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InNews
Elemental Enables
TVB OTT Delivery

HKG: Television Broadcasts Ltd
(TVB)
is
using
Elemental
Technologies' software to process
and manage live linear broadcast
channels in real-time for its OTT
content delivery service. Elemental
partner Mediatech (International)
Ltd. is providing training and
overseeing
integration
and
configuration of Elemental video
processing for TVB. TVB provides
entertainment
channels
and
news to more than seven million
Hong Kong viewers and operates
an international licensing and
distribution business accessible to
more than 300 million households.

Nexstar Expands
ENG With TVU

USA:
Nexstar
Broadcasting
Group has signed a deal to deploy
TVU Network's TVUPack IP
newsgathering solutions and TVU
Grid IP video switching, routing
and distribution solutions. Nexstar
said it selected TVU because of
the solution's resiliency, ease of
use and ability to transmit over
multiple cellular, satellite and
microwave connections. Nexstar
plans to deploy TVUPack TM8200
mobile IP video transmitters to
its various stations. With 105
television
stations,
Nexstar
reaches approximately 15.6% of all
US television households.

Aspera Transfers
4oD Video Content
U

K broadcaster Channel 4 has
selected Aspera On Demand to
enable the rapid and secure transfer of
video content to the cloud for 4oD.
Aspera CEO Michelle Munson
said: "Aspera On Demand enables
broadcasters to reap the benefits of
the cloud by delivering their content
directly into the cloud in the fastest,
most efficient way possible.
"With Aspera On Demand, Channel
4 can predictably transfer a greater
volume of content to the cloud,
enabling them to satisfy growing
viewer demand for cross-platform
services."
Channel 4 had been delivering
content to 4oD via FTP, but was able
to easily integrate Aspera On Demand

Michelle Munson, CEO, Aspera

services Virgin Media and Sky catch
up, mobile devices, PCs, connected TVs
and game consoles.
4oD offers a variety of programmes
recently shown on Channel 4's linear
channels, Channel 4, E4 and More4, as
well as from its archives.

Sky News UK Implements
Blackmagic Design's ATEM 2 M/E
S

Chinese Channel
Chooses Snell

CHN: The first TV shopping channel
for China, Shenzhen Yihe, has
purchased a Snell Vega asymmetric
router, IQ Modular infrastructure,
a Kahuna switcher and KudosPro
converters to provide the backbone
and live production facilities to
power a new six-studio complex.
As part of its continued expansion,
facilities were required, & following
a three-way competitive tender,
Snell was awarded the contract for
routing, infrastructure, switching
and conversion. The facility is
scheduled to go live on March 28.

into its existing IT infrastructure.
Simon Christie, Broadcast Systems
Engineer, Distribution & Broadcast
Technology, Channel 4, said: "We
decided that Aspera was a mature,
fast, reliable and secure solution
capable of handling the high volume of
video content delivery direct to cloud
storage.
"The speed, efficiency and reliability
that Aspera On Demand provides gives
us confidence that every part of the
package file is delivered on time and
without corruption - which is crucial
when we're updating the platform
with a hundred hours of content each
week."
4oD is available through 22
platforms,
including
set-top-box

Sky News has overhauled Studio D

ky News in the UK has implemented
Blackmagic's
ATEM
2
M/E
Production Studio 4K with an ATEM
2 M/E Broadcast Panel and Smart
Videohub as part of an overhaul to the
news organisation's broadcast systems
for Studio D.
A small team of multi-skilled staff
use the studio to create three minute
news summary, which are then
published across Sky News' digital
outlets.
The studio also has the layout and
facilities available so that a bigger
gallery set up, with producer, director,
vision mixer and sound supervisor,
all managed by a technical director,
can be deployed on more complicated

projects if the need arises.
Commenting on the workflow,
veteran anchorman Martin Stanford
said a bulletin could be created in
real-time and be posted to all digital
devices.
"Every source, whether it's station
wide or local to the studio, goes
through a Smart Videohub router to
an assigned channel on the ATEM 2
M/E Production Studio 4K switcher,"
he said.
Four pre-existing playout channels
from the Sky News media server are
connected to the switcher, as are three
outside source channels, which can be
populated from the central Sky router,
and local feeds from a Mac computer.
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