Part of a re-organisation of its distribution network, Jünger Audio has placed its entire product range with New-Tek Broadcast, including its Level Magic Loudness control, which has been adopted as a stand-alone solution by broadcasters such as Discovery Channel, MediaCorp, Canal+, Astro and RTL.
Dynamics processing specialist Jünger is keen to take a leading role in addressing loudness processing on an international basis: ‘With Loudness processing becoming such a crucial issue throughout the world, it was important for us to intensify our geographical deployments in Eastern Europe,’ Marc Judor, International Sales & Marketing Manager at Jünger Audio, confirms. ‘During 2010, New-Tek Broadcast started investigating market potential for Jünger Audio products in Bulgaria. This proved positive and indicated that there was demand from the local market to combine reliable loudness products with a reliable partner. This has now led to our collaboration, which we believe will be highly successful.’
Based in Sofia, New-Tek Broadcast is a division of the New-Tek Ltd Group, which was established more than 30 years ago to provide high-end sales and distribution services to customers in the broadcast and postproduction industries. Alongside Jünger Audio, New-Tek Broadcast also distributes products for companies such as Harris and Tektronix.
‘Adding the brand to our existing portfolio enables us to provide our customers with a range of products that meet their requirements, especially for loudness control solutions,’ says New-Tek General Manager, Yavor Yanakiev. ‘Bulgaria is a small country and at present it is only the major TV stations that are investing money in loudness control. However, smaller TV stations also know they need to address this issue and we believe that Jünger Audio’s range will give them the tools they need, at the right price.’
Level Magic is a adaptive level control algorithm designed to adjust the level from any source at any time, without pumping, breathing or distortion artifacts. It is based on a simultaneous combination of an AGC, a Transient Processor for fast changes and a ‘look ahead’ Peak Limiter for continuous unattended control of any programme material, regardless of its original source. Capable of using analogue and digital sources, as well as SDI, HD/SDI, Dolby 5.1 and all its related metadata, Level Magic is available in a variety of configurations to suit different applications. It can also be configured and remotely controlled via a web interface – and it now complies with ATSC, ITU and EBU R128 loudness recommendations.
Since taking on the brand, New-Tek Broadcast has sold a number of Jünger Audio units to local broadcaster bTV. The company’s other main customers include Bulgarian National TV and Nova TV.
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