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People on the move By Fergal Ringrose
Janssen over to EVS and Danilowicz in at Vitec Group
Meanwhile, the Vitec
Matt Danilowicz Vitec Videocom
EVS BROADCAST took the market by surprise last month by announcing the appointment of Joop Janssen (52) as managing director and CEO of the company. He departs as chief executive of the Vitec Videocom division on the Executive Board of the Vitec Group Plc. Prior to his nine years at
Vitec, Janssen was VP and general manager of Phillips
Joop Janssen EVS Broadcast
Broadcast (formerly BTS) North America where he was instrumental in the divestment to Thomson Multimedia and the subsequent acquisition of the Grass Valley Group. Originally from the Heerlen- Maastricht region (NL), Janssen is currently based in the UK. He will start officially at EVS on 3 September and will relocate to Belgium with his family.
Group wasted no time in announcing the appointment of Matt Danilowicz as CEO of the Vitec Videocom division, to replace Janssen. Within Vitec Videocom, Danilowicz was CEO of Clear-Com for five years until 2010, and at the beginning of 2012 he returned to head Bexel, the US-based rental and services company. Alongside his appointment as divisional CEO, Bexel is being merged with Vitec Videocom, and he will align the two organisations. For the immediate future,
Danilowicz will be based at Bexel’s head office in Los Angeles. To support him, Paul Watson joins the division following a 20-year career in a range of industries. His primary role is as general manager, Supports, overseeing the work of Vitec brands O’Connor, Sachtler, Vinten and Vinten Radamec, based in the UK.
Football double for Ultra Motion
OB Production By Jake Young
SIS Live, working with ITV Sport, took two of Editec’s Sprintcams to Bucharest to add I-Movix Ultra Motion replay facilities to the Europa League finals last month. Editec supplied on-site support for this event, to assist with installation and technical familiarisation. Since the I-Movix Sprintcam
appeared in the UK, ITV Sport has been keen to use either one or
two cameras on their major football events. In Bucharest, football specialist cameraman Ben Seaman operated one of the cameras set up in the 55,600 seat National Arena. “These cameras are a joy to
operate and the images provided stole the show. I am amazed they perform so well under evening lighting conditions. This technology has certainly moved on over the past couple of years. We managed to shoot up to 450fps on this job.”
For the second season running ESPN also used the I-Movix Sprintcam Vvs to shoot FA Cup promotional material at Wembley’s FA Cup final. The Vvs system provided dual outputs such that the promo producer was able to clip and store replays at varying shooting speeds, all images being recorded on to a solid state flash device. At the same time, the main OB truck — provided by SIS Live — had an EVS server recording the replay output.
www.editecuk.com
European launch for Gepco
Broadcast Cables By Erica Basnicki, PSNE
Cable and wire distributor IEWC has partnered with American broadcast cable manufacturer Gepco International to launch Gepco’s range of fibre optic cables and accessories to the European market. IEWC has committed its UK
warehouse to fully stocking the entire Gepco fibre optic range,
IEWC has committed its UK warehouse to fully stocking the Gepco fibre optic range
which includes 9.2mm, 12mm and 16mm hybrid, HD camera electrical cable, 3-channel fibre, single-mode and multi-mode, and single- and multi-mode tactical. “All Gepco’s products, including fibre, are designed and built for the specifications and working conditions that broadcasting demands,” said Graham Lay, European audio broadcast market specialist for IEWC. “The founder of Gepco
At Grass Valley,Mustafa Unsalhas been appointed country manager for Turkey. Unsal’s broadcast career started in 2000, working for seven years with a major broadcast distributor selling a broad range of broadcast technologies including Grass Valley products. He then spent more than four years in IT systems integration. LipSync has announced the appointment of Andrew Boswell as commercial director. He brings high level film and television production experience gained from companies including Molinare and Mob Film Company. Netia has announced the appointment of Philippe Fort as CEO and the departure of Netia Founders Christophe Carniel and Pierre Keiflin. Fort is the former president of Netia's Supervisory Board, and has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications sector with organisations including British Telecom, Alcatel, Ericsson and Atos. He joined France Telecom in 2000 and has been managing director of GlobeCast since 2011. Polecam has hired Terry Halliday as its new engineering manager. He has spent the last five years supervising the day-to-day manufacture of Autocam, Radamec and Vinten Radamec robotic camera control products.
www.tvbeurope.com June 2012
Philippe Fort Netia
Joe Pajer has joined Thinklogical as chief executive officer. Prior to joining Thinklogical, Pajer was CEO of Vocollect, a provider of voice recognition enabled computing systems. He previously held leadership positions with Marconi, FORE Systems, Compaq Computer Corporation and AT&T. Geir Bjørndal has joined Verimatrix to contribute his experience and relationships in the global DVB operator marketplace. Bjørndal is well known in the pay- TV industry for building the international footprint of Conax over the past 20 years.
Ben Seaman operated one of two Sprintcams deployed at Europa Cup Final in Bucharest
was himself a sound engineer who simply had enough of hand-me- down cables that were noisy, unreliable and always seemed to fail at the most critical times. Gary (Geppert) got into designing and manufacturing cables 30 years ago because he understood the need for professionally designed broadcast standard products that did not compromise.” With outdoor broadcast
productions becoming increasingly popular and elaborate, the noise and attenuation experienced with copper cabling, and its shock risk
has seen more broadcasters turning to fibre optic cable. “Fibre optic systems are quickly becoming essential if we’re to keep pace with the bandwidth issues surrounding HDTV and 3DTV,” said Jeff Peters, director of business development for Gepco. “Today’s fibre products can handle the high-bandwidth data, deliver the clarity of signal and are easy to route, durable under a wide range of conditions and easily repaired.”
www.iewc.co.uk www.gepco.com
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