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broadcastnews RUSSIA TTC Ostankino upgrades with Calrec By Erica Basnicki
CALREC AUDIO made a major sale to Television Technical Center Ostankino (TTC), the largest television studio facility and broadcast production company in Russia. TTC has purchased four Apollo consoles and four Artemis Light consoles to date as part of a two-year project to upgrade all 11 studios in its Moscow facility. TTC chose Calrec consoles
for its facility overhaul after leading Russian subscription channel NTV-PLUS — which
UNITED KINGDOM NTFS training relaunches with BBC
Training will cover record-mix and boom work for drama, multi-camera studio production and location recording on documentaries
By Kevin Hilton
THE NATIONAL Film and Television School (NFTS) has relaunched its Sound Recording for Film and Television course in collaboration with the BBC Academy. Under the arrangement students will be guaranteed work placement with the BBC and trained to
UNITED KINGDOM Sonifex capacity boost By Dave Robinson
UK-BASED BROADCAST equipment specialist Sonifex has recently expanded its production ability following its “best ever year”, reports managing director Marcus Brooke.
Surface-mount manufacturing
is the focus, with the addition of another complete assembly line at
the Northamptonshire HQ. Component placement capacity is up by a factor of four. Brooke says: “2012 was our
best year ever with our highest turnover, and at times we were running short of manufacturing space. Since then we’ve taken on another factory unit, relocated our stock warehouse, added another [production] line and
work with audio on drama, documentaries and entertainment shows. From January next year the
NFTS’ production sound training courses will be headed by Fraser Barber, whose 45 TV credits include Silent Witness, The Tunnel, Full Circle with Michael Palin and Little Dorrit. Only eight
students are accepted for the 15-month full-time course and will now be known as BBC Sound Scholars. Dr Jon Wardle, director of curriculum and registrar at the NFTS, describes the relaunch as a “rebranding”, adding that the course has been established at the School for “many years”. He explains that the involvement of the BBC guarantees the Sound Scholars both a work placement during the course and a job on completion. “The BBC will also be advising on the course,” Wardle says. He added that because the Scholars do nothing else but production sound on the 15- month course they would be in a good position to go out into the business “and be successful”.
www.nfts.co.uk
moved our manufacturing to create more streamlined cells within our current building. “We’ve had a significant
growth in product lines over the last five years which has increased customer demand and driven our sales upward,” he continues. “Having control of the manufacturing process helps to keep our quality high and product lead-times low and the new equipment will mean that we now have increased capacity and output.”
www.sonifex.co.uk
Cables can now be ready to ship within 20 minutes UNITED KINGDOM
Production push for Canford By Erica Basnicki
CANFORD IS reporting that it has made significant improvements within its manufacturing facility in order to cope with a growing demand for bespoke cables and other own brand manufactured products. The first major change was to
create a Rapid Response Cable Cell which was developed to allow both custom and non-stock cable assemblies to be quickly produced, reducing customer waiting times. Depending on cable type, cable assemblies can now be produced, packed and ready for shipping within “20 minutes of receiving a picking list”, reports the company. Similar cells have been
introduced for other product
lines that have benefited from increased output and reliability. The MDU cell has increased average unit production from 21 units to 38 units per cell, per day. Other cells include Tecpro and EMO with further cells currently in the planning phase. The combined effect of all these changes has not only increased production capacity, but has seen the company’s production scheduling maintain a 100% completion rate for over four months.
“Customers have driven these changes by increasingly relying on Canford as their preferred supplier and it is gratifying to see our hard work pay off,” said John Slider, Canford CEO.
www.canford.co.uk
Calrec continues to make inroads into the Russian market
is in the same building as TTC — adopted Calrec for its own operations. The consoles have been supplied and are being installed by Russian system integrator OKNO-TV. Four consoles are in use now, and the remaining four will be commissioned soon. “Because we often hire them out to other production companies, our refurbished studios must be reliable, flexible, and able to handle the most complex and diverse programming,” said Roman Katrovsky, sound specialist from OKNO-TV.
“The Calrec consoles will
give us the ability to connect desks within a studio or cross-connect with other studios for full redundancy and added reliability. Also, as Russia transitions to HD, some programs will be produced in 5.1, some in stereo, and some in both. With these consoles, we’ll be able to change configurations instantly to suit the requirements for different programs. Such features significantly lower downtime and setup time, which saves money.”
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