Brazil’sTV Cultura has selected Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to enhance its production workflow with a newly expanded playout infrastructure. The broadcaster is now equipped with more channels, higher resolution content and smoother integration – supporting its vision to deliver richer content to its viewers.

Imagine Communications has supplied the key components of a studio transfer and modernization project at the Recife facility of TV Globo, one of the largest broadcasters in Latin America. The new hybrid SDI-IP facility, which is anchored by IP-capable processing, monitoring and control solutions from Imagine Communications, is designed to assist TV Globo in long-term cost reduction, minimizing operational complexity and helping the company to keep pace with evolving market demands through the easy integration of future standards and technology upgrades.

ESPN Brazil has selected RT Softwares leading sports enhancement and telestration solution, tOG-Sports to boost its cutting edge football coverage.

SAM (Snell Advanced Media) is pleased to announce the following additions to its Brazilian sales team, effective November 1st, which expands its regional customer support and facilitates achievement of LATAM  business goals.

Blackmagic Design today announced that O2 Filmes is using several Pocket Cinema Cameras as the lead cameras to shoot TV Globos new hit comedy Lili, a Ex. On set ingestion is being done by White Gorilla and all color correction for the show is being completed using DaVinci Resolve by O2 Post.

Sao Paulo-based LineUP will offer complete Quantel and Snell product range

Quantel is delighted to announce that it has appointed LineUP as its reseller partner in Brazil for its full range of Quantel news & sports production systems and high quality post finishing systems as well as the complete Snell Live TV and TV Everywhere product ranges.

Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading provider of software-based solutions for media organizations, has announced that TV Globo, the world's second-largest commercial TV network by annual revenue, is placing Dalet Media Life, based on the award-winning Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management (MAM) platform, at the heart of its entertainment archive.

Orad received an award at the Panorama Audiovisual Awards 2014 in the category Virtual Set Solution for Orad RealSet. More than 200 companies competed in 49 categories. Voting was carried out through a dedicated website, and the winners were decided online by the readers of the magazine Panorama Audiovisual. 

Phase three of state-wide rollout extends high-quality HDTV services to 139 cities in Sao Paulo.  The current installation marks the third phase of an aggressive single-frequency network (SFN) rollout that will bring exceptional HDTV coverage to all 318 cities across TV TEM, an affiliate of REDE Globo, has relied exclusively on GatesAir over-the-air solutions for its DTV transition since 2009.  Following a successful phase two covering medium- and high-power sites, the current rollout focuses on low-power sites using high-efficiency GatesAir Maxiva¢ UAX air-cooled and ULXT liquid-cooled transmitters ranging from 100 W to 7.5 kW.  Collectively, the GatesAir SFN architecture brings together cutting-edge signal processing, transport and over-the-air delivery systems that minimize costs associated with network distribution and long-term operation.

 At the upcoming SET EXPO 2014 show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, GatesAir, a global leader in over-the-air broadcast solutions for television and radio, will demonstrate how ISDB-Tb DTV broadcasters can reduce long-term costs and accelerate return on investment with its end-to-end ISDB-Tb solutions.  GatesAir will showcase its new range of high-efficiency UHF transmitters at Booth A07/B08 from August 25-27, with complete integrated transport solutions to distribute high-quality, multichannel terrestrial and mobile TV services across large networks.

Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Groups Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, recently completed a major inventory upgrade to support the companys extensive installations for both the Spanish  and English-speaking U.S. rights holders at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. The $13 million investment increases Bexels service offering of products in several key areas, including camera systems, switchers and routers, and servers.

When Spanish tenor and conductor Plcido Domingo took to the stage for the Concert in Rio, honoring the close of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, television audiences received a crystal clear sound thanks to DPA Microphones d:dicate¢ Recording Microphones. Performing at the HSBC Arena Stage in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, July 11, Domingo was accompanied by Puerto Rican soprano Ana Mara Martnez, Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra.