TV Stations preparing for Terrestrial Digital TV (TTD)

Barcelona – 10 November 2005 - JustEdit, S.L. In anticipation of the arrival of Terrestrial Digital Television, many channels are looking to complete digitalisation in advance of the analog switch off due to commence soon in Spain.

Canal 4 Castilla y León
The Group Canal 4 Castilla y León have made a strategic agreement with JustEdit and Emco in order to install vsn MXF and XDCAM compatible automation systems, in all the new local TV stations in the group. The first station in the group to start installation is in Toledo and will take place during December. Immediately afterwards, work will start in Guadalajara and Albacete. Canal 4, will later adapt the existing transmitters the different locations of Castilla y León.

The system in Toledo is one of the most advanced provided by JustEdit in Spain. It includes the news system vsnnews compatible with MXF for 4 journalists, and integrated with advanced postproduction software Edius Pro3 from Canopus. 3 simultaneous ingest channels with vsnautorec, a broadcast server with 2CH vsnairnews plus a backup server, titler vsncg and vsnprompter. Thus the Toledo branch of Canal 4 will operate 100% digitally, i.e. ‘tapeless’.

In addition to the automatic ingest of line feeds and content coming from XDCAM ENG’s, Emco will also install all of the master control room vsnmatic plus a legal copy system vsnlegalrec with the capacity to record 3 months of content, 24x7. Emco already has experience in vsn installations and was recently in charge of engineering and starting up a vsnnews system in the University of Burgos.

Canal 4 is the audiovisual offering in the community of Castilla y León. Canal 4 counts 12 broadcasters in the independent community of Castilla y León: Valladolid, Burgos, Salamanca, Palencia, León, Zamora, Segovia, Ávila, Soria, Bierzo, Miranda, Ribera and Medina del Campo that make up one of the principal regional television networks in Spain and a regional television reference in the region. Canal 4 Castilla y León also broadcasts its programmes via satellite through Hispasat.

Canal 4 Castilla y León is the oldest factory of content and the oldest producer of quality broadcasting in Castilla y León. More than daily news programmes, more than 150 independent community news programmes and regional productions and around 30 local issues programmes, magazines and fiction. In total, they will turnover 100 hours a week of their own productions.

Onda Cádiz
Onda Cádiz on the other hand, is installing the first complete news and master control room with MXF, sold in Spain.

Onda Cádiz will be the first broadcaster in Spain that operates in an entirely 100% digital i.e. tapeless, environment. This provides enormous benefits including image quality, speed to on air and optimisation of human resources and technicians required.

Promovisa was chosen as the partner to get the project up and running. The solution comprises newsroom and content management based on XDCAM from Sony and various vsn modules recently presented at IBC which include MXF compatibility and take advantage of the qualities of optical disks.

For the first time in Spain, the system also includes the integration of vsn with Avid. Comprising 5 Avid Xpress Pro HD editing systems and vsnnews licenses for text editing and playlists, with shared storage from 2,4Tb. One 2CH news video server vsnairnews with storage for 100 hours of video, titler vsncg and vsnprompter. Onda Cádiz has also ordered an archive system vsnarchive with capacity for more than 10.000 hours in low-resolution.

The tapeless system is completed with a master control room configuration with vsnautorec for line ingest, a 24x7 vsnmatic playout video server with 100 hours capacity and at the end of the chain, they have installed a broadcast legal copier vsnlegalrec, with the capacity to record 6 months 24x7 on hard disk in Windows Media 9 format.

Without a doubt, this novel system is going to become a benchmark and national reference in broadcast automation. The first broadcasts by Onda Cádiz are already being tested and the definitive date for going on air will be December this year.

Onda Cádiz TV is the new local broadcaster of the gaditan capital, that in terms of development and technical resources, is one of the most advanced in Spain. Onda Cádiz TV, TV news and communication Broadcaster for the Cadiz Province, can be tuned into through Canal 38 (UHF) and opens the way in terms of technology in the Gaditana Province to new terrestrial digital television.

Onda Cádiz TV forms part of a municipal communications platform that integrates Radio, Television and Internet.

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