A unique event took place in Noumea, New Caledonia: the Pacific Games. In the islands of the Pacific, everyone eagerly awaits this time of celebration and competition! A unique competition for which we produce the entire broadcast.
 
22 Countries in all (countries or territories, independent or not) face off in 28 sports, some of which are not Olympic disciplines, such as squash, body building, or boules on grass!
 
This year, the Flight case A and B control rooms will produce the competition from 27 August to 10 September live from Noumea, New Caledonia. Nearly 7 tons of equipment transported directly from Gennevilliers to Noumea. The teams on site will broadcast the Boxing and Judo competitions as well as the Football tournament for the Games, and will also produce the opening ceremonies, which will be attended by the President of the Republic.

On the schedule at the competition, 16 categories and approximately 900 participants going for global gold. The judokas saw some 60,000 spectators at Bercy in 6 days of competition.
 
Vans 9, 11, and 3S provided the High Definition Live signal broadcast on Canal + Sport, France 4, and Fuji TV (Japanese generalist channel). Van 11 was responsible for the international signal, Van 9 for the wrapping for Canal +, and Van 3S that for Fuji TV.
 
The key numbers for the championships: 70 technicians, 23 cameras, several dozens of commentator stations, one cable television network, 6 days of live HD, 3 days installed on site, 3 vans, and 1 RF team!
Van 11 produced 4 simultaneous signals, 3 video mixers, and 8 graphic wrappings in 2 languages.

Everyone has been talking about it in the transfer window: a colossal investment, six recruits in two weeks, including the famous Javier Pastore. On paper, PSG has become the favourite team in the French League! The forecasters have all turned toward PSG for this first meeting Saturday against Lorient. Maximum pressure at the Parc des Princes. And the Enterprise will broadcast the match for Orange Sport. The Orange mobile studio will provide the commentary before and after the match, and will play this role throughout the 2011-2012 season.
 
Van G will provide video production for the Nancy-Lille match, van 4 will produce the mag for OMTV live from the Phocaean city, and van 11 will produce the Dijon-Rennes match.
 
Kick-off tomorrow at 9:00 pm on Orange Sport.

The ceremony started at 11:00 am with a religious ceremony at the Saint-Louis des Invalides church, followed by a military ceremony at 11:45. The Head of State gave a funeral oration and posthumously decorated the soldiers.
 
Contacted urgently, we were able to provide commercial solutions rapidly and implement a suitable system. The Enterprise van will produce video from the ceremony. It produced two signals: the international and private France Television signal. It also provided duplex with the 1:00pm news bulletin on France 2.

Yes, the AMP Visual TV Group has been entrusted with all of one of the major French special operations for 10 years. This time, it represents a resource for the international signal covered by France Television this year with the Enterprise van (20 cameras) and the RF Van (22 systems). Jean Jacques Amsellem will be responsible for production for the first time.
Jérôme Revon will produce the private France Television signal in the Millennium van, which will be complemented by van 7 at the Elysée to provide images of President Sarkozy's departure from the palace. Lastly, the TF1 signal will be in the hands of Gilles Amado in van 11. Overall, nearly 60 cameras and more than 150 technicians...
 
One of the notable points of this operation relates to the international signal. In fact, it is alternately given to TF1 and France Television each year. This way, neither channel can claim ownership of the signal, and the two channels work each year to improve quality by adding new elements. One of this year's innovations concerns the steadicam system that will follow the presidential car. It will be equipped with 2 camera heads able to provide 2 different values for the same shot. Previous research concerned coverage of the aerial parade. While the camera located at the Louvre Pyramid was abandoned, the one installed on the Eiffel tower has lasted.
 
Lastly, in this era when the media response meter is king, we appreciate the trust that has been established over 10 years with the AMP Visual TV group, such that 2 competing channels call upon the services of the same group, which has always known how to preserve the essential discretion clauses concerning the private systems of one or the other channel.
 
Scheduled for next Thursday starting at 8:45 am. To your remote controls... Go!

C Foot is installed in studio 3 at Studios 107. There are now only 3 days before the launch of the channel on paid DTTV, ADSL, cable, and satellite.
 
