Wimbledon, London-based Marjan Television Network, one of the leading broadcasters to the Persian-speaking world, has just completed a major refurbishment of its four-studio complex to cutting-edge new LED lighting rigs featuring Chroma-Q, Spotlight, PROLIGHTS and Quasar Science fixtures – supplied, along with all associated Tourflex cabling, by A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd.
Marjan broadcasts a wide range of entertainment programmes, which are transmitted to 25 million viewers across the globe. These include Persian-language versions of well-known British favourites such as The X Factor, Come Dine With Me and Spitting Image, as well as producing several hours per day of live output programming from its studios.
Designed so that all four of the studios can be controlled from a single gallery, Marjan’s brief was multifaceted from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. The facility needed to be flexible to accommodate the wide range of productions, whilst maintaining a contemporary feel. Inherent within this was the requirement for the installation to be energy-efficient with, at its core, a lighting package which was multi-purpose and delivered good colour rendition on camera.
AC-ET’s specialist Film, TV & Broadcast sales oversaw the supply – working closely with Marjan to ensure that the equipment met all of their technical requirements. Specifying a variety of LED lighting solutions, including 22 Chroma-Q® Space Force™ soft light fixtures; over 100 Spotlight Fresnels; and Quasar Science Q-LED linear lamps – to provide a range of tuneable white LED luminaires suitable for the studio lighting.
PROLIGHTS colour changing LED effects lighting were used for more dynamic productions. These included LumiPix linear battens and a range of moving heads including Ruby beam lights, Stark400 pixel-mappable wash lights, and StarkBlade8 moving battens.
AC-ET’s in-house Tourflex® Cabling custom cable assembly service manufactured to custom order lengths and connector choices, nearly 900 metres of various power, lighting data, and hybrid power/data cabling. This included over 500m of Tourflex® Datasafe Ultra™ lighting data signal cabling; over 250m of power cabling, custom assembled with Tourmate® and Neutrik powerCON connectors; and nearly 100m of powerCON and Socapex extension cabling.
Other associated equipment supplied included aluminium truss, TV spigots and black safety wire. In addition, AC-ET provided product training on the lighting equipment and ongoing after-sales technical support.
Photo copyright: Marjan Television Network
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