September 2013
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BT is the first broadcaster to prepare all its programming in the new DPP AS-11 standard
The MCR itself will manage over 150 incoming and outgoing HD vision lines plus inbound satellite traffic from BT’s Madley earth station
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Ready Steady: The new BT Sports channel went live in the UK from the state-of-the-art studio complex built at the old Olympic International Broadcast Centre in Stratford. In the studio is a Boxx TV Meridian transmitter system with return video, fitted to Sony P1 camera on Steadicam. Mark Gohil (pictured) operates the Steadicam.
The 14,000sqft centrepiece features a suspended floor made of
toughened glass embedded with LED lights. Once illuminated, pitches or areas of a field of play can be virtually presented
“The plan is to air in HD 1080i with an upgrade to 1080p pending, for which the servers are ready”
with customised taxomony by Timeline. Being a greenfield site with a greenfield broadcaster initially at least the archive system is the same as the work-in-progress production system. “One Petabyte will take quite
gateway between EVS and the IT world. XTAccess software runs on Timeline-supplied hardware using Timeline’s own Xware schema, which allows them more control in prioritising and scheduling clips. Media can also be moved by XTAccess to 25 Avid Symphony Nitris DX seats for craft edits of promo items backed by ISIS 7000 storage and Interplay asset management, or in low res proxies for browse and clipping on 200 desktop fitted with IP Director.
Live transmissions leave the
building by fibre, but highlights packages for broadcast or VoD are coded in house via AVC-Intra 100, and then passed though a number of processes within an AmberFin iCR system to make them DPP AS-11 compliant. Indeed BT is the first broadcaster to prepare all its programming in the new metadata and file-based delivery standard. Producers can control and
log all incoming feeds with IP Director using EVS templates
a while to fill but as it does hi-res copies will be made to LTO-6 tape onto a Spectra Logic T950 robot to free up the MediaGrid. The lease on the building is 10 years during which time they will build up tens of thousands of hours — so when it grows that big an archive management layer will be needed,” says Redfern. EVS is planning its Media Archive Director for that eventuality. There’s a possibly unique disaster recovery plan too. At BT Tower, Megahertz has also installed an identical
1 Petabyte MediaGrid linked to iCity by 10Gb pipe. Aspera was asked to develop an API between both systems and EVS to automatically effect transfer of key content — Premiership soccer and rugby — by flagged metadata. Arena and Telegenic are the OB suppliers to BT production partner Sunset+Vine. Both have trucks fitted with conventional XT3s and LSM remote control panels with the obvious advantage of an EVS to EVS timecode integration with the Hub. One of Telegenic’s trucks is 4K-ready but 4K is not on BT’s radar. “The plan is to air in HD 1080i with an upgrade to 1080p pending, for which the servers are ready,” says Redfern. Additional kit for the project is supplied by Autoscript (prompting equipment), Calrec
Alex Redfern, EVS
(audio mixers with the Artemis mixers and Hydra backbone), Avid (ProTools HDX and 32-fader ICON D-Control mixer), Evertz (multiviewers), Shotoku (TG-18 remote controlled cameras), Snell (routers), Sony (15 HDC-2400 studio cameras, TriMaster OLEDs and three MVS-7000X and five MVS-3000 production switchers), Riedel (talkback), Vinten (camera support) and ChyronHego (graphics). The BT Sport facility will
broadcast BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2, and ESPN. BT Sport will show 38 exclusively live football matches from the Barclays English Premier League, as well as FA Cup and UEFA Europa League, along with a range of new studio debate and information shows such as BT Sport Live.
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