Grass Valley (company)
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| Industry | Broadcasting |
| Founded | April 7, 1959 |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Key people
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Marco Lopez, President; Christian Bernard, SVP, Operatons; Sydney Lovely, SVP, Product Development Unit; Tim Ordaz, SVP, Services & Support; Neerav Shah, SVP, Strategic Marketing; Stephen Stubelt, SVP, Sales and Marketing Communications; Michael Cronk, VP, Core Technology. |
| Parent | Belden |
| Website | Grass Valley |
Grass Valley (also known primarily as Grass Valley Canada, Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, and Grass Valley K.K.) is a Canadian manufacturer of television production and broadcasting equipment, including playout, video cameras, editing and media storage, and character generators. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, it was formed by the March 2014 merger of the Grass Valley Group with Miranda Technologies—which were both acquired by Belden in 2014 and 2012 respectively.
Grass Valley Group was founded as a tiny research and development company in 1959 by Dr. Donald Hare in the small town of Grass Valley, California, in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada range. Hare chose Grass Valley after learning about it from his friend, Charles Litton, Sr.. In 1964, Grass Valley demonstrated its first video product, a Video Distribution Amplifier in a hotel room at the National Association of Broadcasters convention. By 1968, the Grass Valley Group had introduced its first vision mixer, the flagship product that helped build the company's reputation.
The company merged with Tektronix in 1974, and with the creativity and vision of Rick Mathewson was very successful for the next fifteen years. When Tektronix divested its printing, video and networking divisions it sold the video business to a private investor, Terry Gooding of San Diego, California, who reincorporated it under the name Grass Valley Group, Inc. The sale closed on September 24, 1999.
In 2002, the French electronics giant Thomson Multimedia, now known as Technicolor SA, acquired Grass Valley Group. After coming under the ownership of Thomson, Grass Valley Group was forced to merge its product line with the existing professional and broadcast products of its new parent company, with mixed results.
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