Grass Valley announces that a suite of its live production solutions are central to GOL TV’s newly upgraded mobile fleet and studios. In a large and complex multimillion dollar deal, the Tenfield-owned bilingual soccer channel has selected Grass Valley cameras, switchers, replay and highlights and IP routing and infrastructure – all fully integrated with third-party equipment – to provide an end-to-end workflow that will support live sporting events, live musical shows and news productions. This system upgrade equips GOL TV to strengthen its position in live production for LATAM with futureproofed capability, including IP and 4K UHD HDR.

Grass Valley is continuing to lead the industry transition to a cloud-first, software-based future with the appointment of media technology expert Barbara DeHart as director of alliances for the GV Media Universe. In this newly created role, DeHart will focus all of Grass Valley’s strategic partnerships on bringing together high-performance solutions from recognized broadcast technology vendors into a unified cloud-native ecosystem.

With the completion of its 2020 year-end review, Grass Valley is celebrating a period of significant business growth – despite the unprecedented backdrop of a very challenging 12 months. In 2020, Grass Valley established itself as a standalone, privately-backed company, launched a string of new innovations, and forged ahead with its vision for a cloud-based future with the GV Media Universe, powered by the debut of its cloud-based SaaS platform, GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform).

Sky Italia has put Grass Valley cameras at the heart of its studio operation. The deployment is part of a wider studio camera upgrade, allowing the broadcaster to meet rising demand for live content and enable new services.

Grass Valley today announces that Kazakhstan Media Center, Kazmedia, has selected its HD-enabled cameras as part of a comprehensive studio upgrade at its Kazmedia Ortalygy facility in Nur Sultan (formerly Astana).

Shotoku Broadcast Systems, a leading international provider of robotic and manual camera support solutions ranging from pan/tilt heads through fully robotic studio pedestals and floor or ceiling track systems, has joined the Grass Valley Technology Alliance (GVTA). The Alliance, comprised of 22 diverse companies, is a certification program established to strengthen collaboration between members and provide vital benefits to customers, including improved purchasing confidence and access to a wide range of systems and solutions interoperable with Grass Valley platforms and workflow components.

Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and management solutions, today announced that Grass Valley’s STRATUS has integrated with Spectra’s BlackPearl^® Object Storage platform. Designed for numerous concurrent media workflows, BlackPearl eliminates the need for expensive third-party middleware by directly integrating with a wide range of production, automation and asset management applications. GV STRATUS is a video production and content management application that simplifies workflows, streamlines video editing and enables stories to break faster while providing creative freedom.

Guntermann & Drunck GmbH (G&D) is proud to announce that it is a member of the Grass Valley Technology Alliance. G&D has been at the forefront of the KVM industry for over 35 years and is a sought-after expert when it comes to intelligent KVM solutions for broadcast and post-production.

The Grass Valley Technology Alliance was established to identify compatible technologies that ensure greater efficiency. And the partners’ many years of experience ensure that Grass Valley’s customers always receive optimal solutions that interact perfectly with one another.

Grass Valley puts industry collaboration at the forefront to strengthen deliverables for customers by welcoming twelve new members to the Grass Valley Technology Alliance (GVTA). The certification program, which now boasts 21 members, provides vital benefits to customers, such as improved purchasing confidence and access to a wide range of systems and solutions that are interoperable with Grass Valley platforms and workflow components.

Republic TV, the Indian free-to-air news channel, opts for greater flexibility and scalability as it upgrades its playout and production with Grass Valley’s iTX integrated playout platform. The production side of Republic TV’s operation is now standardized on Grass Valley’s Karrera K-Frame and Kayenne K-Frame video production centers; NVISION router; and LDX 82 Series and Focus 75 Live camera chains, giving the broadcaster the tools to meet the current trend for more content on any screen.