Chennai:

Chennai is turning out to be a major hub for broadcast equipment manufacturers. To showcase the latest equipment, the trade organised an expo in the city.

Speaking to DC on Friday on the sidelines of the two-day international exhibition on broadcast equipment and technology on Friday, Satish Aggarwal, president of the association, said that this was the first in a series of exhibitions their association would organise.

“We chose to organise the exhibition in Chennai as it had several top TV channels in the country.  In the first hour of opening the expo, we had 150 registrations which show the kind of overwhelming response the city has given us. We expect the registration to touch 1,000,” he said.

Further, Mr Aggarwal said that in terms of logistics too Chennai provides good air connectivity to world’s top destinations which made them select Chennai to bring all broadcast equipment manufacturers under one roof.

Mr Masayoshi Hirashita, sales manager, Ikegami Electronics Asia Pacific Private Limited, a six-decade-old company manufacturing TV camera systems and video production accessories, said that the company had several Chennai-based Tamil channels as their clients. “We have provided latest equipment to many Tamil channels and we have come again to display our latest equipment,” he said.

Shyam, a broadcast engineer, says that Chennai boasts of being a hub for satellite channels as the cable TV industry in the city dates back to early ‘90s. “Even before anybody launched a satellite channel for Tamil, Chennaittes stahad started connecting to cable TVs to view foreign  channels,” he said.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC / by  N. Arun Kumar / July 19th, 2014