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Edel Garcia of Glookast chats with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at the IBC 2015 Show in Amsterdam.

GLOOKAST develops tools that solve the most challenging issues of today's media production. They remove the complexity of capturing, sharing, managing, converting and distributing content through seamless integration across multiple platforms.

GLOOKAST empowers customers with the freedom to choose the tools they like from the vendors they prefer.

Their core competency is the development of products for seamless MXF workflows -- both baseband and file-based. Since no two workflows are the same, GLOOKAST products address the full range of workflows: broadcast, finishing, post production, field production, content distribution, etc. We aspire to exceed our customers' expectations by creating innovative products that “solve the workflow puzzle".

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Giles Cottle of Consumer Insight Products chats with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam.

Giles talks about targeting specific audiences with television and digital media advertising and shares their product/services at the IBC Show in Amsterdam.

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ETL Systems has been designing and manufacturing RF equipment since 1984, and from 2003 onwards benefited from the new management of Ian Hilditch and Dr Esen Bayar. In 2009 it received its second Queens Award for Enterprise, marking impressive growth in International Trade, and is now one of the world’s leading RF manufacturers to the Satellite industry.

Dr Esen Bayar leads a dedicated in-house design and engineering team, which specialises in originating RF design concepts, as well as enhancing existing products to meet customer needs. Ian Hilditch heads up the commercial team covering global Sales and Marketing and Finance.

Located at its purpose built secure facility next to the BT Madley Satellite Earth Station, ETL boasts RF testing facilities, software design, automated circuit board assembly, concept design areas, pick and place machinery as well as machining workshops. This means that design, production and maintenance can be carried out in-house under the umbrella of the newly awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System.

ETL’s heritage is in designing satellite signal routing solutions for Broadcasters, who demand hi-levels of RF performance, as well as redundancy and resilience. This expertise has been expanded to cover Government, Military, Marine, Private VSAT networks as well as global Satellite Operators.

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Timo Koch, CEO of Outside Broadcast shares IBC 2015 News and Announcements at the 2015 IBC Show with Broadcast Beat's Janet West.

From the Oscars to the Olympics, NEP provides the technology and know-how to enable their clients to produce the world’s biggest live and broadcast events. NEP’s unparalleled worldwide network gives them the largest and deepest pool of outsourced broadcast engineering and production talent in the industry, providing solutions around the globe for Remote Production, Studio Production, Video Display, Host Broadcasting, Post Production and Uplink Communication. NEP is the only large-scale player with a comprehensive solution and global footprint, and has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates and Australia

NEP is the provider of choice for the highest-profile, most-watched productions. Their clients include many of the world’s premier television broadcasters, cable networks and event producers who share our commitment to continuous innovation and the delivery of seamless, high-quality productions. NEP provides deep technical expertise and high quality assets to deliver superior service and meet their clients’ increasingly complex production needs.

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Colin Farquhar, CEO of Exterity chats with Broadcast Beat Magazine's Janet West at IBC 2015.

Founded in 2001, Exterity is firmly established as the global leader in enterprise IP video technology, and is the only vendor to deliver truly end-to-end IPTV solutions that help organizations to harness the power of video to communicate, educate and entertain.

Exterity systems are deployed globally by some of the most recognized brands in the world, enabling the distribution of broadcast quality digital TV and video over IP networks to an unlimited number of end points. With centralized management, configuration and control, Exterity solutions support large volumes of content and devices without compromising system performance or availability.

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Bob Caniglia of Blackmagic Design speaks with Broadcast Beat's audience about their IBC 2015 Announcements and News at the 2015 IBC Show.

Blackmagic has grown rapidly to become one of the world's leading innovators and manufacturers of creative video technology. And that's because our philosophy is refreshing and simple - to help true creativity blossom.

Blackmagic Design's founders have had a long history in post-production editing and engineering. With extensive experiences in high-end telecine, film and post, harnessed with a real passion for perfection, Blackmagic set out to change the industry forever.

A company dedicated to quality and stability and focusing on where it's needed most; Blackmagic has created some of the most talked about products in the industry. World famous for their unbeatable codecs, Blackmagic envisioned truly affordable high-end quality editing workstations built upon Blackmagic software and hardware.

In November 2002, Blackmagic launched the DeckLink capture card and in doing so single handedly made working in true 10 bit uncompressed video on a Macintosh OS X™ system an affordable reality. The DeckLink card has become a market-leading product due to Blackmagic Design's philosophy of delivering "what ever it takes to give creative editors and designers the very best quality tools".

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Cooke Optics is known for world-class cinematography lenses and Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine has a chance to chat with their CEO, Les Zellan at IBC 2015.

Cinematographers choose Cooke lenses for the "Cooke Look" - a sharp, subtle, smooth rendering that provides dimensionality and high contrast, and pleases the eye.

Cooke's expertise is in the science of creating beautiful images for the motion picture industry. Their understanding of the right way to implement technology comes from our long term involvement in the film business.

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Chris Shaw of Linear Acoustic speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine about their IBC 2015 News and Announcements at the 2015 IBC Show in Amsterdam.

Linear Acoustic® continues to lead the industry towards high quality DTV audio that is naturally compliant. The company designs and manufactures the AERO™ range of real-time and file-based loudness managers, UPMAX® upmixing and downmixing solutions, and the LQ™ series of loudness metering products.

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Neil Berry of Piksel speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at IBC 2015 with their IBC Show News and Announcements.

Video: It can be a captivating messenger. An inspiring idea machine. Your most compelling salesperson. Whatever your goal, we help you find better ways to deliver greater value in your video content. In fact, it’s been our core focus for more than a decade. Whether you create, manage, aggregate or distribute it, Piksel has the proven software, services, and solutions to help you capture audiences, and maximize the potential for better reach and return.

Video is evolving at such a rapid pace these days. You need the flexibility and agility to grow with it. That’s why we developed the Piksel Palette. Unlike out-of-the-box solutions, it uses a modular cloud-based approach and a services-oriented architecture framework, giving you the freedom to select only the functionality you require. So you can speed your time to market and prepare for the future in a more flexible and cost-effective way.

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Thorsten Sauer, VP and Head of Broadcast & Media Services at Ericsson speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine during the 2015 IBC Show with their IBC 2015 news.

Ericsson is a global broadcast and media services provider. Working with the strongest media brands on the planet, we bring audiences and content closer together. Ericsson's comprehensive service portfolio is consistent the world over, driving unrivalled cost efficiencies.

Thorsten also talks about a recent announcement that Ericsson has signed an exclusive multi-year broadcast and media services deal with leading UK broadcaster, Channel 5, which is owned by Viacom.

The deal, which was won following a competitive tender process, includes playout, media management, metadata, access services (captioning, audio description and sign language interpretation) and business continuity services. Ericsson will provide these services for Channel 5’s entire portfolio of terrestrial and digital channels (Channel 5, 5*, Spike and 5USA), as well as for its catch up offerings, including Channel 5+1 and Channel 5+24. Ericsson will also deliver media management services for the broadcaster’s Demand 5 video-on-demand platform. All services will commence in May 2016.

Thorsten also talks about Ericsson's cloud-based and broadcast services available to broadcasting companies worldwide.

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