March 2013
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The new technology being installed throughout Q1 2013
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A new investment for WRN Broadcast
By Jake Young
THREE YEARS ago broadcast managed services specialist WRN Broadcast looked to develop its range of services for the international televisual market, alongside its existing radio clients. This led to heavy investment and significant growth in this area of the business and at the beginning of 2013 the company again decided to invest – this time with over £1m in technology at it’s London-based media centre. This investment includes a dedicated archive environment,
Tech at a glance
n Evertz MVP Multi-Image Display n Evertz OvertureRT LIVE HD/SD servers
n Spectra T950 Tape Library n Harmonic Electra 8200 encoders
n Harmonic Prostream 1000 multiplexers
n TSL audio monitoring units n OmniTek waveform monitors n Apple Final Cut Pro suites
with an additional 2 petabytes worth of storage, a new master control room and a significant upgrade to the current MAM and Evertz Mediator system. “We invested in a new playout
architecture, upgrading Mediator to the latest version, increasing the capabilities of the automation system, upgrading the playout automation, increasing distribution, storage, archive, and we’ve got a new control room,” summarises newly appointed CTO Dave Travis, who oversaw the investment. A significant amount of money went into fitting an Evertz file-based workflow, including the Mediator content management platform and a very large Evertz backend comprising routing, distribution, monitoring, coding and multiplexing. Evertz Overture RT LIVE playout servers offer integrated playout, graphics and live mixing. “The new Evertz Overture RT LIVE servers are the first anywhere outside the United States,” states Travis. Additionally WRN Broadcast has increased its mutiviewer
News & Analysis NEWS INBRIEF
Clear-Com expands UK Clear-Com has relocated its UK headquarters to 2000 Beach Drive, Cambridge, just down the road from the company’s previous UK headquarters. The new facility enables Clear-Com to continue its expansion in the region, while offering further creative resources for its staff members.
“We believe that the new office provides a more ideal environment for training and serving our channel partners and customers in addition to setting a better foundation for innovation, development and cooperation across departments,” said Bob Boster, president of Clear-Com.
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Dave Travis: “We … will always invest in promising new areas of the business”
capability with a third Evertz MVP multi-image display and monitoring system. “Evertz is very heavily integrated into what we do here at the company. We have bespoke workflows for each of our clients and what we offer one client can be something completely different to another.” This level of investment will support existing clients, which include Viacom International
Media Networks, NHK World and East African broadcaster Wananchi. “We’ve worked closely with our technology partners, including Evertz, Spectra Logic and Bright Media to continually innovate our broadcast services and keep our technology solutions first class,” says Travis. “We continue to respond to our clients needs and will always invest in promising new areas of the business.”
Loudness metering on Quantel with Nugen Quantel has announced support for Nugen Audio’s VisLM loudness metering software. Nugen Audio’s VisLM is available on Quantel’s broadcast editors in the latest V5.2 software. With detailed, objective loudness measurement, history and logging facilities, VisLM provides a comprehensive, ITU, ATSC and EBU standard compliant way to measure, compare and contrast loudness during post production. VisLM integrates fully into the Quantel editing and finishing workspace, allowing the user to monitor audio loudness compliance simply and quickly.
www.quantel.com
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Photo credit: Jake Young
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