Sweden’s SVT and Infront will break new ground in remote production during its host production coverage of the FIS World Ski Championships 5-17 February when it sends 80 camera signals from the course via two 100 Gbps fibre circuits from Telia to three control rooms in Stockholm. Adde Granberg, SVT, director of technology, CTO, says the accomplishment at the World Ski Championships shows how far things have come since 2012 when SVT put remote production to the test for the London Olympics.

Åre Torg (Åre Town Square) is the main square during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019. Those who have already been to the village of Åre must have seen the huge House of Switzerland in the middle of the square – a nice home for Swiss visitors and staff as well as all others who would like to enjoy the atmosphere of Åre 2019.

The new Clear-Com® V-Series Iris Panels, which provide Eclipse HX users with low latency Audio-over-IP (AoIP) using AES67, are now shipping..The V-Series Iris panel can monitor and send communications over three concurrent AES67-compliant uncompressed audio IP streams, enabling systems to deliver high quality, uncompressed audio from intercom user to user with significantly reduced latency. When connected to Clear-Com’s new high-density E-IPA card, which is natively AES67 compliant, users can deploy up to 64 Iris panels per card. The Iris panel also offers fully user-configurable color OLED displays, providing the user label, tally and port information. EHX Supervisor Mode real time control allows label updates and monitoring on the fly.

Mediaproxy, a leading provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions will be showcasing its updated LogServer software suite for compliance, monitoring and analysis at NAB on its booth SU2802.

 

Monday, 4th February will see the official opening of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 in Åre with a ceremony in the Åre park located between Åre Torg (Åre Town Square) and Åre Station. The park will be transformed into an open-air stage – Medals Plaza – where the Championships visitors will be treated to the award ceremonies and a series of concerts in the course of the next two weeks.

TMELED is the equipment rental division of creative event and production specialists Time Matters Entertainment (TME) based in Plano, north Texas and headed by Randy Cline.Randy decided in the last year to make a substantial investment in over 50 Robe moving lights which were purchased from Robe North America, bringing Robe’s Tarrantula LED wash beams, MegaPointes, DL4F Washes, DL7S Profiles, LEDBeam150s and BMFL Blades, together with a RoboSpot remote follow spotting system and LightMaster kits which convert BMFL range fixtures into manually operated follow spots.

ATK Audiotek has selected JBL Professional’s VTX A12 and A8 line array speakers to deliver premium live sound reinforcement for upcoming primetime events, including the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the Grammy Music Awards Ceremony and the Screen Actors Guild Award Show.

When Richmond, Indiana-based public, education and government (PEG) access broadcaster Whitewater Community Television (WCTV) set out to improve the visual quality of their productions, they purchased three Z-HD5000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to achieve their goals. The resulting quality and outstanding sensitivity of the Hitachi cameras have WCTV staff hoping to add more Z-HD5000s in the future, and may save the station money on other planned studio upgrades by reducing lighting requirements.

Australian pop-punk band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) made their name as somewhat of a YouTube sensation, but rose to international stardom after touring with UK mega-boy band, One Direction, during their 2012 Take Me Home tour. 5SOS have since released three studio albums, headlining three world tours in the process. Their current Meet You There tour supports their 2017 hit record, Youngblood, and at stage left position, Pavan Grewall is working from his trusted DiGiCo SD10 console.  
 
 

Cobalt Digital today announced its new 9904-UDX-4K up/down/cross converter and image processor for openGear® frames is now shipping. Already installed in a select group of trucks and studio facilities, the dual-slot card provides an ideal hardware platform for Technicolor High Dynamic Range Intelligent Tone Management (ITM) software. This enables the use of current SDR infrastructure, reducing the need for new camera purchases and other capital expenditures to produce HDR footage.

Ross Video is today announcing that it will be launching a new virtual studio rendering solution at NAB 2019. This new solution will be based on Epic Game’s Unreal™ 4 gaming engine, bringing all the benefits of advanced rendering to broadcast and production Augmented Reality and Virtual Set (ARVS) systems. Ross will offer superior workflow tools and full end-to-end ARVS solutions, making it easy for organizations to enjoy the creative benefits of ARVS without sacrificing production efficiency.

Just like a tailor fits a bespoke suit to your body, Sommer cable offers you customized media technology that fits your individual applications and interior design requirements.
The company’s wide range of products, its long-time experience in the planning and project business and its membership in the HDMI® and HDBaseT associations facilitate to design tailor-made, fully networked media technology concepts with a clear budget and all components from a single source. Thus the implementation remains easy and time-saving, flexible, individually adaptable at any time and future-proof!

Pink continues her Beautiful Trauma World Tour with Claypaky Scenius Unico and Mythos 2 fixtures shining a light on the American singer’s extraordinary talents.  ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky lighting in North America.
 

K1/K2 delivers massive-yet-intimate sound for five-hour,
star-studded concert event
 

“I really enjoy the building aspect of it all. As a 1st AC, finding pieces that go together and making a camera build more and more efficient gives me the opportunity to have fun on every production I work on. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing your creation come to life, and for me, no better job than that of a 1st AC in this world.” - Brian Aichlmayr, 1st AC.