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The ultimate live sports viewing experience

Live sports in Advanced HDR by Technicolor® now available 24/7 throughout the USA from 35 Sinclair stations.

The solutions are supported by a growing number of partners, including Cobalt Digital Inc, Ateme, BBright, Cinnafilm, MediaTek and Hisense TVs.

Advanced HDR by Technicolor delivers High Dynamic Range (HDR) production, distribution and display solutions leveraging machine learning (ML) technology to facilitate production of high dynamic range live sports video for a brilliant viewing experience by sports fans.

Advanced HDR by Technicolor solutions include:

• Flexible SDR to HDR real-time up-conversion to manage contrast, brightness and color saturation.

• SL-HDR encoding to transform HDR input streams into SDR/HDR-plus-metadata streams.

Momentum for Advanced HDR by Technicolor Builds in 2022

November 2022

SMPTE White Paper Proves Efficacy of “Perfect” Round-trip HDR and SDR Performance from Advanced HDR by Technicolor in Live Productions

September 2022

Advanced HDR By Technicolor Showcases New Solutions With BBright, Realtek and Cobalt Digital

July 2022

MediaTek Discusses Partnership with Advanced HDR by Technicolor to Embed Latest HDR Technologies into System-on-Chip Offerings

July – 2022 NAB 2022

Advanced HDR by Technicolor and Sinclair Broadcast Group Report on Rapid Expansion of HDR-Ready TV Stations Across the United States

April 2022

Advanced HDR by Technicolor Introduces “No Compromise” Roundtrip Feature for HDR and SDR Live Productions

April 2022

Sinclair Broadcast Group to Offer HDR Content for Bally Sports Regional Networks with Advanced HDR by Technicolor

February 2022

Hisense Collaborates with Advanced HDR by Technicolor and ATSC 3.0 to Integrate HDR into New ULED TVs www.advancedhdrbytechnicolor.com production needs for aquatics, cross-country, golf, tennis, and more. TNDV also just completed production on the Corky Kell Classic for Score Atlanta, providing mobile production services for 11 locally televised and streamed football games in three days. TNDV will produce its second consecutive season of locally televised high school football coverage this fall for Score Atlanta this fall. tem is gaining traction which delivers MTVG’s high-quality live production solutions at a much lower cost for small and mid-size productions, anywhere, with a minimal onsite equipment footprint.

Markertek, a 100% Employee Owned Company, celebrates its 35th year as a trusted supplier to the broadcast and sports video industry. It’s time to once again experience what being a customer should feel like. The Markertek Broadcast Sales team supports customers throughout the television industry keeping up with its ever-evolving technical needs in studio, ENG, and field production work. With decades of industry experience, we are uniquely positioned to assist with specialized pricing, project consultation, and yesterday turnarounds for inevitable last minute rush requirements. We offer a vast line card of top brand video and audio products as well as custom solutions for an endto-end trusted source to keep you on-air and on-budget. And believe it or not, we actually pick up the phone when you call! In addition, are uniquely positioned with our custom fiber, custom cable, and custom metal shops. These value-added services provide the finishing touch on projects of any size while saving you valuable installation time.

You have a vision. We see it, too. With a worldwide network of experts and cutting-edge technology, our unique Global Production Ecosystem empowers content creators and rights holders to tell stories in breakthrough ways. We’re built on 35 years of trusted experience across broadcast, live event, and virtual production to deliver the solutions you need — anytime, anywhere. We recently attended the IBC2022 show, where we demoed NEP’s RF and Specialty Capture products (Mini TX UHD and Pico Cam) and our award-winning Mediabank media asset management platform. We also launched TFC Flow, a powerful and easy-to-use IP-based “DIVA” tool offering complete control of data, intercom, video, and audio signal flow within a unified live event network, all powered by NEP’s proprietary, web-based, multipurpose control platform, TFC (Total Facility Control). TFC Flow harnesses the power and scalability of IP/2110, while removing the complexity that comes along with it, making network configuration fast, easy and secure.

