Global TV wins Broadcast Engineering Award for Virtual Studio

Full Mental Jacket are pleased to announce that Global Television along with its partners has won the 2008 Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award for their network virtual studio implementation which include sets created by Full Mental Jacket.

From Orad press release:

“In the virtual studio concept, we saw an opportunity to reduce costs and enhance on-air presentation at our local stations, while maintaining local editorial control and high quality newsgathering,” said Carol Darling, Senior Vice President Engineering and Technical Systems of Canwest Broadcasting. “The virtual sets have not only improved the look of our most popular news show, Global National News, this approach has also enhanced our local market presence by providing consistent, high-end on-air presentation at our smaller stations.

Technical Team

Applied Electronics:
Paul Stechly, pres.;
Donnie Gallant, virtual set specialist;
Keith Treble, robotics;
Kim Edmonds, install. sys. mgr.;
Paresh Premjee, news sys.

Global TV:
John O’Connor, VP, tech.;
Gerry Belec, proj. leader virtual and graphics creation;
Glen Altwasser, proj. leader for install. oversight;
Geoff Franklin, video content interchange;
Chris Mapes, virtual set tech. advisor

Orad:
Andrew Wojdala, VP, R&D;
Ofir Benovici, VP, bus. dev.;
Arek Sliwinski, sr. R&D programmer;
Mike Paquin, tech. support eng.

Links:
Broadcast Engineering project page

Orad Awards press release