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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SLOVENIA ● RTV GOES FOR QUANTEL


State broadcaster RTV has chosen Quan- tel’s Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround pro- duction system for its news, magazine, studio clips and sports production. It will be built around four Quantel sQ servers, which will provide 3,000 hours of media storage using MPEG4 AVCI compression. The system will support more than 120 journalists and producers using sQ Cut desktop editors, together with 19 Qube and sQ Edit craft editors.


PLAZAMEDIA EXTENDS SNELL DEAL GERMANY ●


Plazamedia has extended its installation of Snell’s Morpheus broadcast automation system to play out its line-up of 16 chan- nels, including Sky Sports and the Disney Channel. In addition, nine Snell Sirius 600 routers – including two 64 x 64, two 256 x 256 and five 128 x 128 – drive Plazamedia’s playout operation. “It made sense to choose automation hardware and software from the same vendor,” said Plazamedia director of technology Chris Wieland.


AL JAZEERA BALKAN INSTALLS MOSART BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA ●


Al Jazeera Balkan has gone live with the Mosart newscasting system at its Sarajevo news studio. It is the first of Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s channels to base its news studio around Mosart. The system provides Al Jazeera with a file-based studio infrastruc- ture. “Using Mosart means we can run a high-quality news production with a small gallery team,” said Al Jazeera Balkan chief technical officer Miljenko Logozar.


GRASS VALLEY HAS OLYMPICS COVERED BRAZIL ●


TV Record will deploy a complete HD pro- duction system from Grass Valley for live and delayed coverage of London 2012. The broadcaster will use the manufacturer’s digital file-based technologies for all of its audio and video clip storage, editing and playout operations. TV Record will set up a fully networked SAN based on Grass Valley’s K2 Summit media servers, as well as the company’s DNP platform for news editing and Edius for craft editing.


10 | Broadcast TECH | May/June 2012


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