Satellite uplink and outside broadcast specialist, SIS LIVE, announces the launch of its brand new teleport facility at MediaCityUK in Salford. It is the largest broadcast teleport ever built in the north of the UK and confirms the company’s position as the leading provider of satellite facilities in Europe.

Vitec Videocom is supplying a range of its innovative products to equip the state of the art studios of the Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

International systems integration and full-service rental company, Broadcast Rental, has selected AXON’s modular signal processing, control & multiviewer monitoring technologies to form the backbone of Dutch broadcaster, NOS’ broadcast production facility at the Summer Games in London this July.

International broadcast rental, project solutions, systems integration and equipment sales company, Gearhouse Broadcast, has awarded a multi-million pound contract for system cameras to Hitachi Kokusai Electric Europe GmbH. The contract includes 22 SK-HD 1200 high-end multi-format 1080p/3G production cameras as well as three SK-HD 1500 HD Supermotion system cameras.

Transcoding specialist ATEME has won a first Middle East customer for its TITAN platform, in a deployment by content aggregator Intigral for both IPTV and OTT services in Saudi Arabia.

When Friedel Lux first delved into the subject of “high definition”, the program of public and private TV networks was still crackling away on the screens of bulky tube televisions.

Over 130 outside broadcast specialists including climbers, installation technicians and system operators will be fielded by Camera Corps during the major sports events taking place this summer in London.

Mediaset Spain, owner of the Telecinco broadcast station, has chosen a Clear-Com Eclipse-Median digital matrix and FreeSpeak® digital wireless system  to support communications at the company’s headquarters in Fuencarral, near Madrid, Spain. The company’s executives selected Clear-Com’s powerful matrix intercom and sophisticated digital wireless system to streamline communications during production of regular news programs, as well as reality and staged programming, in all six of Telecinco’s studios.

HSL supplied 24 Sharpy units to long term Chase and Status lighting designer Neil Carson of Enhance Production Ltd for the band’s UK Autumn 2011 tour, which culminated in the live video shoot at Brixton Academy. Carson’s show has since been submitted for a Knight Of Illumination Award 2012.

A Solid State Logic C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console, is driving the audio in the new HD facilities for Channel 5 Public Broadcasting (KNPB). In addition to local and PBS programming, the station is the only fixed uplink facility in the northern Nevada area producing  spot uplinks for the national news and business facilities, such as CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and FOX News. The C10 HD provides the features that fit KNPB’s production needs now, with the flexibility to handle new productions in the future.

The Norwegian Television School has replaced its existing stock of miniature microphones with 20 DPA 4060 omnidirectional miniature microphones, which were chosen for their ruggedness and reliability.

Presteigne Charter, one of the world’s leading broadcast dry hire and systems rental specialists, has chosen Custom Consoles Module-R studio furniture for a transportable international broadcast centre to be used for the televising of large-scale sports events in London during July and August. The contract, including a total of 150 19 inch wide desk bays, is the third of its kind to be placed by the company with Custom Consoles.

Arqiva has strengthened its presence in Italy by offering increased fibre connectivity into this popular market. An agreement with Telecom Italia Media Broadcasting (TIMB) has extended Arqiva's Network into TIMB's national broadcast network.

Leading Russian satellite broadcaster NTV-PLUS is planning comprehensive coverage of a number of major sporting events from London this summer. To meet its audience’s expectations, it has worked with Grass Valley™ to build a complete integrated production infrastructure based on the Grass Valley STRATUS™ Media Workflow Application Framework to control content workflows around server networks and editing facilities.

EVS, a leading provider of broadcast and media production systems for sports, news and TV entertainment, has announced that Brazil’s largest broadcaster, Rede Globo, has invested in EVS solutions for its HD studios in Sao Paulo and Brasilia. Globo has also chosen EVS solutions to equip its new HD truck, based in Rio de Janeiro.