1 June 2009
Wohler Technologies Inc. today announced that the “Dr. Phil” show has installed the company’s RM-2435-HD video monitors as part of an upgrade to the Stage 29 facilities on the Paramount Pictures Studios lot where the popular CBS show tapes. The HD upgrade includes a new control room, set modifications, and a state-of-the-art editing facility. The affordable new Wohler RM-2435-HD monitors are being used in the dub room for confidence monitoring of dubs and stage feeds.
The RM-2435-HD is designed for confidence monitoring of SD-SDI and HD-SDI video with embedded audio in the production environment. The monitoring system features four 3.5-inch screens capable of displaying SD or HD video in a high-resolution 640 x 480 format, with meters for eight channels of audio. Operators can add video overlays including safe area and safe title display markers, a center mark, time code, and under-monitor display name. The Wohler monitor automatically derives both time code and audio from the embedded SDI signal, displaying levels via on-screen bar graph meters for added convenience.
The slim and lightweight RM-2435-HD occupies a very compact 2 RU and its chassis measures only 2.25 inches in depth. Operators can select between viewing in a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio and can monitor audio along with their video.
“Wohler’s affordable RM family of compact audio and video monitoring solutions offers the best value and feature set performance required to ensure a high standard of quality as popular television programs shift their production operations to HD,” said Jeff McNall, national sales manager/market development at Wohler. “The ‘Dr. Phil’ show has built a strong following based on its reliable delivery of engaging content, and the RM-2435-HD offers the show’s production team a convenient toolset for maintaining the best broadcast quality.”
A syndicated series, “Dr. Phil” is broadcast on more than 213 stations representing 99.9 percent of the national market. Since its debut in September 2002, the series has been ranked second among all daytime talk shows and consistently ranks among the top 10 of all syndicated strips.
1 June 2009
Sustainable development. Just a few years ago, it was a term only known by experts. Now it’s on everyone’s lips. At a time when each person is looking for ways to help protect the environment, euronews wants to provide meaningful answers with its magazine programme terra viva.
Twice a month, terra viva will spotlight initiatives by individuals, non-profit and business organisations, who have adopted practical solutions to safeguard our planet. terra viva travels around Europe to meet them. The first edition tackles flooding problems, with two examples in Netherlands. The second edition is directed in Tuscany, where the residents aim at zero waste by 2020.
EDF, the European energy leader, sponsors terra viva broadcasted every Tuesday at 15:15 CET. Thanks to this sponsoring, EDF is associated to all trailers and every broadcasting of the magazine (opening and closing), every edition is broadcasted 23 times a week.
EDF benefits from worldwide broadcast network of news channel which is today available in 256 million households in 144 countries.
Olivier de Montchenu Chief Executive Officer of Euronews Sales declared: We are delighted to welcome EDF on euronews. With terra viva, our commercial and editorial teams have suggested to EDF a concept of programme which has met their expectation in communication. It shows once again that the quality of euronews programmes attract the bigger companies who recognize in euronews a real and fitted opportunity to accompany their communication strategy.
29 May 2009
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29 May 2009
As with online broadcasting, the AIB is building dialogues with leading suppliers of the technology and services that are driving mobile data. These include the GSM Association, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Real networks and RIM. We have already published a number of reports on the evolution of the mobile market and the need for members to engage quickly with the opportunities that it presents. There will be further information published over the next few months to help members decide on how they can best exploit the opportunities based on their particular situations.
Microblogging
The AIB is in the process of producing a member only briefing on microblogging including comments from the Media140 event held in London recently. Microblogging provides a means of tracking news, finding information and highlightling output. All broadcasters should be analysing the uses to which they can put this new tool.
28 May 2009
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