Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that TV 2, the largest commercial television broadcaster in Norway, is using Nevion’s Service Operations Center (SOC) to provide proactive support and monitoring of its IP media network operations.

Having moved to IP production in 2017 with Nevion’s help, TV 2 initially chose Nevion’s advanced remote services, in order to leverage the expertise and experience of the SOC’s staff, and focus on its own core-competencies, including content creation. When the COVID-19 crisis developed, TV 2’s decision to virtualize the support and monitoring of its IP media network operations proved to be invaluable as very few staff would have been able to be on-site to maintain the network.

Barnfind China, the regional office of Barnfind Technologies - an international leader in fiber transport solutions, is on the fast track to success. The location opened in April of 2019 to better serve and support the company’s many existing customers as well as answer the increasing demand for Barnfind solutions in the rapidly growing market. In late 2019 Barnfind’s end user GRT (Guangdong Television Station) was honored at the Chinese Broadcast Summit with the Sporting Award first prize for events that used a significant complement of Barnfind gear.

Barnfind China also announced that they received another large order for the Chinese market. This win will be further announced in a separate press release following installation.

The 2019 Chinese Broadcast Technology Summit Forum and annual Committee meeting was held in late October in Xinjiang; co-hosted by the Xinjiang Television station, Xinjiang production and construction corps radio Television station and China Television technology development co. LTD.

More than 50 TV stations responsible for the technical backbone of the Chinese broadcasting industry from all over the country, along with system integrators, broadcasting equipment providers, OB van manufacturers, R & D units and other related technology companies gathered together.

NEP Norway announced today that Morten Aass has joined its organization, based in Oslo, as managing director, effective immediately. NEP Norway is a division of NEP Group, the leading worldwide outsourced technical production partner supporting premier content producers of live sports and entertainment.

Aass, an industry veteran, will oversee all of NEP’s Norwegian operations, client relationships, broadcast production facilities and a team of more than 100. His primary focus will be to ensure the position, continued growth and success of the Norwegian company. Aass

takes the helm at NEP Norway as Lise Heidal, former managing director, transitions to a new role as NEP’s SVP of Global Media Solutions. In addition to being the managing director of NEP Norway, Aass will also be part of NEP’s European management team.

Fonn Group, a Norwegian technology group, today announced the launch of Fonn Group Americas, a regional operation that will bring its Mjoll and 7Mountains brands to the North and South American markets. Isaac Hersly, a pioneer in the US media and broadcast markets, will lead Fonn Group Americas.

Hersly’s background includes serving as President and COO at Chyron, where he was instrumental in building the company from the ground up to become a leader in the US broadcast software industry. He also founded the successful operations for world-leading broadcast technology company Vizrt in the Americas, spending more than 18 years with the business. In addition, he spent many years on the customer side of the broadcast industry, as Vice President of the ABC Owned TV stations.

"We are extremely happy to have someone as well-known and respected as Isaac onboard to lead our operations in the Americas. He brings with him a unique understanding of the broadcast and media markets and has successfully built companies from the ground up in a demanding territory”, said Haavard Saunes Myklebust, CEO of Fonn Group.

Fonn Group, a Norwegian technology group, today announced the launch of Fonn Group Americas, a regional operation that will bring its Mjoll and 7Mountains brands to the North and South American markets. Isaac Hersly, a pioneer in the US media and broadcast markets, will lead Fonn Group Americas.

Hersly’s background includes serving as President and COO at Chyron, where he was instrumental in building the company from the ground up to become a leader in the US broadcast software industry. He also founded the successful operations for world-leading broadcast technology company Vizrt in the Americas, spending more than 18 years with the business. In addition, he spent many years on the customer side of the broadcast industry, as Vice President of the ABC Owned TV stations.

"We are extremely happy to have someone as well-known and respected as Isaac onboard to lead our operations in the Americas. He brings with him a unique understanding of the broadcast and media markets and has successfully built companies from the ground up in a demanding territory”, said Haavard Saunes Myklebust, CEO of Fonn Group.

Norwia AS (Stand 10.C10), the leading supplier of next generation optical transport products, announced it will launch new products at IBC2017 to help its customers transition from SDI to IP through a Hybrid Transport Platform offering more flexibility at lower costs.

SDN solution will enable distributed production between the broadcasters two main locations

Nevion, award-winning provider of virtual media production infrastructure, announced today that TV 2 (www.tv2.no), the largest commercial television broadcaster in Norway, has selected Nevion to provide the IP-based software defined network (SDN) solution that will connect studios, control rooms and data-centers within and between the broadcasters two main production facilities. The solution, which is part of TV 2s move to IP across the production workflow, will enable the broadcaster to make better use of production talent, equipment and locations.

Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, and its German solution partner LOGIC media solutions GmbH, have teamed up with PLAZAMEDIA, a Germany-based content solution provider and one of the leading producers of sports TV in the German-speaking area, to migrate elements of its high profile football coverage to an IP production set-up using Nevion IP Media Core equipment and VideoIPath management system.

TV experience company Sixty has delivered an engaging new weather studio for the Norwegian broadcasting company TV 2. The studio is a complete virtual set with flexible functionality that also enables the use of augmented reality and it utilizes Vizrts Viz Engine for real-time 3D graphics.

New Power Tools Needed For the Future of Monitoring, Says Bridge Technologies

Company will discuss NLE-style data presentation, view-anywhere data wall, virtualised probes and in-depth support at TVConnect 2016.

Vimond Media Solutions has opened a new regional office in New York city to support its growing business in North America. Overseeing this endeavour are Vimond's CEO, Helge Hibraaten, and CTO, Glenn Pedersen, both now based in New York.

TV Experience Company SIXTY announced that its Ease Live interactive graphics solution fully integrates with Vizrts Viz Artist and Viz Trio  for online and broadcast graphics applications.