Grup Mediapro is a leading group in the global audiovisual industry, unique in content integration, production, and audiovisual distribution. Operations are held worldwide through its 53 offices distributed across 31 countries on four continents. Grup Mediapro provides the creative and technical solutions necessary to design, produce, and distribute high-quality audiovisual or multi-channel projects. Grup Mediapro offers “end-to-end” sports production and transmission for all kinds of sporting event coverage. Grup Mediapro has successfully expanded its roots to the US opening 13 studios with the highest technology available. Mediapro US Miami studios host Univision’s live production of “Combate Global” showcasing the best Latinx mixed martial arts fighters every Friday night with 2021 averaging 400,000 viewers. Mediapro US Odyssey mobile unit will begin the full production of 14 games for the 2022 College Football Season.

OSA International has added a Broadcast Services division to its diverse offerings. The division is being led by Steve Cormier. OSA is now able to offer full 360 solutions to our customers. We have recently supported events such as The World Games, MLS soccer, and audio and intercoms for the entertainment portion of the American Rodeo at Dallas Stadium. We are also sending equipment in support of the FIFA World Cup 2022. New equipment additions include Calrec Brio mixers with Hydra2 48x16 analogue I/O boxes. OSA International and FingerWorks Telestrators are forming a strategic partnership.

PIXERA is a multi award winning 64-bit media server system for professional real-time media processing, compositing, and management, built around the key theme of usability. Users can gradually discover the options and features and can smoothly transition from being a beginner to becoming a specialist.

The crew at MeyerPro has been hard at work supporting broadcast events throughout the country. DOTA2 The International won a National Emmy Award and MeyerPro provided top to bottom technical support for the broadcast in multiple languages. Additionally, Nike called on MeyerPro to provide LED wall, video, and audio systems for a hugely successful production of a high-profile high school football showcase on their campus in August. Last year, MeyerPro pioneered the xR (Extended Reality) Stage solution and took virtual/hybrid events to the next level. This year, although AR/VR is still going strong, 2022 is the year of investment in 4K/12G flypack production systems. Building out the systems with Sony HDC-5500 cameras, Ross switchers, routers and XPression graphics systems the engineers at MeyerPro have streamlined these flypacks into quickly deployable powerhouses.

Planetcast is a key market player in providing technology-led managed services. We provide comprehensive, customized solutions across content management operations and distribution. We are proud that we are held in high esteem in the outsourced distribution and play-out services segment in India. With a robust track record of nearly two successful decades, we have been offering most agile and state-of-the-art services to broadcasters. We are driven by a passion to help business units build stronger and innovative services. Planetcast’s ability to conceptualize, architect and implement new and expanded capabilities allows clients take their business to the next level.

Mobile TV Group (MTVG) has recently launched IP mobile unit 50FLEX and 50VMU. As part of further expansion to its fleet, MTVG’s 51st mobile unit is nearing completion. MTVG’s Cloud Control continues its buildout and launch throughout the country, now with 25 Cloud Control rooms located in most major US cities. With Cloud Control, MTVG has given its clients remote access to all MTVG production systems without sacrifices. Cloud Control is a complete production system that allows for broadcast level systems, unlimited cameras, SSMO, and even 4K to be controlled remotely with low bandwidth. MTVG’s Edge production sys-

PRG is the world’s leading provider of entertainment and event technology solutions and has the largest inventory of rental production equipment. PRG provides comprehensive and discreet services to an array of clients in the live music, TV/Film, Broadway, sports, gaming, corporate experiential, and live events markets. Clients and partners depend on PRG’s innovation, experience, and depth of experience in audio, video, lighting, rigging, staging, and scenery and automation systems to bring their stories to life. With 70 offices across North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia, PRG has capabilities to provide services worldwide.

Globecast’s winning ecosystem is designed to help you win the next season and beyond.

Production Rockstars is a boutique production management firm specializing in delivering interpersonal service by producing virtual production and live streaming events, live TV and events, and social/ digital content for our clients. Our work spans across a variety of sectors, from the precision-based detailing in the virtual streaming and corporate world to the fast-paced action of the sports and entertainment industry. Production Rockstars has worked with and for a variety of clients including but not limited to Comedy Central, Netflix, BET Networks, Essence, Tidal, ESPN, Complex, TNT, T-Mobile, Patrón Tequila, the Smithsonian and more. Whether it’s three cameras or thirty, virtual or live, we work hard to make you look and feel like a rockstar from the first pre-production conference to the final deliverable.

