26 l July 2014
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Sonifex has acquired Australian broadcast equipment manufacturer/ distributor Innes Corporation. Marcus Brooke, managing director of the UK-based Sonifex, comments: “When we discussed further collaboration, we realised that there was a great opportunity for us to leverage our international marketing skills to sell tInnes PCIe cards to a larger market. In addition, we can combine our R&D departments to work in partnership on some interesting new products.”
www.sonifex.com
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is to merge with the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA). The partnership will begin immediately with SMPTE providing administrative support to HPA, and is expected to culminate in a full merger by May 2015. A statement from SMPTE says the partnership “unites two leading technical organisations serving the media and entertainment business,” giving both SMPTE and HPA “the opportunity to extend their reach and expand their membership while better serving the whole industry”.
www.hpaonline.com www.smpte.org
Red TX has joined the Remote Recording Network (RRN). The RRN, which “offers bespoke solutions that cater for all kinds of transmission, recording, mixing, mastering, duplication and publishing,” was formed last year by Peter Brandt Remote Recording and Eurosound bv. Red TX’s new RED 2 unit made its RRN début at the Tuckerville festival in Enschede, Netherlands, on 21 June.
www.red-tx.com
www.remoterecording.net
London post-production company HALO has installed 17 Avid Pro Tools HDX systems across its two sites in Soho and in the premises of Hackenbacker, which it acquired in March this year. The upgrades were made during May and into the first half of June, and also included the addition of HD Native Pro Tools to the group’s edit suites. The systems were supplied by MediaPros.
www.halopost.tv www.hackenbacker.com
Yamaha, Genelec help bring Wimbledon radio to the air
The IMG Media-produced restricted service licence station Live@Wimbledon Radio is exclusively using audio equipment supplied by Gearhouse Broadcast, writes David Davies
FOR THE first time in half a decade, sustained heavy downpours played havoc with match schedulers’ plans at this year’s Wimbledon Championships. But although this might have heralded some content challenges, the rain did not stop play for RSL (restricted service licence) radio station Live@Wimbledon Radio, which continued to broadcast from nine am to 30 minutes after the final match each day.
In charge of delivering the broadcast is long-term All- England Club media and production partner IMG Media, under a team led by Steve Tebb. In addition to local transmission with an approximate 10-mile radius (tournament visitors can even buy portable radios manufactured especially by Sound Decisions), Live@ Wimbledon Radio can be heard extensively in the US via ESPN and Sirius/ XM – the latter part of the satellite radio sector that “remains absolutely huge in the States,” notes Tebb. Delivering this service is a small but dedicated team that includes, two editors, three live producers, a planning producer, four engineers (two on air at any time) and three audio editors – sourced from broadcast courses at Goldsmiths College – who “roll across multiple incoming feeds, including commentary, interviews and reports around the ground”. In terms of commentary/reporter positions, the team currently has 13 at its disposal.
Onsite set-up and integration are undertaken by RG Jones
... and behind-the-scenes at Live@Wimbledon Radio
in the week preceding the tournament, with Gearhouse Broadcast supplying all equipment. The core kit list includes a Yamaha M7CL mixer, Genelec and Fostex loudspeakers, a 360 Systems Short/Cut digital recorder/editor, a Leitch audio router, a Telex Cronus talkback system, a CTP audio monitor and Wireless Works radio mics. Also in use are Sonifex commentary
units, deployed in conjunction with Sennheiser HMD 25 headsets, Coles lip microphones, and USB audio interfaces from Roland and Focusrite. In previous years, the radio team has also utilised Technica Del Arte’s groundbreaking LUCI broadcast software applications, which allow journalists to go live, record, edit and deliver audio to radio
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and TV stations using a mobile phone or laptop. “Due to 3G signals it was intermittent,” says Tebb. “However, we will investigate this again as bandwidth/technology are constantly improving.” No dramatic changes are envisaged to the set-up or operational approach of Live@ Wimbledon Radio in the near- future, but Tebb confirms that IMG “will continue to work closely with the [All-England] Club,” adding that “as and when additional commentary/reporter positions are built/available, we would look to add them to our areas of broadcast”.
www.wimbledon.com www.360systems.com www.ctpsystems.co.uk www.fostexinternational.com www.gearhousebroadcast.com www.genelec.com www.img.com
www.technicadelarte.com www.thewirelessworks.biz www.yamahacommercialaudio.com
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