Grass Valley is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Gardner as Vice President of Sales for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. With a career spanning over 25 years in the media industry, Mark brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of managing high performance teams regionally and globally and implementing new direct and indirect sales initiatives across an array of technology solutions and market segments. 

Blackmagic Design announced that “Take Off,” a reality TV game show based and shot in Luxembourg, was produced using an acquisition, control and delivery solution based on the ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher and DaVinci Resolve Studio for editing and color correction.

Lawo is gearing up to unveil its latest innovations at the prestigious NAB Show 2024 in Las Vegas. Attendees visiting Lawo's booth, C4110, will be treated to a showcase of groundbreaking products and solutions, highlighting Lawo's unwavering commitment to driving excellence in the broadcast, AV, and corporate sectors.

Innovative Production Services, a leading provider of cutting-edge event production and OB solutions, has announced the acquisition of the state-of-the-art Lawo mc²36 audio production console for their 4K ONE Outside Broadcasting (OB) Truck. This strategic investment underscores Innovative Production Services' commitment to delivering unparalleled production experiences for live events, concerts, and broadcast productions across Australia.

Prague’s Czech Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra has broadened its global footprint in recent years by transforming the Rudolfinum concert hall, where it performs, into an international stage via live video broadcast and streaming technology. Rudolfinum Technical Supervisor Dušan Bajtoš is responsible for the venue’s production workflow, which supports concert broadcasts and streams to European Television channels Czech TV, MEZZO TV, ARTE, and European Classical TV; social streaming platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Meta; and many other distribution points. To ensure the highest quality experience across viewing platforms and device types, he opted to produce concerts in UltraHD HDR end-to-end and has come to rely on a host of AJA equipment for execution.

Bitcentral, the provider of award-winning efficient media workflows for broadcast and digital video, today announces its partnership with Argoid AI, a leader in personalization technology. Bitcentral’s award-winning ViewNexa™ solution will harness a cutting-edge, AI-driven recommendation engine to provide customers with more tailored and engaging viewing experiences that drive business growth and greater monetization potential.

The Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL) at the UK’s University of Huddersfield is an experimental hub created to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of human auditory experience, and provides perceptually-motivated solutions to audio engineering problems. Opened in 2013, its critical listening room has always relied on Genelec, and a recent upgrade to Genelec’s ‘The Ones’ Smart Active Monitors is supporting further advances in research.

AJA Video Systems today announced that media and entertainment (M&E) industry veteran John Miller has joined its team as Vice President of Global Sales. In the role, Miller will guide international sales teams across the AJA product lines, leveraging three decades of experience growing revenue for software as a service, media asset management, and integrated hardware and software development companies like Vizrt Group, BeBop, Brightcove, Avid, and Autodesk.

Frédéric Fiévez ascends to COO of BCE, entrusted with leading operations and services development to align with BCE’s strategic vision.

Ikegami Electronics announces the delivery of 27 UHK-X700 4K-UHD HDR camera systems to a leading Iberian public service television network. The project was completed in three groups. The first two, totalling 18 cameras, were provided for mobile production applications controlled from OB trucks. The third phase comprised nine additional cameras for studio productions at the broadcaster’s headquarters.

TVU Networks,  a prominent global leader in cloud and IP-based live video technologies, has today unveiled TVU MediaHub™, their latest ground-breaking solution. This cloud-driven platform is poised to transform the broadcast industry with its unmatched versatility and efficiency in managing video signals in both IP and SDI environments.

Home to around 250 independent studios and businesses, TYX Studios is the heart of the vibrant Tileyard creative business community. Its two premium Signature Studios, the Red Studio in London and the Cotton Mill Studio in Wakefield, have recently upgraded their monitoring solutions to Genelec’s The Ones.

For the production and recording of the eleven shows of Ninja Warrior Germany 2023, RTL Germany undertook considerable effort. After a break for dinner, another briefing took place at Stage 2, while the technical repositioning of cameras and cranes to the Main Mall occurred simultaneously. A video technician in a wetsuit and with diving goggles set up four GoPro cameras in underwater housings, equipped with fresh batteries. The cameras were then started, and the technician entered the water-filled basin of the last obstacle, "Water Walls," to attach the cameras to the mounts on the transparent plastic walls.

n live event production, preparing for the unexpected is critical, whether a small codec or frame rate issue throws off the chain or a larger problem arises. Boulder, Colorado-based BCC Live finds opportunity in these challenges. While its roots may be in IT, the company has quickly evolved into a live production powerhouse, helping organizations like IRONMAN, Rock n Roll Marathon, and others deliver broadcast quality coverage of niche sporting events and conferences to global audiences. BCC Live President and Event Technician Dave Downey attributes this success to a smart, passionate team dedicated to tackling the most ambitious broadcast and live stream projects for international clients. To support a broad range of encoding/decoding demands, BCC Live invested in an AJA BRIDGE LIVE IP video workflow bridge.

Broadcast Solutions, one of Europe’s largest media systems integration groups, in collaboration with leading broadcast facilities provider NEP Germany, has designed and implemented a complex and innovative remote production environment for the new sports network Dyn Media. NEP Germany will operate it as a managed service for Dyn.