Paris, France / Nevada City, CA
September 2009

Bexel Broadcast Services, the leading US provider of rental television production equipment and technical production services, has purchased two new LDK 8300 high-definition (HD), Super Slo-Mo camera systems from Grass Valley™ that will first be used during the live production of ESPN’s Monday Night Football HD (720p format) telecasts each week during the season.

“We’ve always been impressed with the image quality we get from Grass Valley cameras and the results we're seeing with the new LDK 8300 slow-motion cameras are just stunning,” said Tom Dickinson, COO at Bexel. “ESPN continues to up the ante of its production values and the addition of the LDK 8300 to the ‘Monday Night Football' telecast is another example of that. For viewers, replays will now feature more clarity and allow them - and the games referees - to better analyze plays immediately after they happen.”

“The Grass Valley LDK 8300 has impressed sports producers and TV viewers wherever it has been used because there’s no other camera that produces this level of clarity and color reproduction in HD,” said Jeff Rosica, Senior Vice President of Grass Valley. “Having it used as part of the ‘Monday Night Football’ telecast is a testament to its pioneering image-acquisition technology and ability to work side-by-side with Grass Valley’s LDK 8000 HD cameras for a totally seamless HD experience that fans have come to expect from Monday Night Football.”

The LDK 8300 Super Slo-Mo camera was also used during the 2009 NBA finals and performed perfectly, leading those involved to remark that the images captured included some of the best-looking HD replays ever seen in an NBA telecast, and ESPN’s production crew to include them for this season’s Monday Night Football telecasts.

About Grass Valley: 50 Years of On-air Innovation
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