Technicolor (formerly Thomson SA) is renaming its transmission and headend businesses, which were formerly a part of its Grass Valley Group division. The two business units will now operate as standalone entities under the names Thomson Broadcast and Thomson Video Networks.

Thomson announced the sale of the company originally known as Grass Valley Group in July to a private equity firm in San Francisco for $100 million. Thomson acquired “The Group” in 2002. The transmission and headend businesses were not included in the deal.

Thomson Broadcast will continue providing services and gear for terrestrial television, radio, and scientific transmission applications, including antennas, transmitters and Digital Radio Mondiale radio systems. Nicolas Dallery has been appointed to head Thomson Broadcast.

Thomson Video Networks does video compression and headend content processing. Christophe Delahousse will continue to head Thomson Video Networks.