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Opinion By Fergal Ringrose


Digitalanddata migration


ITFC’S LESLEY Marr keynotes a programme on 13 June at BAFTA that includes case studies on London Olympics, Euro 2012, BBC Sport, Coronation Street workflows, Supersport South Africa, ITN, Encompass and the BBC Journalism Portal. Marr is Senior Operations


Director at ITFC and chairs an opening keynote panel session asking as budgets are shrinking and delivery platforms are increasing, how do we make it all add up? What is the next generation workflow that will really crack the problems? Learn how high-speed


transport and cloud infrastructures are powering high- availability media asset collection and delivery for a major Euro football tournament — explained by Bhavik Vyas, director of Cloud Services, Aspera. ITV’s Coronation Street and


Emmerdale now have file-based delivery workflows from production through to transmission and VoD distribution. Luan Thompson, lead strategist for Content Management at ITV, presents this case study, introduced by Paula Bargery, VP Sales EMEA, AmberFin.


Our London 2012 Olympics case study centres on NBC Highlights Factory, and its nonlinear content delivery through effective workflow automation back to viewers in the USA. Fred Wood, head of Business Development at Sony Professional Solutions of America, explains the SOA-based media backbone workflow and process automation platform. Charlie Cope, technical


executive for BBC Sport, reflects on a complete broadcast operation realignment — a


Review NAB to predict IBC


You might wonder why we’ve put together such an in-depth (16-page) NAB Wrap-Up section in this issue — when the event itself has been and gone back in April. Especially in today’s always-on media climate, where crash-bang- wallop headline news online and tweeted to followers is all that matters, isn’t it? Headlines suffice in the snacking era: no analysis required. Well, that’s not the way we see it. Analysis and reflection IS still required, in a broadcast technology marketplace that remains large, complex and multilayered. It’s that old saying: you can move broadcast TV operational complexity around, but you can’t get rid of it entirely. And


the file-based world is more complex, not less, than the receding analogue/SD videotape world. We believe in providing this


NAB insight for those Europeans who couldn’t make it to Las Vegas – and for those who could! If you were working an exhibition stand for four days on the show floor, hopefully you’ll welcome this opportunity to read what else happened around you during the show. And finally, we present an


NAB Wrap-Up in order to provide pointers forward to IBC in September. So here we are in June, looking back at Las Vegas to look forward with confidence to Amsterdam in three months time! Fergal Ringrose


BAFTA-ready: Case studies from around Europe, and beyond, lined up for ITBW


technical case study on BBC Sport and its migration to its new home in MediaCityUK during 2011 and 2012. Steve Luck, senior team leader


at ITN, discusses the news provider’s integration of people, operations and IT for enhanced business and reporting. How have they developed a broadcast and IT human workflow management solution for better visibility, control and reporting? Steve Luck is introduced by Symbox CEO and Co-founder, Amit Patel. Supersport Systems


Architecture Engineer Darren Munro flies in from South Africa to tell ITBW about the Digital Delivery and Processing Project at the leading African sports provider. This case study on a major move away from magnetic videotape is introduced by George Boath, director of EMEA Sales Enterprise at Telestream. The BBC is creating a web- based system for collaborative working, integrating all the tools a journalist needs for video, audio and web production. Paul Visuri, consulting director at Sharepoint City, explains his company’s role in enabling ‘Collaboration tools for News production: building the BBC Journalism Portal’. Media delivery organisation Encompass has recently embarked on an ambitious project to create a new state of the art playout centre in London. Ian Whitfield, managing director or James Crossland, chief technology officer EMEA


(confirmation TBA at press time), Encompass Digital Media leads the case study supported by Harold Vermeulen, vice president Media Division, Grass Valley. Wrapping up the day is the intriguingly-titled ‘Leaving the horror but keeping the reality in Chello Zone operations’. Andreea Buga, vice president Operations, discusses the experience of rationalising its outsourced content, repurposing workflows and bringing this in- house. As a consequence the traffic and management of post production processing and languaging of 8,000 premier hours was migrated from ad hoc manual systems into the Provys rights management and scheduling system. Buga is introduced by Daniel Stourac, key account manager, Provys. Our Gold Sponsors for the


event (at press time) are AmberFin, Aspera, EVS, Grass Valley, Provys, Sharepoint City, Sony, Symbox and Telestream. Silver Sponsors are Blue Lucy Media, Digital Rapids, GlobeCast, IABM Training Academy, MediaGeniX, Pebble Beach Systems, SGL and Signiant. This event is unique: there is


nowhere else to be involved in such a high-level gathering of leading broadcast workflow case studies centring on the EMEA region. The TVBE team is proud to host the fourth annual IT Broadcast Workflow conference on 13 June. www.broadcastworkflow.com


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