m sq. with a small 3.4m sq. walking blue screen area. This was far too small to build a new hard set with any type of dimension and creativity.

TV 2 was one of the first Norwegian television channels to broadcast in HD. Now, using camera solutions from Sony Professional, it is raising the picture quality of its productions even higher, while also aiming to future-proof its studios.

Since 1999, TV 2 OJ (TV 2 Østjylland) have used Sony NewsBase as a platform for their television production. In 2008 they wanted to move to a network based solution to save time and resources. After identifying their criteria TV 2 OJ started a tender process in 2008 where potential suppliers were asked to deliver a solution that had extensive integration of text and video; joint graphical user interface (GUI) for all users; easy access to the platform for everyone in the workflow; higher ingest and editing speeds; integration with the editorial platform and other third-party software and hardware suppliers; as well as remote control of the platform for both editorial and technical support staff.

Norway’s largest commercial television broadcaster, TV 2, has selected sport digital and broadcast services market leader deltatre for the provision of official results, Mobile and desktop browser solutions to mark the involvement of TV 2 in the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

TV 2 Sumo, the Web TV service of the Norwegian broadcaster TV 2, has been declared Website of the Year by the Norwegian Media Business Association. TV 2 Sumo is Scandinavia's largest commercial WebTV service, offering a comprehensive library of TV 2 programs that users can view on demand, using their platform of choice.