Italian state broadcaster RAI has installed a Calrec Artemis Light digital audio console as part of its new TV4 regional news studio in Milan. The console, which handles daily live news, is tightly integrated with RAI's video switcher via purpose-built software from Calrec. RAI, the country's largest broadcaster, operates a variety of television channels and radio stations, broadcasting via digital terrestrial transmission and from several satellite and IPTV platforms.

Volicon today announced that Italy's Sportcast is relying on the Observer(R) digital video logging and monitoring system to provide compliance monitoring for its new HD Super Tennis channel, originated by leading European broadcast services provider SBP. Supplied by systems integrator Allyn and installed at SBP facilities in Rome, the Observer system provides continuous monitoring and logging of Super Tennis channel content, which can be quickly accessed, reviewed, and exported for proof of compliance.

The new 3D Tile Format 2 unveiled by Sisvel Technology offers significant advantages over current methods, formatting stereoscopic images by integrating two 720p frames within a single 1080p frame. This provides better-quality images for 3D content and maintains backward compatibility, allowing viewers not equipped for 3D to view a 3D transmission as 2D images on their full HD TV sets. The reconstructed right and left images maintain their original 720p spatial and temporal resolution, giving viewers of both versions the full benefit of the original picture, and the transmission of both 2D and 3D can be achieved without the need for increased bandwidth.

At the European Forum on Digital TV that will be held June 9-10, 2011 in Lucca, Italy, Roberto Dini will also introduce the partners of the so-called 3D Village. This is an initiative that creates a common space for broadcasters, content providers, researchers, and manufacturers experimenting with 3D Tile Format 2 technology.

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The Clear-Com Logic Maestro software in the Eclipse-Median offers QVC Italy an easy, efficient way of programming communications critical to maintaining live, round-the-clock operations. The facilitys production workflow is centred on the two control rooms, the studios and eight radio microphone transmitter/IEM receiver channels for hosts presenting products during broadcasts. When one control room is live, the other is designated as in rehearsal, with the studios and presenter channels given matching designations. Logic Maestro then automates the task of generating live and rehearsal states for each presenter channel, along with managing audio routing to the studios.

Utah Scientific today announced that Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), the largest television company in Italy, is relying on a large routing system supplied by Utah Scientific consisting of a UTAH-400/XL (loaded 1000x2000) video router integrated with an audio router (2000x2000) at the heart of a technical infrastructure that is being thoroughly renovated to provide full 3G/HD/SDI signal distribution.

Aviom helped with the performances at Italys 60th annual Sanremo Music Festival by supplying more than 25 A-16II Personal Mixers, via Sisme Spa, to the shows entire orchestra.  Each year, the popular Italian song contest hosts musicians from all over Italy, who perform original Italian language pieces. The program is televised, and the artists are ultimately judged by viewers watching at home. Described best as a battle of the bands combined with any popular televised music contest, the Sanremo Music Festival is held annually at Teatro Ariston in the city of Sanremo, and has been broadcast live on RAI Uno since 1955. This years 60th anniversary festival was viewed by over 10 million people each night.

QVC has placed an order with Quantel for the supply of an Enterprise sQ server system to provide a totally integrated production and playout environment for its brand new Italian subsidiary in Milan. The Enterprise sQ system will form the backbone of QVC Italy's production and playout operation, fully integrated with QVC's in-house 'QSAAM' scheduling, automation and asset management solution produced in Japan. System integration is being handled by TSL, who will be prefabricating and testing the entire system at its UK headquarters before shipping to Italy ready to go on air in October this year.