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City Of Pittsburgh Adds New Router

May 16, 2017 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

The City of Pittsburgh has installed a Utah Scientific Utah-100 UDS router as the main studio router for City Channel Pittsburgh, the city’s government-access cable channel, the company announced today. Adding the routing switcher was part of a comprehensive upgrade of the channel’s master control, Utah Scientific said. More information is available on the company’s […]

Filed Under: Master Control/Automation, Routers Tagged With: City of Pittsburgh, master control, routing switcher, Utah Scientific, Utah-100

Sony Acquires Crispin Corp. To Access On-Prem Tech

April 24, 2017 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Sony has purchased master control, playout and automation specialist Crispin Corp. of Raleigh, N.C., the company announced at its NAB Show booth during a press conference. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. “You heard today that everything from ingest to collaboration all the way out to distribution, we have different products for that on AWS […]

Filed Under: Acquisition, Company News Tagged With: acquisition, Alan DeVaney, Automation, Cloud, Crispin Corp., John Studdert, Loading Dock, master control, Playout, purchase, Sony, Sony Ci Cloud

For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP

October 3, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of television. At the core of the service offering is IP transport and virtualization of functions traditionally done with standalone black boxes running proprietary software in equipment racks. Shortly before IBC […]

Filed Under: IP Delivery, IP Networking, Virtualization Tagged With: broadcast, Deluxe, Interview, IP, MAM, master control, Maurizio Cimelli, MediaCloud, NFL, Playout, virtualization

Bidirectional Fiber Plays Key Role In WDRB Air Show Production

July 26, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky., deployed the Utah Scientific UTAH-100/XFD fiber-distribution frame with Norwia fiber-transport technology for its HD live coverage of the 2016 Thunder Over Louisville event, the company said this week. The UTAH-100/XFD supplied content elements and the main program feed for WDRB’s sprawling 22-camera coverage of the event over a […]

Filed Under: Cameras, ENG, Fiber Optics, HDTV, IP Delivery, IP Networking, Master Control/Automation, Production Systems Tagged With: F&F Productions, GoPro, LiveU, master control, Norwia, router, Thunder Over Lousiville, Utah Scientific, Utah Scientific MC-400, Utah-100/XFD, UTAH-400 Series 2, WDRB

WLVT Streamlines Critical Monitoring Functions

May 25, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

WLVT, the public broadcaster serving eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, has streamlined its monitoring workflow. The station, which includes Philadelphia and Reading, Pa., in its coverage area, has transitioned to centralized, software-defined monitoring with the assistance of the Qligent Point system. The new monitoring system has accelerated problem resolution and compliance monitoring, transforming the […]

Filed Under: Audio, Closed Captioning, EAS, Master Control/Automation, Monitoring Tagged With: master control, monitoring, Qligent, WLVT

WTIU Updates Automation, Storage Management

May 24, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

WTIU, the Indianapolis PBS station owned and operated by Indiana University, has installed a complete NVerzion automation and storage management solution to streamline operations. The station is relying on NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions (CLASS) platform to control its entire file-based workflow, from recording to scheduling, playback and non-real-time (NRT) delivery.. “WTIU airs programming […]

Filed Under: Automation, Content Management, Master Control/Automation, Workflow Tagged With: Automation, George Hopstetter, master control, NVerzion, storage management, WTIU

WETP Deploys NVerzion Automation System

January 21, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

WETP, the public broadcaster in Knoxville, Tenn., has replaced its automation setup with a new system from NVerzion. The station is using NVerzion’s Component Level Automation System Solutions, CLASS, for master control, playout and media asset management operations. WETP bought the system from Heartland Video Systems to support its main HD channel and two subchannels. […]

Filed Under: Automation, Master Control/Automation, Playout Tagged With: Automation, master control, NVerzion, Playout, WETP

Imagine Communications, HP Deepen Relationship

January 21, 2016 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Imagine Communications and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are taking their relationship to a new, deeper level to offer television broadcasters and other content distributors HPE server, storage and network solutions optimized for, and integrated with, Imagine’s playout, networking, distribution and ad management product portfolio, Imagine announced today. The relationship, which expands on an agreement to […]

Filed Under: IP Delivery, IP Networking, Master Control/Automation, Playout Tagged With: ad management, Cloud, distribution, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Imagine Communications, integrators, IP, master control, networking, Playout, relationship, resellers, server, storage

KLRU-TV Austin Chooses Broadstream For Master Control

October 27, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

KLRU, the public television station serving the Austin, Texas, market, has selected the BroadStream Solutions OASYS Integrated Playout solution. The new playout solution offers full redundancy, integrated graphics capabilities and SMPTE BXF (Broadcast Exchange Format) protocol support, according to BroadStream Solutions. The most important benefit of the new technology will be “in simplifying and automating […]

Filed Under: Automation, Master Control/Automation, Playout Tagged With: Automation, KLRU-TV, master control, OASYS Integrated Playout

Bitcentral Buys Fission Software, Enters Master Control Market

February 24, 2015 by Diana Marszalek Leave a Comment

Bitcentral has acquired master control automation and playout provider Fission Software, the company announced today. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company has posted details on its website. I interviewed Rick Young, VP and general manager, sales and business development, at Bitcentral about the acquisition. Tell me about Fission Software. Fission is […]

Filed Under: Acquisition, IP Delivery, Master Control/Automation, News Automation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Automation, Bitcentral, efficiency, Fission Software, IP, master control, Rick Young, workflow

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