theibcdaily ‘Sleek’ update for OnAir SintecMedia By Will Strauss Newly built: RAI’s
Milan news studio, installed by Aret
Tight turnaround for RAI studios Aret By David Fox
The Italian systems integrator Aret has just completed two projects for RAI: a news studio in Milan; and a large project in Rome consisting of two production studios, two main graphics rooms, a teleport, a star centre apparatus room, two documentary rooms, 48 editing and post production rooms, and 24 graphics stations.
The installation included some 100 rack cabinets, 168 modular rack frames, about 390 audio and video patch panels and around 280 UTP patches. The whole centre is interconnected using fibre, with more than 160 fibre patch bays. Aret took care of the design
through to the turnkey installation and
commissioning, and had to complete the project in very little time, as RAI wanted to go on air six months after the initial meeting.
DAB hand at FM space Alan Dick Broadcast By Michael Burns
A new range of economic and space efficient DAB antennas has been released, sharing an IBC spotlight with the new VHF BIII Mask filter/combiner and a range of UHF and FM units and towers. Two types of antennas have been specially produced for some of the world’s most renowned broadcasters and broadcast signal providers, in the form of the Shared Aperture FM Crossbow and the FM Spearhead. DAB antenna elements have been designed to be fitted onto the existing FM antennas without disturbing installation or performance. “Environmental
considerations coupled with zoning and planning restrictions forced the BBC to seek an antenna that could be fitted into the space occupied by existing FM units,” explained ADBL president, Alex Perchevitch. “ADBL embarked on a development project to provide a solution that didn’t impact negatively on the FM antenna and met the specification for DAB.”
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The company worked with RAI to carry out detailed activity planning, and spent a lot of time working on the design and project management to try to prevent problems once the installation went on air, which both studios did over the summer, without any delays. Aret was also working on several other projects, including RAI’s news studio in Milan, and several OB vans destined for the Middle East, Switzerland and the Far East. OE103
A new “sleeker” version of SintecMedia’s broadcast management platform OnAir is making its European debut.
OnAir provides support for managing advertising revenue streams, including ad sales, traffic, programming, scheduling, promotions, and rights management. Key improvements in
version 4 include a “sleeker technology footprint” that promises a reduction in implementation and system maintenance costs, and a new optimisation tool kit for managing promos and ads. OnAir 4 also features a
redesigned screen layout with ‘intelligent interface’ that gives operators an overview of the broadcast business environment, access to critical operations
and makes suggestions for what might be done next. It works with SintecMedia’s standalone OnRights and OnRequest modules for nonlinear content management and delivery.
SintecMedia CEO, Amotz
Yarden, said: “OnAir 4 is designed not only to enhance efficiencies for existing users, but also to help new users master the system quickly and easily. With the new version, we’ve packaged all of the robust components of OnAir into a single unified user experience that provides a single screen and a single touch-point for
accomplishing the most critical management tasks.” Also featured are the Integrated Broadcast Management System, the MediaPro advertising sales system, CloudOnAir and the OTTilus OTT delivery platform. 2.B32
Switch hit: New VB273 functionality supports satellite uplink switching
L-Band and IF now available
Squarial: ADBL’s shared aperture FM Crossbow antenna was designed for square structures
Perchevitch claimed the FM
Crossbow antenna would provide an excellent omnidirectional horizontal radiation pattern from an array of four panels mounted around a square structure. The FM Spearhead meanwhile provides an omnidirectional radiation pattern from an array of three panels mounted around a triangular structure. ADBL said the systems
were range tested to optimise the RF performance of the combined DAB/FM antennas. 8.B99
Bridge Technologies By Ian McMurray
Newly available in both L-band or IF versions, the VB273 Intelligent Satellite Redundancy Switch module from Bridge Technologies is designed for the company’s new carrier-grade intelligent redundancy switching solution for satellite uplinks. The VB273 works in a redundant chassis to monitor two signals from dual production chains and switch to the backup chain if the main chain fails.
Bridge Technologies is also
showcasing Version 5.1 of the system software for its systems, introducing what it says are important advances in graphics capability, a free VBC Elements Manager for easy management and updating of probe networks, and new graphical status overviews of RF data, among many other new features. Visio drawings can be
imported into the optional VBC graphics editor and users can tag specific objects or areas in the drawing with markers that show realtime status on any selected monitoring entity.
This capability allows users to create entirely customised ways of displaying monitoring data on maps or network diagrams. Status can be displayed on objects such as individual probes in a network diagram, or by geographical designation such as individual headends on a map, or individual services or groups of services on a block diagram to show each channel’s status. Extremely easy to use, this capability can be exploited by any engineer, without requiring specialist skills. 1.A30
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