2008
Middel East: 2x TV OBdB Broadcast built two 3 camera OB vehicles based upon the Mercedes Vario.
dB was responsible for purchasing the vehicles, carrying out the coach work and the completing the technical fit out. The vehicles included the Sony DXC-D55 Camera, Canon lenses, Sony MFS-2000 mixer, Calrec M3 audio console, Trilogy talkback and Pro-bel distribution equipment.
2007
Siemens/BBC: CCMdB Broadcast won a multi million pound contract from Siemens IT Solutions and Services to supply the BBC with on-going coding and multiplexing services. As part of the project, dB built multiple facilities, known as the centralised coding and multiplexing nodes (CCM nodes), to compress and stream BBC digital television signals.
The 275 bay system was prefabricated at dB, while building work was carried out on-site. Also, all the equipment involved was fitted and tested at dB. Not many other companies have the facilities to do this. Over 700 of dB’s Hawkeye switching and monitoring modules were used in the project.
2007
Vinappris: New TV channelOperating from a purpose-built studio at Birmingham's Fort Dunlop, Vinappris provides viewers with the opportunity both to learn about and to buy wine. Working to a very tight deadline, dB completed the assignment, from design through to commissioning, in two months.
2006
IMC Jamaica: Master controldB Broadcast was responsible for the detailed design, prefabrication and installation of a new MCR for IMC in Jamaica. The system was based around the Miranda PresMaster 100 and branding using the Miranda IS300 logo generator.
2006
Islamabad Pakistan: Radio studio and two cubiclesTo minimise on site time, dB Broadcast prefabricated and tested the new studio and two radio cubicles at its premises in England before installing them in Pakistan.
2006
Ealing Institute of Media: TV StudiodB Broadcast designed and installed a 130 square metre TV studio, with adjacent control room suite and separate vision control, sound control and apparatus rooms. EIM is part of the Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College.
2006
Delhi, India: Radio and TV studioThis new facility was prefabricated at dB Broadcasts premises before installation in India with the support of a local wiring company. It includes a radio studio, four radio cubicles, video edit suite and CTA with 12 racks.
2005
Turner Entertainment: Playout CentredB Broadcast was awarded the contract for the supply, installation,integration and commissioning of a new state-of-the-art transmission facility at Turner House in London. The new centre enabled Turner Entertainment Networks International to bring the transmission of its entire range of services in-house.
The new facility, which is designed around the latest file-based technology and is believed to be the most advanced playout system in Europe, includes the integration of a digital asset management system, playlist automation software and servers with a new central ingest system. It comprises six ingest stations, five playout desks, master operational desk, presentation suite and 80 equipment racks.
2005/6
ATV Jordan: New TV StationdB Broadcast won a multi-million pounds contract to build a totally new TV station in a purpose-built complex located in the heart of Amman, the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan. It is the first independent TV channel in Jordan and is on-air 24 hours a day, seven days a week, broadcasting a mixture of entertainment, and regional and international news.
dB Broadcast was responsible for the full technical infrastructure of the new station. David Bird, MD of dB Broadcast managed the project on behalf of the company and also provided support to both the architects and builders. The facility is located in one custom building and includes three studios, edit suites, newsroom and playout areas, all taking advantage of the latest technology.
At the heart of the transmission system is the Harris Nexio servers, Pebble Beach automation system, Sony PetaSite robotic tape library and Quartz master control and the newsroom was equipped with more than 70 ENPS workstations.
2005
BBC: Radio CarsdB Broadcast provided six new radio cars for use by BBC local radio. These "mobile studios" are used for the production of both live and recorded voice programmes and two-way interviews for contribution into BBC local radio programmes via radio links and mast-mounted antenna on telescopic masts.
Adaptation of the vehicles, which are based on the Peugeot 807 MPV, drew on dB's experience of audio and RF systems and coach-work was carried out for dB by ATT Papworth.
2005
BBC: 13.5m Radio OB VehicledB Broadcast won an order from BBC Resources, Radio & Music, to manage the technical fit-out of a large radio OB vehicle. The 13.5 metre trailer includes a studio, control room, editing and production areas, as well as technical racks. It also has a pull-out walkway along one side. The new sound OB truck is extremely flexible, with the ability to cover events as varied as sports meetings, concerts and large public events.
