Black Dragon has officially completed its acquisition of Grass Valley from Belden in a transaction that includes cash consideration plus various forms of deferred consideration. The gross cash consideration is $120m (£94m/€105m), or approximately $67m net of cash delivered with the business. Belden will also invest $3m for an equity interest in Grass Valley with the […] More
The HBS Broadcast Academy may not be able to bring together students and participants in person but the team is hard at work creating virtual panel discussions that can help industry professionals, both established and new to the business, understand how to make the most of remote replay operations Broadcast Academy experts and leading sports […] More
TVU Networks products like TVU Producer have established the company in the live cloud-based production space. But the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the ability to have a production team and the on-air talent or guests be in the same room has led to the development of Partyline, a new feature that brings the […] More
CBS Sports, the Golf Channel and PGA Tour Live have finalised plans for the return of live PGA Tour golf this weekend as the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Golf Course in Ft. Worth, TX. And challenge is the right word as the efforts are the results of two months of solid planning that has […] More
The HBS Broadcast Academy has been an important part of the industry’s education initiatives as it is designed to provide specialised training to help improve to quality of football production, increase the opportunities for women and minorities in front-bench roles, and much more. It’s most recent efforts involved an online panel discussion featuring two leading […] More
EVS this week took the wraps off of LSM-VIA, a new instant replay system that takes IP technology and couples it with familiar tactile controls (and a couple of new buttons and a new touchscreen) to give replay operators a much higher level of replay functionality. More importantly, by decoupling the operation of LSM-VIA from […] More
Last Sunday four of the world’s best professional golfers faced off in a charity skins event at Seminole Golf Club near West Palm Beach, FL. It may have only featured four golfers, six handheld cameras and zero caddies but it went a long way towards satiating the thirst for live professional sports and also showed […] More
NEP Group CEO Kevin Rabbitt will leave the company on June 30 after eight years at the helm when he sets sail, almost literally, to become CEO of Hornblower Group which operates cruises and other events in cities like New York, Boston, Long Beach, and more. The transition plan was agreed to in February and […] More
In an expansion to its AK series studio and field camera line-up, Panasonic has introduced the cost-effective AK-HC3900 1080p HDR studio camera system, which will be upgradable to native 4K 60p/50p. The new AK-HC3900 is ideal for broadcast, education and corporate markets. It follows in the footsteps of the company’s AK-HC3800, a model that has defined […] More
One World: Together at Home this past weekend was broadcast on ABC, CBS, and NBC as well as on multiple online platforms, and it showed how the power of music and storytelling combined with digital production technologies could do something that would have been unthinkable only five years ago: have more than 150 pieces of […] More
