Oxygen DCT has launched a new service to help broadcasters and post production facilities re-align and maintain LCD picture monitors with the correct broadcast colourimetry.

Broadcast Pix™ today announced that the State Distance Education University (UNED) in Costa Rica is using a Slate™ 1000 video production systems at the heart of its new mobile video production unit, which is being used for distance education and other live productions.

Argosy has been appointed by Calibre UK to distribute its HQView, PremierViewPro and VideoExcel ranges of image processing, scaling and warping products to the EMEA broadcast and production communities.

ATG Broadcast will exhibit its full range of systems planning, design, installation, commissioning and post-installation support services on stand at BVE 2011 in London's Earls Court, 15-17 February. In addition to this ATG Broadcast will be debuting its broadcast products to the UK market, including the range of products from its sister company NTP Technology.

The Guild of Television Cameramen (GTC) returns to Broadcast Video Expo at Earls Court, London, 15-17 February. Exhibiting on Stand I-66, the GTC will be represented by Exhibitions Manager, Dudley Darby, and other GTC members.
Upcoming events include a GTC Workshop, 'Keeping Ahead of the Game', which will be held at Aerial Camera Systems in Godalming, Surrey, on Tuesday 11 January.

Chyron announced a new partnership through which the CGS Newschief system provides automated data feed services to the Chyron Channel Box. Integrated with the Channel Box channel branding and promo system, the CGS Newschief Data Feed system serves as a convenient central source for automated headlines, weather, sports scores and stats, stocks of local interest, and market indices. The Newschief system also makes it easy for Channel Box users to collect local data for automated on-air notification of school closings, weather alerts, election results, and high school sports scores.

CNBC, a leading pan-European business and financial television channel, has ordered a Miranda NVISION 8500 Hybrid embedded audio router with integrated audio processing, as well as another Kaleido-X multi-viewer, for its London-based facility.

Sonnet Technologies announced that its Qio™ professional universal media reader/writer was utilized at the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF). Bandwagon Media, a Dallas-based full-service media company, used the Sonnet Qio™ to ingest the footage from seven in-field cameras that recorded every event activity from question-and-answer sessions to parties and red carpet events. The content was then edited into event recaps and uploaded onto YouTube.

Effective December 14, 2010, Hanover-based DVS Digital Video Systems AG has been integrated into the Rohde & Schwarz group of companies. DVS, which was founded in 1985 and now has 110 employees, is a leading international manufacturer of hardware and software for professional film and video postproduction. "We are confident that this partnership will result in the transfer of valuable technology from the studio to broadcasting. Moreover, DVS will benefit from the international Rohde & Schwarz sales network", stated Jürgen Nies, Head of the Broadcasting Division at Rohde & Schwarz.

An ongoing collaborative technology development between Grass Valley™ and Panasonic Corporation has delivered seamless interoperability with Panasonic’s AVC-Intra compression format across Grass Valley’s complete line of HD media servers and editing products, streamlining a variety of content creation processes for an end-to-end video compression solution.

The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) today announced that the Asia/Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Malaysia's Tun Abdul Razak Broadcasting and Information Institute (IPPTAR) are joint recipients of the 2010 IABM Tom McGann Training Award. The ABU and IPPTAR are being recognized for a new series of training courses designed to prepare Asian broadcast engineers for the technical realities of today's complex broadcasting operations and to further develop skilled engineers to themselves become trainers.

Camera Corps, world leader in broadcast-quality remote cameras and tracking systems, announces the delivery of 25 Q-Ball HD/SD pan and tilt minicams to Australian broadcast service-provider Cutting Edge. This latest order increases to 36 the total number of Q-Ball systems Cutting Edge has purchased in recent months.

EVS Broadcast Equipment has appointed Maximilien d’Oreye as its Business Development Manager, and Quentin Grutman as its new EMEA General Sales Manager. They will both work at EVS Headquarters in Liege, Belgium.

GlobeCast CEO Olivier Barberot has announced that GlobeCast had a banner year in 2010, most notably in playout services, event coverage, and international content delivery. The year also saw GlobeCast land its first major deals for Media Asset Management (MAM), in conjunction with its subsidiary NETIA.

Bridge Technologies has announced a partnership with leading Baltic-states system integrator Hannu Pro. Based in Riga, Latvia, Hannu Pro represents more than 50 of the world's leading broadcast equipment and software manufacturers, and the company's portfolio now includes the VideoBRIDGE line of digital media monitoring products. VideoBRIDGE is the most comprehensive advanced headend-to-set-top-box monitoring solution available to broadcasters, telcos, and network operators.