2004
BBC Television Centre: Studio TC10 RefurbishmentdB Broadcast won the contract to upgrade the facilities at TC10 for the transmission of the CBBC programming on the main networks. This was a major project that included stripping out and re-equipping the audio and control systems, providing a new vision desk and monitor stack, installing a new Thomson 3 M/E vision mixer, upgrading the router to 64x64, increasing the number of outside lines and adding a studio by-pass system. The timescales for this project were short and involved significant planning, engineering and prefabrication. dB Broadcast was the "Principal contractor" under CDM.
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2004
QVC: Control Room A (Vision, Production, Audio and CTA Areas)Control room A was taken out of service by QVC in 2004 and completely re-built by dB Broadcast. This million pound project included the detailed design, equipment sourcing, prefabrication and installation of the technical facilities. Control room A comprises a vision area for setting up and monitoring 8 Thomson cameras, a director's Gallery with 9 metre desk and 32 monitor stack, sound control room with a 52 fader Calrec Sigma 100 digital console and 2 equipment areas of 10 racks.
dB Broadcast supplied a 54 input Thomson XtenDD 2.5 M/E mixer, Thomson 64x64 router and Sony monitors. Control rooms A and B provide 17 hours live to air coverage every day.
2004
BBC : Facilities in Lisbon for Euro2004
dB Broadcast provided the BBC’s temporary facilities in Lisbon for their coverage of the Euro 2004 football championships. dB designed, prefabricated and installed the systems in the studio, control rooms, central apparatus room and edit areas - together with the monitor stacks comprising over 100 monitors, control desks (the largest of which was 9metres) and technical infrastructure. dB was also responsible for the break down at the end of the competition.
The building became available less than three weeks before the beginning of the tournament, so most of the system was pre-fabricated and tested in the UK, at dB’s purpose-built 16,000-square-foot factory, to minimise the amount of work required on site.
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2004
MTV: new Leicester Square studio
dB Broadcast built the spectacular new studio at number 1 Leicester Square for MTV Networks UK & Ireland. This is the only major studio in the West End and a valuable addition to London’s media industry.The new glass-walled studio has been specially built as the new home of MTV’s daily video chart countdown TRL, which regularly features live interviews and performances from the biggest names in music and entertainment. TRL is MTV’s flagship show in both the UK and the USA, where it is broadcast from New York’s Times Square.
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2004
BBC: Survey vehicles
dB Broadcast won the contract to build two new transmission survey vehicles for BBC Strategy & Distribution. The specialist vehicles will be used to measure terrestrial TV and radio reception throughout the UK, including DTT and DAB.
2004
Indian Parliment: TV Coverage
dB Broadcast in partnership with local Indian agent was resposible for the supply, installation and commissioning of a robotically controlled camera system for TV coverage and video recording at the parliament building in Delhi. This included an eight camera system in the auditorium (seating for 1100), a four camera facility in a 190 seat committee room and a four camera mobile system. The Hitachi cameras were controlled using Radamec robotic equipment.
2003
BBC: TV Detector Vans
dB Broadcast constructed a number of the new generation TV detector vans for use by TV Licensing.Designed by the BBC's research and development department in Kingswood Warren, the new vans use GPS satellite technology to track targeted addresses. The use of a television can be detected in as little as 20 seconds. Once detected, the vans' equipment, which works from 60 metres away, can pinpoint the actual room that a television set is in.
2003
MTV: VTR Playout Areas
dB Broadcast refurbished 2 VTR playout areas at MTV in London. This included the design of the desks, supply of all equipment, system design and the installation.
The rooms were in continuous use: therefore, the systems were prefabricated at dB's factory to minimise the on-site time. The installation of VTR room "B" took less than 6 days including the stripping out of the old system.
