Radio companies and their sales houses are this year again celebrating World Radio Day and inviting the industry to (re-)discover radio/audio; an efficient and fully digitally transformed medium and its core strengths.

VI Rental, the UK-based rental division of the Visual Impact Group,  used the Panasonic AV-HS410 Live Switcher in the Guinness World Record attempt to produce the ‘World’s Fastest DVD Release’.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) announced its rankings of the Top Teleport Operators of 2010, providing a unique look into the diverse teleport sector of the global communications industry. Rankings are reported in three categories: the Independent Top Twenty, the Global Top Twenty, and the Fast Twenty.

The world's biggest song contests – not just Eurovision but also Melodifestivalen (“Melody Festival”), the momentous annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio – both rely on CAST Software's industry standard pre-visualisation suite wysiwyg for their world-class production designs.

The Focus FS-T2001 is the next generation media recorder from VITEC.  Designed from direct input of the broadcast/production community, Focus FS-T2001 is dedicated to both Electronic News Gathering (ENG) and Electronic Field Production (EFP) applications.

Locally owned Five/Four Productions, Ltd. announced that it has successfully captured the world's highest resolution audio recording. Five/Four Recording Producer Thomas Moore, Recording Engineer Robert Friedrich, and Assistant Engineer Ian Dobie travelled to Worcester, Massachusetts to record Joseph Haydn's masterpiece Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) Hob XXII:11, and Symphony No. 102 in B flat major Hob. I/102, with Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque in the world-renowned acoustic of Mechanics Hall. The recording is tentatively planned for release in October, 2013 on the Linn Records label.

At NAB 2014 British manufacturer Bradley Engineering revealed what may be the world’s smallest CCU receiver giving full camera control for a broadcast camera. Bradley’s RD 12, a Radio Data product, is an ultra-thin CCU control unit for Sony, Ikegami, Panasonic and Bradley cameras. At only 100 grams it is the smallest of its type, and possibly the smallest and lightest in the world.

VIENNA, Austria – The Wiener Konzerthaus, one of Austria’s most famous and prominent concert halls, recently installed two Soundcraft Vi digital consoles as part of an equipment upgrade. The consoles were sold through Kain Audio Technik, Soundcraft’s Austrian distributor.

Worldcast CONNECT, a software technology company that develops and commercializes Kybio, a Network Management System for media and broadcast, has announced software release 4.6. Users will uncover new benefits around powerful drivers and new remote-control features, user experience, visualizing insights, and finer analytics.

WorldCast Systems, the supplier of advanced broadcast products, is pleased to announce the further evolution of its powerful APTmpX solution, the world’s first and only non-destructive MPX/composite compression algorithm.
 

WorldCast Systems announces that its APTmpX is a Radio winner in the 2022 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards. This official awards program recognizes the most significant and promising new products and technologies showcased by corporate partners of NAB Show.  

 

For 10 years now, ABC Products cranes are used for broadcasting the football worldcup and are thus well established pieces of equipment of the World and European Championships. Once more at the world cup in Brazil in 2014: 27 ABC Products Crane 120 9m with Remote Head Pelé are on the order list. In each stadium, three cranes will be positioned – two beyond the goals and one in the coaching zone.

Gabriel Fehervari (President WorldLinx Alliance), Gilles Sallé (CEO & founder AMP VISUAL TV) and Jacques Hendrickx (CEO WorldLinX Alliance) announce the concept, the means, the goals and the benefits of a new company : WorldLinX Alliance.

New York City-based company WorldStage, a leading technical staging provider in the live event and entertainment technology field, recently selected a FOR-A HVS-100 portable video switcher for live video production of events ranging from corporate meetings to fashion show productions. WorldStage serves clients in the broadcast, arts, theater, non-profit, technology and corporate industries.

Hongkong-based Phoenix TV, covering news, reports and entertainment programs for more than 100 million Chinese speaking people worldwide, has been supplied with Lawo consoles for the brand-new Beijing building. The large facilities in Beijing comprise also a 600 m² studio with a control room fitted with a Lawo mc²56 console.