Creating a world-class multi-room postproduction facility in the heart of historic Rome would be a challenge at the best of times. But when it needs to be built to the latest Dolby standards, before they have even been finalised, the challenge becomes exponentiallyharder. Fortunately for the combined teams of Studio Sound Service and Proaudio Construction who were faced with this situation at Fox Networks Group Italy, working closely with Genelec ensured that they could create a compatible and flexible electroacoustic system, able to cope with any deviations from the future official Dolby regulations.

12 months after its launch, Axon Digital Design’s Neuron Network Attached Processor is gaining significant traction amongst top broadcasters who are impressed by its ability to bridge the gap between legacy SDI and complex IP environments.

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced Charlotte van Bochove as Global PR Manager, effective August 1st. In her new role, van Bochove will manage Insight TV’s daily communications activities, working closely with external agencies to promote the Insight TV brand and produce even more channel growth across new regions.

Riedel Networks today announced the completion of its Miami Triangle Project, entailing the opening of a new point of presence (PoP) in Miami and the signing of a bandwidth update contract with Neutrona Networks for the Miami – New York – Sao Paulo circuit. The company also made public that it has once more been named as one of the world’s leading Managed WAN service providers by ISG, an independent technology research group.

NEP Connect (formerly SIS LIVE), the leader in critical broadcast connectivity, provided bespoke production solutions and satellite connectivity for the 106^th Tour De France bicycle road race broadcast daily on ITV4.  For 10 years, NEP Connect has worked in partnership with specialist producer and distributor of road and track cycling, Vsquared TV, to deliver onsite satellite connectivity and multi-camera studio presentation using a uniquely designed production vehicle to tackle the challenging route through the Pyrenees and Alps, covering 3500 kilometres over 21 stages.

Popular Irish singing group / boyband Westlife reformed and hit the road again this summer in what one of the most popular and successful reformation campaigns. The first UK arena leg of the Twenty Tour culminated in two phenomenal shows in Croke Park stadium in Dublin, packed with 170,000 wildly enthusiastic fans high on the adrenaline buzz of watching

their superlative live shows!

Stage Tec, the Berlin-based manufacturer of professional audio technology, has been working very successfully with its Chinese sales partner Stagetec Media Technology for many years. Since there is a growing market for Stage Tec products in China, the sales team has decided to enter into a partnership.

Following a technical upgrade of its Lisbon broadcast center with Lawo IP solutions, including V__matrix and VSM, Portugal’s leading private broadcaster SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação, an Impresa company) now boasts Europe’s largest ST2110 facility to date, with data streams traveling several kilometers. After only four months of installation, SIC’s production teams enjoy the major boost ST2110 and ST2022-7 have brought to their activities.

Litepanels' Gemini 2x1 Soft RGBWW and Astra 1x1 Bi-Color LED panels are lighting up the action for the popular "Dan Patrick Show," a syndicated radio and TV sports talk show hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. Produced by the AT&T Entertainment Group, "Dan Patrick Show" has installed 30 Gemini 2x1 Soft and 30 Astra 1x1 Bi-Color LED panels to light its new showpiece 20,000-square-foot production facility.
 

Westlife – arguably the most enduringly popular and successful boy band on the planet – are back with a massive BANG after a seven-and-a-half-year hiatus, with a brand-new production for “The 20 Tour” ahead of their much-anticipated new album, Spectrum. They are looking good, sounding great and have been entertaining sold out crowds everywhere with their solid and superlative blend of harmonic foot-tappingly catchy pop!

Ross Video will be attending the forthcoming IBC 2019 exhibition in Amsterdam in September and will be bringing the full range of Camera Motion System solutions to the event, including the all-new SkyDolly ceiling-mounted dolly that was launched at NAB Show earlier this year. Ross is also pleased to pre-announce the launch of version 5 of the SmartShell robotics control system, updated for IBC 2019 to include the new MotionDirector technology on all Furio robotics products.

Blackmagic Design today announced that Dutch hardstyle dance festival Defqon.1 relied on a live production workflow featuring the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 and ATEM 4 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K for Ultra HD live production.

MultiDyne Fiber Optic Solutions will bring its first innovations specific to video compression to international audiences for the first time at IBC2019, where the fiber transport leader will demonstrate its now-shipping MD9200 range of encoders and decoders. MultiDyne exhibits at Stand 11.D40 from September 13-17 at RAI Amsterdam.
 

NEW: Echo Pro 10G Thunderbolt™ 3 Dock
At IBC2019, Sonnet’s upcoming Echo™ Pro 10G Thunderbolt™ 3 Dock will make its European debut. Designed for pro video and audio users who need to copy files to and from multiple drives, the Echo Pro 10G dock features three USB-C ports plus three USB-A ports. Unlike all other docks — which connect all their USB ports to a single USB controller that functions as a hub, splitting bandwidth between them — the Sonnet dock is equipped with three 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 controllers, each supporting only two ports. This design enables maximum-speed file transfers between multiple high-speed USB 3.1 Gen 2 drives and a computer through a single Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) cable.
 

The hugely-anticipated FIFA eWorld Cup 2019™ kicked off with a bang at The O2 in London with 32 of the world’s leading players starting their path to global glory.