When Jennifer Lopez performed a moving medley of This Land Is Your Land and America Is Beautiful at President Biden’s inauguration ceremony, very few of the millions of people watching would have realised that British technology played a key role in shaping the sound they were hearing.

Behind the scenes, in the run up to the inauguration ceremony, Kevin Teasley, JLo’s Pro Tools programmer, music producer and musical director for her It’s My Party World Tour, used a comprehensive selection of Neve® recording equipment to prepare the pre-recorded music that was vital to ensuring the success of her performance.

“The elevation of the final audio was superb and there is absolutely no doubt that Neve equipment helped us achieve the results we wanted,” Kevin says. “Neve is indeed a real go-to when I work in Live, TV, Film, Records, trailers, promos, broadcast, etc. Basically just about anything that I work on! Neve is included in my workflow on every single project from recording, mixing, and mastering.”

HelixNet and FreeSpeak II Systems Cover Annual Blooming Night Social Media Influencer Event Gathering a mix of celebrities, social media influencers and more than 500 guests in an event space the size of a soccer field presents a range of unique communications challenges. Douyin – the Chinese video-sharing and social media app – handled them all smoothly for its annual Blooming Night ceremony, with the help of Clear-Com®’s HelixNet® digital network partyline and FreeSpeak II® digital wireless intercom systems.Douyin is the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, with both social apps owned by parent company ByteDance. Douyin has quickly become one of the most popular and fastest-growing mobile apps in the world, as well as a positive force in the Chinese economy generating tens of millions of domestic jobs each year, according to recent studies.

Broadpeak® a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, today announced the next generation of its BkYou ad personalization solution, featuring new ad preparation capabilities. BkYou offers pay-TV operators and content providers an end-to-end solution for ad insertion, supporting the entire process of ad personalization from the origin server to transcoding, packaging, and delivery to end-user devices, with reports to enable deeper insights into ad consumption.

Planeta TV, one of PlayBox Neo's longest established customers, is upgrading to 4K UHD @50p at its headquarters in Sofia. Latest-generation Neo-20 channel-in-a-box production, scheduling and playout will be used across all three of the broadcaster's channels which transmit round the clock to viewers in Bulgaria and around the globe.

PlayBox Technology UK, the #1 Channel in a Box manufacturer, has this week joined the GoDaddy Customer Council initiative as the company continues to build and reach new heights with its online presence.

PlayBox Technology UK, the leading Channel in a Box manufacturer, this week moved forwards with its International E-commerce transformation campaign by expanding its product offering across a range of online marketplaces and vendors - including AWS, Amazon, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and more.

PlayBox Neo announces the completion of a system upgrade and expansion at the Johannesburg studios of TBN Africa. TBN Africa is part of Trinity Broadcast Network, the world's largest religious television network. Supplied and integrated in primary-plus-backup configuration by PlayBox Neo's Johannesburg-based distribution partner Pro Sales Broadcast, the original system went live in Q2 2018 for viewers in more than 54 countries across the continent. 

Globecast has announced that it has been selected by Classic Arts Showcase to provide it with playout, linear satellite distribution, VOD and streaming services beginning January.

PlayBox Neo announces the completion of a large-scale playout system for 24-hour TV news broadcaster N1 at the network's headquarters in Belgrade. CNN's exclusive regional news partner, N1 broadcasts via cable, direct-to-home satellite and on the Net TV Plus OTT platform. The project was commissioned via PlayBox Neo distribution partner PBT Adria which supervised the design, installation and operator training.

ITV, the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster, has extended its relationship with Yospace, the server-side ad insertion (SSAI) pioneer, for targeted advertising on live channels in ITV Hub. The companies have together played a fundamental role in developing SSAI technology, having first collaborated in 2011 and providing its first public demonstration for live streams at IBC 2012. The extension runs until 2022 and will mark over a decade of collaboration and innovation in SSAI.