SIS LIVE, Europe’s largest outside broadcast (OB) and uplink supplier, provided 70 satellite uplink vehicles to the main UK broadcasters for their coverage of the UK General Election 2010 coverage. Uplink vehicles and SIS LIVE crew were deployed throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, giving the broadcasters unprecedented coverage of the main electoral battlegrounds. The number of SIS LIVE’s customers represented the whole array of broadcasting companies, including the BBC, Sky News, ITV, ITN, Five News and GMTV, as well as STV in Scotland, RTE in Ireland and Sky Italia.

Broadcast connectivity specialists SIS LIVE today announced that a total of 26 of its ‘ad-hoc’ SNG vehicles will be despatched for multiple UK broadcasters for live coverage throughout the day and into the night of the UK General Election on 8 June 2017.

National and international broadcasters relied on SIS LIVE yesterday to provide live coverage of the funeral procession of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

On 16th May outside broadcast and uplink specialist SIS LIVE supported the BBC in the creation of a special programme which paid tribute to the famous Dambuster’s raid which happened exactly 70 years previously. The same night in 1943 saw the launch of 19 Lancaster Bomber aircraft as part of Operation Chastise. This daring undertaking saw the first wartime deployment of the innovative bouncing bomb named ‘Upkeep’ which aimed to destroy German dams and hence flood the industrial heart of Nazi territory.

MediaCorp PLT Ltd chose EVS’ digital production technology to broadcast Singapore’s recent election. Singapore’s leading media company covers a wide range of platforms including TV, radio, magazines, movies and digital out-of-home media.

Two TV rental specialists — one operating in London and one in Glasgow — pooled their respective SGM inventories to great effect recently during the recent Scottish Independence Referendum.

The Belgian organisation CAP48 aims to change society’s view about the question of handicap (be it physical, mental or social) with enhanced integration. It strives to raise funds for the disabled in Belgium via activities such as an annual TV show, produced in cooperation with Belgian TV channel RTBF.

When the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Southeast Asia in 2004, rap-rockers Linkin Park endeavored to leverage their international fanbase to assist. Shortly thereafter, they founded Music for Relief: a charity that helps artists and fans connect to provide relief for natural disasters around the world. The organization’s vital mission is to mitigate and prevent the damaging effects of these disasters through environmental initiatives including forest preservation and tree planting. Linkin Park has remained instrumental in raising funds for Music for Relief, and recently worked with Sennheiser to provide several SKM 2000 wireless handheld transmitters with MME 865-1 capsules for an auction fundraiser – including some autographed by the band.

“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company [Apple computer]. So then I got a call from him, saying we don’t have to worry about money no more. And I said, that’s good! One less thing.”

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) welcomes a move to shelve the privatization of its Portuguese Member RTP, but urges Lisbon to prioritize the quality of the broadcaster’s output in its planned restructure.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that simplify the transport of live video and real-time data across remote or mobile IP networks, has announced that Dutch broadcaster, RTL Nieuws, will be covering tomorrow night’s US election results from a studio in New York in a special four-hour long live show, using Dejero’s compact and mobile LIVE+ EnGo to transmit video and audio back to the Netherlands.

RRsat has progressively developed a fleet of 11 SNG trucks. The trucks are based at various locations across Israel, enabling them to quickly reach any site in the country. Currently one HD SNG Mobile is located at Ashdod port.

The recent abdication of Queen Beatrix on April 30th made way for her son, Willem-Alexander, to become King of The Netherlands. The occasion was marked by a grand ceremony that was broadcast live by Dutch national broadcaster NOS, as well as being relayed to many other countries, and also by a special concert from Dutch violin superstar, André Rieu.

To cover the groundbreaking elections in October, Georgian Public Broadcaster - the national public broadcaster - installed a virtual studio with augmented reality graphics.  To make their production a reality, GPB used Ross Video, a solutions provider for augmented reality and virtual sets.  The Ross solution includes a CrossOver Compact Production Switcher, openGear Terminal Equipment, Furio Robotic Camera System, and XPression Real-Time Motion Graphics combined with UnReel’s Xperience UX Software.  Ross partner, Dutchview Prographics, developed the election graphics and helped with the implementation.

The Coronavirus pandemic may have dominated 2020’s news cycles, but the US Presidential election was a close second in terms of coverage, with news channels in the USA and around the world following the build up to election day and the controversial aftermath. Now that the election has been decided, the team at Rocket Surgery, Ross Video’s in-house creative services division, can pause and reflect on their work during the campaign.