After its aquisition of Dales Broadcast in December 2009, SIS LIVE, a leading outside broadcast (OB)and uplink supplier in Europe, has agreed to buy the bulk of the assets of leading OB company 021 Televisionfrom Gravity Media Group. Under the terms of the multi-million pound deal, SIS LIVE will acquire thestate-of-the-art OB fleet of 021 Television and most of the staff. SIS LIVE will also take on 021Television’s customer contracts.

The Swiss national broadcaster SRG SSR have taken delivery of 16 of the new Glensound Digital Commentary Systems GDC-6432. These are to be used at large sports events in their Mercedes Sprinter Commentary Control Centres, and flight cased for portable use. The GDC 6432 will be the commentary system used for SRG SSRs coverage of Alpine and Nordic skiing, cycling, athletics, rowing, tennis, soccer, volleyball, and golf.

Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a provider of content archive and storage management software for media and entertainment, has sold and installed a FlashNet archive at The London Studios.

Following a meeting between EBU* Members and representatives from Avid®, Grass Valley, Panasonic, Snell and Sony on 16-17 December 2009, a new project has been launched to address issues of interoperability for future HDTV production systems.

TV2GO Inc., an international satellite transmission and video production company, debuted its 9,5m uplink mobile truck in October featuring the FOR-A HVS-300HS compact HD/SD switcher and the MV-410HS HD/SD high-resolution quad multi-viewer.

Swiss sport events are transmitted in HD via Neutrik’s opticalCON.
Since 2005 Neutrik offers a fiber optic connection system. The reliable and simple concept of the opticalCON system has proven its robustness and low maintenance which led to a wide acceptance. These product attributes as well as quality and innovation made the company to the world wide leading supplier of professional entertainment connector products.

Year-long celebrations for one of the oldestbusinesses in television. Vinten® is celebrating its centenary in 2010. It wason 1 January 1910 that William Vinten, already noted as a remarkable mechanicalengineer, took over a workshop in Wardour Street in London as his own business,at first repairing then designing and building cameras.

One of the latest additions to the expanding list of NTP DAD AX24 users is NDR Hamburg which recently installed 12 systems following the successful completion of listening tests as part of the network's Broadcast Sound Studio 1 project. Located in Rothenbaum, NDR's Broadcast Sound Studio 1 and Regie 1 are designed primarily for recording the NDR Bigband, widely acknowledged to be one of the finest bands in Germany. Studio 1 is built around a 72-fader SSL Duality and Sequoia digital audio workstation software. Eight NTP DAD AX24 converters are connected via MADI to the workstation.

Miranda Technologies announced that VRT, the national broadcaster in Belgium for the Flemish speaking community, is upgrading its broadcast facility to HD with Miranda’s NVISION 8280 Enterprise Class router.

Finland’s premier broadcaster Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) has devised a clever solution to the problem of escalating travel and accommodation costs for the 2010 Winter Games. Using Lawo’s integrated technologies, YLE has devised an original production network for the collection and distribution of reportage for the Finish audience that requires fewer personnel on site in Vancouver, yet does not compromise either quality or creativity.

Carmen McRae and Jiggs Whigham. Joe Zawinul and Eddie Harris. Many jazz stars have already recorded albums in WDR’s Big Band studio. The works of Patti Austin, Vince Mendoza, as well as Randy and Michael Brecker have even been awarded a Grammy. In the legendary Big Band studio – Studio 4 – WDR have installed new technology, and at the heart of this studio is the latest generation Lawo mc²66.

RSI (Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana), an affiliate of public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse network, and tpc (tv productioncenter zürich ag), Switzerland's largest audiovisual production firm and another affiliate company of SRG SSR, are both migrating their existing production facilities to a file-based high-definition infrastructure with a full complement of the latest Grass Valley™ video server technology.

Latest addition to the Polecam range of truly portable video and digital-film production equipment, the Microwhite LED head is a highly innovative luminaire designed specifically for use with miniature broadcast-quality HD and SD cameras. It incorporates 20 white light emitters in ring configuration on a black Delrin body which attaches to a Fujinon compact prime lens via Polecam's FFFS head or to other cameras via a mounting cradle.

Cinematographer Geoffrey Boyle recently finished another installment in the Swedish-language film series based on Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s fictional character Kurt Wallander. The ongoing series Wallander airs on Swedish and Nordic television channels, then moves to the BBC and is released on DVD. And, thanks to the addition of Element Technica’s Mantis camera support, Boyle’s last two episodes were a pleasure to shoot.

Barco's RHDM-2301 brings LCD technology of the highest professional standards, including: a true 10-bit, 120Hz flat panel scanning LED backlight technology embedded calibration and stabilization technology and unique 48-bit color processing. All these features ensure a color performance and image quality level that is unseen in broadcast and post-production environments. RHDM-2301B is a reliable reference for master control rooms, camera control, camera shading, signal quality checks, technical rooms etc, both in TV studios as well as OB vans.