Monthly Archives: August 2011

Messi fever hits Indian as Kolkata match rights reach $1m

Written on August 23, 2011 at 16:29, by

Rapid TV News: Revenue from the forthcoming football friendly between Argentina and Venezuela in Kolkata is on course to become the most profitable 90 minutes in sport in India’s history.  More

IMG prepares for IAAF Worlds in Korea

Written on August 23, 2011 at 16:08, by

UK: The thirteenth IAAF World Championships, and the last significant athletics meeting ahead of next year’s Olympics, start this weekend in Daegu, Korea. With the UK rights picked up by […]  More

DTS brings high-quality audio across the pond

Written on August 23, 2011 at 15:19, by

DTS will showcase its high-performance audio technology across IPTV broadcast services for the first time at IBC. The company says show attendees will experience DTS high-quality sound emitted over myriad […]  More

Wowza Media Systems, Encoding.com, ease transcoding

Written on August 23, 2011 at 14:53, by

Wowza Media Systems will be at IBC on the heels of a partnership that provides Wowza customers with custom Encoding.com presets to simplify the preparation and transcoding of videos into […]  More

New London office for BSI reveals techno-cultural differences

Written on August 23, 2011 at 14:47, by

George Bernard Shaw, who famously described England and America as “two countries separated by a common language,” might have liked to try that with a soldering iron, writes Dan Daley. […]  More

Canoe World Championship 2011 in Szeged with Spidercam

Written on August 23, 2011 at 14:45, by

Live Production: (Rezso Soltesz –Mediatechnika/Hungary, 19/08/2011) This weekend is promising very hot weather, not just for the athletes of the ICF Canoe World Championship but also for the TV crew […]  More

Chyron Axis World ready for IBC debut

Written on August 23, 2011 at 14:20, by

Bonnie Barclay, vice president and chief marketing officer of Chyron and the Chyron team is in an international state of mind for the next few weeks, with stops in Sau […]  More

Alfacam steps up to the crease in India

Written on August 23, 2011 at 13:33, by

If you want good evidence of sport production’s increasing globalisation, this is a good one: a Belgian OB firm (Alfacam) signing a major agreement to cover cricket (hardly a Belgian […]  More

Axon launches Synapse-based modular video routing

Written on August 22, 2011 at 16:42, by

On the Axon stand, (10.A21), the latest product of what its owner says is “one of the most advanced broadcast glueware development programmes worldwide” will see the global introduction of […]  More

Grass Valley to boost workflows

Written on August 22, 2011 at 16:34, by

Boasting key new products and technologies for sports, entertainment and production, news, playout, and delivery, Grass Valley boasts that it is set to redefine the state of the art at […]  More