IBC Day Four: Quick Hits

The newest SES Americom satellite, AMC-21, goes live over North America on Oct. 1 and is ideal for occasional-use situations ... The Yanks took home an IBC innovation award as NBC Universal won a Content Management award for its Micah production workflow. Put together with partners Digital Rapids and Signiant, it helps the NBC prepare and distribute content to multiple platforms ... The Hannah Montana 3D movie took home the top prize ... Turner Sports inked a deal with IVP to use the company’s Curator tapeless system. The deal calls for a system with 23 server inputs, 20 server playout channels, 21 logging stations, and 19 editing systems to be in place so that personnel can put together packages and highlights via low-res proxy, with the EDL then passed off to Apple Final Cut Pro ... Newtek’s LiveControl LC-11 switching surface is shipping, designed to help TDs react more quickly to events ... EVS has sold 10 XT[2] servers with 500 hours of HD storage to MediaPro in Spain for use on Gol TV, a new football channel ... EVS also expects to remain focused on the high end of the instant-replay market despite the rollout of Dyno from Thomson Grass Valley, a replay product that is initially targeted at venues and facilities that can’t afford EVS replay solutions.