30 July 2012
Tomorrow night, July 31, 2012, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will speak exclusively to Bloomberg Television’s Chief Washington Correspondent Peter Cook. The interview will take place in Los Angeles after the Treasury Secretary’s latest trip to Europe.
The full interview will be available after 10:30 pm ET on Bloomberg.com and can be seen on Bloomberg Television in Europe and Asia. The interview will air in the U.S. starting at 6am ET Wednesday morning on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Tune in to hear Geithner’s take on the European debt crisis and the message he just delivered in Germany, plus his assessment of the U.S. economy ahead of the Fed decision on Wednesday and Friday’s jobs report.
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27 July 2012
The Supervisory Board of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has appointed Robert Zaal as director of RNW 3.0 . From November 1, the 48-year-old will lead the implementation of RNW’s new direction, focussed on free speech. As of 2013, RNW will operate primarily in Africa and the Arab world, but also in countries such as China, Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico.
The chairman of the board, Bernard Bot, is pleased with the appointment. In a statement, Bot said, “after the most turbulent and painful period in RNW’s history, the organisation is now almost ready to embark on its new future. Robert Zaal has extensive experience in the areas of free speech, media and management. He’s the right person in the right place.”
Robert Zaal said he was pleased with the step. “It’s an honour to be able to contribute to promoting free speech around the world. This is more than just a regular job for me. It will be a challenge, together with the new editor-in-chief, to steer RNW in this new phase. There’s a good plan for RNW 3.0 and we will implement it in a serious and business-like fashion.”
RNW’s current director, Jan Hoek, remains responsible for activities related to the winding down of the old organisation, including the Social Plan and the closure of the relay stations. Jan Hoek and Robert Zaal will meet shortly to discuss the details and timing of the transfer.
Robert Zaal began his career as secretary of the Dutch Journalists’ Association. Later, he became the director of the regional broadcasters’ association, ROOS. For the past nine years, Zaal has been director of RTV North Holland, which recently acquired theAmsterdamtelevision channel AT5, together with the AVRO broadcasting organisation and theAmsterdamnewspaper Het Parool. Zaal is married and has three children.
www.rnw.nl
23 July 2012
Vizrt will supply BBC Sport with their HD graphics engines to deliver the broadcaster’s live television graphics for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Working in conjunction with Vizrt are two London-based graphics providers – Mammoth Graphics and deltatre. The two firms will use their Vizrt expertise to design, operate and manage the delivery of the live HD graphics operation, which will be based within the broadcaster’s studio at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in London.
The graphics suite will be equipped with 12 Viz Trio character generator (CG) systems, with each of six Trio live graphics systems paired with six Viz Engine HD/SD rendering systems for realtime compositing of HD video and graphics.
Two Trio/Engine combinations will be dedicated to graphics creation for BBC-1, while two more combos will support different events being carried on BBC-3, a channel targeted to a relatively younger demographic. The remaining two Trio/Engine combos will serve as spares for failsafe redundancy. All of the Vizrt systems will have access to all live video feeds coming into the IBC from all the venues, and many live graphics will integrate live video.
“All graphics and templates will have a unique BBC style created in advance using Viz Artist design software including full-screens, lower thirds, and side panels, as well as a visually riveting 3D ‘medals table’ that illustrates the medals count by nation,” said Phil Long, managing director of Mammoth Graphics. “Most of the graphics for nearly three dozen sports—roughly 2,500 events—will be live and coming from the Vizrt boxes.”
Long agrees that a key strength of the Vizrt graphics platform for high-profile events like the London Summer Games is the ability to customize it to support specific applications. For example, Mammoth Graphics collaborated with another live graphics vendor, Kenziko, to create a bespoke device called KineTrak, which will debut on the London Summer Games. KineTrak detects and interprets human movements to allow on-camera presenters to control and manipulate the presentation of live graphics.
“We’re pleased that Mammoth Graphics and deltatre have expressed confidence in our live graphics workflow for the BBC’s multichannel coverage of the Summer Games,” said Petter Ole Jakobsen, CTO of Vizrt. “We take pride in providing a powerful, integrated live graphics workflow that meets whatever graphics needs sport producers and broadcasters may have when covering such demanding live events. We can’t wait to see the graphics innovations they bring to the coverage of the Games.”
16 July 2012
Satellite operator ARABSAT is partnering with Dubai Media Inc. to carry six free-to-air sports channels to broadcast live from July 27 to 12 August during the 2012 Olympic Games inLondon.
Rashed Al Amiri, Director of Dubai Sports Channel, stated that the channel’s viewers across the five continents will be able to enjoy a variety of sports including basketball, handball, gymnastics and other competitions during the London Games.
Eng. / Khaled bin Ahmed Balkheyour President & CEO of ARABSAT, said “We are pleased to develop our partnership with Dubai Media Inc. and to watch its continuous development, and we assure them of our commitment to provide them with the best services available.”
Viewers can watch Dubai Sports channels on the following frequency: –
Satellite: Arabsat Badr – 4 Frequency: 12130 MHz – Polar: Vertical
FEC: ¾ – 27.5 Mb / s
www.arabsat.com
9 July 2012
Adelheid Feilcke was appointed by Director General Erik Bettermann to head of Deutsche Welle’s Culture Department, effective July 1, 2012. Her successor as head of International Relations is Klaus Bergmann.
Adelheid Feilcke (50) joined Deutsche Welle in 1992 and became the founding head of the Albanian Service. She has worked as a trainer for DW Akademie since 1995. She studied cultural anthropology and has been involved in media since 1981. After obtaining her high school diploma, she was an intern at the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag and then worked until 1984 as an editor in Flensburg and on the island of Sylt. She subsequently studied music, theater, film and television as well as anthropology in Cologne and as a DAAD scholar in Tirana, Albania. She obtained her master’s degree in ethnomusicology in 1990 and a second degree in cultural management at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 1993. During her time as a student, she worked as a freelance journalist and cultural manager for regional and national radio stations such as WDR and for the State Music Council of Schleswig-Holstein.
Klaus Bergmann (58) has been the head of DW’s EU representative office in Brussels since 2009. He will continue to serve in that function as part of his new assignment as head of International Relations. After studying law at Münster University, he first worked as a lawyer and then as a human resources officer for the American international broadcaster Radio Free Europe in Munich. In 1991, he became head of the Human Resources Department for DW in Cologne and two years later took charge of administration at DW’s production facilities in Berlin.
