ATG Danmon Commences Riverside Studios Relocation Project

ATG Danmon (www.atgdanmon.co.uk) announces the commencement of a large-scale systems integration project for Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London. The new venture will include the installation and interconnection of production infrastructure. Riverside's former studios and the neighboring Queen's Wharf have been replaced by a new building across both sites. The venue will include state-of-the-art facilities with three flexible studio spaces for television, theater, dance, opera, music and comedy, as well as a cinema, screening room, archive, community and rehearsal space plus a local events and entertainment space.

"Connectivity through the building has driven the design of Riverside from the outset," says Duncan Stewart, Riverside Studios Technical Director. "We have worked with ATG Danmon over the last two years to present our new cutting-edge facilities in a way that is reassuringly familiar to the freelancers who will be working with us in the future." 

"We are working across all three floors of the new building," adds ATG Danmon Project Manager Howard Dixon. "Our role is to integrate the technical systems in all the key production areas including the control gallery, lighting control room, audio control room and central apparatus room. The equipment itself is mostly new acquisitions, supplemented by some of the form building element or the project is the interconnection of 42 positions at various locations, including triax and SMPTE camera cabling, video, audio and data cabling, fiber tie-lines and low voltage power cables for facility boxes. on site. "

"We are pleased to have been chosen as partner with Riverside on this very high profile new project," comments ATG Danmon Managing Director Russell Peirson-Hagger. "Multi-function venues of this type are becoming increasingly popular around the world and this looks to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the UK." 

The Riverside site dates back to 1933 when the Triumph Film Company acquired a form engineering works and created two large sound stages. The BBC bought the site in 1954 and converted it into the country's first purpose-built television facility. The facility was in continuous use until the early 1970s, its rooftop camera position providing one of the best vantage points for the annual University Boat Race. In 1975, a charitable trust formed by Hammersmith and Fulham Council took control of the building. Soon afterwards, two large multi-purpose spaces were formed by architect Michael Reardon from two main sound stages, to be used for a mixed program or live theater, music, dance and film.

A four year redevelopment of the site has completely rebuilt Riverside Studios whose facilities occupy the most of the ground floor and parts of the basement, first and second floors. The venue will play host to contemporary performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production. Its largest studio, Studio 1, has a floor space of over 600 square meters with a seated audience capacity of 400. The facility will be able to capture productions in UHD or transmit to BT Tower.

ATG Danmon, part of the Danmon Group (www.danmon.com), has been at the forefront of the transition to the file-based technology now used throughout the industry. It also assisted many clients in the construction of IT-based automated file workflow systems, high-definition studios, master control rooms and playout facilities, as well as the upgrade of existing SD systems to HD and UHD. At embracing tomorrow's technology, ATG Danmon delivers maximum value through close co-operation with suppliers and customers, leading to mutually beneficial long-term relationships.

ATG also offers a comprehensive range of products and services including transcoding and automated workflow management, accelerated global file transfer, media workflow design, project planning, equipment installation, software configuration, commissioning, documentation, on-site training plus ongoing support and maintenance.

With offices in Asia, Denmark, Germany, the Middle East, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Danmon Group thinks globally and acts locally to support customers with its highly experienced sales and engineering teams.

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