San Francisco Opera’s historic 3,006-seat War Memorial Opera House, opened in 1932 on Van Ness Avenue adjacent to City Hall, has just completed a technical upgrade to a complete Audio-over-IP infrastructure with two Lawo mc² audio production consoles and related I/O, unifying the theater’s audio production systems and bringing to completion a project with roots going back nearly 7 years.
 

NeuroMedia Software, a company specialising in audience measurement solutions for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) sector, has today launched NeuroMedia Analytics, a powerful new platform aimed at content providers to understand the behaviour of their audiences.
 

As part of its global growth strategy, the Riedel Group announces a strong, expanded management structure comprising of experienced leaders from within. Starting January 1, 2022, the Wuppertal-based company will be organized in three main divisions: The “Product Division” and “Managed Technology” business units will have Rik Hoerée and Lutz Rathmann as their respective new CEOs, with Riedel Networks GmbH and its managing director and CEO, Michael Martens, forming the group’s third division.
 

For over five years, Lawo’s V__matrix IP-broadcast core infrastructure ecosystem has allowed users to transform their installations into a flexible, future-proof production and/or delivery facility. Its C100 processing blades accommodate a wide range of software-defined video and audio workflows and also facilitate the transition to a fully IP-based environment with best-of-breed gateway functionality.
 

Nothing says live music is back more than the PYRO of a Green Day concert. This summer the multi-platinum selling punk idols teamed with fellow alt rock legends Fall Out Boy and Weezer for the Hella Mega Tour, a pandemic rescheduled globe trekking 50 date event across 2021 and 2022.

Obsidian Control Systems announces the newest addition to its extremely successful and rapidly expanding NETRON range of innovative data distribution devices. The NETRON EP2™ is a no nonsense, no compromise Ethernet to DMX gateway solution for the professional lighting and AV markets. Part of the NETRON family of easy-to-use EtherDMX nodes, it offers a high-value solution for any type of system that requires rugged hardware, flexible configuration and a reliable Ethernet to DMX gateway solution at an affordable price.
 

Harvest Media, the leading B2B platform for production music rightsholders, is now offering integration with TikTok, so that customers can provide music and monitor usage for their tracks on the popular platform.

In recent years, cinema cameras are becoming increasingly popular for live broadcast and live on tape productions of concerts and other entertainment shows. Fluid Pictures supplies moving camera platforms to many high-profile entertainment events around Los Angeles and its founder David Eastwood says around half of his assignments now involve cine style setups.
 

Today, Zero Density releases TRAXIS talentS, an industry-first AI-powered markerless stereoscopic talent tracking system that can identify the people inside the 3D virtual environment without any wearables. talentS is the first product of Zero Density’s new brand TRAXIS, with which Zero Density addresses the challenges of tracking and emphasizes its approach to open new doors and possibilities in virtual production. Deploying talentS makes beacons or wearables -talents had to wear to track their movement- obsolete, thus giving more flexibility and ease in moving in virtual studios.
 

JW Player, the leading video software and data insights platform, today announced that VUALTO, acquired in May 2021, is now fully integrated with JW Player. As a result, two offerings formerly provided by VUALTO are now available to JW Player customers: Broadcast Live (formerly VUALTO CONTROL HUB) and Studio DRM (formerly VUDRM). These integrated offerings enable broadcasters and other content owners with adaptable, scalable, secure and intelligent solutions for video orchestration and encryption.

Broadcast microservices specialists nxtedition has inked a five-year deal with KNR (Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa), the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation, which has chosen to maintain nxtedition’s end-to-end system as their primary broadcast solution. KNR first installed nxtedition as part of its new production infrastructure in 2017 and relies on it to deliver a futureproof workflow for streamlining all their broadcast, web, and social media production needs. 

Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) elected three experienced media executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms that begin in January 2022.
 

Opera “Rigoletto” as Arte-showcase for UHD HDR and Dolby Atmos 

The finale of the seventh season of Formula E, the FIA racing series for electric racing cars, took place at the former Berlin-Tempelhof airport in mid-August 2021. Aurora Media Worldwide from London was responsible for the live TV production. Bernhard Herrmann observed for us how more than 30 cameras captured what was happening.
 

Berlin was the political focus of national and international TV reporting. There was a lot of activity in the ARD capital studio to report live until late at night about the federal election in 2021 and two state elections. The ARD production management had called in almost all personnel and material to realize this live program. We had a look at what was happening from behind the scenes.