34 TVBEurope The Workflow An authentic
THE LATEST step in Italian state broadcaster Rai’s on-going project for the digitisation of its news programmes was the launch of the new full-HD TG2 (Rai’s channel 2 news programme brand), featuring an Avid integrated news production system that enables simultaneous access by 160 journalists, features seven software suites (i-News, Assist, Access, i-News Instinct, Newscutter, Interplay Capture and i-News Command) and is completely HD. From the beginning of the year,
TG2 is therefore Rai’s first entirely digitised generalist TG and director Marcello Masi explains, “This digitisation is an authentic revolution. It enables us not only to be on all the platforms, but above all to use 16 reception channels from hundreds of sources — colleagues with
revolution The first floor in building D (TG2) has two control rooms as well as two studios and a teleport
Rai Channel 2 news production has finished its T-Cube (Transition To Tapeless) project based on an Avid-based system and a Front Porch Diva archive. The project involved the intensive retraining of over 500 Rai staffers. Mike Clark has the story
mobile phones, iPads or video cameras, as well as from the web, in realtime.” Inaugurated in 1990 as the
World Cup’s IBC, as well as radio and TV production, Italian state broadcaster Rai’s 190,000 m² Saxa Rubra production centre in Rome controls incoming and outgoing HF signals for Rai Way’s signal transmission and broadcasting network. The centre features 16 digital TV studios, 70 editing rooms, 10 graphic studios and an OB vehicle depot. The first floor in building D
(TG2) now hosts two studios and two control rooms, a teleport, 12 editing rooms, an eight-suite graphic room, two equipment rooms and full fibre connection with all the journalist areas on the floor above, as well as with a second (small) production centre located at Fontanella Borghese (near the parliament), featuring four editing rooms, two ingest, two playout and four journalists’ desks connected to the main system.
Going tapeless When the decision for the ramp-up to tapeless HD production was taken some years ago, Rai commissioned a market analysis identifying the industry’s key players, then visited some of the most important broadcasters round the world. After choosing the Avid system and purchasing other equipment, the entire process was slowed up by changes in law regarding tenders, as Enrico Guido, TV Production Engineering manager, explains, “We had already prepared the project’s specs, details and identified the technologies, but for the completion of the facilities had to draw up all the terms and specifications and documentation anew for a new European public tender. This tender was won by a temporary consortium formed by CVE, Broadcast Solutions
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