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Sinclair Standardizes on Snell & Wilcox Kahuna Switcher
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5.02.2008
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The first switchers will be installed in stations in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia.
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NBA Doubles Digital Archiving Effort With SGI
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4.25.2008
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Eventually the entire history of the NBA archive, which contains more than 400,000 hours of content dating back to 1946, will be digitized.
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Comcast Networks to Standardize on Sony XDCAM Technology
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4.25.2008
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The Golf Channel, Versus, E! Entertainment Television, and Comcast SportsNet facilities in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and the Washington, D.C., area will be implementing XDCAM-based workflows, according to the network.
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Sweetwater Digital Selects Fujinon Lenses for New HD Truck
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4.25.2008
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The bulk of the new lens order is equipped with Fujinon’s Precision Focus Assist technology.
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Royals Open With Nation’s Largest Scoreboard Display
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4.11.2008
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The Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals lost 97 games in 2007, but they’ve topped the nation with their new stadium scoreboard.
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Harris, NHK, Ready for HD Baseball
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4.11.2008
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Japanese broadcaster NHK is producing some Major League Baseball in HD, and its latest HD production truck has Harris gear the way the Red Sox have power hitters.
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Genesis Networks Delivers Baseball Openers From Tokyo Dome
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4.11.2008
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Genesis Networks is helping take Major League Baseball global.
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NASA Television Adds Telecast CopperHead Fiber Technology
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4.11.2008
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NASA Television has upgraded its Kennedy Space Center operations for high-definition video.
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Turner Now Using Tektronix Cerify System
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4.11.2008
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“TEN has now implemented a dozen Cerify systems to support our several broadcast properties such as TNT, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, and Court TV,” said Naveed Aslam, TEN Network Operations senior director of broadcast technology and engineering.
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‘Tonight Show’ Upgrades Graphics to HD with Apella HDS and Matrox Axio
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4.11.2008
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“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” has installed the Apella HDS media server from Video Technics for ingest, management, and playback of high-definition graphics with key, the company said.
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‘Late Show’ Snags World’s Largest SSL C200
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4.04.2008
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The new 96-fader console, which will handle all of the music production requirements for the show, will be installed in the legendary Ed Sullivan Theater this summer, replacing the SSL analog SL 4000 G Series console that has served the show for 15 years.
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RCN Doubles VOD With SeaChange
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4.04.2008
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The new offering will be available to all RCN digital subscribers in Boston, Chicago, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., by June.
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OmniBus iTX NEWS Powers Daytime Spots
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4.04.2008
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The iTX system is integrated with the network’s Quantel servers and Jupiter asset management system, and allows the summaries to be broadcast by a two-person producer-presenter team.
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HD Intercom Selected for Sweetwater’s New HD Truck
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4.04.2008
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The new 53-foot HD truck, built for entertainment show production, is wired for up to 20 cameras.
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Akimbo to Use Rhozet Video Transcoding Technology
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3.28.2008
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Harmonic’s Rhozet Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between a variety of platforms, including acquisition, editing, playout, archive, the Internet and mobile devices.
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WFLA Taps Miranda’s Kaleido-X for HD Upgrade
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3.28.2008
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WFLA-TV’s new Kaleido-X replaces 62 CRT monitors, some redundantly showing the same source.
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Screen Subtitling Systems Gives Voice to the Met
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3.28.2008
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Using the Screen Subtitling technology, the Met has been able to subtitle live HD opera performances in a range of languages.
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Omneon, Vizrt Partner on Active Storage and Asset Management
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3.21.2008
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Omneon Inc. and Vizrt Ltd. have announced that their flagship products for active storage and media asset management, MediaGrid and Viz Ardome, have been integrated and successfully tested together.
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CBS Partners With Local Blogs and Social Media Web Sites
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3.21.2008
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The service offers marketers the ability to broadly reach local audiences while remaining attached to CBS station brand and content.
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WXII-TV12 Taps Utah Scientific for Routing
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3.21.2008
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Hearst-Argyle-owned WXII-TV12 in Winston-Salem, N.C., has deployed Utah Scientific’s Utah-400 routing switcher and SC-4 Control System along with associated control panels and soft panels, enabling the station to eventually transition to HD.
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