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Studio 1 — full overhead retrofit

Client
National Broadcaster
Grid
18 × 24 m
Year
2024

A live newsroom re-rigged with 32 self-climbing hoists and a full LED grid — without losing a single broadcast day.

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1100 × 880
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32
Self-climbing hoists
4
Nights to install
0
Broadcast days lost
<42dB
On-air noise

The challenge

The broadcaster's flagship newsroom ran 18 hours a day. The old motorised grid was noisy, fixed, and out of certification — but there was no window to take the studio off air for a conventional rebuild.

They needed a silent, repositionable grid, installed around a live schedule, certified for loads over presenters.

What we did

Kanasa engineered a 32-point self-climbing grid with a KMC-32 control desk and a full LED lighting package. Installation ran in overnight phases: a block of hoists commissioned each night, tested before dawn, on air for the morning bulletin.

Show presets now recall the entire grid to the millimetre between programmes.

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“We re-rigged a live newsroom over four nights and never lost a broadcast. That's the whole point of self-climbing.”

— Head of Studio Operations
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