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Appointments
Telestream Appoints
Drake To VP Role
USA: Telestream has appointed
Chris Drake to the position of
Vice President of Business and
Corporate Development.
Drake brings to Telestream
more than 20 years of sales,
business development, product
and management experience. He
joins the company from Comcast
Technology Solutions where he was
VP Business Development. Prior to
that, he held various senior roles
at thePlatform and RealNetworks.
Commenting on the appointment
Telestream CEO Dan Castles said:
"In Chris Drake, we have secured
an energetic and thoroughly
experienced business development
executive who is an excellent fit
with Telestream's collaborative
culture and will help drive us to
the next level and far beyond.
I'm pleased to welcome Chris
to the team."
Drake, who took his role in
July, reports directly to
Castles.

NEP Names
Lane As VP

GBR: NEP has strengthened its
team with the appointment of
Keith Lane as Vice President, Client
Services - Discovery / Eurosport.
Based at NEP's UK offices, the role
will see Lane leading the strategic
development of the Discovery and
Eurosport relationship.
Steve Jenkins, President, NEP
UK & Ireland, commented
"We are committed to deep
relationships with our clients, and
Keith's extensive background in
sports broadcasting absolutely
complements NEP and Discovery /
Eurosport's future plans. He is an
exciting addition to the team. It's
great to have him on board."
Prior to working at NEP, he
held the position of Director
of Operations at Sky Sports
for seven years, where
he oversaw a number of
technical advances and
innovations.

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Mint Pictures Chooses
Avid Nexis
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nnovative production company Mint
Pictures has decided to upgrade their
in-house storage solution with an Avid
Nexis platform which they purchased
from Videocraft.
Mint Pictures Managing Director,
Head of Programming Adam Kay said:
"We had been running for many years
with Avid Media Composer, Symphony
and an old Avid Unity Storage system.
Around two years ago, Videocraft
who have been supporting us for well
over 10 years, upgraded all of our edit
workstations. So, when we decided
to upgrade our storage solution we
also turned to them for their help and
guidance."
After discussions and consultations
with Videocraft Mint purchased an

Avid Nexis E2 chassis
with 60TB of storage and
also installed a new Dell
switch to support their
infrastructure.
Mint's new Nexis system
delivers significant media
performance,
scalability,
and reliability to accelerate
production
in
their
most
media-intensive
broadcast and video post
environments. It also offers
them greater bandwidth
to accelerate 4K/UHD and
Mint's Avid Nexis system boosts performance
finishing workflows, plus
support for Pro Tools collaboration.
Nine, Ten, ABC, SBS and NITV - as well
Mint Pictures has produced content as Foxtel and Fox Sports, and overseas
for all the major free-to-air networks - broadcasters, including the BBC.

Summa Schools College Students
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habot College, one of many college
installs for Calrec Audio, has
further improved its hands-on learning
for broadcast students with a major
upgrade of its Calrec Summa audio
console.
Chabot, an accredited community
college in Hayward, California,
installed the desk in its campus

television studio in 2015 to give
students experience with the same
industry-standard equipment they will
encounter in a professional broadcast
environment.
Sujoy K. Sarkar, General Manager of
Comcast 27 Chabot TV, the campus TV
station, said: "The students love the
fact that they'll be able to go right to

their first jobs with more professional
experience than many of their peers
from other schools. In fact, graduates
from other programs often come here
to do internships because our facility is
so cutting-edge.
At Chabot College, the 32-fader
Summa console is used by broadcast
students to mix audio for the TV
station's entire lineup of live and
recorded programmes, and for handson training in mass communications
classes.
The college works in close
cooperation with KPIX, the San
Francisco CBS affiliate station, which
also uses a Summa in its operation and
provides one of its audio engineers as
a part-time consultant to help students
train on the console.
Upgrade: Chabot College's Summa console
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