What is C Foot?
 
Broadcast on paid DTTV, ADSL, cable, and satellite, C FOOT is a channel created by football for football. C Foot will not be the League 2 channel, nor even the League 1 channel, but the channel for all football: professional, amateur, and women's football. It will be the meeting point for fans of the round ball.
 
Matches all day long?
 
No, not exactly. C Foot will have shows, magazines, and documentaries in addition to matches. Shows such as C Le Talk presented by David Astorga and Julie Raynaud with various consultants each day, C Le Club presented by Francesca Antoniotto, Florian Gazan and Lionel Rosso, and Culture Foot presented by Thomas Hugues will be broadcast each week. Among the matches, League 2 will be a priority with a Friday night multiplex, a live match on Saturday at 3pm and a re-broadcast of the Monday match at 12 midnight. For League 1, two re-broadcast matches will be shown in prime time on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The channel's programming will also include magazines: Top 5, La Grande Histoire, Stade Africain, Supporters, and Version Originale.
 
Everyone to your screens on July 28!

The system Jérôme Revon entrusted us with was especially complex and requires explanation.
 
We were entrusted with:

• The provision of the RF video for the international signal
• The management of packaging for all re-broadcasters (TF1, France Télévision and TMC)
• A live world premiere: the implementation of the ARC (Aéronef Radio Commandé - Radio Controlled Blimp) at the Jean Michel Jarre concert.

 
The appraisal of the file and its technical development were supervised by Hervé Piquand for the video, Pierre Barbier for the audio, and Sylvain Goubier and Stéphane Alessandri for the RF.
 
One of the issues with this shoot was related to the conjunction of 2 antinomic factors: the multiple intervention sites and the travel difficulties related to the event itself. The resources for the international signal were installed at the oceanographic museum, the TV Compound for the re-broadcasters on the Digue port Hercule, a few kilometers away + 5 primary shooting sites: the palace, the Sainte Dévote church, the Casino, and the Paris and Ermitage hotels... Thus we relied upon the fiber optic network that Monaco Telecom, a pool partner, had set up for the Formula 1 grand prix to make all of the video, audio, and RF connections linking the various shooting locations. A statistic: 250 fiber optic connections were required to mesh all of the signals!
 
RF Service:
 
For the International Signal, the request from Euronews concerned the management of:

• The route between the palace and Sainte Dévote with 2 RF motorcycles
• 3 RF cameras at the palace including 1 steadi
• 3 RF cameras divided between the hotel Ermitage, the hotel de Paris, and the Sainte Dévote church to provide images of the celebrity guests
• Lastly a heavy camera at a high point for splendid shots of the principality.

 
Private RF resources were added to this first assignment:

• TF1: 4 stand-up locations with roving RF journalists (palace square, Sainte Dévote, at the Casino, and at the hotel du palais) for commentary and itw in full duplex with the palace square set
• France Télévision: 2 stand-up locations at the palace and at the Hotel de Paris/Casino
• TMC: 2 stand-up locations at Sainte Dévote and the Casino

 
We had to find an organization suited for shared management of an international signal, 3 private systems x 6 different locations, almost no ability to move on site, and different schedules. Sylvain and Stéphane had to rely upon their autonomy and strong confidence in their skills to put together their team of 20 technicians.
 
One last prestigious request from Euronews, entrusting us with the world premiere use of the ARC for a live shoot. We deployed this technological gem whose HD image relayed by RF offered completely new shots, able to leave the stage, circle it, and then in a single movement rise to up to 100 meters in altitude to provide a view of the port and principality, the stage area, and the fireworks. JM Jarre is a fan!!!
 
Private resources:
 
TF1: Gilles Amado produced the program in Van 8. A team of 42 people using a 5 camera set installed on a patio of the palace anchored by Jean Claude Narcy and Sandrine Quettier + 4 roving RF journalists including Denis Brogniard and Nikos Aliagas.
 
