MONTREAL – 8:00 BRST January 15, 2019– Brazil’s TV Cultura has selected Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to enhance its production workflow with a newly expanded playout infrastructure. The broadcaster is now equipped with more channels, higher resolution content and smoother integration – supporting its vision to deliver richer content to its viewers. Grass Valley installed its latest K2 Summit 3GTransmission Client media server, enabling TV Cultura to take complete control of live event workflows and broadcast applications, as well as facilitate the delivery of file-based infrastructure and high-performance file operations that run simultaneously. The server supports four channels for scalable audio ...

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, JANUARY 11, 2019 – Wisycom, designer and builder of the most sophisticated RF solutions for broadcast, film and live production, is pleased to announce a Wisycom USA Q&A party to reinforce the company’s U.S. presence, which was announced last year. The networking event, being held at Location Sound in North Hollywood on Friday, January 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., aims to strengthen the brand’s status among film and broadcast professionals. During the event, Jim Dugan, president of Wisycom USA, and Thomas “T.J.” Miesen, Wisycom Account Executive, will present demos of Wisycom’s latest portable wideband ENG ...

HEBDEN BRIDGE, UK, JANUARY 15, 2019 — In 2018, Calrec Audio generated serious momentum in the Japanese broadcasting market with the sale of 40 of its Brio audio consoles to a number of Japanese broadcasters. The customers are a mix of existing and new. The installations were provided by Calrec’s exclusive Japanese distributor, Hibino Intersound, which said the customers are using their Brios in a variety of ways, including for sub-mixing or as backup consoles. “Because Brio is a compact and less expensive console than others in its class, we’ve been able to penetrate the broadcast market here in ...

EditShare provides a foundation for maintaining rich historical film archive and supporting busy production schedule Basingstoke, UK — January 15, 2019 XCHARX EditShare® a technology leader in intelligent scale-out storage, AQC and media management solutions, announced today that global energy brand BP, has invested in the XStream EFS scale-out storage platform and Flow media asset management to manage the commissioning, producing and publishing of BP-related media projects. “In its 110-year history, BP has published more than 10,500 films, documentaries, commercials and corporate videos covering a diverse range of topics produced in a wide range of geographic locations all around the world. And until ...

EditShare provides a foundation for maintaining rich historical film archive and supporting busy production schedule Basingstoke, UK — January 15, 2019 XCHARX EditShare® a technology leader in intelligent scale-out storage, AQC and media management solutions, announced today that global energy brand BP, has invested in the XStream EFS scale-out storage platform and Flow media asset management to manage the commissioning, producing and publishing of BP-related media projects. “In its 110-year history, BP has published more than 10,500 films, documentaries, commercials and corporate videos covering a diverse range of topics produced in a wide range of geographic locations all around the world. And until ...

THURSDAY 10TH JANUARY 2019 – LONDON – Simplestream, the leader in live, live-2-VOD and on-demand OTT services, has strengthened its VOD in a Box technology with download for offline viewing and Chromecast integration across its mobile services. Today’s fast-evolving mediascape has propelled the high expectations consumers have for quality viewing experiences – anytime, anywhere and on any device. In its latest move to deliver this for its customers, Simplestream now provides Chromecast receiver apps, the flexibility to adjust download bitrates and custom retention periods; with complete video and audio download support on mobile- and tablet-supported OTT services. “TV is more ...

On Booth E50 at BVE 2019 (London) Crystal Vision will be showing its flexible IP platform, the MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware and the initial six software apps which run on it. These apps are IP gateways between SDI and SMPTE 2022 or 2110, and IP to IP translators which can make adjustments to IP flows and are ideal for use as a media firewall. Crystal Vision will also be showing its extensive range of modular interface and keyers for those planning SDI projects, including its popular chroma keyers, video delays and fail-safe routing switches. Crystal VisionXCHARXs IP products are software ...

Latest Baselight STUDENT release for professional and aspiring colourists now available [LONDON — 10 January, 2019]: Baselight STUDENT, FilmLight’s free macOS application, has been enhanced with the innovative and creative advances from the core Baselight v5 software. Baselight STUDENT v5 will allow those developing their skills as a colourist to have the full range of creative features, based on the same platform as every Baselight system. Central to this is Base Grade, which brings an innovative new approach to colour manipulation, imitating the way the human eye works. Together with Base Grade, users can combine other new v5 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Jan. 14, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced the availability of its 9992‑ENC series of HEVC/H.264/MPEG-5 encoders for openGear® frames. Designed for a variety of broadcast applications, the dual-slot card offers customized I/O options and extensive audio support for cost-effective contribution, distribution, ENG, IPTV, and OTT solutions. The 9992-ENC base model supports both MPEG-2 and H.264 (AVC), with low-latency 8-bit and 10-bit 4:2:0 encoding. For high-end contribution, optional license keys provide H.264 (HEVC) support as well as 4:2:2 encoding. The base model includes a 3G-SDI input that supports one signal up to 1080p60, but can be upgraded to ...

