For nearly two decades, Guru Studio has been a leader in animated storytelling. With partners like Netflix, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Spin Master, to name a few, Guru’s award-winning content captivates and inspires audiences all over the world. Its roster of hit shows include the global smash hit PAW Patrol, Abby Hatcher, Mattel’s Ever After High, and its own original properties True and the Rainbow Kingdom, and the two-time Emmy nominated series Justin Time, which now airs in more than 100 countries. Specializing in 2D and 3D animated kids and family content, Guru has built a proven production pipeline that’s nimble while enabling a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The company now has over 400 animators and artists in its state-of-the-art loft studio in the heart of downtown Toronto.

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The over the air broadcast market has an increasing demand of dual polarized antenna systems. Especially in the US, where operators can use the vertical polarization as an additional propagation path, dual polarization antennas are highly desirable and sought after for NextGen TV. Up to now, there has not been an UHF plug & play dual polarized broadband omni antenna available in the market. 

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The quality of the installation of the antenna system is at least as important as the quality of the products themselves to ensure safe and trouble-free operation over a long period. With transmitter powers of up to over 100 kW, even small errors could mean serious damage to the material.  The antennas of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) at the "Hochblauen" location in the southern Black Forest were completely renewed or replaced in the last half of the year. A very special and tailor-made antenna system was used here for the first time, which made special planning by the KATHREIN engineers necessary. To save space, 3 vertically polarized DAB dipoles were nested in the horizontally polarized VHF system consisting of LogPer antennas. For this, numerous simulations and measurements were necessary in order to meet the specifications in the end. 

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Mediaproxy Case Study: AMC Newtworks AMC Networks International (AMCNI) is the global distribution division of US cable operator and entertainment media group AMC Networks Inc. Its activities are divided across different regional territories, each with a dedicated operating unit handling multiple television channels broadcasting targeted programming, in specific languages, to countries within its region. Each channel is available on a variety of platforms to multiple devices, calling for extensive compliance monitoring to ensure output conforms to different regulatory standards and provides a consistent level of quality for viewers. AMCNI Central and Northern Europe, which covers 14 nations including Germany, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine, updated its logging and analysis system four years ago with the installation of a Mediaproxy LogServer monitor and analyzer. It is now in the process of expanding this set-up to accommodate new services.

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