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 .

For the past 13 years, NDR’s Ü30 OB van has handled the station’s radio broadcasts, primarily working on classical concerts. On board: a Lawo mc80. Now, the vehicle is due to be replaced by a new Ü30, whose centrepiece will be a mc²66 – once again from Lawo.

Austria’s Hannes Arch won the first point of the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship by posting the fastest time in Qualifying on Friday ahead of Saturday’s season opener in Abu Dhabi. Defending champion Paul Bonhomme of Britain made a thrilling dash to try to beat Arch and snatch the one point away from his rival but hit an Air Gate at the end of his run and ended up a disappointing third. Britain’s Nigel Lamb got second while Australia’s Matt Hall took fourth.

MultiDyne, a premier provider of fiber optic-based video and audio transport and routing solutions for broadcast and pro A/V applications, will introduce a new LiGHTBoX® 3D field fiber transport system at this year’s NAB (Booth C7637). With the explosion of 3D in the broadcast industry, MultiDyne has re-configured its popular LiGHTBoX solution to serve this growing market.

wTVision's World Cup Studio CG is a solution with dedicated controller software to manage, edit and control the graphics you need to cover the World Cup in every detail.It comes prepackaged with FIFA’s Official graphics for right holders or an exclusive look & feel designed by wTVision for non-rights holders.

The HD-3500 fiber optic transceiver supports a multirate 3.0 Gbps HD-SDI video signal with capability for four analog audio or two AES audio channels. The system also supports bidirectional stereo audio for intercom with bidirectional RS-232 and RS-422 data capability.