OB Company Arena Television ceases trading.
If you want a (smaller) part of the Arena kit …
All Three days of the sale are now available …
https://www.cagp.com/events/arena-televi...ation-sale
technologist post_id=67728 time= user_id=1158 Wrote:If you want a (smaller) part of the Arena kit …
All Three days of the sale are now available …
https://www.cagp.com/events/arena-televi...ation-sale

Yes, they have buckets (literally) of microphones up for grabs !
Does anyone know where OB20 has ended up?
The serious fraud office have made a brief statement regarding Arena.
https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2022/02/23/sfo-in...n-limited/
Latest news ….
Court filings from a civil case brought against former Arena TV directors Richard Yeowart and Robert Hopkinson by administrator Kroll has revealed how the pair allegedly committed the £282m fraud.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/cour...00.article

Mostly the sale and hire back of none existent assets via an intermediary and raking off in crypto currency

Alongside the civil action the SFO is still investigating and two are still under arrest …..
Anyone got a more complete list of where things have ended up than my rather ??-filled list...

OB8 - ?
OB9 - to Cloudbass, now OB 19
OB10 - Stripped to rack-ready, ??
OB11 - to Cloudbass
OB12 - to Cloudbass
OB14 - ?
OB15 - ?
OB17 - to Timeline, now OB 7
OB18 - possibly to Cloudbass
OB20 - to Gravity Media France, now Sirius
OBX - to Timeline, now UHD 4
OBY - not yet sold ("One OB truck, OBY, is still to be sold due to a claim by a third party that the administrator disputes")
OBZ - to Timeline, now UHD 5

VT1 - ?
VT3 - ?
VT4 - ?
VT6 - to Timeline, now VT 1
VT7- to Cloudbass, now VT 3
VT14 - ?
VT15 - ?

Pretty sure at least one of the VT trucks went to Cloudbass? Edit - yes, VT7!

(Not certain that some of these trucks hadn't left Arena by the time they went under.)
Possibly a stupid question but what are VT trucks for? Surely its all EVS or similar now and even if it was tape it wouldn't need a seperate truck these days?
(16-05-2022, 08:18 AM)Inspector Sands Wrote: Possibly a stupid question but what are VT trucks for? Surely its all EVS or similar now and even if it was tape it wouldn't need a seperate truck these days?

They sometimes get (or got! ) used for extra space for production staff, data wranglers,  off line stuff, webstreaming,  (think nest cams on Springwatch etc)
(16-05-2022, 12:11 PM)Markymark Wrote:
(16-05-2022, 08:18 AM)Inspector Sands Wrote: Possibly a stupid question but what are VT trucks for? Surely its all EVS or similar now and even if it was tape it wouldn't need a seperate truck these days?

They sometimes get (or got! ) used for extra space for production staff, data wranglers,  off line stuff, webstreaming,  (think nest cams on Springwatch etc)
And even if you can physically fit the EVS crates in the main truck, you might have so many operators that you run out of space to put them.

Arena VT15 had a second sound control room, an edit suite and a large VT room with 15(?) seats. VT6 had two edit suites and a large VT room.
I guess Golf OBs may use VTR trucks too seeing as most of Live golf coverage is recorded
Cloudbass have rebranded ex-Arena OB9 as… OB19. Clever!

https://twitter.com/AneirinHolmes/status...4162210816
I believe Gravity Media have OB20 (now in service in France), and another unit I’m not sure the number of.


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