Maldives Business Network, a Business TV channel, has powered its presentation resources with the purchase of a multichannel PlayBox Technology Channel in a Box (CiaB) television playout system. The new installation was supplied and engineered by APAC Country Manager KC Lee. It is located at the channel's headquarters in Male' City, Republic of Maldives.

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.

PBT EU will host an engaging free webinar featuring SubtitleNEXT and PlayBox Neo20's Channel in a Box, on 14 April 2021 at 11am EEST (Bucharest local time).

Presented by PBT EU CEO Ivanka Vassileva and PlayBox Neo Demo Artist Plamen Georgiev, it provides an overview of what's new in PlayBox Neo20 Channel in Box, including  updates in SubtitleNEXT's  Live Subtitling function which significantly speeds up the subtitling of news emissions, live TV shows; making it a “best-fit” solution for subtitling preparation, airing of news for traditional broadcasters, accessibility services, live events, educational sessions, YouTube live events, Zoom and more. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E0l3sjtzSWyIzwhI7fCxtA

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.

PlayBox Neo announces the completion of an AirBox Neo-20-based system expansion for Thai Broadcasting's Workpoint TV service. Operating from studio headquarters in Pathum Thani just north of the Thai capital, Workpoint TV was founded in 1989, initially focusing on game shows such as Golden Stage and soon expanding into a wider range of content.

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.

PlayBox Neo announces an expansion to the software connectivity of its ProductionAirBox Neo-20 broadcast playout server, with support now provided for the Octopus Newsroom computer system.

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.