KVBC to Gather News With Infinity

Las Vegas NBC station prepares to take its ENG operation hi-def.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Feb 14, 2008
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KVBC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, ordered 18 Infinity camcorders from Thomson Grass Valley, the vendor said. The Infinitys will be integrated into KVBC’s filed-based news acquisition workflow, which includes Rev Pro gear and Edius editing stations.

KVBC-TV, owned by Sunbelt Communications in Las Vegas, started broadcasting news in hi-def last August. The station does six hours of live news in HD each weekday, plus five hours on the weekend.

More than 80 TV stations in 48 markets across the United States are now doing local news in hi-def., according the the monthly tally in Television Broadcast magazine. Most have started with a studio conversion and waited on ENG operations. Craig Johnston covers the challenges of taking ENG hi-def in the February issue of Television Broadcast.

At KVBC-TV Channel 3, an NBC affiliate station serving the greater Las Vegas metro area, the decision was recently made to replace the analog console in its news production studio with a Studer OnAir 3000 digital broadcast desk. The new desk was selected as part of a full audio and video facilities update now that the

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The Las Vegas-based station will use the digital media camcorders as part of its HD file-based news acquisition workflow.

Sunbelt Communications' KVBC-TV Channel 3, an NBC affiliate station serving the Las Vegas metro area, recently selected a Studer OnAir 3000 digital broadcast desk to replace the analog console in its news production studio.

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Thomson Grass Valley has announced that the NBC Station Group will be installing its Edius nonlinear editing software throughout its NBC and Telemundo stations. The software will mainly be used on laptop computers for field editing by ENG crews. Edius is positioned as a core piece of Grass Valley’s digital newsroom