RF Wireless has an extensive inventory of broadcast quality microwave and RF audio equipment as well as two-way radio communications equipment, together with all accessories. RF Wireless has many modes of deployment to meet the constantly changing needs of clients large and small. We have solutions that can ship out in an air-pack format all the way up to our fully integrated mobile trailer with mast and generator onboard. Through the provision of personalized service, RF Wireless Systems Inc. ensures client needs are fulfilled in the most efficient and effective manner.

Program Productions, North America’s #1 provider of live event labor, is having a big year thanks in part to the innovative labor management platform developed by PPI — ProCrewz. The ProCrewz mobile app, used by more than 10,000 technicians, has been crucial in allowing PPI to cover 25,000 event days in 2022, the most of any North American labor management company. And thanks to features like the Virtual Time Clock and Integrated Calendar, field overtime was reduced by 10% nationally and managing remote broadcast labor was smoother than ever. With the cloud-based ProCrewz mobile app, crew members can view jobs across multiple clients, accept job offers, update their employee profile, submit for expense reimbursement, punch in using the geo-fenced virtual time clock, and so much more. The synced mobile app and client portal allow for streamlined communication between managers and the remote workforce. Integrated with the mobile app, the client portal gives managers and crewers all the tools they need, all in one place. Experience full payroll integration with XLT Management Services or export to your preferred vendor. Seamless, connected and dependable, ProCrewz is the digital evolution of event labor management.

Production industries change and so do innovative companies. Robovision has successfully navigated 30 years of production changes and it continues to position itself at the forefront of remote camera systems, even in a post-pandemic production environment. Robovision has developed custom camera solutions for numerous high profile broadcasts. Our custom turn-key systems are tailored to address specific client needs. The result has been, and will continue to be, nextlevel technical performance from every system we install. Robovision’s Emmy Award-winning personnel are qualified, safety-conscious, skilled technicians capable of collaborating with clients to ensure exceptional results. They are the most experienced camera operators in the world. As a result, Robovision has provided countless clients with the highest possible returns on their investments.

With our fleet of cost-effective, full service, remote-production vehicles, Ross Production Services (RPS) delivers consistent, high-quality video and audio content of sports and other live events. We ensure a predictable production experience and outstanding results—all the time, every time. RPS is a full-service turnkey production company. Our unique partnership with Ross lets us scale up or down for each individual production. All RPS trucks and flypacks feature the most current and innovative Ross products.

With the largest fleet of transmission vehicles in North America, one of the largest privately-owned teleports in the world and an expert team available 24/7 for events across the globe, PSSI Global Services provides comprehensive event, transmission and connectivity solutions via satellite, fiber, IP, and beyond.

RCS continues to partner with our clients, helping to deliver innovative solutions to their biggest challenges. As the broadcast world migrates to new platforms and workflows, RCS remains at the forefront. Over the last 12 months, we have launched new graphics packages and workflows for DAZN, MLB, UFC, NFL, and SPFL, among others. We’ve delivered new projects using Unreal, Vizrt, XPression, Singular.live, and more. Our clients increasingly require a wider range of support across both hardware, cloud, and hybrid solutions. This has led to the development of solutions like our Cobb control interface; a desktop application that integrates with data sources and triggers graphics across multiple services including both Vizrt and Singular.live. A single operator using a dedicated RCS Cobb interface can now deliver multiple graphic outputs across various graphics platforms enabling highly efficient workflows with scalable, flexible output options.

With clients that include every major network and sports league, Rush Media Company has a proven track record of producing, packaging, and innovating live television productions at every level. With a fleet of more than 23 mobile production units, offices and facilities located around the country, Rush Media Company is the leader in packaging live events. With 23 production vehicles currently in our fleet, Rush Media Company is uniquely positioned to provide you with the best production vehicle to fit your needs. All of our production vehicles are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and world class engineers to ensure that your production is delivered with innovation and creativity.

Skycam is a leading designer, manufacturer and operator of mobile aerial camera systems. Skycam plays a significant role in changing the way sports are broadcasted in America, appearing at marquee broadcast events such as Super Bowl XXXVII, US Tennis Open, NCAA Final Four, NFL Pro Bowl, Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football, NCAA College Football.

2022 has been a year of significant investment in personnel and innovation to increase the SOS Global portfolio of services and ultimately provide highly customizable solutions for our client’s needs to

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