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

NEP has acquired UK-based Bow Tie TV after a long-standing relationship between the companies. The deal widens NEP’s UK services into contract management and...

Harris Broadcast President Harris Morris said last night, “Today, Harris announced its decision to divest the Broadcast Communications business. I fully support this decision...

Peter Angell, the director of the Production and Programming Division, Host Broadcast Services, has left the company, writes Adrian Pennington. HBS says Angell has...

It has not been easy being Sony in the last year. How is the European Professional business faring now, and what are the drivers...

The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) Training Academy has launched its first online course. ‘Introduction to Broadcast Technology’ covers key elements of the...

Mobile TV, which seemed to have died a death over the last few years, has come back fighting. After the service seemed to have...

The Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) has published the Broadcast Metadata Exchange Format (BMF) in the official version 2.0. BMF 2.0 is a manufacturer-independent format...

The market for vision mixers (production switchers) is picking up, and remains competitive across all areas of TV broadcast production. Philip Stevens leads TVBEurope’s...

SeaChange International has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its broadcast server and storage business, allowing the company to focus...

Billed for many years as the greatest thing since sliced bread, tapeless or file-based workflows were touted as making TV programme productions much cheaper,...

Ross Video has acquired Belgian camera robotics company FX-Motion, makers of the Furio system, following a booth meeting between David Ross (pictured) and FX-Motion...

European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Members will be offered generic applications to deploy Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) during the Olympics and the Eurovision Song...

The International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM) has announced 15 board members for 2012/2013. The board, led by Chairman Jan Eveleens of Axon Digital...

Apple has addressed some of the criticisms leveled by broadcast editors at its Final Cut Pro X with the new release of v10.0.3, a...

DVS new Pronto4K disk recorder can cope with compressed or uncompressed material from HD to 4K resolution for realtime playout as well as capture...

ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion has installed 12 RTW TM9 TouchMonitor audio metering systems at its base in Unterföhring, near Munich, as part of a project to...

Sony is shipping its first consignment of F65 CineAlta cameras into Europe this week, with UK dealers CVP and Top-Teks receiving the first units...

Alain Andreoli (pictured) will join a distinguished panel of industry figures to discuss the future of acquisition, production, post-production and distribution technologies at the...

WBU-ISOG (World Broadcasting Unions International Satellite Operations Group) has released the results of interoperability tests of HD video equipment required for the transmission of...

Jampro Antennas has acquired the Alan Dick Broadcast (ADBL) Division of ADC UK, which specialises in broadcast antennas, combiners/filters, towers and broadcast infrastructure service,...

What’s the story behind the Norwegian company that claims to be the number one newscast automation provider in Europe with more than 70% market...

Jake Young has joined TVBEurope as Staff Writer, working with Editorial Director Fergal Ringrose and Deputy Editor Melanie Dayasena-Lowe across all print, online and...

Outside Broadcast provider Bow Tie Television recently upgraded the audio monitoring system in one of its OB vans using a barely visible K-Array system.

ScheduALL saw strong growth during the year ending December 31st, 2011 with double digit earnings, a revenue increase of 27% over the prior year,...

Blackmagic Design has released a new version of its HyperDeck Shuttle solid-state disk recorder that adds broadcast-quality 10-bit recording and playback to the Avid...

A new lens add-on, the GoPano Plus from Eyesee360, will allow almost any camera to shoot panoramic 360º video in a single take.

Thomas Hellum, project manager at NRK Norway, will address the broadcaster’s recent Guinness World Record-setting TV documentary, Hurtigruten, during Fast Turnaround TV on 13...

Designed for use with DSLR and large-sensor video cameras, the VideoMic HD is a high-fidelity, precision RF bias shotgun microphone with integrated digital recording.

Harmonisation on the R128 Loudness recommendation is contributing to a wealth of installations involving Jünger Audio C8000 loudness control systems and T*AP TV audio...

The BVE 2012 free seminar programme is the largest of its kind in the UK, with 11 theatres presenting more than 250 seminars across...

Quantel has become the latest Gold Sponsor to sign up for TVBEurope’s Fast Turnaround TV 2012 conference taking place on 13 March at the...

CES report: The first large screen OLED consumer display panels will ship later this year, but Sony has demonstrated what it believes is its...

CES report: Autostereoscopic displays point the way forward for the 3DTV industry but the technology is far from mature.

The final show of dance series Kvieciu Sokti, transmitted on 31 December 2011, was the subject of the first nationwide HD broadcast of a...

A high proportion of director Danny Boyle's latest movie Trance has been shot with the tiny IndiePOV camera, which now offers a 12-bit raw...

CES Report: Up to 50 GoPro HD Hero2 cameras can be remotely controlled and their images streamed live remotely via a new mini wireless...

JVC announced the GY-HMQ10, the world’s first handheld 4K camcorder, this week, at CES in Las Vegas. The camera, which captures, records and plays...