industry broadcasting founded april 7 1959 headquarters montreal quebec canada key people marco lopez president ; luc st georges coo ; michael cronk svp strategic marketing ; sydney lovely svp research & development ; gilmond lapointe svp services & support ; steve ronnenberg svp sales & marketing parent belden website grass valley grass valley is a canadian manufacturer of television production and broadcasting equipment including playout video cameras editing and media storage and character generators . based 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 . contents 1 history 2 references 3 further reading 4 external links history edit 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 . 1 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 . after the financial crisis of 2008 thomson defaulted on its financial covenants and was forced by its creditors to divest its grass valley business prn and other manufacturing entities . on january 29 2009 thomson announced that they were putting the grass valley division up for sale . 2 in 2010 the grass valley business unit not including the head end and transmission businesses was acquired by private equity firm francisco partners and resumed operating as an independent company with offices in san francisco california on january 1 2011 . 3 the company announced in august 2013 it would move its headquarters to hillsboro oregon later that year to an existing office . 4 on march 31 2014 the company was acquired by belden inc. from francisco partners and merged with miranda technologies 5 which belden acquired on july 27 2012 . 6 the merged company operates as grass valley . references edit gvg history timeline 1959 2009 retrieved 2014 03 10 thomson to sell grass valley . tv technology . january 29 2009 . retrieved 2011 10 27 . francisco partners completes acquisition of grass valley . tvtechnology.com . january 3 2011 . retrieved 2011 01 03 . rogoway mike august 29 2013 . grass valley a video technology company with roots at tektronix moves hq from san francisco to hillsboro . the oregonian . retrieved 30 august 2013 . belden set to acquire grass valley merge ops with miranda . sportsvideo.org . february 6 2014 . retrieved 2014 04 16 . belden reveals why it bought miranda . tv technology . september 9 2012 . retrieved 2014 04 16 . further reading edit 2002 . share the news three new systems from grass valley group are intended to facilitate work flow . broadcasting & cable . 132 35 . 2001 . equipment purchase french manufacturer thomson multimedia acquires grass valley group . broadcasting & cable . 131 12 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title grass valley company & oldid 741346783 categories companies established in 19591959 establishments in quebechidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitalianot rk e edit links this page was last modified on 26 september 2016 at 22 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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