Asia-Pacific News

Broadcast ONE, one of South-East Asia’s premier RF broadcast and communication Systems Integration companies, is to acquire the shares of all companies in the Gencom Technology Group from May 31st . The Gencom Technology Group includes operations based in Auckland New Zealand, Sydney Australia, Singapore and Johannesburg South Africa. Under the new ownership, the Gencom [...]

SBS – Special Broadcasting Services Melbourne has recently commissioned a 12 fader LAWO sapphire console for its Melbourne Radio OB truck. The 12-fader console with overbridge was custom configured by Professional Audio Technology to the specific technical requirements of SBS Melbourne and will replace currently ageing analogue technology. With the console Professional Audio Technology also [...]

Grass Valley Chief Marketing Officer, Graham Sharp, will address next week’s Australian Broadcasting Summit.On Wednesday 27th Feb at 1640hrs in the Technical Stream curated by Content+Technology, sharp will address the topic of “Second screen and the next phase of innovation for broadcasting workflows: asset management” where he will look at the growing challenge of maintaining [...]

Bruce Robertson, television technology pioneer and stalwart of the Kerry Packer-era Nine Network, has passed away leaving a legacy of  technological innovations and engineering successes that have left an indelible mark on the development of Television in Australia. ‘Robbo’, as he was affectionately known, enjoyed a long and successful career spanning over 50 years, culminating in [...]

Broadcast Australia CEO, Graeme Barclay and SBS CEO, Michael Ebeid, will be riding in the Sydney to the Gong MS Bike Ride for the second year in a row. The pair will be riding the 90km course on Sunday 4th November as members of the joint SBS-BA Cycle Safari team. The SBS-BA Cycle Safari team [...]

Broadcast Australia has signed an agreement to assist NBN Co., the company established to implement Australia’s National Broadband Network, in rolling out it’s fixed wireless network, through the co-location of radio communications equipment on Broadcast Australia’s national site portfolio of wireless communications infrastructure.As the owner and operator of communications infrastructure sites across metropolitan, regional, and [...]

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has announced the appointment of Broadcast Australia as the Program Manager for the Australian Government’s Restack of digital television services. Broadcast Australia will coordinate and manage the spectrum clearance (restack) works for all national and commercial television services to clear the 700 MHz band spectrum [...]

Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) serves a large national audience with 24/7/365 programming. IT plays a mission-critical role in managing and delivering both transmission and content. When IT is down, the network’s ability to serve its audience is directly and negatively impacted.When SBS Australia needed an integrated IT service and asset management solution, it selected [...]

Dataton’s WATCHOUT is being used as the image-control backbone for ‘Van Gogh Alive – The Experience’ – a travelling exhibition that designed to redefine audiences’ appreciation of fine art. Conceived and executed by Australian-based Grande Exhibitions, Van Gogh Alive sees some of the painter’s most famous works displayed on huge projection screens as part of [...]

Blonde Robot, the Australian distributor of professional broadcast and film production equipment has announced that Future Reality, a leading supplier of creative technology and services in Australia and New Zealand, will be providing Avid software and hardware solutions to film, broadcast and post-production customers in Australia.Under the new partnership agreement, Future Reality will add Avid [...]