Sky News has chosen Gekko LED lighting for its newsroom on the 15th floor of the 180 metre 'Gherkin' in London's financial district. The studio, which is used for the daily business update 'Jeff Randall Live', has as its backdrop a view directly through an exterior glass wall. Airing at 7.30 each weekday evening, the cameras have to contend with the setting sun as the rear outlook of the studio is due west. Care was taken to achieve camera positions which used nearby buildings to mask direct views of the sun but this can be hard to achieve consistently as the sun sets.

Hiltron Communications, one of Europe's leading providers of satellite and microwave communication equipment and systems, will be promoting its full range of services at Broadcast Asia 2010, Singapore, June 15-18.

Exhibiting on stand 8F2-03, Hiltron Communications offers complete satellite-uplink systems, VSAT systems, TVRO systems for cable head-ends or terrestrial retransmission, IPTV head-end systems, DVB-T encoding and multiplexing systems, and mobile microwave links.

Broadcast Pix™ will showcase three new products at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas, Nev., June 9-11 (Booth N2662). Granite™, the company’s new flagship product line, is an HD, 1080p-ready live video production system. The iPixPanel application allows an Apple iPad to control any Broadcast Pix video production system, while Slate Portable provides the productivity of a control room in a briefcase-sized package.

Haivision Network Video today announced the release of the new MB6 high-density six-slot chassis for the company's Makito™ HD H.264 encoders and decoders and Barracuda™ SD H.264 encoders. The new chassis affords the highest density available for 1080p60 H.264 encoding, housing up to six Makito encoder blades in a single rack unit (1-7/8 inch).

At this year’s AES Convention at London, German intercom and communication systems experts DELEC announce an interesting new installation. To meet the needs of multi-language sports productions, tv productioncenter zürich ag (tpc) from Switzerland, have installed the innovative oratis commentary system on several of their OB trucks.

At this year’s 128th AES Convention (London, May 22 – 25) German pro-audio specialist SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP introduces new configuration software to its NEXUS audio routing system. The software gives access to NEXUS configuration and enables users to change the Base Device configuration on an existing NEXUS network by themselves.

UEFA and Carlsberg today announced an extension of their long term sponsorship agreement for UEFA’s flagship national team competition, a relationship which began in 1988 at the UEFA European Championship in the former West Germany.

Early in May 2010, Shanghai Expo officially declared open – using a sound-reinforcement and announcement installation based on the NEXUS and C.A.S. 300 systems by Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup. This compact system comprises static, wired subscriber units and wireless modules plus an integrated solid-state digital audio player with pre-recorded announcements. It has been installed in the Zhejiang Pavilion and is the first C.A.S. 300 installation in China. The setup serves as the public address, stage-management and central control system.

Front Porch Digital, the global leader in migrating and managing media content, today announced an agreement whereby its DIVArchive(TM) content storage management (CSM) solutions will be sold in the Americas through Grass Valley(TM). The agreement in effect makes Grass Valley both a Front Porch Digital reseller and a technology partner, cementing a longstanding relationship between the two companies whose complementary technologies are already integrated and working successfully in name-brand installations, including the MLB Network and local ABC and CBS stations.

NewTek Europe - 3D Storm SARL has announced that NewTek TriCaster™ portable live production system was chosen to produce and stream “Dias de Moda”, a major fashion show host by El Corte Inglés in Valencia, Spain. From 4 to 7 may 2010, Spain’s famous department store opened its doors to some of the best local and international fashion designers featuring the latest collections of Francis Montesinos, Dolores Cortés, Carlos Haro, Liz Calibourne New York, Decenio, Armand Bassi and Gant Women among others. The four day event was broadcast, recorded and streamed by Spanish Broadcaster Levante TV (Grupo Editorial Prensa Iberica).

Under the name LighthouseLED on Twitter and Lighthouse Technologies Limited  on Facebook, people can find a wealth of information including announcements, press releases, photos and industry links.

The opening plenary session of the IBC2010 conference will feature an address by Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, on the future of public service broadcasting. The session also includes keynote addresses by Yoshinori Imai, vice president of Japanese national broadcaster NHK, and by Ingrid Deltenre, director general of the European Broadcasting Union. All three will be subject to questioning from leading media journalist and commentator Raymond Snoddy.

LiberoVision DiscoverEye provides eye-catching, realistically looking 3D replays and advanced virtual tools for sports broadcasts. Based on the existing TV images only, DiscoverEye can generate arbitrary virtual camera images in near pixel-perfect quality: All players look the same as in the real camera images, and smooth transitions between the real and virtual perspectives provide a unique experience. The computer generated, but realistic perspectives of DiscoverEye convey the sense among viewers that they are actually on the field with the players and “in the game”.
The system is available for soccer, American football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and rugby.
Besides the LiberoVision System, no additional hardware is needed in the stadium (e.g. no calibration heads).

Independent broadcaster ProSieben presented the final major winter sports highlight of the year where prominent ‘drivers’ raced their Chinese woks to win the world title.

NewTek is coming to a city near you, in what could be the world's smallest, high definition, live television production vehicle. Its mission: to bring the power of portable live production and streaming to school sports, and more. We've taken the capabilities of a live, HD TV truck that fits in a backpack, and packed it into a MINI Cooper®, then hit the road.