MTV has renewed its contract with Arqiva for the uplinking of two entire transponders. This provides distribution of MTV into Europe.

As pilot season winds down, everyone is waiting to see what new television shows will get the “green light”. To get the best look possible for new sitcom pilots, eight-time Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Donald A. Morgan, ASC, is many a producer’s first choice.

Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, announces the camera stabilizer system artemis DV specifically for DSLR filmers. It offers greatest stability, rigid torsion and avoidance of wobbeling while shooting.

Last month is was said that that 3D movies already accounted for 33 percent of the box office revenues this year and this was achieved by only four films. People are willing to pay more to see 3D, hence 3D content has more value than 2D content.

Snell today announced that its new Kahuna 360 received a Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit Award and a TV Technology STAR Award at the 2010 NAB Show. Launched at the show, the Kahuna 360 is a revolutionary production switcher platform that breaks away from the tradition of fixed M/Es, fixed resources, and fixed formats while supporting 16 simultaneous broadcast productions in a single mainframe — an industry first.

MovieTech AG further extends its range of products and services in the field of studio and stage engineering by adding a complementary company to its already held MTS Media Technical System company.

Always on the cutting-edge of broadcast meteorology, WSI (Weather Services International) Corporation, the leading provider of superior weather data and graphics systems for the majority of U.S. broadcast and cable networks, today announced that the broadcast division of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) has selected the weather solutions company as its vendor-of-choice for weathercast HD format enhancements in 17 of Gannett's 19 markets. In addition, Gannett is launching WSI's WeatherActive interactive mapping solution on its stations' locally-branded web sites.

Fox Sports successfully operated the first ever EVS sport graphics system, Epsio, fully integrated to the original LSM replay controller, for live inserts of a virtual offside line during the soccer match between Australia and Indonesia at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on March 3rd.

BMS Europe, one of the leading providers of wireless digital microwave technology, introduces the latest generation of innovative wireless video transmission solutions: NT Product Family.

Welcome to the future. The future is now. Gelsenkirchen has put on a show for the ages: A world record 77,803 fans came to watch Germany take on the U.S. at the opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship in Gelsenkirchen. Plazamedia produced the game for Constantin Sport Medien with the 3D specialists from TopVision. LIGA total! exclusively delivered the game live via its 50MB ready internet platform to their subscribers on channel 319 on the T-Home Media Receivers.

Canadian-based VeriCorder Technology Inc. announced the availability of 1st Video for iPhone, an advanced video editor designed for professional broadcasters and podcasters.

Hannes Arch of Austria came from behind to beat Nigel Lamb of Britain in dramatic fashion on Saturday to win one vital championship point with the fastest Qualifying time at the Red Bull Air Race in Rio de Janeiro in front of a record qualifying-day crowd of 400,000. Britain’s Paul Bonhomme, who still leads the overall championship, was a disappointing third on the high-speed, low-altitude 5,634-metre race track set up in front of Rio’s Flamengo Beach.

RCTI (Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia), one of the biggest TV stations in Indonesia, recently proved that ten years of hard work is no big deal for a grandMA lighting console! Their two grandMA full-size boards have been in active service over the past 10 years, starting on the show “Who wants to be a Millionaire”. The installation took their TV productions to a new level - for the amount of lights they are working with, power is nothing without control.

Solid State Logic is pleased to announce the installation of a 24+8-fader C100 HDS console with two 128 DSP Blackrock Processor Units in the OB Van for TRT Izmir. Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul, is home to Turkish Football League matches held at the 51,000 seat Izmir Atatürk Stadium.

Ross Video announced today a partnership with Bannister Lake Software Inc. Banister Lake will offer broadcast graphics solutions for the Ross Video XPression Character Generator and Graphics Platform.