- Chyron will be in attendance at the Rocky Mountain Audio Video Expo with their Axis World Graphics, the world’s only cloud-based graphics creation system designed specifically for broadcasters. Axis World Graphics simplifies, streamlines, and facilitates the graphics creation process, enabling reporters, artists, production assistants, and news producers to create broadcast-quality graphics using their branded graphics package. Combining award-winning technology and functionality, proven integration, and point-and-click customization, Axis World Graphics allows users to create templates in Chyron’s award-winning Lyric PRO 8 software, further streamlining integration within the broadcaster’s existing workflow or within Chyron’s BlueNet™ workflow. Maps, charts, quotes, and a fully integrated order management system set Axis apart for efficiency and collaboration. Also at the Rocky Mountain AVX will be CAMIO, a complete news graphics management solution providing unprecedented control over the look and delivery of newsroom graphics. The CAMIO graphic management architecture enables the art department to build and upload assets once so that they are immediately available to all output devices as well as newsroom clients. LUCI, CAMIO’s Newsroom Client ActiveX®, enables journalists to browse templates, edit text and replaceable images and movie files, preview their graphics and insert them into stories remotely — directly from within a newsroom client such as AP® ENPS® and Avid® iNews®. CAMIO manages the distribution of assets and ensures that all assets are available for air. Playout is simplified with either the Lyric playlist control or the optional iSQ. The order of graphics for playout is always synchronized with the running order in the newsroom computer system as it changes with floats and edits.
- SENCORE has signed a new partnership agreement with Olvitech Ltd. Under the new reseller agreement, Olvitech will act as main platform for distributing the entire SENCORE product line to customers in Russia as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). “High-quality and reliable test and measurement equipment is becoming a critical factor for media companies in the Russia and CIS region as they progress with digital delivery. Their exacting requirements can only be met by a manufacturer of SENCORE’s caliber,” said Elya Presman, president, Olvitech Ltd. “As SENCORE’s first distributor in this territory, we look forward to bringing the state-of-the-art in signal transmission and video delivery solutions to our Russian and CIS customers.” From its Moscow office, Olvitech will represent SENCORE solutions in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The partnership includes the entire SENCORE product line and Olvitech sees tremendous opportunity across this region for reliable, cost-effective test and measurement solutions. As SENCORE’s primary distributor, Olvitech will provide a strong local presence with full marketing and technical support capabilities available to all systems integrators and end user customers in the region.
- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has secured a further long-term contract with Channel 4 in the U.K. to provide additional capacity on its recently launched ASTRA 1N spacecraft. Channel 4 already has three transponders under contract at SES’s 28.2 degrees East orbital slot. The new capacity on ASTRA 1N will be used to transmit Channel 4’s main HD service together with further HD services over the coming years. SES will bring into service three new satellites at 28.2 degrees East from 2012 to 2014. They are the ASTRA 2F, 2E and 2G and they will provide additional capacity and greater back-up, together with more power and operational flexibility, for its customers in the U.K. and Ireland. Channel 4 was founded in 1982 as a public service broadcaster and regularly reaches more than 35 million viewers each week. Its HD service will be delivered to Sky and Freesat households, representing more than 12 million U.K. homes.
SatBroadcasting™ — This report includes Chyron, Sencore + Olvitech, SES
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