France Télévision: installed in the Enterprise van, 45 technicians and Eric Simon at the controls. A 5-camera set anchored by Marie Drucker and Stéphane Bern, installed at the palace. 4 wired stand-up locations, 2 roving RF reporters, and 2 "beauty shot" cameras installed at the palace enriched the program.
 
Lastly TMC, housed in Van G, which also relied on a multi-camera (4) set and 2 roving RF reporters at the Sainte Dévote church and the Casino. The producer was Franck Broqua and the anchor reporter: Bernard Montiel.
 
Audio service:
 
We cannot forget about our friends, without whom these shoots would be mute, the sound crew.
 
The direction concept of Pierre, Barbier, and Chenot was to share the private systems and the international signal. While set management presented no special difficulties, the management of the private multiplexes (sets <> roving reporters <> National TV news production), as well as the technical interphone network was rather large and complex.
 
Pierre Chenot thus moved a technical facility for all interphony to le Rocher to manage all the technical circuits from the vans + the other requests, i.e. 15 different RF bases!
 
Pierre relied on a second remote system at the Casino, managed by Gaël Girodet, that controlled all of the "roving reporter" RF systems.
 
This shoot is one of those unique operations at which the AMP/Visual TV group has become the French specialist. Less than one month after Le Mans and less than 2 weeks from the July 14th parade, the season, this shoot that brought together 136 technicians in the field to meet these requests showed the quality of our experience and identified new environments that will only strengthen our skills.

With more than two months of activities, and shoots taking place every day, you have to hold onto the Fort and not get seasick.
 
Fort Boyard by the numbers is: 4 Bengal tigers, 90 snakes including one 5 meter long, 55 kilogram python (pretty baby!), 30 scorpions, 40 trapdoor spiders, 50 (large) rats, 1 surfer, 3 Zodiac rigid inflatable boats, 120 people, more than 500 cassettes, 73 shows for 5 different countries...
 
2011 is Fort Boyard's year of novelty and change. In fact, the new season of Fort Boyard will see some challenges reappear, such as the powder barrel, mud wrestling, sea legs, and the beam. New technologies will appear with 2 completely interactive challenges: the interactive cell and the visual enigmas of Father Fouras. Other novelties will include 8 new adventures to find clues: the beam-water fountains, the shrinking cell, the underwater cage, the stretcher, the tanks, the animal lotto, the drain, and the abandoned cabin. In terms of characters, the new Fort Boyard season recruited: Lady Boo, Blanche and Luciole.

Also new in terms of our system: the replacement of our old cameras with new RF controlled HD cameras, and the use of additional GoPro onboard cameras. You can now see the smallest details of the challenges since the entire Fort is HD equipped thanks to our specially dedicated control room.

The 24 Hrs. of Le Mans is THE endurance race par excellence. Drivers from around the world compete each year with the hope of winning this race once in their life. More than a race, it has become a gathering place for all automobile enthusiasts, more than 238,000 of whom attended last year.

The Enterprise produced the international signal, Van G rebroadcast the event live on Web TV for Peugeot, Van 5 handled the image production for Eurosport, and the RF semi managed the On Board cameras.

This year again, the battle raged between Peugeot and Audi... You were able to follow this battle Saturday at 2:45 pm on France 3 and on Eurosport for the start, and then at 8:30 pm (all night long) on Eurosport. Then, for the final, an appointment was set for 1:30pm on Eurosport and 2:25pm on France 3.

Deauville was selected to host the G8 Summit presided by France, during which the issues of the African spring and the selection of the next IMF president will be discussed... The city exchanged its peaceful residents for an impressive population responsible for the security of the 8 largest economic powers in the world: the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, and Russia.
 
The AMP Visual TV Group implemented three systems to fulfill the specifications. The Millennium controlled shooting of the televised "events" for the international signal (27 triax beams + 2 RF). The Enterprise covered shoots in the 7 conference rooms with between 1 and 6 cameras each, at the Press Center. Lastly, van 10 was a standby system: 3 cameras if needed.
 
The particularities of this type of shoots are related to international political and security pressures that require rigorous preparation, discretion in operation, and flawless and continual adaptation to potential protocol changes.
107 operators contributed to producing the image and sound coverage for this event.