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WWW.INBROADCAST.COM | ISSUE 38 - DECEMBER 2014
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InNEWS
Swiss Channel Adds Baselight
ONE System
Radio Television Suisse (RTS),
the French-language public
broadcaster in Switzerland, has
added a Baselight ONE system with
Slate control panel to handle its
in-house productions.
Headquartered in Geneva,
RTS produces a wide variety
of news, sport, entertainment
and documentary television
programming. RTS already has a
Baselight TWO system, installed
five years ago, which has proved
extremely effective in handling the
interoperability with their edit suites.
“With Baselight we can add a
new quality to our productions, a
cinematic look, while maintaining
the tight turnaround of episodic
television,” said Anne-Laure Sacher,
Calrec Marks Milestone In South Africa
Summa audio console, the
newest in its lineup of advanced
digital audio consoles.
Since July, Calrec has been
delivering Summa desks into the
US, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Turkey, Italy, South Africa, South
Korea, and Kuwait. The most recent
two Summa sales were made to
SuperSport Outside Broadcast in
South Africa.
Having standardised its fleet
of large OB trucks on Calrec,
SuperSport is installing the two
Summa consoles to replace the
other audio desks in its smaller OB-7
and OB-8 units.
“OB vans are becoming more and
more sophisticated, and space is
always an issue, but perhaps even
more so in small units. They must
be able to deliver the same level of
quality as their larger counterparts
Colourist at RTS.
“Our new suite
adds even more
capacity, and
the Slate control
panel retains
the same high
standards we
are used to with
the Blackboard
2 panel on
our existing Baselight system. To
me, Blackboard control surfaces
are above all the others and have
the precision and ergonomic
convenience I expect.”
RTS recently used its
Baselight TWO and Blackboard
2 on ‘Specimen’, a renowned TV
magazine on psychology, and a
RTS has opted for a FilmLight Baselight ONE
plus Slate controller
in a smaller footprint,” said Johan
van Tonder, Technical Operations
Manager at SuperSport Outside
Broadcast. “We trust our entire
fleet of large trucks to Calrec,
and now that the Summa desk is
available, we can take advantage
of the Calrec benefits in our small
OB vans as well.”
new 6x50 minute drama series, ‘A
Livre Ouvert’.
This co-production between RTS
and France 2 was shot on ARRI
ALEXA and fi nished in-house at
RTS in Geneva.
RTS has five in-house colourists,
working on documentaries and
reportage as well as dramas.
Launched in September 2013
with a 180-channel capacity,
Summa is now also available in a
128-channel version.
The console uses Calrec’s
award-winning Bluefin2 technology
at its core, along with Hydra2
router technology.
Thembinkosi Nala of SuperSport at the Summa audio console
Sky Speeds
Italia Content
GBR: Sky Italia has improved
and simplified its workflow with
Akamai’s Media Delivery solutions.
With the combination of the leading
high-speed fi le transfer solutions
from Aspera, an IBM company, and
Akamai’s NetStorage cloud-based
storage platform, Sky has increased
file upload speed by up to 650%.
Since their launch in 2012, Sky Go
and Sky on Demand video content
services in Italy have over three
million combined active users.
Dolce Sport
Enterprise sQ
ROU: Dolce Sport TV channels
have purchased a Quantel
Enterprise sQ fast turnaround news
and sports production system.
The Enterprise sQ system
enables full HD editing to begin
the moment media ingest begins,
with edited packages ready to
go to air, web and mobile/tablet
the second they are completed.
Dolce Sport TV channels
are part of Telekom Romania
Communications which has over
1.4 million subscribers.
PWS Supports
NBA Games
MEX: As the Houston Rockets
and Minnesota Timberwolves
tipped off at the Mexico City Arena,
as part of NBA Global Games
Mexico City 2014, Professional
Wireless Systems (PWS) was
courtside to manage all wireless
frequencies throughout the game.
The goal was to provide
frequency coordination for all
wireless communications, enabling
multiple wireless frequencies to
be used without interference.
The PWS team coordinated
around 110 frequencies to ensure
clear signals.