June 2013
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TVBEurope 15 The Workflow Panoramic outlook for TV 2 By David Stewart
NORWAY’S LARGEST commercial television station, TV 2, faced a double upgrade when it decided to change the look of its news output. Because of the large range of programmes produced, the station broadcasts from two near-identical studios situated in different locations: Oslo and Bergen. Both are located in buildings not originally designed for studio work, so the redesign required some creative technology solutions while ensuring continuity of service. “Our brief to the designers, London-based agency BDA, was ‘build the most flexible news studio in the world for eight different shows in a small room’, and they came up with some amazing ideas,” explains Svein Henning Berstad, project manager. “TV 2 news broadcasts needed a total makeover; new graphics, music, studio sets, the whole package,” says Berstad. “The studios are used for international news, economics, sports and weekend magazine programmes, but all had to have the look and feel of the TV 2 news department. This had to be achieved for the station’s separate 24/7 rolling news output plus the flagship evening news broadcast on the main TV 2 channel.”
BDA conceived a state-of- the-art look for TV 2, which included switching from traditional lighting to low power consumption LEDs. A central part of that solution was installing a rotating news desk with a curved, built-in digiFLEX screen, supplied by international video specialist displayLED from its digiLED brand.
available floor space was limited to 11x11m and had to include two big columns which are part of the building’s structure. Large parts of the set had to be adaptable for development throughout the lifespan of the studio. We wanted the anchor desk to change for the different shows, so BDA designed a circular desk mounted on a revolving rostrum with a flexible
couldn’t get the wide shots we decided to dress the ceiling with the same digiFLEX tiles to give it a seamless, televisual feel,” says Berstad. “The digiFLEX panels provided by displayLED create a 360 degree ceiling ticker and a curved screen inside the anchor desk.”
The modular 320mmx160mm digiFLEX tiles are fixed to the ceiling ring and the desk with
RGB LEDs are amazing!” affirms Berstad. “With tungsten/halogen lights at 3200K (or less) red tends to look pinkish through the cameras, but now the reds are crisp and clear with almost no tweaking of either the monitor or content needed to make it look perfect through the camera lens.” TV 2 also used five Panasonic plasmas — four 85-inch screens standing vertically and one 103-inch in the centre of the studio. Both digiFLEX screens are fed
video from a Vizrt graphics engine. This gives enormous flexibility and graphical power, since the Vizrt engine can be controlled as a group or individually. The studio is totally LED lit by DeSisti LED Fresnels at 5600K (except for some fluorescent illuminating standup presenters).
“TV 2 has tried to benefit from A central part of the solution was installing a rotating news desk with a curved, built-in digiFLEX screen
Space saving “Due to limited floor space our goal was to make the studio look bigger than it is and at the same time be able to change between concepts in a very short time,” Berstad explains. “The
screen set into it. The digiFLEX 6mm LED tiles gave us the solution for the desk.” Another challenge was the low studio ceiling, which interfered with the panoramic scenes TV 2 wanted to achieve. “Because we
the magnetic mountings, while the 6mm pixel pitch allows the use of high quality imagery on the relatively small surface area of the screens. “Given the 5600K lighting, the colours and liveliness from the
all new technology and ideas that can help us be more environmentally friendly, and at the same time give us the best possible result on air,” says Berstad. “We had approximately 20,000-25,000W of tungsten lighting in the old studio. Today we have the same light with an output at about 3,000W. Power saving has doubled with the reduced need for air conditioning in the studio, and it also makes the working environment much more pleasant for our presenters.”
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