2002
BBC TV Centre: Freeview
dB designed, pre-fabricated and installed the heart of the BBC Freeview system, which included Philips encoding and compression equipment. Also, the monitoring system was based around dB's Hawkeye range of monitoring modules. And, dB did it all in record breaking time: only six weeks from order to completion, using a team of 15 wiring technicians and supervisors.Because of the short timescale, and the vast amount of other work going on at BBC Television Centre, fifteen racks of equipment were pre-fabricated at dB's purpose-built 16,000 square foot factory. These were fully wired, fitted with equipment and tested in just two and a half weeks. This enabled factory acceptance by BBC Technology Professional Solutions to be carried out on time. The onsite installation period was even shorter and was completed one week after the factory acceptance.
2002 BBC
Maida Vale: Studio 1
Studio one is the largest studio at Maida Vale and home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and is used extensively for performances and recordings of large scale classical music. The studio can accommodate more than 150 musicians, a choir of over 100 and an audience of 220. dB refurbished and re-equipped the control room and apparatus room and installed new fibre optic circuits for the mic amps which were mounted in the studio. New tie-lines and communications circuits were run to various adjacent areas.In the cubicle room dB installed a 72 input and 56 fader Studer D950 M2 console, a separate producer's desk, and a rack housing DAT and cassette machines, CD player and various control equipment. The apparatus room included three new 42RU racks. The work also included designing, building and installing a new, custom talkback system.
2002
Teletrax: Monitoring systems
Teletrax digitally embeds an invisible and indelible code in video which, when broadcast, is automatically tracked through a worldwide network of systems prefabricated by dB Broadcast and installed by Teletrax. Ultimately, it reports the video usage to producers, broadcasters and distributors enabling them to determine precise use of the video and to control and realise the full value of their copyrighted material. dB Broadcast custom designed and supplied a quantity of tuning units.
2002
QVC: Control room B
dB Broadcast were responsible for the detailed design, prefabrication and installation of the video and control systems within a new Control Room at QVC. This Control Room was designed so that in the event of a disaster (fire etc) within the main control room, QVC could move into it instantly and resume television broadcasting. The system included 3 desks with associated monitor stacks and a video equipment area comprising 8 racks.
2002
BBC: Commonwealth Games, Manchester
dB Broadcast won two contracts with BBC Technology Ltd for the Commonwealth Games for which the BBC was the host broadcaster. dB's first BBC Technology contract was for the hire and installation of ancillary vision and audio systems at the 76 square metre integrated International Broadcast Centre. The contract included three control desks, three stacks, 17 VTRs, 80 monitors and large quantities of DA's and converters. 75km of cable was required to link all the areas at the Centre and the 12 Client Rights Holders. All cabling was installed by dB's own in-house wiring team. The second contract was for the provision and installation of the vision, audio and communications systems for the twelve Technical Operations Centres around Manchester. Because the equipment cabins were not available until 3 weeks before the start of the games, much of the facilities were prefabricated and tested at dB's purpose-built manufacturing site before being transported to Manchester.
2002
BBC: World Cup Coverage
dB Broadcast installed 6 racks of encoding and multiplexing equipment at BBC Television Centre, that enabling the BBC to provide additional coverage on BBC Interactive of the Football World cup in Korea and Japan which started at the end of May. The new equipment, together with other equipment installed by dB last year, was also used by the BBC for digital coverage of the Wimbledon 2002 Tennis Tournament. This means that this year the viewer was able to choose between a greater number of tennis matches and highlights.
2001
BBC Wales: Control room C2
dB Broadcast was responsible for the refurbishment of BBC Cardiff's TV studio C2. This included the supply, design, installation and commissioning of new video and audio control rooms, VAR and studio cabling. dB supplied a 10m video control desk and other custom furniture. Equipment included a Sony vision mixer, Questech DVE, Telex talkback system and Pro-bel router that interfaced to the existing news automation system and BBC's BNCS system. The system was fully prefabricated at dB Broadcast's premises to minimise disruption on site.
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2001
BBC TV Centre and Nations: Statmux
dB Broadcast installed the Philips StatMux and related equipment at 4 different sites throughout the UK Involving the supply of 9 equipment racks and the relocation of equipment in 18 other racks. This was done while services were on air, requiring careful planning and considerable out of hours working: much of which was carried out overnight.
