42 TVBEurope The Workflow
www.tvbeurope.com November 2013
Alongside three pedestal cameras, Steadicam plays a part in creating a different dimension for news
HD news to Denmark
Switching to HD allowed TV 2 opportunity to create a new on-air look and change working practices. Philip Stevens investigates what was involved
LOCATED JUSTover 160km (100 miles) west of the Danish capital Copenhagen is the city of Odense. It is one of the oldest cities in the country and in 1988 celebrated its 1000th anniversary. In the same year, publicly owned TV 2 began nationwide broadcasting from the city, effectively ending the monopoly previously held by Danmarks Radio. Today, TV 2 operates a main entertainment channel, plus others specifically catering for youth, the older audience and movie enthusiasts. There is also a 24-hour news channel based in Copenhagen. Alongside that 24/7 channel operation, there is a newsroom and studio in Odense that provides programmes for the main TV 2 channel. This operation is supplemented by eight autonomous regional stations, linked to the central newsroom via dedicated IP lines. Earlier this year, a project to upgrade
this news output to HD was completed by Danish Systems Integrator, Danmon Systems Group. “Our brief was to design,
integrate and bring into commission a 1920x1080 HD news studio at the Odense facility,” explains Søren Bruun, operations manager at Danmon. “This was a new build and involved a studio measuring 630sqm, which includes the main presentation sets at one end and the weather presentation area at the other. Sony provided the camera units, three of which are mounted on Vinten Radamec robotic pedestals, while a fourth is linked to a Steadicam system.”
Accent on automation Bruun says that choice of equipment frequently came down to good user experience in the past. “For that reason, TV 2 also opted for a Mosart automation system to support the daily news programme production. The initial system was installed in the 24-hour news channel facilities back in 2007, so this upgrade presented an opportunity to standardise on the equipment in Odense.”
The new 11m videowall is illuminated by three Barco HDF-W26 projectors The production of news programmes is
co-ordinated within the newsroom via an LSB Virtual Studio Manager and Mosart news automation. This arrangement allows operators access to control panels,
interfaces and external devices by means of an IP infrastructure linked to a VSM- Studio server. Kjeld Skovlund, TV 2’s head of
Development explains more. “When we
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