Vizrt will introduce Viz Engine/Artist 3.3 at its booth: Hall 2, Stand B10. As a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, Vizrt is committed to expanding its systems’ functionality and cost-effective workflow to maximize its customers’ creativity and investment.

Utah Scientific today announced that CBS Television City in Los Angeles has installed a UTAH-400/XL HD routing switcher along with associated control panels and software at the heart of the historic production, broadcast, and transmission facility. The digital router, with a 1056 matrix, replaces five legacy routers, supports an infrastructure expansion, and rationalizes a huge and complex system built piece by piece over 30 years.

Bittree, a provider of professional audio and video patching components, today announced the introduction of its new Micro-Video Patchbay. The latest entry into Bittree's popular video patching product series, the Micro-Video Patchbay provides the industry's highest input/output density, with a 2x48 format in either a 1- or 1.5-RU size. Now shipping, the high-bandwidth Micro-Video Patchbay is ideal for use in mobile production, outside broadcast (OB) vans, and any other video production application where space and weight are at a premium.

Pixelmetrix, a global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television and IPTV networks, has entered into a strategic partnership with Rep Channel Management (RCM) to build up and strengthen its sales network in North America.

Reason enough to look back even to the beginnings of a worldwide leading provider of Broadcast Rental and to make an interim result. The mother company was founded 20 years ago, 2005 in Cologne, the first branch opened in continental Europe. 2007, the expansion in Germany continued with a second branch in Munich. The three-man team of founders in 2005 has laid the foundation for a growing company with a broad range of services for the television industry. Today, Presteigne Charter Germany 12 employees based in Hurth (near Cologne) and Ismaning (near Munich).

Orange, the key brand of France Telecom, is uprating its IP services over satellite to the African continent with Newtec Elevation modems and FlexACM® technology. Orange, one of the world's leading providers of broadband Internet services in Europe, operates IP-over-satellite broadband services to sub-Saharan countries from its base in Bercenay, France.

Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who’s marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians’ cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been “a 100 percent complete and utter success. They’ve been incredibly wonderful – I’m very happy with them.”

Euro Media Sports is proud to be associated with the Fédération Française de Badminton [French Badminton Federation] and with its consulting firm Keneo for the provision of coverage of the World Badminton Championships, which took place from 23 to 29 August at the Coubertin Stadium.

The Monaco iGaming Exchanges, to be held in Monaco from 11 to 13 October 2010, has enhanced its conference program by adding an exclusive high level panel on the perspectives and evolution of the online gaming and betting market in the US.

Pilat Media Global plc [AIM: PGB], a leading supplier of business management software to the media industry, today announced that as of July its industry-leading IBMS (Integrated Broadcast Management System) and MediaPro airtime sales system have achieved deployment by 1,100 media channels in 17 European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) countries. Within those countries, Pilat Media's products are actively managing programming, media, rights, ad sales and campaigns, traffic, and billing operations.

IBC, which opens on 9 September, is poised to reinforce its position as the world’s leading meeting place for everyone involved in the electronic media industry. Top figures and opinion formers are lined up for the conference, and more than 1,300 companies are populating 42,000 square metres of exhibition space. Exhibitors include all the major names in the industry, and 250 companies taking part in IBC for the first time.

Wowza Media Systems® today announced the IBC2010 preview of three upcoming capabilities for its highly popular Wowza Media Server® 2 product. These capabilities — on-the-fly DRM encryption, automated multicast push, and WebM live streaming — help unify users' streaming infrastructure while expanding reach to more media platforms and more screens. Wowza has previously announced IBC2010 previews for two other Wowza Media Server 2 features: enhanced monitoring currently offered in the Wowza for Amazon EC2 license edition, and upcoming support for Adobe® Flash® HTTP dynamic streaming.

Japan’s radio and TV group MBS was the first broadcaster worldwide to install a Calrec Apollo desk in an outside broadcast vehicle — specifically in the company’s recently refurbished audio Outside Broadcast truck. The new desk has been on air since March this year, covering transmissions from sports and musical events.

 At the production of the 16th X Games annual action sports competition, which featured more than 200 of the world’s best athletes competing in BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Rally Car and Skateboard, ESPN used a multi-node MediorNet installation from Riedel Communications onsite to distribute video signals between the different locations for the live event.

DVS is show casing the latest CLIPSTER® features at its booth no. 7.E25. Right on time for Europe's biggest industry event in Amsterdam , the DVS flagship is presenting new highlights for 3D workflows, such as depth grading, as w ell as support for Apple ProRes 422.