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BRIDGE ACROSS TWO WORLDS GlobalM
BY KIRSTY HAZLEWOOD
With its advanced IP gateway technology, users can experience new cloud orchestration capabilities for software-defi ned contribution and distribution, claims GlobalM. The company’s SDVN technology
offers dynamic scaling, redundancy switching and resource management, allowing users to effi ciently adapt to changing demands.
Designed to meet the needs of both temporary and permanent video services, the company’s advanced orchestrator simplifi es the entire video delivery process, as well as enabling up to 60
times faster infrastructure setup and effortless point-to-multipoint content transport. With an intuitive drag-and-
drop functionality and seamless integration of cloud computing into broadcasting workfl ows, users can focus on delivering high-quality video services, says the company. Paul Calleja, CEO, GlobalM, said: “GlobalM stands at the intersection of broadcast engineering and IT, providing a solution that bridges these worlds to meet the evolving needs of the industry. We’ve had an amazing reception at IBC, with several exciting conversations and a huge interest in this game-changing technology.” 1.B23
RTL BELGIUM SIGNS PLAYOUT DEAL WITH BCE
Broadcasting Center Europe BY DAVID FOX
RTL Belgium has signed a fi ve-year deal with BCE at IBC to deliver playout, asset acquisition, asset management, QC and broadcast. The broadcaster has been working with the IT service management company for 35 years, as previously they had both been part of the RTL Group, but now RTL Belgium is a separate company, broadcasting from
TAKING NOTES Gracenote BY ANNE MORRIS
Nielsen-owned Gracenote is demonstrating its Watch Prompts offering that is designed to enable platforms to provide facts about TV programmes and fi lms to infl uence consumer viewing decisions. Trent Wheeler, Chief Product
Offi cer at Gracenote, said a combination of machine learning and human editors provides a
(L-R): Bochart and Shaeffer put pen to paper on new fi ve-year deal
Belgium rather than Luxembourg. Stephanie Shaeffer, Sales Account Offi cer, BCE, said: “We had to see if we still wanted to
work together. Before there was no real choice. Now there is.” RTL Belgium has reassessed its playout this year. CTO Frederic
Bochart said: “We’ve redefi ned the workfl ow, to make things clearer and more linked to what we are really doing right now. We are linking more digital and linear TV, and that is a big change in the way we are managing the assets.” “We will continue to run the system, because it is working well,” added Shaeffer. “We will use the cloud when it is relevant and use on prem when it is relevant.” RTL Belgium will continue to use a separate system for non-linear TV. 10.C21
Calleja: ‘We’ve had an amazing reception at IBC’
number of choices as to why users may want to watch a piece of content. “We give that to our platform providers, and then they pick which one to present,” he said. Wheeler also provided some hints about what Gracenote is working on next, with a focus on untangling the increasingly complex world that is live sports broadcasting. He noted that while consumers used to be able to go to one broadcaster to watch a sporting event, it has become more diffi cult
Wheeler: ‘There’s a real challenge in the market around streaming sport’
to fi nd the content they want. “Gracenote is really good at solving these kinds of problems. We believe we can provide a solution to really help consumers be able to take advantage of all of the opportunities that streaming sports does,” he said. “There’s a real challenge in the market around streaming sport. We believe that our products can help to organise all of the data around them and solve that problem.” 5.D76
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