2001
Telekabel, Austria & UPC, Norway: Cable Headends
dB Broadcast completed 2 cable headends installing equipment from Philips, Motorola, Sea change and others. 100 equipment racks were prefabricated and installed over a 7 month period.
2000
Meridian: Edit suites
dB Broadcast built two Avid edit suites with a common server for Meridian Broadcasting to enable the station to cover the BT Global Challenge - the world's toughest yacht race. The race is particularly relevant for Meridian, the ITV contractor for the south and south - east of England, because both Meridian and BT Global Challenge are headquartered in Southampton. The contract also included a voice-over booth and Digibeta room.
2000
Westminster: Parliamentary Building
dB Broadcast won the prestigious contract to design, build and commission the serial digital broadcast television facilities in Portcullis House, the new Parliamentary offices. Portcullis House accommodates MP's offices and six meeting rooms equipped for television coverage. Four of the meeting rooms are used solely by select committees, which exist to examine legislation and witnesses. The other two are also used by select committees but have been designed as multi-purpose conference rooms. Proceedings of select committees are televised for live broadcasts and taped for recorded broadcasts and archives.
2000
National Cancer Centre: Viewing Room
dB Broadcast built a special television viewing and control room for The Pelican Centre: a new, national surgical centre for pelvic cancer located at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke. The viewing room is connected by fibre optics to the cancer operating theatre 400m away and allows visiting surgeons to be in two-way audio communication with the operating surgeon and watch pioneering surgery. All operations can be recorded. The viewing room can be used by a presenter and includes a custom control desk, video and audio mixers, a presenter microphone, a roving microphone for visiting surgeons, a rostrum camera, microscopes with a camera, a slide projector with video output and a pathology slide viewer.
2000
UPC, The Netherlands: Headend
dB Broadcast carried out the cabling of the Philips encoding multiplex equipment for a new national headend in Amsterdam. This headend encodes and multiplexes local analogue and digital services and receives all regionally encoded services. These services are scrambled and re-multiplexed and the output transport streams are then distributed to regional headends. dB installed 66 racks, 50 jackfields and more than 20km of video cable in only 6 weeks. The on-site installation time was kept to a minimum due to extensive prefabrication work at dB Broadcast. dB supplied a large number of Hawkeye modules for the monitoring of ASI and SDV signals.
2000
BBC Regions: Audio description
dB Broadcast installed audio description equipment at the TV centre, Nations and 11 Regional studios. This was done in partnership with the BBC and it was essential not to disrupt 'live' signals.
1999
Crown Castle: DTT
dB Broadcast was awarded two major contracts from Crown Castle UK Ltd worth several million pounds over a period of two years. The first was for design, manufacture, installation and on-site commissioning of the transmitter input equipment (TIE) systems for Crown Castle UK Ltd's multiplexes, which included over 400 bays of equipment at 81 sites throughout the UK. The second contract was to develop the digital terrestrial television (DTT) TIE system controller software. The DTT TIE system controller lies at the heart of the broadcast transmission system. Its main purpose is to monitor the status of the equipment required to transmit a single multiplex DTT service and to carry out executive action in response to abnormal conditions.
1999
BBC Nottingham: TV Studio
dB Broadcast was the main contractor for the design, manufacture, installation and overall commissioning of the BBC's new Bi-Media Headquarters in Nottingham. The new building included 3 Camera TV Studio, Production Gallery, Central Technical Area, Graphics Area, 2 News Works Edit Suites, 1 Avid Edit Suite, Sub-Title Area, Media Hub, Bi-Media Library, Roof Camera and Off Air Receiver Room and main Transmission Room.
1998
BBC Northern Ireland: Playout centre
dB Broadcast installed the first BBC digital playout centre outside London. The company built three new digital television transmission presentation suites at the BBC's Broadcasting house in Belfast. The transmission systems were based on Pro-bel control and automation equipment and software including a MAPP Media Manager, compass automation, and TX-220 master control switchers. dB Broadcast's contract included the design, installation, commissioning and testing of all 3-presentation suites including the custom designed desks and monitoring stacks; were also included. Logging systems, monitoring, stills stores, graphics, VT's and audio equipment, and provisions for Tektronix servers.
