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MANUFACTURER

SMART pRodUCTioN ToolS ANd SolUTioNS

R

oss powers video productions

management, newsroom systems and mobile

for billions of global viewers daily

live events.

with the industry’s widest range

As a privately held, self-funded company,

of smart production solutions.

Ross Video has a long and stable history with

Ross makes it easy to create compelling

26 consecutive years of growth. As well as not

news, weather and sports broadcasts,

being under the control of external financiers,

engaging material for sports stadium

Ross Video controls its own destiny by owning

screens, entertainment shows and rock

its own manufacturing facilities, doing all

concerts, educational institutions, legislative

primary research and development in house

assemblies, corporate applications and

and marketing its products worldwide

inspiring content for houses of worship.

through a global sales force and network of

Ross solutions have impressed the

business partners.

audiences and marketing partners of NBC Sunday Night Football, Eurosport, BBC

CoRpoRATE BACkgRoUNd

World, Google, YouTube, Space London and

John Ross founded Ross Video in 1974 in his

China’s eSports powerhouse VSPN. Ross

basement in Montreal, Canada. John sold

delivers an unrivalled range of products and

the World War II trainer airplane he had

services comprising virtual studios, real-time

painstakingly rebuilt over a two-year period

motion graphics, cameras, robotic camera

for $3,500 and used the money as seed capital

systems, production switchers, video servers,

to start the company. To this day, this is the

infrastructure and routers, social media

only investment that has been made in Ross

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