The biggest media company in the Republic of Belarus XCHARX The National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus XCHARX has selected Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, to launch the HD variant of its international satellite channel Belarus 24. TV channel Belarus 24 is building upon its decade-long relationship with Globecast with the launch of the free-to-air channel on Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD. The HD version was made available on December 1, with the SD variant continuing to be carried by Eutelast until January 1st, 2019. Belarus 24 is a Russian-language channel that offers a mix of ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) recently signed a multi-year lease agreement with LiveU that upgrades its fleet of hundreds of portable transmission units to LU600 HEVC for its newsgathering operations, ensuring the media company always has the latest bonded IP technology. The agreement immediately upgrades Sinclair stations spanning 80 production locations in the US to LiveU’s flagship model of HEVC field units featuring higher efficiencies, greater stability, increased reliability and the best video quality in low bandwidth situations. Sinclair has been a LiveU customer since 2011 and has grown with LiveU. The media group chose to upgrade its fleet of ...

THE COLONIE PROMOTES GRAHAM CHAPMAN TO EDITOR The Colonie has announced that Graham Chapman has been promoted to editor, continuing the Chicago-based postproduction company’s long tradition of nurturing extraordinary young talent and developing its next generation of editors from within. The Chicago Native joined The Colonie in 2013 as an assistant editor after a brief stint at Foundation Content. He advanced to senior assistant editor in 2017 and began the new year in the editor’s chair. Working under the mentorship of veteran editor Bob Ackerman for the last five years has provided him with the opportunity to hone his skills on ...

DALLAS – PrimeTime launched its newest LED light, the MSLED 10 XB2, a low-profile member of the SLED family. “The ‘SLED’ series instruments feature a unique system of dual lens optics, very different from panel lights or remote phosphor lights. The SLED dual lens optics combine a soft elegant wash of light with plenty of throw,” said Glen Harn, PrimeTime president. “Like all of our LED luminaires, the MSLED 10 is dead-silent, without a FAN. Our low-profile, high-performance MSLED broadcast studio lights have won the admiration of chief engineers and lighting designers for their high output and silent performance,” said Harn. ...

CP Communications’ Red House Streaming business unit will integrate Simplylive’s compact, all-in-one production technology into its multi-camera ProductionSTREAM solution New York, NY, January 11, 2019 — CP Communications, a leader in innovative solutions and services for live event productions,announces a new partnership with Simplylive, a specialist in automated live production, streaming and recording solutions. The announcement coincides with the official launch of CP Communications’ Red House Streaming business unit, which specializes in IP-based acquisition, production and distribution solutions and services for content creators. Simplylive’s ViBox all-in-one production technology will power video switching, graphics, instant replay, audio mixing and more for ...

Z-HD5500s provide superior results while helping audiovisual services group confidently take on increasingly high-profile video production projects Woodbury, NY, January 11, 2019 — The Collaborative Technology Services (CTS) unit at Iowa State University provides on-location video production, recording, conferencing and streaming services for departments, colleges, research centers and administrative units across the institution’s 1900-acre campus. When group’s projects began to outgrow the capabilities of its original equipment, it purchased Z-HD5500 studio and field production cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to achieve the ease of setup, consistent performance and visual quality they needed. Iowa State University is known ...

Session will also include content creatives from Marriott, Snapchat and AARP. NEW YORK CITY— At NATPE Miami, Alkemy X Executive Vice President of Television and Digital Content Andy Singer will lead a panel discussion on how forward-thinking brands are finding creative, new ways to connect with consumers by developing compelling content. Singer will talk with representatives from Marriott, Snapchat and AARP Media about the distinctive, breakthrough content they have produced to showcase their brands while engaging audiences in deep and meaningful ways. Titled Brands Powering Creativity, the session is slated for January 23rd at 2:45 PM in the Fontainebleau Miami ...

MELVILLE, N.Y. — Jan. 8, 2019 — Major U.S. sports venues are successfully using a new, single-point-of-control integration solution for graphics and production switching developed in collaboration between ChyronHego and Grass Valley, a Belden Brand. Designed for complex venue productions, this integration allows a technical director (TD) to switch shows with game-in-progress graphics delivered simultaneously to multiple displays. These include LED ribbon boards, scoreboards, and concourse/concession screens, all in a simple, repeatable manner. XCHARXBoth Grass Valley and ChyronHego have a decades-long tradition of broadcast technology innovation. It was just a matter of time before we got together to create synergy ...

SHELTON, Conn. — Jan. 8, 2019 — Teleservicios (TSV Rental), a digital film equipment provider in Colombia, has added a significant volume of Anton/Bauer mobile power systems to its rental inventory as part of a broader equipment upgrade. TSV RentalXCHARXs new Anton/Bauer products include more than 30 Dionic XT 150 14V Li-ion batteries with V-Mount, 10 Performance Dual V-Mount chargers, and Cine VCLX free-standing batteries together with Cine VCLX chargers. Based in Bogotá, TSV Rental offers a broad range of audiovisual services including ENG camera and equipment rentals to medium-sized TV stations, digitizing services for archiving, and playout services. Customers ...