PRESS RELEASE Date: 2 June 2010
Gearhouse Broadcast’s Got Talent
For the fourth year running Gearhouse Broadcast were awarded the contract to supply radio microphone equipment for the judges, hosts and contestants for the ITV live studio show of Britain’s Got Talent. The show regularly attracts an average viewing audience of over 10 million.
Jakki Hewitt, Gearhouse Broadcast’s Rental Manger said “With our history of successfully undertaking RF projects such as Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, I feel we can provide our clients flexible and reliable solutions.” 50 channels of radio microphones comprising 40xSennheiser SK5012/ the new SK5212, 6xSKM 5200 hand held and 2xSKP 30 plug on tx units. MKE Platinum lapel microphones were used for all presenters and contestants for ITV1 and also for the ITV2 spin off Britain’s Got More Talent”.
“The purpose built Titan ProSplit antenna combiner/ splitter fed multiple zones of RF coverage to the 7 racks of Sennheiser EM1046 receiver cards. Planning of the show began with a detailed frequency blueprint provided by Gearhouse Broadcast Audio”.
Dawn Gray, Britain’s Got Talent, Line Producer for talkbackTHAMES said, “We have worked with Gearhouse Broadcast on many projects before. Highly recommended, Gearhouse Broadcast proved that their audio department could tailor their service to suit any needs and any schedule that we could throw at them”.
Gearhouse Broadcast audio managed all stages from planning, kit preparation and delivery to onsite installation. Continual support proved critical, especially with the unpredictable nature of the show, to providing seamless integration of wireless radio microphones for such a large studio based light entertainment production.
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Editors Notes For further information contact: Siobhan Murtagh, Marketing Manager, Gearhouse Broadcast T:+44(0)845820 0000 E: [email protected] W: www.gearhousebroadcast.com
About Gearhouse Broadcast Gearhouse Broadcast is a leading international broadcast services company who specialises in Project Solutions, Broadcast Sales, Broadcast Rental and Systems Integration. With a UK headquarters the company also has offices in Australia, USA, Dubai and Doha.
Gearhouse Broadcast offers extensive experience and expertise in its involvement with major productions. Gearhouse Broadcast provide broadcast equipment rental on a daily, weekly or long term basis. Some of the projects include high profile productions such as Britain’s got Talent, X-Factor, Test the Nation and Question Time.
About Britain’s Got Talent The show is presented by Ant and Dec, it is a nationwide talent contest where the winner gets to perform their act at the Royal Variety show for Prince Charles, and receive a cheque for £100,000. Each auditionee takes to the stage and performs their 3 minute act for the judging panel of Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden. The thousands of hopefuls are than whittled down to 40 for the semi finals for the public and judges to vote until only 10 remain in the grand final. The lucky winner of Britain’s Got Talent is finally handpicked by the viewing public.