" 'The only constant in life is change' sounds like a phrase created to define the electronics industry," says Leader Electronics President Kozo Nagao summarizing highlights of the company's 2022 activity. "It is usually attributed to Greek philosopher Heraclitus who flourished 2,700 years ago. Leader is in that context comparatively young but has lived up to its name since its formation in the early 1950s. An ongoing change which largely defined 2022 in the broadcast media business was the accelerating adoption of IP-based system infrastructure. The main theme of our exhibit at the April 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas was 'Making Your SDI/IP Transition Smooth'." Early in Q3, we announced major additions to the feature set of the Leader LVB440 IP Analyzer. These expand the analyzer's IP traffic and signal monitoring resources by adding signal generation tools plus the ability to monitor and analyze SR Live Metadata."

PMC’s reputation as an industry leader in the immersive audio market has led dBs Institute of Sound & Digital Technologies to choose the company’s loudspeakers for two new Dolby Atmos Music studios it is opening at its Manchester and Bristol campuses.

dBs Institute, which also has a campus in Plymouth, offers degree and master’s programmes across a range of music production, audio technology, games development and digital technology disciplines. The new Dolby Atmos studios will be used by all students, including those working in Game Development, Game Sound and Sound Design.

With more than 20 years’ experience as a composer and audio specialist, Edward Patrick White knows the importance of creating arrangements and mixes that translate seamlessly between his own studio and a dubbing stage. Having the right tools for the job is critical, which is why he has recently changed his studio monitoring to incorporate a pair of PMC 6-2 nearfield monitors.

Custom Consoles announces the completion of Module-R and MDesk-Technical control room desks plus MediaWall monitor displays for a newly opened 975 square metre production hub in Scotland. The project was supervised by Hampshire-based Dega Broadcast Systems.

FOX Sports is taking TAG Video Systems to the world’s greatest sporting event in Qatar as its monitoring and visualization provider. From Sunday, November 20 through Sunday, December 18, FOX Sports will present all 64 matches from the highly anticipated tournament live in the U.S. across FOX and FS1 with every match live streaming on the FOX Sports app and available for free on-demand as replays on Tubi. FOX Sports selected TAG’s 100% IP software platform for all of their control rooms and operations multiviewers, monitoring the integrity of over 1200 sources driving 150+ displays for the most widely viewed single sporting event in the world. The TAG monitoring and visualization platform is an integral part of a ground-breaking live-production system built in a totally different form factor. Built as two separate and redundant systems, FOX Sports’ joint event system is the world’s largest transportable SMPTE ST 2110 live production flypack, able to be quickly flown and setup between major events.

Leader Electronics announces an expansion to the feature set of its ZEN Series SDI/IP range of waveform monitors and rasterizers. As well as enhanced IP test and measurement capabilities, the newly introduced Version 6.5 software adds extra capabilities that SDI-based customers have been requesting. Among these are additions to the vectorscope toolset which is now equipped to display a color bar scale and an HDR transfer characteristic.

Ikegami will show the latest additions to its product range at Inter BEE 2022. Central themes of its demonstrations will be new advances in virtual and remote production developed in response to changing production styles resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Ikegami's R2 Real Remote production system allows highly efficient remote camera operation between the studio and the sub-control room as well as ensuring social distancing and studio crowd avoidance when necessary to guard against infection, particularly in close-up sequences. It is designed for use with cameras such as the compact full broadcast quality UHD/HD Ikegami UHL-43. Support is provided by a six-axis programmable articulated robot arm mounted on a motorised pedestal. This combination allows fast and easy changes in camera height from a minimum of 400 mm to a maximum of 2,350 mm above floor level. The R2 can be relocated easily from one studio to another.

Somoy Television, a news-based 24-hour television channel broadcasting nationwide in the Bengali language, has chosen Ikegami HD cameras and monitors for use at its studio headquarters in Dhaka. The investment forms part of the network’s transition from 576i SD to 1080i HD production and transmission.

Somoy TV (literally 'Time TV') has operated successfully with Ikegami technology from the commencement of test transmissions ahead of its April 17th 2011 launch. An HL-65W SD camera became a core element of the studio’s production resources. Impressed by the quality and robustness of the equipment, plus the high standard of support provided by Ikegami and local distributor For-A India, the channel was fully confident in selecting Ikegami HD cameras and monitors.

ITN Productions has purchased a Leader LV7600 12G-SDI rasterizing waveform monitor as the primary reference for a newly completed 4K DCI facility at ITN's Central London headquarters. The LV7600 was supplied and integrated by Leader Europe channel distribution partner Jigsaw24.

"Demand for programmes originated in 4K/DCI/HDR is steadily increasing, both for linear broadcasting and on-demand OTT viewing," says James Bennett, Head of Technical Operations, Post Production, at ITN Productions.

"The trigger for choosing Leader was the company's long-established and reputation for high quality test and measurement products. Jigsaw24 recommended the Leader LV7600 rasterizing waveform monitor for its precise and repeatable performance, versatile toolset and future-proof modularity. We have already used it to deliver our first programme and it has been crucial in getting episodes to specification and accepted through the OTT's QC process."

Dutch producer and engineer Laurens van Oers has joined a growing band of audio professionals who are choosing PMC’s new compact range of near and midfield monitors for their own facilities because the clarity of these speakers allows them to hear exactly what is going on in their mix.