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The AIB:
membership grows
The African Broadcast Network – ABN - is a pan-African television network.
Funded by the Modern Africa Growth and Investment Company, ABN has its
head office in London and affiliates in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria,Tanzania, Zambia,
Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Namibia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.The company has
embarked on ambitious plans to extend to 11 French speaking African countries.
In September 2000, the African
Broadcast Network purchased the
African Barter Company (ABC),
which pioneered barter
programming in Africa. It is
recognised as the supplier of first
class programming to pan-African broadcasters while at the same time offering
advertisers attractive media options on a regional or pan-African basis. It has
been operating in eighteen territories across Africa for the past six years.
The African Broadcast Network (ABN) has several promises to keep. Describing
itself as the facilitator of a revolutionary ‘Pan-African Audiovisual Action
Partnership’, ABN is committed to developing a quality, commercially viable
television industry throughout sub-Saharan Africa, spanning key territories within
both Anglophone and Francophone Africa.With an estimated available audience
of 200 million viewers, ABN has enormous influence as a pan-African
communications medium. It is capable of creating a progressive and vibrant
television industry through which everyone involved can benefit.
Autocue, the best known name in television, film and conference software and
prompting systems, has joined the AIB. Based in London, Autocue is at the heart
of many international broadcasters’operations and the company will demonstrate
this at IBC, the major trade fair in Amsterdam, during September.
On display will be Autocue’s comprehensive end-to-end solution for News,
Production and Transmission systems, the QSeries. The system will be
demonstrated working with various partners including Quantel, GVG, Omneon,
Sony, Ibis and Dremedia, giving an in-depth integration throughout the entire
production chain using industry standards such as native protocols and MOS.
Autocue will also be showing a new system architecture that will give a firm
foundation, and providing a range of new features for the broadcasting
infrastructure of the next generation of production systems.
Enhancing the range of Autocue’s high brightness, flat display on-camera units,
IBC2002 sees the launch of the new Voice Activated Prompter system (using
the 20/20 voice recognition engine) that allows for greater productivity and cost
reductions as well as a new 17” Prompter for studio use.
The Association for International Broadcasting is delighted to announce its two latest members: the African Broadcasting Network and Autocue.