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g is an award-winning broadcast engineering services company that specializes in providing RF products and services for live remote productions, primarily to sports, entertainment, and news companies. While we are a technology and engineering company, we are deep down a people company. 3g is focused on our relationships with the people that are our customers. We are also all about our people and their unrivaled talents. Our people combine an insatiable technical curiosity and well over 100 years of broadcast engineering experience.
>ADDER TECHNOLOGY
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or more than three decades, Adder Technology has worked with some of the world’s leading broadcasters, sports production specialists, and live event organizers, to deliver unprecedented flexibility and control of their IT infrastructure via KVM technology. As a leader in its field, Adder’s KVM switches, extenders, remote access, and matrix solutions are designed to support the full broadcast and AV workflow — from content creation and postproduction through to broadcast control rooms and live event environments.
>ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP
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dvanced Systems Group has provided engineering, systems, integration, support, and training to the multimedia creative and corporate video markets for more than 20 years. With unmatched experience in high-speed shared storage, media asset management, archiving, editing, color, and VFX systems, ASG has become one of the largest installers of postproduction and shared storage systems in North America. Highly focused on customer success, the ASG team has installed and supported more than 500 storage networks, along with production and postproduction systems. As part of its complete solution approach, ASG also offers a range of managed services, providing expert staffing for media production and event management.
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espite the difficult circumstances, the last year has been another exciting one for AE Live. Most notably, we have expanded our global footprint by increasing our presence in North America and we have a number of exciting opportunities in the pipeline to look forward to over the course of the next 12 months and beyond. We have also invested heavily in the field of remote production by installing six purpose-built graphics hubs at our UK office which have already been used to deliver graphics solutions remotely for major clients including Sky Sports, BT Sport, and WTA Media. We have also been involved in a number of high-profile projects, delivering our broadcast services across a number of sports. With soccer in particular, we have had an extremely busy schedule of events including the FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar where we delivered world feed graphics throughout the tournament. 76
>AERIAL VIDEO SYSTEMS (AVS)
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VS is part of the NEP Broadcast Services Company and the leader in high-bitrate wireless 4K, HD, and aerial production with over 120 Vislink HD and 4K RF systems, including the new HCAM. AVS offers two 4K GSS and four Cineflex gyro-stabilized camera systems for vehicles, boats, helicopters, or its three Partenavia fixed-wing aircraft for aerial coverage. They also collaborated with Vislink and Canon to provide the Canon C-500 shallow depth of field camera with control. AVS inventories the Sony P-50 cameras and was the first to integrate these into RF Steadicam systems with video return and prompter. This is the preferred package for major sporting events including Sunday, Monday, and Thursday Night Football; the Super Bowl; NBA All-Stars; and virtually every live award and entertainment show. AVS is a part of NEP’s Specialty Capture division alongside BSI and the Fletcher Group.
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>AJA VIDEO SYSTEMS
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ince 1993, AJA Video has been a leading manufacturer of video interface technologies, converters, digital video recording solutions, and professional cameras, bringing high-quality, costeffective products to the professional broadcast, video and postproduction markets. AJA products are designed and manufactured at our facilities in Grass Valley, CA, and sold through an extensive sales channel of resellers and systems integrators.
>ALDEA SOLUTIONS
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ldea Solutions, a Canadian company, is a leading provider of high-quality video services and solutions for the television and media industries. The company provides end-to-end worldwide transmission and content distribution services and operates an extensive fiber-based network, with points-of-service covering 35 cities and 25 countries throughout the Americas and Europe.
>ALL MOBILE VIDEO
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s one of the country’s premier providers of end-to-end video and audio solutions, All Mobile Video offers a full spectrum of production services: Mobile Production units, Sound Stages, Post-Production, Streaming services, Equipment Sales & Rentals, and Centralized Master Control. The All Mobile Video team commits to serving clients and building relationships, catering to the individual needs of each production with unparalleled attention to detail. From Video and Audio Engineers, Camera Operators, Editors, Graphics Specialists, Sound Designers, to Production Support, AMV boasts an experience level to rival anyone in the broadcast industry with a solid team of smart, strategically driven and highly trained thinkers. All Mobile Video was built on the simple notion that if we are able to find solutions where others see only obstacles everything else will fall into place. By integrating new technologies and existing capabilities, AMV continues to push the envelope and meet the needs of any production.
SPORTSTECHJOURNAL / FALL 2021
he Sports Group continues to be a leader in the design, deployment, and service of technology systems that help our clients engage fans, enhance teams, and expand revenue in their venues and facilities. In addition to assisting several of our professional and collegiate sports clients with small upgrade projects to prepare for their upcoming seasons, we have also begun design/build projects with two MLB teams on major control room renovations, along with the control room for Nashville SC’s new stadium — all of which will be ready for Opening Day 2022. We are also continuing with Phase 2 of the AV systems for the University of Georgia’s Butts-Mehre Football Complex renovation and expansion. Once complete, it will set the standard for college football complexes and cutting-edge technology. Lastly, we are working on multiple sound systems, IPTV systems, and other technology upgrades for several various clients.
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magi is a next-gen media tech company that provides cloud broadcast and streaming TV solutions to TV networks, content owners, and streaming TV platforms. Amagi enables 800+ playout chains and 2,000+ channel deliveries, with deployments in over 40 countries. It also offers 24x7 cloud managed services bringing simplicity, advanced automation, and transparency to the entire broadcast operations for traditional TV networks. With end-to-end cloud-architected solutions, Amagi helps launch, distribute, and monetize live linear sports channels across streaming TV platforms. It enables live recording, highlights creation, playback, and VOD deployment — all within the same system. With Amagi’s strong integration and customization capabilities, sports broadcasters can meet their unique needs, while orchestrating events with very low latencies. Sports broadcasters can also deliver great viewing experiences with Amagi’s advanced graphics solutions. Its dynamic ad insertion platform helps monetize content with targeted ads, while its analytics solution delivers accurate data and insights on audiences and viewership.
>AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)
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or 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. Millions of customers — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
