Profiles of Grass Valley HD news production solutions on the job at TV stations and other sites

Grass Valley Delivers Full AVC-Intra Workflow Solutions

A collaborative has delivered seamless interoperability with Panasonic’s AVC-Intra compression format across Grass Valley’s complete line of HD media servers and editing products.

Belo’s KMOV Automates HD News Production With Ignite

Belo is using Ignite in St. Louis as a proof of concept for its 17 other stations.

Griffin Communications Lays Solid HD Foundation with Grass Valley Cameras

by Gerald Weaver

Griffin Communications prides itself in making careful technology choices that help its television stations produce high-quality news content that looks good on air. Reliability and overall system compatibility are critical when making our equipment choices.

Grass Valley Shows Automation Advances

Some 100 TV stations and broadcast facilities around the world have adopted Grass Valley's Ignite news production automation system so that they can produce a live newscast with no more than one person in the control room.

MediaFUSE Lands at News12 Long Island

A year after unveiling a solution to significantly speed up stations' ability to publish news video to their Web sites, Grass Valley has installed it at News 12 Long Island. The solution, MediaFUSE, is also rolling out to additional customers.

Grass Valley Ignite HD Keeps WRTV News Competitive

by Brian Vetor and Kurt Swadener
WRTV

Here at WRTV, the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, we have been a long-time proponent of automated production for our daily newscasts. In fact, we were the first McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Group station to use the ParkerVision PVTV system in 2002 in standard-definition digital, when we recognized the cost savings and technical efficiencies and decided to take full advantage. For a top 25 market station like ours to remain competitive in these challenging times and we have, it has to rethink how it gathers stories and produces its newscasts. The old models simply don't cut it anymore.

A Powerful New Switcher Changes the Game

Grass Valley's Kayenne can handle big, complicated productions or, in some configurations, take on several smaller ones at the same time. It also has a radical new control panel that can be installed flat or in a banked curve, and a "Source Rules" feature permitting users to pre-program when to add or remove keys automatically over certain sources. In this interview, David Casper, manager of advanced development and Greg Huttie, director of product management for Grass Valley switchers and effects, talk about the company's newest major product.

WJBF-TV Ignites Newscasts with Automated Production System

by Grass Valley
WJBF-TV

When Media General was tasked with converting the facilities of 14 stations from analog to digital, the challenge was finding cost-effective technology that provided the most bang for the buck.

Portland's KOIN-DT Ignites News Production With Grass Valley

by Grass Valley
KOIN-DT - TV

As stations across the country make the transition to digital operations, as well as high-definition broadcasting, in anticipation of the government-mandated analog shutdown in February 2009, they're looking for easy-to-implement and cost-effective technology and systems that make the conversion manageable.

Grass Valley Integrated Production System Ignites Staff At KSNW-DT

by Grass Valley
KSNW-DT - TV

The practical benefits that KSNW-DT, the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, is enjoying after installing a Grass Valley™ Ignite™ integrated production system from Thomson, go far beyond increased productivity and reduced on-air errors. Much to the station management’s surprise, it has brought the staff closer together, where they now work as a cohesive team to produce four highly rated daily newscasts.