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CONGRESS-CENTRUM SAAR GMBH

AUDIO

Taking the broadcast approach

Built in 1967, the Congress Hall in Saarbrücken, Germany, is home to a broad variety of events such as conferences, trade fairs and conventions. In addition, shows and concerts of all kinds are hosted, some of which are also broadcast on radio and television

by public broadcaster Saarländischer Rundfunk (known as SR). The hall saw a renovation and reopening control room of SR being equipped with a modern audio infrastructure. It saw the installation of a in September 2023, which included the

Lawo mc²36 Mark II all- in-one production mixing console, as well as two Lawo AoIP stageboxes. system with a console that ultimately met the broadcaster’s standards in terms of quality and performance. This replaced the previous analogue

INDUSTRY

CVP OFFICIAL NIKON DEALER

CVP has been appointed by Nikon as an authorised video dealer. This partnership enhances CVP’s extensive brand portfolio, reinforcing its commitment to supporting content creators with top-tier equipment. It gives Nikon a valuable platform to extend its reach in the fast-growing professional digital cinema camera market.

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MILLION-DOLLAR PARTNERSHIPS

CABLE: Muddled valuations

Grass Valley announced a new, multi-million- dollar strategic partnership agreement with Diversified. Grass Valley, renowned for its high- quality live-production solutions, will leverage Diversified’s extensive integration and services expertise to enhance its offerings and deliver comprehensive solutions to broadcasters, content creators and media organisations. Talpa Network, a leading TV and radio broadcaster in the Netherlands, has collaborated with global technology partner Lawo to upgrade its broadcast infrastructure. Talpa’s ambitious project utilises Lawo’s cutting-edge IP technology, including the Home management platform for IP infrastructures and the .edge hyper-density SDI/IP platform for converting video signals to raw ST 2110 streams. IP TAPPING UP TALPA

Two of the US’s biggest TV companies have admitted that their cable channels are worth $15 billion less than they had thought – emphasising the accelerating collapse of what had been one of the most lucrative businesses in media history. Paramount took down the value of its cable channels (including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central) by $6 billion. This came only a day after Warner Bros Discovery wrote $9 billion off the value of its cable channels including CNN, HGTV and the Food Network. Linear cable networks have become “anchors around the necks of legacy media companies,” said Rich Greenfield, an analyst at Lightshed Partners. The writedowns highlight cable TV’s steady decline over 15 years, after streaming services first prompted users to ‘cut the cord.’

AI Google takes on deepfakes

Google has announced new measures to assist victims and reduce deepfakes’ prominence in top search results. It has also made commitments to de- rank websites that host non-consensual sexually explicit fake videos frequently. Google said it will aim to filter explicit content from similar searches after victims successfully request the removal of explicit non-consensual fake imagery through an online form.

Currently, victims have to flag each URL containing the imagery separately. Google also said it will scan for, and remove, duplicates of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfake images from search results after images are successfully flagged and taken down. The search engine is not proactively scanning for new deepfakes to remove and will only remove deepfakes if a victim successfully flags them.

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