Successful broadcasters know that engaging, accurate weather reporting is the key to building and retaining a viewing audience. At NAB 2010, Weather Central will unveil its most complete solution suite to date, bringing together precise, real-time weather forecasting and modeling products with a complete set of tools to win with audiences on-air, online and on the go.

About a dozen of private radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland broadcasted the concert of Robbie Williams in Cologne live on 5th March 2010. Frankfurt-based Hit Radio FFH was in charge of the signal distribution and decided to use the fast and cost-effective solution with audio codecs over the available ISDN lines. Ten C1161 units have been supplied by MAYAH additionally to the station's own codecs for this event and were used to transmit the live audio with APT-X, MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG Layer 2 and Layer 3 (mp3) formats.

For its 10th anniversary, the 2010 annual Laureus World Sports Awards were this year staged in Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace. Hailed as the Oscars of the sporting world, the star-studded Laureus Awards is the premier recognition event to celebrate the world’s finest professional athletes of the year. Broadcast to a worldwide audience and profiling the top sportsmen and women, the event also raises money for children in poverty.

All Mobile Video (AMV), one of North America's foremost providers of video and audio production solutions and equipment, has chosen Telecast Fiber Systems' new CopperHead™ 3200 camera-mounted fiber optic transceiver as a key component in AMV's HD Tapeless Carrypack production system. AMV will be demonstrating the system in Telecast Fiber's booth (C8925) at the 2010 NAB Show.

Communitek Video Systems announces the Minicaster™, a high-performance, standalone encoding system designed specifically for live streaming of HD and SD content for Internet video broadcasts and IPTV applications. Offering real-time MPEG4/H.264, Adobe Flash™ and Windows Media™ encoding, this compact device is the perfect solution for live broadcasts from both field and studio locations. Applications include live sports and concert events, high-quality video conferencing for business, government and medical applications, as well as worldwide distribution of television and radio broadcasts over the Internet.

Orad, a leading provider of real-time broadcasting solutions, and Fx-Motion will be releasing this NAB 2010 their new robotic, all in one, virtual studio solution. With the new solution, a single operator can control during production both the virtual studio and all the cameras from the same user interface, saving considerably on operational costs.

Ross Video welcomes Robert Miller Consulting, LLC as a 3rd party consultant, specializing in finding creative solutions to the challenges facing the television industry today.

Neutrik’s story of success began in summer 1975 in a little workshop in Schaan, Liechtenstein. Today more than 750 highly qualified employees, from over 30 nations, work for Neutrik worldwide.

NewTek will host “Stream or Die: How to Capitalize on Portable Live Production,” an event bringing together top broadcast minds as they reveal the art and science of next-generation live production. The event will be held Tuesday, April 13 beginning with a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. PT, followed by the presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. PT at the Renaissance Hotel (adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center).

Looking to support its growing client base with the latest digital video production equipment, Studios A/S, a leading independent facility house in Copenhagen, has upgraded the control rooms of two of its main production studios with two new Grass Valley™ Kayak™ video production switchers – one HD and one SD .

Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, will debut its enhanced firmware update for its breakthrough Tempest®2400 digital wireless intercom system at NAB 2010 (Booth C6025). Tempest2400’s new firmware offers users three different modes of operation – normal mode, shared mode and split mode – each with exciting new feature sets, including the ability to connect unlimited numbers of BeltStations to one Tempest2400 base station.

Apantac LLC, designer and developer of high quality, cost effective multiviewers and signal processing equipment announces the launch and immediate availability of their new TAHOMA-LX series of Multiviewers with built-in Routing Switchers. They will be showcased at NAB 2010, Booth Number N4029 and are part of the award-winning TAHOMA platform of Multiviewers.

Utah Scientific today announced the extension of the Dot.Box family, a combined dual-channel master control and routing system that constitutes a complete, affordable solution for broadcasters moving to multichannel operation. The Dot.Box package, originally available with 32x32 and 64x64 router frames, has now been extended to include a 144x144 frame size. Both the Dot.Box 64 and 144 are wired for future expansion of inputs, outputs, and master control channels.

The Challenge: Engineer an audio system that is concealed in the stage and scenery while still providing exceptional sound quality for both live and broadcast audiences.

ADAM Audio, a world market leader in the field of professional monitoring and home speaker systems is announcing the expansion of the SX-Series at the prolight+sound 2010.