OUTSIDE BROADCAST NEWS

As it has for the past several years, live sports production company F&F Productions, based in Clearwater, Florida (US) will send two of its most advanced high definition (HD) production trucks outfitted with Grass Valley equipment, to cover the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four Weekend Tournament (31 March - 1April) and National Championship Game (2 April) for CBS Sports, with a third production truck dedicated to ESPN in order to supply the live international feed.
Inala Broadcast is a major supplier of equipment for use in outside broadcast (OB) vehicles and electronic news gathering (ENG) systems in South Africa and the brands it represents are some of the best worldwide.
Telemedia (Pty) Ltd is described as ‘Africa’s broadcast backbone’. Founded in 1981 with a focus on the supply and installation of radio and television broadcasting equipment, Telemedia has evolved into a broad-based media broadcast outfit.
Productions has been in the television industry for over 10 years, working closely with staging companies, transmission service providers and creative directors to successfully produce sporting events, concerts, series and documentaries.
You’ve seen them no doubt – those huge vehicles parked outside your favourite sporting stadium or at that live performance at one of South Africa’s many event venues.
EFX Productions is an independent outside broadcasting (OB) company that seeks to offer creative solutions to its clients. With this in mind, Brendan Marsay, the owner of EFX Productions and an innovative engineer by profession, designed and engineered a specially designed OB van in March 2010 in response to production requirements for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
Sony South Africa Broadcast & Professional Division has been awarded a contract to supply SuperSport Outside Broadcast Division with another new 28-camera HD OB van, similar to the recently completed OB6 HD
A systems integrator is an individual or business that builds systems for broadcast, production and post-production clients by combining hardware and software products from multiple vendors.
After launching at this year’s NAB in Las Vegas, the Selenio Media Convergence Platform from Harris was introduced to the South African market at the recent Mediatech Africa exhibition in Johannesburg.
AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, conversion, acquisition and desktop solutions supporting the professional broadcast and post-production markets, had several new products on display at the Touchvision stand at Mediatech Africa.
Technology Innovated Distribution (TID), a specialist audio product distribution company, used Mediatech Africa 2011 to showcase seven premium audio brands.