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Broadcasters Show Daily Wednesday, April 26 - Thursday, April 27, 2017 4 NEW APPLE MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT 3 DEVICES FROM AKITIO Akitio is becoming well-known for its premium, high quality external computer storage solutions. Akitio was the first company to release Thunderbolt™ 3 storage products for Windows and will soon be one of the first to offer Thunderbolt 3 products specifically made for the new 2016 MacBook Pro line-up. Upcoming products from Akitio include the soon to be released Thunder3 Quad Mini, the world's first four bay, Thunderbolt 3 storage solution designed for use with the new 2016 Apple MacBook Pro lineup (macOS) as well as Thunderbolt 3 Windows PCs. Other upcoming products from Akitio will include a new Thunder3 PCIe Box, a new Thunder3 Quad Pro, a new Thunder3 Duo Pro Plus, a new Thunderbolt 3 dock- ing station and a bus-powered 1TB M.2 drive to name a few. "At Akitio, our mission is help Intel make Thunderbolt mainstream by creat- ing the types of devices that owners of the new 2016 Apple MacBook Pro and new Thunderbolt 3 PCs need and want. Our goal is to pro- vide high quality products that are also affordable, but most importantly, we want to create products that will make the lives of our customers easier. We were proud to deliver the industry's first Thunderbolt 3 external storage devices and will continue to develop new and exciting products to meet the gaming, post production and professional needs of our customers," said Richard Wright, Vice President of Sales and Marketing UNITY INTERCOM PROVIDES SOLUTIONS FOR A&E'S LIVEPD Unity Intercom is using NAB 2017 to demonstrate the new features of Unity Intercom 2. Quickly adopted by many broadcasters and television stations across the country, Unity Intercom has become known as an easy solution to many intercom related issues. One show where Unity Intercom is being used to solve some unique prob- lems is A&E's new program LivePD. The show makes extensive use of Unity Intercom to allow television crews to stay in constant communication with the New York-based control room during produc- tion of the live show. Each of these six- man crews are scattered across at least six different cities in the country and use 4G LTE connections to transmit live video and audio back to New York. Each person on the local crew has a headset plugged into either an iOS or Android cell phone running the Unity app while the Unity server sits in New York, tied into the studio's large RTS Adam frame. This allows the director and studio per- sonnel to communicate through their RTS desktop key panels with the remote camera ops and producers seamlessly. Jess Heimlich, Owner of Digital C o m m u n i c a t i o n Systems (DCS), was contacted by the production compa- ny Big Fish Productions to design the communication system for the show. He knew that after his previous experience using Unity Intercom for the Super Bowl, several X-Games and the Rio Olympics, Unity was the only way to do the show. The alternative would have been to bring in 48 telephone interfaces, but the rental cost, low quality and installation of those 48 additional phone lines into the studio were prohibitive and prone to discon- necting at the worst times. Continued on Page 41 Continued on Page 41 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH NAB Kimberly Oser Publisher Jules Denton Senior Associate Publisher Carlos Velasquez Associate Publisher Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director JoEllen Lowry Jeanie Catron Karrie Welborn Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Jonathan Schieffer Graphic Designers Caitlyn McGrath • Sarah Glenn Customer Service Managers Stacy Davis • Jay Watson • Hannah Stefanovich Show Logistics & Distribution John Pechota Sales Floor Manager Marcos Morhaim Senior Account Manager James Gennette • Steven Taylor Account Managers Tara Neal Director of Operations Enrico Cecchi European Sales Broadcasters Show Daily is published by Oser Communications Group ©2017 All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy www.osercommunicationsgroup.com Lee M. Oser Founder