Canford Audiohas been appointed as a Roland distributor in the UK. The official announcement will be made at PLASA Focus later this month where Canford will be presenting selected products from Roland, including the VC-30HD multi-input video converter and encoder, the VR-3 audio mixer and video switcher, and two USB audio interfaces. www.canford.co.uk
MMCstudios in Cologne has acquired two more Soundcraft Vi4s. The Vi4s join the company’s collection of mid-range mixing systems under its flagship mixer, the Yamaha PM1D. A Soundcraft Vi1 and smaller Yamaha desks complete the collection. Additional RockNet audio interfaces were also added to MMC’s stock with plans to further extend audio network capacities. www.mmc.de
UNITED KINGDOM BAFTA venue for fourth ITBW event New central London location for IT Broadcast Workflow in 2012
The fourth IT Broadcast Workflow (ITBW) conference produced by sister publication TVBEurope will move to the prestigious BAFTA venue in central London when it returns in the summer. Taking place on 13 June, ITBW is Europe’s premier event charting the development and adaptation of file-based operations in European broadcasting organisations. Chaired by Jeremy Bancroft
from Media Asset Capital, the event’s programme is already building momentum. Of note is Steve Luck, senior team leader at ITN, who will present a case study exploring ‘Integrating People, Operations and IT for enhanced business planning & reporting at ITN’. Additional
high-profile user case studies from around Europe examining the file-based broadcast journey are currently being developed by key Workflow experts – more details will be announced shortly. Confirmed Gold sponsors include AmberFin, EVS and Symbox, while Silver sponsors committed to the event are Blue Lucy, Pebble Beach and SGL. Bruce Devlin, chief technology officer at AmberFin, reported: “The IT Broadcast Workflow 2011 conference was excellent (again). The presentations were of high quality and much of the post-presentation discussion was excellent. There were enough users, vendors and industry heavyweights in
TVBEuropeeditor Fergal Ringrose addresses attendees at the 2011 event
the room to cope with most ITBW topics.” To attend this year’s ITBW conference and take advantage