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Lawo for Brazil and Russia 2014
‘High profile sporting events’ to benefit from audio and video- over-IP technology. Murray Stassenreports
GLOBAL BROADCAST services provider, Bexel, has announced that it will be using Lawo’s audio and video-over-IP networking technology for high profile sporting events in Brazil and Russia this year. Bexel was responsible for supporting CBS International’s broadcast feeds at the US open in New York and less than a month later; the company’s systems were used for the PGA Grand Slam in Bermuda. The international stereo
feed for the US open was supplied by fitting out control rooms one and two with a
UNITED KINGDOM Banner year for Broadcast Networks By Erica Basnicki
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION specialist Broadcast Networks completed a number of projects during 2013 for international organisations such as Chellomedia, News UK and the Dutch Parliament. “2013 was a successful year for
Broadcast Networks with both new and repeat business,” said managing director Tom Haye. “As we start 2014, our new partnership with IEC gives us the investment we need to push the company to the next level, while the expansion of our team allows us to deliver the added value customers now demand.” As the preferred SI partner for Chellomedia, Broadcast
24-channel playout system for a new Arts channel, the rebuild of Chellomedia’s master control room, an entire upgrade of the broadcaster’s automation system to ITX2 and the installation of a number of smaller playout systems. Back in the UK,
Broadcast Networks’ 18-camera, armoured surveillance vehicle built for the Dutch police
Networks completed various key infrastructure projects for the international media company including the installation of a
Broadcast Networks installed a Master Control Room and three new television studios at News UK’s
headquarters in London. The studios are now being used by The Sun newspaper to create news content for its online editions.
Other notable projects completed during 2013 include the installation of audio and video equipment at the Dutch Parliament, enabling meetings to be streamed over the internet, and the design and build of an 18- camera surveillance vehicle for the Dutch police, which is now being regularly used to support large scale events. “As a systems integrator
with experience in the live production and playout arenas, Broadcast Networks is ideally placed to deliver the leading edge solutions our customers demand and consolidate our position as a leading international systems integrator,” concluded Haye.
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48-fader Lawo mc256 MkII. For broadcasters who wanted to produce in surround sound, two additional crowd microphones were supplied. The company says that the system configuration included “a Lawo mc256 mixing console and a DALLIS (Digital, Analog, Line Level Interface System) frame with the analogue I/O linked to the console’s HD Core using Ravenna over a single Cat-5 line.” Bexel project manager,
Johnny Pastor, says: “Operators were impressed not only with
how good the Lawo consoles sounded, but also with ease of operation, requiring only a short ramp up for those who had never worked a Lawo console previously, and the ability to build custom setups on the fly – tailored to each operator’s unique requirements and preferences.” In other news, Calrec Audio
will provide five Artemis Consoles to American-based
Lawo will once again play a part in delivering sport in 2014
NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, from 6-23 February.
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SOUNDBITES
Bel Digital Audio has supplied specialist broadcast monitors and digital delays to China’s Shenzhen Media Group (SMG) via Bel’s Chinese dealer Hiroshi Technologies in Hong Kong. SMG has just completed a refit of their 200sqm Shenzhen City studio, which will be used by the Shenzhen TV Company. As part of the refit, Hiroshi Technologies supplied two of Bel’s new BCR-A4-4OB in-rack monitors and two of their 7150 audio synchronisation delays.
Audio-Technicahas announced its recent joining of the International Association of Broadcast
Manufacturers (IABM). Membership of the IABM will provide benefits such as market research from within the industry and increased brand recognition. Matthias Exner, business development director for the company said: “Broadcast is becoming an ever more important industry for Audio-Technica, and with new products arriving in 2014, this is an opportune time to become involved with an industry body as active as IABM.”
www.audio-technica.com
Waves Audiois now shipping the second generation of the WLM Loudness Meter plug-in, the WLM Plus. The new plug-in is totally compliant with current ITU, EBU and ATSC specs. It also includes updated presets that meet ARIB TR-B32 and OP-59 requirements as well as two further presets that are useful for gaming content creators for levelling, when working on the Sony ASWG (Audio Standards Working Group) loudness scanner.
Mongolian National Public Radio (MNB) has selected an archiving solution from NOA Audio Solutionsto power the
broadcaster’s move to a completely digital archive. More than 20,000 hours of audio dating from 1954 will be archived using the new system, comprising the jobDB workflow system, mediaButler transcoding engine, dual NOA Record tape ingest systems, and DBScripter for standard metadata exports.
www.noa-audio.com
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