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GlobeCast and Arabsat expand in North Africa GlobeCast has partnered with satellite operator Arabsat, to offer solutions for broadcasters seeking to distribute programming in North Africa. GlobeCast’s services will be carried on Arabsat’s BADR satellite at 26° east. The initial rollout of the new service will include Algerian channels which can be received with the following parameters: position BADR 26° east, 12303MHz polar H SR: 27.5 Fec 3/4. “Thanks to our long-standing relationship with Arabsat, we are able to provide this opportunity and help broadcasters reach new audiences in a very effective and cost-efficient way,” said Samir Tizaoui, senior account manager, MENA, at GlobeCast.
www.arabsat.com www.globecast.com
NOA integrates QC VidChecker automated quality control has been incorporated into NOA’s mediARC archiving system to provide QC facilities in an end-to-end archiving solution. VidChecker performs checks of video and audio parameters as part of the actLINE new product VideoFileAnalyzer. Launched from the VideoFileAnalyzer in a mediARC system, these checks are performed at faster than realtime. When quality issues are detected, the actLINE software acts on the problem in one of three ways. Automating quality control with VidChecker makes it unnecessary for an operator to manually check the content, except where the system detects an error.
www.noa-audio.com www.vidcheck.com
NEWS INBRIEF New Harris boss pulls focus By Dick Hobbs
HARRIS BROADCAST completed its transformation from part of the massive Harris Corporation to an independent, venture capital- funded entity in July by appointing Charlie Vogt as its new CEO. This followed nine years as president of Genband, which under his guidance had grown to be number one in the voice-over-IP market. “I come from an industry that
just transformed a TDM network to IP,” he said. “It happened very fast, a lot faster than a lot of folks thought. And I do think this whole digital to IP revolution in the broadcast space will come a lot faster than everyone thinks.” Any revolution is an opportunity for start-up companies to come to the fore, but Vogt argues that the founders of new businesses are distracted by the need to find funding. That, he says, is why “nine and a half start-ups out of ten fail”. He sees his challenge as taking the financially secure Harris Broadcast and giving it agility. “We have an opportunity to take a company with
acquired by a private equity firm that was focused on investing in the company,” he continued. “They recognised early on that it needed some change, creating a better balance with intellectual property and domain knowledge to create the right kind of recipe going forward.” What is that recipe? Does it mean a fundamental shift away from the big infrastructure
investment in innovation, so we can participate in where the industry is going. That is a big mind-shift inside the company,” Vogt said. “It doesn’t mean it is an easy road ahead. “We have very capable competitors in this space, big and small. We have got to be better, we have got to be more responsive to our customers, we have got to create the right kind of product and innovation
Charlie Vogt: “Traditional broadcast still represents 85-90% of the market today, and that will remain central to Harris Broadcast”
$400 million in sales and nearly 4,000 customers and create an entrepreneurial culture,” he argued. “Frankly, we are a company that has been starved inside a very large company. Harris Corporation really wasn’t focussed in this space. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are, if you don’t have the focus, it’s just going to go sideways. “The best thing that
happened was that it was
“We have an opportunity to take a company with $400 million in sales and nearly 4000 customers and create an entrepreneurial culture”
products — transmitters, routers, servers — for which Harris is famous? Vogt was careful to emphasise that traditional broadcast still represents 85-90% of the market today, and that will remain central to Harris Broadcast. “The challenge for companies
like ours is to continue to service that 90%, but also make sure we are putting the right level of time, energy and
Viewers experience tightrope walk By Ian McMurray
DURING THEsummer, high- wire artist Nik Wallenda crossed the Grand Canyon on a tightrope suspended 1,500ft above the Little Colorado River — and Broadcast Sports Inc (BSI) enabled viewers to experience the event from his perspective. BSI outfitted Wallenda with a
vest equipped with two wireless POV cameras, and provided
wireless camera links with remote camera control for a Sony P1 Steadicam, a Sony HDC-2500 handheld camera, a Sony P1 horizontal cable camera provided by Sea to Sky Cable Camera and the two BSI 1080i mini POV cameras on Wallenda’s vest. BSI also provided a wireless camera link for a Cineflex HD helicopter camera supplied by Helivision. In addition to the wireless
camera links, the company also
supplied many of the wireless audio and communication components for the broadcast including three BSI MIC1500 wireless microphones, five talent packs and three belt packs plus 100 handheld radios. BSI provided a high power back-up system for the wireless microphone and wireless IFB communications from NBC that was worn by Wallenda. IBC 5.A09
On a rope: Nik Wallenda was equipped with two POV cameras from Broadcast Sports Inc
balance for today’s needs and where the industry is going. “I think a lot of the folks
that have traditionally participated in this market may get outflanked and blindsided, because there is a whole other world around how they are going to deliver and manage content,” he concluded. “We have a unique opportunity to have a big play in content management — and it’s mainly software.”
www.tvbeurope.com September 2013
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