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ATG Broadcast Opens Dubai Media City Office
ATG Broadcast has announced the expansion of its systems integration and sales operations with the formation of a new company in the United Arab Emirates. The company will provide support to ATG Broadcast’s existing clients in the Middle East and be a base for additional activity in and around the region. The new company, ATG Middle East FZ-LLC, is located at Dubai Media City. “The Dubai office is headed by Hassan Ghoul who joins as Managing Director of ATG Middle East FZ-LLC,” commented ATG Broadcast Managing Director Graham Day. “His long experience of the Middle East Broadcast market includes 21 years with Sony Broadcast Middle East, latterly as head of sales and systems integration, followed by five years with Ascent Media as director of business development for the Middle East region.” “ATG Broadcast already enjoys an excellent reputation in the Middle East,” said Ghoul. “Our activity will include the provision of systems integration and supporting services for ATG Broadcast’s existing clients in the region as well as working with our UKbased colleagues to expand ATG’s relationship with broadcasters and production companies throughout the MENA countries.” ATG Broadcast projects currently progressing in the Middle East include a production studio plus a file-based ingest system for Arab Radio & Television (ART). The network has contribution studios in many countries of the Middle East which are controlled from its technical headquarters in Amman, Jordan. This facility will form the technical heart of an entirely new site in Jeddah. ART is constructing a new building which will replace an outside broadcast vehicle currently deployed as a regional contribution centre. The new system will be essentially HD with some initial parts of the system in SD. Graham Day and Hassan Ghoul “The studio will be monitors on Custom Consoles equipped with Ikegami HDKMedia Walls.” 79EX cameras, a Kayak SD/HD ATG Broadcast is one of the vision switcher and a Studer Vista 5 world’s most successful providers audio desk,” said Project Manager of high-end reliable and easy-toDave Whitaker. “Routing will be via operate integrated systems for a 64 x 64 Snell HD matrix. Studio broadcasters and programme output is a mix of live-from-studio makers alike. Active in Europe, and clip-list-managed disk server Asia, Africa and the Middle sources transmitted via satellite East, the company is part of the link to Amman. Other equipment in Dan Technologies Group which the order includes a Vizrt Trio realoperates from offices in the United time 2D/3D character generator, Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Axon glue, Tektronix test gear, and Norway, Sweden, Vietnam and a Miranda multi-image processor Dubai. feeding Panasonic 42 inch plasma

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