For the best part of half a decade Sennheiser's Electronic News Gathering equipment has been winning admirers in the TV news and outside broadcast fields. NBC and the BBC have been long-term users, as have broadcast hire companies like Charter Broadcast, Gearhouse, Presteigne Broadcast and Richmond Films. All put their faith in Sennheiser microphones on a daily basis, confident that the combination of reliability and audio quality will deliver the story.

Sky News has recently joined the list of broadcasters using the equipment by purchasing sixty-eight radio mic systems from Sennheiser for their cameramen and reporters in the field, choosing SK 3063-U bodypack transmitters paired with EK 3241 receivers, with a selection of MD 46 reporters microphones and MKE2 lapel mics.

George Davies, Head of Cameras, Sky News, said that, given the microphones and cameras had to be used worldwide, sometimes in hostile environments, it was the equipment's physical toughness that had primarily informed the broadcaster's choice.

"Robustness and reliability come first," he explained. "Sennheiser kit is made from metal and is therefore heavy duty. It is also capable of reasonably high-powered output which is important to us, as our journalists want to do walking, talking pieces to camera and sometimes start fifty yards away."

Sky News is currently using the Sennheiser equipment in Washington, Delhi and Brussels. Over the last six months the broadcaster's three travel kits, based in London, have already been used to cover stories around the world ­from the American elections and the Arctic to Iraq.

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