In the international Outside Broadcast (OB) market big is not always most beautiful. From its state of the art design and manufacturing centre in Istanbul, Hitachi Kokusai Turkey (HKT) has developed a range of compact and versatile OB vehicles that provide a range of highly cost-effective production solutions.

In the history of Olympic broadcasting, CTV’s production was unique. The incredible number of hours broadcast was unprecedented. The production model had never been used before. In the end it was an overwhelming success. The number of viewers had never been seen before in Canadian broadcasting. It has become a defining moment in Canadian Television history.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation, has just consolidated all its television, radio and media programming into one mega-facility. The newly-built DR Byen complex in Cophenhagen is made up of four buildings spread over 133,000 square meters.

3D TV has generated a tremendous amount of interest in the industry following the latest enormous success in the movie theatre. Compared to the “3D crazes” of the past, advances in camera, delivery and display technologies make it possible to effectively deploy 3D TV to the home. Over the past year, a number of broadcasters have announced the launch of dedicated 3D channels and many more will inevitably follow. In addition to providing dedicated linear and on-demand channels of 3D content from Hollywood, broadcasters are differentiating themselves by their ability to provide coverage of live sporting and cultural events in 3D.

uPod Micro is a feat of design and engineering developed in response to a specific market need. The ultimate portable uplink system has proved an instant hit for a wide range of applications. The uplink system comes in a range of sizes from 0.75m in diameter through 1.3m, all of which are lightweight at under 23kg each and are compliant with the package size regulations set out by the IATA. Crucially, they can be loaded as normal baggage on aircraft.

Launched at last year’s IBC, Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 wireless system has since become an integral part of the broadcasting, theatre and live audio worlds. The high-end solution is the first digital wireless system that can work without compression, transmitting full HD audio. We take a look back at what we’ve achieved together with our customers in a year of pristine audio transmission. It’s a journey featuring top events such as Eurovision, global superstars like Leona Lewis, renowned theatres, and national broadcasters. And this is only the start…

Blackmagic Design’s Teranex 2D Processor played an integral role during DreamHack Summer in bringing the gaming and digital experience to life for over 20,000 visitors, 10 million stream starts and 2.5 million unique viewers of the international digital festival.
DreamHack Summer 2013 continued the festival’s reputation for breaking records. As well as holding the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest LAN party, June’s event achieved the most viewing hours per user ever, with over 10 million stream starts and 2.5 million unique viewers over the weekend across a range of channels including national broadcast, live performances and online content.

Celebro Media specialises in live production, providing studio space, galleries, uplink facilities, staff and everything required producing and transmitting live content. The rapidly growing studio facility has five studios at its central London location with further facilities in Moscow. By Autumn 2017, Celebro Media will have completed works on an additional five studios in London and two in New York. Also, its has recently begun trials of a new OB service that allows multi camera switching down a single transmission line. The service is currently being offered to international broadcaster on a trial basis.

EPC required a system that could be built and tested within three weeks of the initial contract agreement, ready for use at the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, with editors and producers fully trained in this time. The ability to integrate GoPro files was also a key consideration for EPC when selecting a system as a lot of footage comes directly from GoPro cameras fitted in the rally cars themselves. And finally, the system had to have easy handling of HD material and quick time-to-air as EPC would be shooting the season’s programming entirely in HD with a very short turnaround time between rally heats. Quantel’s Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround production system was selected as the winning tender, successfully meeting EPC’s key criteria.

2016 has without a doubt been a year of significant growth for ES Broadcast, not only for the sales division, but in all areas of the business. There have been a number of additions to the team over the last 12 months, across all departments, securing the company’s ability to expand into new aspects of the broadcast market, maximising the services we are able to offer to our growing list of valued customers.

Hudson defines "bandwidth disparity" as the new image formats and production requirements that are rapidly pushing past what is feasible for a modern, 3 Gbit/s serial digital interface (SDI) to handle.
 
All this has occurred in about eight years since SMPTE first published the single-link 3G-SDI standard, SMPTE ST 425M/ST 424M, which experienced rapid and widespread adoption as the broadcast industry's preferred, realtime, streaming media interface.

The sports broadcast scene in Europe is hotting up, and new entrants acquire rights and launch new channels in the competition for viewers with this lucrative genre. In France, beIN SPORT launched last year, and BT Sport has launched in the UK this year. To set up the broadcast operation, Al Jazeera turned to Unitecnic, a broadcast engineering and systems integrator based in Barcelona, with offices in Madrid, Lisbon, Miami, Buenos Aires and Dubai. Unitecnic is a business unit of MediaPro, part of WPP’s Imagina Group.

Facility House Broadcast Group is the Netherland’s newest full-service facility management company for the television industry and already one of the most highly respected providers in their home market. Facility House offers video, film and production services from news to documentaries, from pop to classical, from reality to drama and sports to education for all ENG recordings any video standard.

SPEED is America’s premier cable television network dedicated to motor sports and the passion for everything automotive. From racing to restoration, motorcycles to movies, autos to auctions, Speed delivers quality programming from the track to the garage. Speed is the home to Nascar on Speed, Formula One racing and popular shows like “The Speed Report,” and “Wind Tunnel.” Speed reaches more than 78 million homes in North America and has a strong following on speedtv.com. Speed also provides content for interactive TV, broadband, video on demand, and mobile devices.

“There are three words that sum up my use of Fujinon Cabrio zoom lenses perfectly – quality, speed and time”, says 8 Days a Week owner Borće Damćevski who, in his role as a respected DOP, is well known for his extensive work shooting promos and TVCs for high profile brands including L’Oreal, Nestle, Ford, Nissan, Disney Australia, X-Factor and My Kitchen Rules amongst others.