OB Company Arena Television ceases trading.

**valley** · 28-05-2022, 06:36 PM

(28-05-2022, 05:23 PM)eladkse Wrote: I believe Gravity Media have OB20 (now in service in France), and another unit I’m not sure the number of.

Interesting, I'd heard that they were potentially buying it but not that it was off to France!

**Markymark** · 28-05-2022, 08:59 PM

(28-05-2022, 06:36 PM)valley Wrote:
(28-05-2022, 05:23 PM)eladkse Wrote: I believe Gravity Media have OB20 (now in service in France), and another unit I’m not sure the number of.

Interesting, I'd heard that they were potentially buying it but not that it was off to France!

Don’t Gravity (Gearhouse in old money) usually have quite a sizable gig for the French Open?

**eladkse** · 28-05-2022, 09:22 PM

(28-05-2022, 08:59 PM)Markymark Wrote:
(28-05-2022, 06:36 PM)valley Wrote: Interesting, I'd heard that they were potentially buying it but not that it was off to France!

Don’t Gravity (Gearhouse in old money) usually have quite a sizable gig for the French Open?

I believe it is currently on French Open duties, but my understanding is that it will be staying in France thereafter.

aaron_scotland · 30-05-2022, 11:27 AM

**valley** · 30-05-2022, 11:53 AM

(30-05-2022, 11:27 AM)aaron_scotland Wrote: Confirmation on Gravity Media having OB20

Few more details on their LinkedIn too: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gravity-m...47873-wWW9

aaron_scotland · 30-05-2022, 08:32 PM

If they haven't renamed this truck, Cloudbass also have OB18

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**valley** · 30-05-2022, 09:32 PM

(30-05-2022, 08:32 PM)aaron_scotland Wrote: If they haven't renamed this truck, Cloudbass also have OB18

Thanks. Could be OB8 (and added a 1 like they did to OB9!) or OB18... hmm. OB8, 9, 10, 11, 17 and 18 were more-or-less identical in layout from memory but 17 and 18 were newer and HDR capable - so I suspect it is ex-Arena OB18?

aaron_scotland · 31-05-2022, 09:54 AM

(30-05-2022, 09:32 PM)valley Wrote:
(30-05-2022, 08:32 PM)aaron_scotland Wrote: If they haven't renamed this truck, Cloudbass also have OB18

Thanks. Could be OB8 (and added a 1 like they did to OB9!) or OB18... hmm. OB8, 9, 10, 11, 17 and 18 were more-or-less identical in layout from memory but 17 and 18 were newer and HDR capable - so I suspect it is ex-Arena OB18?

Aye thats a fair point! My biggest question is who has OB Y.. Was one of the new shiney UHD HDR IP trucks

**Markymark** · 31-05-2022, 12:49 PM

(31-05-2022, 09:54 AM)aaron_scotland Wrote:
(30-05-2022, 09:32 PM)valley Wrote: Thanks. Could be OB8 (and added a 1 like they did to OB9!) or OB18... hmm. OB8, 9, 10, 11, 17 and 18 were more-or-less identical in layout from memory but 17 and 18 were newer and HDR capable - so I suspect it is ex-Arena OB18?

Aye thats a fair point! My biggest question is who has OB Y.. Was one of the new shiney UHD HDR IP trucks

Someone I spoke to recently, thought Cloudbass may have it too ?

**valley** · 16-06-2022, 04:53 PM

**thegeek** · 22-06-2022, 07:04 AM

The Times is reporting that the directors of Arena have been made bankrupt after failing to pay a £100m High Court order.
Their (paywalled) story is here:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arena...-888v68fh7

The story has apparently come from the administrators' report filed with Companies House last week - I might save its 65 pages for some light bedtime reading...

**technologist** · 22-06-2022, 01:09 PM

A longer report and links to episodes in the saga On Brodcast Tech
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/aren...11.article

**thegeek** · (This post was last modified: 28-07-2022, 01:31 PM by thegeek.)

(22-05-2022, 11:20 PM)valley Wrote: Cloudbass have rebranded ex-Arena OB9 as… OB19. Clever!

https://twitter.com/AneirinHolmes/status...4162210816

It's gone up in the world, and now appear to be OB191!
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