The expansive, newly designed facility is home to NBC Bay Area’s signature news shows Today in the Bay and NBC Bay Area News.
Peter Chernin has launched The North Road Company, a global content studio that will bring together Chernin Entertainment, the U.S. assets of Red Arrow Studios, which includes Love Is Blind producer Kinetic Content, and Connor Schell’s non-scripted business Words + Pictures. The move comes as the former Fox chief paid $180 million for Red Arrow’s U.S. companies including Kinetic Content; The Circus producer Left/Right; 44 Blue Productions, the company behind Netflix’s Life After Death with Tyler Henry; Say Yes To The Dress producer Half Yard and Building Alaska producer Dorsey Pictures.
ATG Danmon announces the completion of a multi-camera studio and control room upgrade for That Lot, a European provider of social media content production support. The project coincided with the relocation of That Lot’s headquarters to new premises in Bishopsgate, London. It is an upgrade to full UHD vision, routing, recording, monitoring and archiving. “ATG […]
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Welt television in Berlin has equipped its new news studio and production installation with software-based production tools from Vizrt, a global provider of software-defined visual storytelling (#SDVS) solutions for media content creators. The German broadcaster’s highly automated SMPTE 2110 NMOS-based infrastructure switches, composites, and actualizes a full broadcast output without the use of a production […]
COVID-19’s social distancing requirements won’t have a lasting impact on studio design and trends like video walls are expanding, vendors say. But remote production has compelled them to offer simple-to-use at-home kits until COVD abates. Above, Devlin Design Group recently delivered the set for the new studio at the Tennis Channel. The set uses LED displays surrounding the studio. The Tennis Channel can use the same set for different programs since the LEDs can display “graphic wallpaper” that can be customized.
Amid the backdrop of the pandemic and the ongoing, years-long digestion of several mega-mergers, from Disney-Fox to ViacomCBS to AT&T’s WarnerMedia, pretty much every legacy entertainment house in town is in the process of maneuvering a massive ship-turning effort to better point their armadas in the direction of streaming. And perhaps being the head of a broadcast network isn’t what it used to be, as younger viewers increasingly regard linear TV as an anachronism.
The deal includes mandatory and comprehensive use of personal protective gear and testing of cast and crew members, and a dedicated coronavirus supervisor to oversee it all. It requires the use of a “zone system” that strictly limits interactions between people on sets based on their job’s requirements.
CJP Broadcast completed a studio set design and installation project at the London headquarters of an internationally active provider of business and financial services. The new set will be used to develop high-definition video productions and podcasts for a wide range of U.K.-based and overseas clients. “We were asked to provide full project management and […]
CP Communications, a provider of solutions and services for live event productions, has completed the systems integration of a custom-designed streaming media studio and control room that enables The Ironman Group — a Tampa-based sports event management company — to deliver live coverage of its branded multisport and marathon events over-the-top via its website and Facebook Watch. […]
KELO Unveils $1 Million Studio Upgrade
U.K.-based ATG Danmon has finished construction of a full broadcast-quality news studio facility for Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. The project coincides with a relocation to new city-center premises situated next to BBC facilities. Cardiff University will use the facility to train the next generation of television, radio, online and printed-media journalists. […]
New to IBC this year (Sept. 13-17, RAI Amsterdam) is an AoIP appliance by Wheatstone that removes the barriers to seamlessly sharing studio operation and high-quality programming between facilities, sports venues, and other sites in separate locations. SwitchBlade is a 1RU appliance for the WheatNet-IP audio network that contains audio codecs controlled by SIP, transporting Wheatstone logic […]
NBC Sports Philadelphia Debuts New Studio With Flexible, LED-Driven Design
KHOU Debuts New ‘Great Day Houston’ Studio
WOIO Improves Breaking News Coverage For Web Viewers With JVC Studio
Live streaming of breaking news is nothing new in the Cleveland-Akron market (DMA 19), but WOIO wanted to provide its viewers with more than just a video feed. In December, the Raycom Media-owned CBS affiliate began using its new ProHD Studio 4000 live production and streaming studio from JVC Professional Video to provide a scaled-down, cost-effective version of its […]
KHOU Debuts New Downtown Studio
KHOU has been in a temporary studio since the station lost its building to Hurricane Harvey. But the Tegna station in Houston is making strides towards settling into a permanent new home. On Friday, the station debuted its new Avenida studio in downtown Houston.
KFOR Names Studio After Linda Cavanaugh
KETK Gets A $4 Million Dollar Makeover
How The Studios Fared In The New Net Skeds
The gap between studios narrows as the five broadcast networks fill fewer holes on their schedules with content that’s largely produced in-house.
WOOD Grand Rapids Opens Two New Studios
WOOD Creating Streetside Studio
On The NAB Exhibit Floor: Bexel
Bexel | Booth C6025 | Website: http://bexel.com/ Bexel Clarity 800 Camera — As a part of its specialty camera initiative, Bexel announced the launch of Clarity 800, a custom-built camera that is the world’s first miniature, high-frame-rate (HFR) point-of view camera for live production. Building on Bexel and Camera Corps’ unrivaled experience of using specialty […]
