wTVision provided graphics solutions to 4 TV channels, in Portugal, for the electoral night on the 5th of June. RTP, TVI, RTP Madeira and Porto Canal presented their viewers special elections programs with a broad range of interactive graphics in full screen, tickers, augmented reality functionalities and virtual graphics, besides the integration with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

wTVision provided graphics solutions to 4 regional channels, in Spain, for the May 22 electoral night. TV Galicia, Barcelona TV and Televisión del Principado de Asturias presented their viewers special elections programs, during more than 4 hours, with a broad range of interactive graphics in full screen, tickers and augmented reality functionalities, which came into fruition through a partnership between these broadcasters and the Portuguese software-house, besides the full integration with the official sources which feed the system with real-time results, something that all projects had in common. For 8TV, wTVision developed a more economic solution to display results during the electoral program.

Bow Tie television has been awarded the contract to televise the UK Parliament for the next 5 years.  The highly prestigious contract confirms Bow Tie Television's position as the premier supplier of this type of service in the UK.

At least two billion people worldwide watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on Friday, April 29 – with the most important pictures relying on Grass Valley™ production switchers, all of which performed beautifully and flawlessly.

Snell today announced that CTV, Canada's largest private broadcaster, chose Snell's Alchemist Ph.C – HD motion-compensated standards converters for the network's coverage of the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29.

ACS provided over twenty SMARThead™ remote head systems and camera channels supplying coverage for the BBC, Sky News and ITN, not forgetting the world’s media. An HD Cineflex V14 Stabilised Mount was also supplied and operated by ACS providing aerial coverage of the crowds and balcony scenes at Buckingham Palace. But it was perhaps within Westminster Abbey itself that our crew met their biggest challenge fulfilling the majority of the camera positions that were to broadcast the ceremony world-wide.

SENCORE, a leading provider of signal quality and video delivery solutions, today announced that its MRD 3187B receiver decoder was deployed by CBS News for its remote network coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29. Paired with a high-performance HD encoder, the MRD 3187B delivered MPEG-4 AVC compressed live HD feeds from London for broadcasts of "The Early Show" and "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

Chyron announced that MOOV, the graphics company of choice for leading broadcasters including BBC, ESPN, RTÉ, ITV, Sky Italia, and Channel 4, will be using two Chyron HyperX3 on-air graphics systems to provide graphics for the BBC's live coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine "Kate" Middleton.

BCE has a 30 years experience in video production and postproduction, creating adverts and films for many well known companies and institutions in Luxembourg and the rest of Europe. Following its involvement in the production of the first Sukuma Millenium Award in 2007, BCE continued its sponsorship and took part in the creation of this second commercial.

wTVision provided on-air graphics solutions for three different TV channels during the Portuguese Presidential Elections that occurred Sunday, January 23rd. This year, the focus of the various coverage was interactivity. Both RTP and TVI were looking for a powerful way to deliver their content where the anchor person had full control over what and when was shown to the public.

The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) welcomes the adoption of the non-binding, own-initiative resolution based on a report by Ivo Belet MEP on “Public service broadcasting in the digital era: the future of the dual system”. The co-existence of public and commercial broadcasters has so far ensured a great variety of choice to European citizens as well as the freedom of expression European media need in today’s challenging environment. The current process of digitisation has presented new opportunities, as well as challenges, for the media sector. All players should be able to compete equally.

Besides having 14 anchors, analysts and reporters on set in multiple studios in 30 Rock, the two networks continued its extensive use of virtual and touch screen technology.While the technology was new for many U.S. networks in 2008, the networks have had more time to learn and tweak, meaning a well rounded and polished look for this election.Unlike other networks, the technology, powered by Orad, worked. The iPad app didn’t fail. The real-time virtual graphics didn’t twitch.

Commercial broadcasters issued a vote of confidence in the future at the 3rd Annual ACT Conference today, where CEOs from all over Europe gathered to discuss the latest media developments with policy-makers. With viewing time for linear TV increasing for the tenth year in a row and reaching a European average of 222 minutes of TV viewing per person, per day, it is clear that television as a mass medium remains successful in an increasingly converged media landscape.

When responding to the Commission consultation on theGreen Paper on Creative & Cultural Industries presented by DG Education and Cultureearlier this year, the Association of Commercial Television in Europe welcomed the recognition of the creative sector as a central part of theDigital Agenda and the wider EU economy as laid down in the EU 2020 Strategy.

On 5th July, VSN's director and CEO, Jordi Utiel, took part in the signing of an agreement amongst the Government of Catalonia, companies of the audiovisual sector and telecommunications operators with the aim to start a trial run to boost Catalonia's Audiovisual Ring. As a result of the agreement, the signing parties will cooperate on the initial stage of this project by contributing resources and knowledge to develop the infrastructure, connectivity, services and applications that add value to the audiovisual field.