4 TVBEurope News & Analysis


TVBEuropeexpands in 2014


NAB is a time for announcements and launches. TVBEurope is making a few of its own, explains Neal Romanek


WHILE TVBEUROPE exhaustively covers the launches and announcements at this month’s NAB in Las Vegas (see our NAB Product Preview and next month’s NAB Wrap-up), we come to NAB this year with a few announcements and launches of our own. First, we’re pleased to announce that this month TVBEurope is getting a new executive editor, James McKeown (see this issue’s People On The Move for more). Additionally, we welcome back Melanie Dayasena-Lowe, who returns from maternity leave. As part of her new duties, Melanie will be spearheading TVBEurope’s special projects — and there are a lot of special projects coming up in 2014. After NAB, TVBEurope will be gearing up for our Beyond HD Masters conference on 3 June. The event, held at the BAFTA theatre in London, resumes our annual discussion of the innovations and challenges in next generation image capture and delivery. After a keynote address by Stephan Heimbecher, Sky Deutschland’s head of innovations and standards, eight discussion and keynote sessions will cover every angle on the latest capture issues. Session titles include ‘The case for 4K over IP’, ‘Ultra HD market analysis’, ‘The grammar and presentation of Ultra-HD’, ‘Next generation audio’, and a discussion of the cutting edge beyond the cutting edge with ‘Ultra HD 2’. The week following Beyond HD Masters, we run our Next


Neal Romanek, Acting Editor


(richard.carr@intentmedia.co.uk) for details. With a new website and three major conferences on the horizon, you’d think TVBEurope would be resting on its laurels. But we saw that the broadcast community still lacked a TV technology awards event that appropriately represented the scope and breadth of the European industry, so we have stepped up, in partnership with New Bay’s TV Technology magazine, to deliver the TVBAwards, coming this autumn. The TVBAwards will honour the best of the best in European TV broadcast capture, workflow, and delivery. Stay tuned for more TVBAwards announcements, including venue, award categories, and nomination procedures. Finally, timed to coincide


TV Summit London. Held on 11 June, also at BAFTA, and modelled on New Bay Media’s successful Next TV events in the US last year, Next TV London will be a day of discussion on all angles of the new TV ecosystem. With Beyond HD looking at


the new frontier of content capture, Next TV looks at the new frontier of content delivery. Topics for discussion will include monetising new platforms, commissioning original OTT content, effective use of social media and the opportunities in multi-screen advertising. Confirmed speakers include Edward Lee, VP


Quantel acquires Snell


QUANTEL HAS announced that it has acquired Snell, with the aim of creating “a major new force in the global broadcast and media technology markets,” commented Quantel’s executive chairman and CEO, Ray Cross. The combined business hopes to offer customers a product range to create, version and deliver content across multiple platforms. Quantel and Snell


have 16 offices around the globe and combined revenues of more than $170 million. Paul Martin, MD of Snell


TV Everywhere and Robert Rowe, MD of Snell Live TV, will join the Quantel board. Snell sales director Tim Banks, and finance director Peter Fredericks will also take leading roles. Snell’s outgoing CEO Simon Derry, commented: “I’m really


content acquisition at Roku, Jens Richter, CEO of FremantleMedia, and Ashley Mackenzie, CEO of digital rights management agency Base 79. Our third conference, IT


Broadcast Workflow, has been hugely popular in past years, and, as production migrates increasingly to cloud and IP solutions, we expect this year to be the biggest conference yet. ITBW takes place on 8 July. Sponsorship packages for


all three conferences are still available. Contact sales manager Ben Ewles (ben.ewles@ intentmedia.co.uk) or sales executive Richard Carr


delighted that the Snell and Quantel businesses have come together to increase the scale and scope for both. Under Ray’s leadership the combined business will be able to write a new and exciting chapter moving forwards. I look forward to supporting Ray during the important period of transition.” “Our product ranges are


entirely complementary so the excellent Snell and Quantel brands and product ranges will continue,” continued Cross. “We’ll be able to


with NAB, we have launched our new website design. The new site is easier to navigate, the images are bigger and better, and the search functions far more friendly than in the site’s previous incarnation. Most importantly, our content has been organised into new categories. The new categories also represent an expansion of TVBEurope’s content outlook generally. News, features, and opinion will appear across the areas of Capture, Workflow, Delivery, Content and Business. And finally, we have a new


general editorial email address, contact@tvbeurope.com. We hope you’ll use it often to let us know how we’re doing.


combine the best in class talent and technologies from Quantel and Snell to bring exciting new products and solutions to market to help our customers transform their businesses. More local offices across the world will enable us to build closer relationships with our customers and to offer even better support.” A new facility will be created


at the company headquarters in Newbury, UK. www.quantel.com www.snell.com


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