Grass Valley has come onboard as a Gold Sponsor for TVBEurope’s IT Broadcast Workflow 2012 conference taking place on 13 June at London’s BAFTA.

For the 65th Cannes Film Festival, cultural news agency AFP will produce 300 HD videos in Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. The festival will be in the spotlight each day through four to six videos of one to three minutes’ duration in web, TV and mobile platforms.

On-shore helicopter operator PDG Helicopters is using a Cinedeck RX dual channel, solid-state recorder to deliver high quality digital aerial filming. Based in Scotland, PDG Helicopters acquired its Cinedeck RX from Cindeck’s UK distributor Oxygen DCT.

With an introduction by Paula Bargery, AmberFin VP Sales, EMEA, ITV’s Luan Thompson, lead strategist for content management, will speak at this year’s IT Broadcast Workflow conference to discuss ‘Automated QC for file-based workflows’.

As the Host Broadcaster, OBS is chiefly responsible for providing the images and sound of the Olympic Games as a service to all broadcast organisations who have purchased the television and radio rights. Philip Stevens finds out how the host broadcaster for the fast-approaching Games is going about its business.

Huge entertainment productions bookend events like the Olympics, requiring creative teams that are separate from the broadcast production needed for the rest of the Games. David Fox reports.

The BBC will soon be taking delivery of more than forty of TSL Professional Products’ PAM2 multi-channel audio monitoring units for standardised use across its Olympic broadcast facility within the IBC (International Broadcast Centre).

The London Games is billed as the digital Olympics and powering huge swathes of this effort for broadcasters across mobile, PC, OTT and tablet is Italy’s Deltatre, writes Adrian Pennington.

Canford has acquired the 19-inch rack brand Enclosure Systems, based in Borough Green, Kent. Canford will develop the core ranges and maintain continuity with existing ES customers and markets. Chas Luchford, ES’s sales manager, is moving over to join Canford.

Earlier this week, Harris Corporation President and CEO William Brown announced the board’s decision to divest the Broadcast Communications division, writes Fergal Ringrose.

The French public broadcaster has ordered a total of 73 loudness processors – 22 D*AP LM4 four-channel units and 51 D*AP LM2 two channel units. These are now being rolled out to France Television facilities and will eventually cover all Paris-based channels, plus all 23 regions.

Twickenham Studios is to continue as a film production and audio post-production centre after the initial bid to buy the site and redevelop it for housing was blocked, writes Kevin Hilton.