When Kanye West released his fourth solo album, “808’s and Heartbreak,” recently, Scharff Weisberg provided lighting and video support to lighting designer Jonathan Goldstein for the artist’s many media appearances, including a guest shot on “Saturday Night Live.” All of the events took place within a two-day period demonstrating Scharff Weisberg’s ability to respond quickly to venues with very different requirements.
“Kanye and I have have a good relationships with Lorne Michaels and SNL,” comments Goldstein. “For this show they were extremely accommodating, allowing us in for days to set more
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 1, 2009 — Omneon, Inc., a leading provider of media server and active storage systems, today announced that Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI), the official public broadcaster for Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a major Middle East satellite TV broadcaster, has installed a new Omneon Spectrum™ media server system. Supplied by systems integrator Tevido LLC, also of the UAE, the Spectrum server system provides reliable, centralized playout of all six DMI channels to air. more
CABSAT, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — March 2, 2009 — ScheduALL, the leading provider of enterprise resource management (ERM) software for the broadcast and media industry, today announced that Al Jazeera English, the world’s first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East, is managing its staff and media resources, workflow, and cost accounting for its global newsgathering operations with ScheduALL software, integrating four broadcast centers and feeds from 69 news bureaus. more
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND - MARCH 2009: As of February 8, 2009, Fred Vogler became a multi-Grammy award-winning recording engineer and producer. With one Grammy earned in 2007, the audio veteran added two more Grammys to his list for his role as audio producer of the Los Angeles Opera’s rendering of Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” The stereo recording, originally conceived and ultimately realized as a 5.1 DVD release for PBS’s Great Performances series and released on the Euroarts label, earned Grammys for both Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. Vogler relied on a pair of ATC SCM50A reference monitors in the acoustically-compromised control room at the opera more
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND - MARCH 2009: As of February 8, 2009, Fred Vogler became a multi-Grammy award-winning recording engineer and producer. With one Grammy earned in 2007, the audio veteran added two more Grammys to his list for his role as audio producer of the Los Angeles Opera’s rendering of Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” The stereo recording, originally conceived and ultimately realized as a 5.1 DVD release for PBS’s Great Performances series and released on the Euroarts label, earned Grammys for both Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. Vogler relied on a pair of ATC SCM50A reference monitors in the acoustically-compromised control room at the opera more
Best known for developing and producing original programming, such as “Hogan Knows Best” and “My Big Redneck Wedding,” Pink Sneakers Productions recently relied on shared storage solution technology from Small Tree to help improve workflow during post-production on Bravo’s “Miami Social.”
Designer of simple-to-install, inexpensive networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors using MAC OS X, Small Tree provided Pink Sneakers Productions with a bundled Ethernet solution reaching Fibre Channel performance. The installation was completed by Bob Zelin, a respected independent video engineer with more than 30 years experience in the television industry. more
Iroquois, ON, Canada – March 2, 2009 – Calvin College, a Christian liberal-arts college in Grand Rapids, Mich. has invested in a Vision 2 QMD Multi-Definition Digital Production Switcher. Vision will be used to provide students with real world experience, and to broadcast Inner Compass, a weekly nationally distributed half hour show. more
Iroquois, ON, Canada – March 2, 2009 – Calvin College, a Christian liberal-arts college in Grand Rapids, Mich. has invested in a Vision 2 QMD Multi-Definition Digital Production Switcher. Vision will be used to provide students with real world experience, and to broadcast Inner Compass, a weekly nationally distributed half hour show. more
Sky Sports Assist With Installation Of DSF-2 & DSF-3 In Bow Tie’s HD OB2
Wakefield, UK, March 2009: UK-based high-definition outside broadcast specialists Bow Tie Television have installed a SoundField DSF-2 and DSF-3 digital 5.1 microphone system into their second outside broadcast unit, OB2, which has recently been refurbished and rebuilt to handle 5.1 audio with the cooperation of satellite broadcaster Sky. The refurbished broadcast truck and the newly installed SoundField systems will be used to generate 5.1 surround audio for Sky Sports’ premier league darts coverage.
“We recorded the World Championship darts event to multitrack at Alexandra Palace in December, using two analogue SoundField systems,” explains Sky’s Operations Manager Keith more
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When Kanye West released his fourth solo album, “808’s and Heartbreak,” recently, Scharff Weisberg provided lighting and video support to lighting designer Jonathan Goldstein for the artist’s many media appearances, including a guest shot on “Saturday Night Live.” All of the events took place within a two-day period demonstrating Scharff Weisberg’s ability to respond quickly to venues with very different requirements.
