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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> News and Comment >> RED BEE ~ what is happening and who are they? http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1218789464 Message started by JULIAN BRAY on Aug 15^th, 2008, 8:38am

Title: RED BEE ~ what is happening and who are they?
Post by JULIAN BRAY on Aug 15^th, 2008, 8:38am

RED BEE has come up in conversation recently . Who are they and what do they do? I understand it is something to do with uplinks but the pocture is changing so rapidly lately ..who knows! Anyway if you have some infrmation on this strangely named organisation I would appreciate it...

Title: Re: RED BEE ~ what is happening and who are they?
Post by Richard_Taylor on Aug 15^th, 2008, 12:05pm

Red Bee (Australian I think) is one of the latest sell offs by the BBC.

Effectively it's the old Presentation dept. or more commonly called playout in this digital age.

Siemens bought out TVC Engineering (broadly speaking), and then acquired Glasgow Engineers.

SISLink bought TV OBs.

Richard