STAGETEC products to enable World Cup broadcasts

AURUS, CANTUS and NEXUS in use at the 2006 World Cup in Germany

Berlin, June 2006: There is just no denying it – the 2006 World Cup is destined to become a media frenzy – and as far as the eye can see, STAGETEC products are doing their part to make the TV and Broadcast productions a reality. For example, the ZDF-Sportschau and the ZDF-Morgenmagazin will be using two AURUS consoles at a temporary TV station set up directly in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz in the center of town. A number of OB trucks will be using AURUS, CANTUS and NEXUS for live feeds from the various venues. NEXUS will even be used in the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart during the preliminary rounds and in the round of sixteen to help ensure sound and security in the arena.

Nine of the ten stations broadcasting in the ARD, as well as the ZDF, n-tv and RTL are using the NEXUS digital signal router, the AURUS, and CANTUS mixing consoles in either their main broadcasting stations or in their OB trucks. By special arrangements made for the World Cup, the WDR in Köln (Cologne) is outfitted with a temporary NEXUS central control room and uses their new AURUS-equipped tv studios Studio A and Studio S to enable surround mixing in Dolby E and SDI for the ARD.
A number of individual service providers are also getting in on the action, with their OB trucks with either AURUS or CANTUS systems on board. One such example is TopVision, which will make use of its brand new HD-enabled OB truck for the event. International stations are also making use of STAGETEC Products for their broadcasts. They represent World Cup member nations including England, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the Ukraine and the USA. Once again, these top-of-the-line products from Berlin are demonstrating their competence in large-scale live events, just as they did at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino.