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broadcast Canford expands with ES
UNITED KINGDOM Company extends its reach in the broadcast and install sectors, writes Erica Basnicki
IN AN effort to expand further into the broadcast and install sectors, Canford has acquired cabinet and rack manufacturer Enclosure Systems (ES), its principal supplier of 19” racks for the past 10 years. Going forward, Canford will take over manufacturing and distribution of the ES range, moving the production and warehousing operation from Kent to its head office in Washington, UK. ES’s sales manager Chas
Luchford is also joining Canford to make the transition as seamless as possible.
Canford once relocated an entire warehousing operation from London to Washington, Tyne & Wear, over a single weekend
France says au revoirto massive shifts in volume
UNITED KINGDOM/WORLD FRANCE
Jünger Audio keeps France on the level
By Erica Basnicki
FRANCE HASaligned its own broadcast loudness legislation with the EBU, resulting in French broadcasters looking towards purchasing EBU R128-compliant loudness processing equipment. One such broadcaster is
state-owned France Télévisions, which has ordered a total of 73 loudness processors from Germany’s Jünger Audio: 22 D*AP LM4 four-channel units and 51 D*AP LM2 two-channel units. These are being distributed to France Télévisions’ channel group (including France 2, France 3,
France 4, France 5 and France Ô) and will eventually see all Paris- based channels, plus all 23 regions, having one Jünger Audio processor for its main transmission path and another for back-up. Jünger Audio’s managing
director Peter Poers commented on the order: “Our EBU R128- compliant loudness processing equipment has already been installed at every major broadcast facility in Germany and Switzerland, and we are delighted that France’s public broadcaster has also chosen to endorse our technology.”
www.junger-audio.com
NBC gears up for the London Games
By Erica Basnicki
UK SERVICE providers and suppliers may remain tight- lipped about their upcoming contribution to the London 2012 Olympics, but PSNEurope has managed to score a few points of interest about NBC’s coverage.
Beginning one week prior to the opening ceremonies, Anton/Bauer will provide 24/7 on-site access to products, repair, service and support for the Games. The company will equip NBC Olympics with Dionic HC and Dionic HCX batteries, as well as having its biggest chargers readily available – the TM4 and Dual 2722. Avid will deploy the most
comprehensive Avid workflow in the history of NBC Olympics to support its coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Avid’s Interplay
MAM system will be used to create two simultaneous feeds for use in London and at NBC’s Olympics division’s headquarters in New York City. Finally, Calrec Audio will
provide six Artemis consoles to NBC Olympics. Two 64-fader Artemis Shine consoles and two 24-fader Artemis Beam consoles will be used in the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) for main feeds. The remaining two 40-fader Artemis Beam consoles will be used at the Basketball Arena in Stratford, and for volleyball at Earls Court. Calrec is a long-time supplier of broadcast desks to the US broadcaster, and has serviced its needs for many high-profile events in the past, such as the Winter Olympics in 2010.
www.antonbauer.com www.avid.com www.calrec.com
“Continuity is key, and the
product range and pricing is unchanged. Chas Luchford brings with him all the experiences, personal contacts and relationships, so apart from the heading on the invoice, nothing (not even part numbers) changes,” said Iain Elliott, Canford founder and director. Canford will offer ES’s 262
series of full size 19” rack cabinets, specialist products like the 501 Credenza “open rack” series, as well as wall-mounted rack cabinets including the 401, 404 and 408 series.
www.canford.co.uk
For the latest broadcast news
SOUNDBITES
New speakers have been announced for PSNEuropesister title TVBEurope’s IT Broadcast Workflow event. Darren Munro, senior systems architect at Supersport South Africa will present a case study on digital delivery and processing at the company. Meanwhile, Aspera’s Bhavik Vyas will look at enabling the Cloud, and BBC Sport’s Charlie Cope will present a technical perspective of the BBC’s migration to MediaCityUK. The event will take place on 13 June at London’s BAFTA. To register, visit the website below.
www.broadcastworkflow.com
RTWhas shipped a further three pre-production units of its compact TM3 TouchMonitors to Cologne-based Wige Broadcast. RTW has yet to launch the TM3 officially, however as previously reported in PSNEurope, the first of the units were delivered to Zurich’s technology and production center (tpc) in April. Wige Broadcast used the TM3s for the first Formula One races in Australia and Malaysia, which were broadcast by RTL in Germany.
www.rtw.de
Glensound is supplying a substantial package of 25 Fader 3 and six Fader 6 commentary mixers, plus GS-FW029 talkback and monitoring units, to radio broadcaster talkSPORT, in order that the station might fulfill its commitment to covering all 380 English Premiership football matches in multiple languages for the next four football seasons.
www.glensound.co.uk
Concert recordings from the Liszt Festival, which took place from 23-25 March in Raiding, in the Burgenland region of Austria, marked the inauguration and first live broadcasts for national broadcaster ORF’s new OB van, the HÜ-8D. The eighth digital OB van in the ORF’s arsenal, the HÜ-8D has a Lawo 40-fader, 144 DSP channel mc²66 console at its heart used in conjunction with a Riedel intercom system.
www.lawo.de
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