In Broadcast - June 2015 - 20


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 6 | June 2015

InNews
MediaCorp
Expands LiveU
Deployment
USA: MediaCorp has increased its
group-wide deployment of LiveU
solutions, based on its successful
use of LiveU over several years.
MediaCorp is equipping all its
news bureaus in the region,
including China, Hong Kong, Japan,
Korea and other locations, with
LU500 backpacks as well as LUSmart mobile apps. James Hollis,
Assistant VP, Production Services
for Channel News Asia, MediaCorp,
said: "The technology has given
us more flexibility in the way
we deliver live reports from our
regional bureaus."

United Integrates L-S-B's
VSM System Into OB 16
D

utch multicam specialist United
have unveiled their brand new
eight camera truck OB 16, which is
equipped with L-S-B's VSM System
(Virtual Studio Manager).

SIS LIVE Covers
General Election
GBR: SIS LIVE was relied upon by
the UK's main news broadcasters
to provide uplink facilities for their
general election coverage.
SIS LIVE provided 70 satellite
uplink vehicles to the main UK
broadcasters, as they covered the
voting and results in one of the
most unpredictable elections in
history.
Uplink vehicles and SIS LIVE
crew were deployed throughout
England, Scotland and Wales,
giving
the
broadcasters
coverage of the main electoral
battlegrounds.

BFM TV Employs
Dejero LIVE+ App
CAN: BFM TV, France's premier
24-hour television news channel, is
expanding and enhancing its field
newsgathering capabilities using
the Dejero LIVE+ Mobile App for
iOS devices.
BFM TV is deploying the app to
staff reporters, news freelancers,
and other personnel, giving them
the ability to cover live events and
breaking news, when and where
it happens, using only their Apple
iPhones or iPads.

United's OB 16

For OB 16, the newest addition to
the fleet, the company chose L-SBs VSM system to control all major
components of the vehicle. L-SB's local partner LDM Audiovisual
Systems,
based
in Lint, Belgium,
carried out the
delivery
and
configuration of the
VSM system.
VSM
controls
all systems in the
vehicle, integrating
the video (Grass
Valley),
audio
(Lawo) and intercom
(Image courtesy of Marcel Krijgsman) (Riedel) router, and

also the multiviewer (Grass Valley),
thus offering workflows, individually
configured to the needs of the
company and the operators alike.
The OB Van works completely in
HD-quality and all connections are
supported with fibre cabling. On the
audio part a Lawo mc256 console plus
a Nova73 compact core is in place.
The audio mixing console works as a
controller for the Nova router, which
is equipped with MADI, transferring
audio signals of 64 audio channels
over one fibre cable.
Furthermore, VSM has direct access
to the Riedel Artist Matrix intercom
system that connects to the Lawo
system via MADI protocol.

ORF Scores At Eurovision
With Lawo IP Infrastructure

T

his year, Austrian host broadcaster
ORF marked the 60th anniversary
of the world's oldest and most
successful televised song contest not
only as a perfect host, providing a
spectacular TV and stage show, but
also with a technically innovative
production concept.
More than 200 million viewers in 80
countries witnessed Sweden's Mans
Zelmerlow outscore his 26 co-finalists,
but would have been unaware that
all of the contest's audio signals were
routed via a RAVENNA/AES67-based
IP infrastructure for the first time at
a Eurovision event. Both the Lawo
Nova 73 audio matrix - including
all connected DALLIS I/O systems
used by ORF's broadcast supplier,

VideoHouse - and
the video and audio
distribution of the
Lawo commentary
solution were based
on IP networking
technology.
All
of
the
audio
signals
were
collected
by
a
central
audio router, to
be
distributed
to all of the
event's suppliers and OB vans.
This setup minimised equipment
and cabling requirements while
significantly increasing the flexibility
of the installation. The central audio

Lawo's mc²66 console inside the OB truck
(Image courtesy of Christian Oser/ORF)

infrastructure was based on a Lawo
Nova 73HD audio routing core,
which formed the heart of the audio
operation.
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