British digital console manufacturer DiGiCo makes its first appearance at BVE London on Stand C2 at London’s Earls Court from 14-16 February 2012, where it will show its new broadcast specific SD7B, SD10B and SD11B.

Midas Studios, one of the largest studio complexes in Brazil, has recently enhanced its Studio 3 Mastering/Pre-Production Room with a Solid State Logic AWS 948 SuperAnalogue™ Console/Integrated Controller.

When Valve Software Lead Sound Designer Dave Feise needed to capture the dynamic sound effects for Portal 2, the most anticipated video game of 2011, he turned to Sound Devices 788T digital audio recorder.  Effects for the game were compiled at multiple locations for more than a year, and included such sights and sounds as water balloons in the Valve parking garage, birds at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo and wave sounds and whale songs in Hawaii.

During the 23rd Corporate Media Night which took place on 3rd December 2011, BCE received the Award of Excellence for its advert video production “Murphy’s Law” for Lalux, the insurance company based in Luxembourg.

Digital Rapids announced the release of version 3.7 of the Digital Rapids Stream™ software for the company’s StreamZ™, StreamZHD™ and Flux™ encoding and live streaming solutions.

The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) today announced that it has conferred honorary memberships upon Mike Martin, chairman of the IBC Partnership Board, and Larry Kaplan, Omneon co-founder and today a member of the executive management staff of Harmonic. The award recognizes their exceptional personal contribution to the supply side of the broadcast media and technology industry, as well as their companies' ongoing support of the IABM and its activities.

Bournemouth University has been named as the first UK Accredited SADiE Training Establishment as part of a new scheme launched by SADiE to improve training for students using its editing equipment.

Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) has joined forces with Abu Dhabi media and entertainment hub twofour54 to provide HCT students with opportunities to develop skills and careers in the local media industry, with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Agreement.

Snell today announced that Independent Television (ITV), a newly launched 24/7 satellite news channel in Bangladesh, has built its live news infrastructure around the Snell Kahuna SD/HD multi-format production switcher.

Irish Outside Broadcast facilities company Television Mobile Ltd, based in County Cork, have purchased three SoundField UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors for use in two of their five-strong OB fleet.

Blackmagic Design announced today that Tinopolis Group, the UK’s largest independent media group, used a Blackmagic Design Universal Videohub 288 to broadcast the 2011 Rugby World Cup, held in New Zealand, across Wales. Tinopolis Group also incorporated a wide range of Blackmagic Design’s OpenGear Converters and Mini Converters to support their HD infrastructure used in broadcasting the games.

The mobile facilities company Jackshoot is the first to deliver TV rushes over the KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications in order to bring the programme ‘Live and Lost with Blackberry’ to the UK’s Channel 4 television station and YouTube.

With decades of experience as a guitar tech, working with notable acts such as Prince, Timbaland and Edwin McCain, Geno Bishop has upgraded the progressive heavy metal sounds of Queensryche with HARMAN’s AKG WMS 4500 wireless microphone system.  Working with the band’s lead guitarist Michael Wilton, Bishop integrated AKG’s wireless solution into the band’s equipment rack after numerous technical issues stemming from previous transmitters.

Leading broadcast equipment rental company HotCam has provided two Canon XF305 shooting kits for Big Earth Productions’ latest adventure travel series ‘Charley Boorman's Extreme Frontiers’.

AmberFin and ATG Broadcast have today announced an expansion of their UK channel partnership agreement to encompass the Middle East region. ATG Broadcast, which has been AmberFin’s channel partner in the UK since early 2011 is opening a new sales and support office, ATG Broadcast Middle East FZ-LLC in Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE enabling them to promote AmberFin in the UAE, Lebanon and Qatar.