NEP Group, the leading worldwide technical production partner supporting premier producers of live sports and entertainment, announced today that Jeff Hughes has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Effective immediately, Hughes will be responsible for helping the company increase idea sharing across its businesses and expanding NEP’s capabilities as it embraces the future in a rapidly changing industry. The COO role is global and covers all of NEP’s operating segments: Broadcast Services, Media Solutions and Live Events. Hughes will be based out of Los Angeles, California and report directly to NEP’s CEO, Brian Sullivan, as a member of the executive team.

Three key live music venues in New York City managed by The Bowery Presents – Brooklyn Steel, Webster Hall and most recently the Mondo Award-nominated, 2800 capacity Terminal 5 in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan – all feature Robe moving lights in their house rigs. The lights have been specified by Luciano Savedra, head of lighting for The Bowery Presents which is the East Coast regional partner of AEG Live and owns and operates a diverse mix of venues across NYC and in other major metropolitan centers. At Terminal 5, where Luciano also oversees and runs the lighting day-to-day, the 12 x MegaPointes and 12 x Spiider LED wash beams have greatly added to the flexibility of the existing lighting rig. The lights were supplied via BML-Blackbird.

For the first time in its history, IBC will present its highest award, the International Honour for Excellence, not to a single individual or organisation, but to the news broadcasters of the world. The award comes in recognition for the key role journalists have played in educating and informing audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, while operating under extremely challenging conditions. The award will be presented in a livestream on Friday, 11 September at 13:00 BST, with access available via the IBC Showcase.

Join the worldwide Broadcast Solutions team and be part of the spearhead of the broadcasting community for an in-depth look at the future of Media & Broadcasting during a three-day hybrid event.
 

3-5 November 2020 

You probably all know our well-established Broadcast Innovation Days event series, but with this hybrid version, Broadcast Solutions makes it possible to meet and share knowledge and, at the same time, follow the rules of distance. We take the responsibility to protect visitors and our employees in our offices and facilities very serious.

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• 5G Remote Production
• TV Delivered as Objects
• AI Assisted Shot List Creation of Video Assets
• AI in Live Content Moderation
• CG Animation Production: New Immersive & Real-Time Workflows
• Usable VFX Archive
• Virtual & Interactive Live Music Talent Show

Sony continues to bring to market new offerings for every type of broadcast production. These allow producers and media companies to work effectively and safely in tight spaces or work remotely, leveraging the best of a team’s expertise and creativity.  Over the past few months, agile and more streamlined production workflows have quickly become the norm, with the media industry adapting to fewer or no on-site staff and the need to be able to produce from home settings, instead of studios. This has created an acceleration of the migration towards automated and distributed productions, which depend on connected and scalable technological solutions.  

On September 1, 2020, the 2019-20 Men's Volleyball Super League finals ended at the Qinhuangdao National Sports Training Center. The Shanghai Men's Volleyball Team defeated the Jiangsu Men's Volleyball Team with score of 2-0 and won the championship for the sixth consecutive year. This is also the 16th championship of the Shanghai Men's Volleyball Team. This season's men's volleyball league played the first round on January 19, and it came to an abrupt suspension because of the epidemic. It was not until August 20 that the game was rekindled at the Qinhuangdao National Sports Training Center. Drawing on the successful experience of the CBA and Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL), the men's volleyball league this season has also adopted a closed game system and an empty field for the needs of epidemic prevention and control.

KBS Hall is located in Yeouido, Seoul in South Korea and is best known for hosting a variety of music and concerts performances by both Korean musicians and international guest. The concerts and shows are broadcast live and also recorded for later broadcast. The audio is managed from a control room at the rear of the hall.

How do you make two people thousands of kilometers apart appear side-by-side in a virtual studio instantaneously? Teleportation technology. While it may sound like science fiction, Vizrt regularly brings people together from separate locations across the globe with help from a pair of Matrox® Monarch EDGE 4K/multi-HD encoder and decoder devices when producing its own VizrTV online series. The Monarch EDGE encoder and decoder pair alongside Vizrt’s software-defined visual storytelling tools for broadcasters allowed Vizrt to ‘teleport’ resident experts Chris Black, Vizrt’s Norway-based Head of Brand and Content Team, and Gerhard Lang, Vizrt’s Austria-based Chief Technology Officer into a virtual studio in Vomp, Austria – along with guest experts from anywhere in the world. With the ability to seamlessly execute both remote and cloud-based productions during different episodes, the Monarch EDGE has become Vizrt’s go-to broadcast-quality encoding and decoding appliances for delivering low-latency, strikingly-realistic virtual interviews.

The first major awards show in the US to be broadcast since the pandemic was held Sunday, August 30, when the socially distant MTV Video Music Awards were telecast from New York City. XR Studios selected the disguise xR workflow, powered by the latest disguise gx 2c media server, as the show’s central technology hub.

“The project was successful on a level of scale in terms of the size of the stage, the number of Stype-tracked cameras and the ambitious number of live performances and awards presentations,” says JT Rooney of Silent Partners Studio, who worked together with XR Studios to deliver the complex show in Extended Reality.

Quiz show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” has been a TV favourite – and sometimes talking point – for years. For the 2020 Israeli edition, broadcast on Channel 12, lighting designer Ofer Jacobi was asked by producers July August Production to light the show again, 20 years after the last time he’d done so, which was the first roll out in Israel. Ofer was absolutely delighted to be working again after the coronavirus pandemic has all but shut down the entertainment and production industry worldwide! This time, he specified a Robe moving light rig and worked closely with set designer Oren Hanan and show director Amir Ukrainitz at Mizmor Petah Tikva Studios about 10km east of Tel Aviv.

Ideal Systems are now offering DTEN’s new all-in-one Zoom Room video conferencing device as a rental service in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, with more countries coming online soon. The new service is targeted at Business’s, Schools, Universities and Government Departments who want to be able to roll out and easily manage Zoom Rooms in the current times of travel restrictions and social distancing. The new service offering from Ideal Systems offers free delivery of the DTEN device, installation and set-up of the Zoom Room including integration to the users Outlook or Google Calendars for zoom call scheduling and room booking.

Suzhou in China is one of the fastest growing major cities in the world, situated just 100km west of Shanghai on the lower Yangtze River. It boasts many interesting historic and modern attractions, not least its latest nightclub, the 800-capacity Vela, which opened its doors in December 2019.
 

The world is changing at a breakneck pace and IP video has become more important than ever. Teradek’s latest line of Prism 4K HDR encoders and decoders make it more affordable than ever to upgrade your IP video workflow to the cutting-edge.
 

With Covid-19 lockdowns worldwide and health authorities urging people to self-isolate and practice social distancing on a massive scale as part of an enormous effort to #FlattenTheCurve of this global pandemic … we are reaching out to industry friends, colleagues, associates, partners, etc., and asking them to share their #StayAtHome and #QuarantineAndChill activities with us during this extraordinary time.