28 March 2014
Appearing together with its partner, ANNOVA Systems, at booth SU7821, arvato Systems will be providing information at the NAB Show 2014 about its internationally successful system solutions. This year, the IT specialist has expanded its trade show presence to include the presentation of ingest automation and digital marketing as well as the display of custom-tailored end-to-end solutions for cross-media environments.
The solutions in detail:
• As a MAM tool suitable for the highest demands, arvato Systems’ VPMS video production system supports the professional creation, management, editing, and distribution of digital video material. As an alternative, arvato Systems offers the Avamio product as a compact but powerful version of the media asset management tool.
• New: the platform-independent solution for ingest automation that can be integrated into any existing infrastructure, and is ideal for growing media management environments thanks to its flexibility.
• The ClipJOCKEY system, which will also be presented at the trade show, is a stand-alone solution attuned to the key processes in the control room of TV broadcasters and production companies, and is used around the world every day as a professional multi-channel production tool.
With the Avatega modular broadcast management system, arvato Systems again caters for operational business processes in the areas of linear and non-linear license management, program planning, and sales of advertising time with a compact out-of-the-box solution.
• Additional areas of application, such as cross-media sales and inventory optimization are covered with the AdStore sales platform and the S4AdOpt optimization engine.
This extensive range of solutions has resulted in numerous successful international implementations in recent months. Whether Shaw Media or Rogers in Canada, Revolt TV in the US, MTV Oy in Finland, or medcom in Panama, these and numerous other customers are already benefiting today from the functional combination of product features and individual consulting expertise – a mix that really makes cross-media end-to-end solutions possible for all requirements in the field of TV and new media.
The arvato Systems team looks forward to your visit at Booth SU7821 Appointments can be made in advance by sending an email to corporatesales@s4m.com.
More information about the arvato Systems products and services for the TV and media sector is available at www.s4m.arvato-systems.com. (Source: Press release)
25 March 2014
Benie TV and Ouest TV, two recently launched African channels, have chosen Globecast to distribute their programming via satellite to new audiences in West Africa. Via the Globecast service, Benie TV and Ouest TV are now part of the CANALSAT bouquet available on the SES-4 platform.
CANALSAT is a satellite pay-TV package including +150 channels, covering more than 30 countries in West and Central Africa. Ouest TV is a regional news channel, and Benie TV is a Christian channel.
“Viewers in French-speaking African countries are hungry for news programming and specialized content, so joining SES-4 platform is a tremendous opportunity for Benie TV and Ouest TV,” said Lionel Antoine, Sales Manager Africa for Globecast. “The diversity of CANALSAT offer and our leadership position in the African market, enable us to provide the service levels these channels need to achieve a maximum visibility with their target audiences.” (Source: Press release)
24 March 2014
Vizrt Ltd. announced today a deal worth USD 660,000 for the implementation of newsroom, control room and studio production products with Hessischer Rundfunk (hr) in Germany. A new client, Hessischer Rundfunk is the public broadcaster of the state of Hesse, based in Frankfurt and member of the ARD consortium of regional public broadcasters in Germany. The broadcaster decided to purchase Vizrt products after a thorough comparison of different vendor offerings, concluding that Vizrt’s complete workflow best suited their needs.
The deal includes Viz Virtual Studio to create a highly flexible virtual set. Graphics and video from the customer’s newsroom control system (NRCS) are triggered to play in Viz Virtual Studio by a Mosart studio automation system in the control room.
For the newsroom workflow, Hessischer Rundfunk purchased Viz Pilot, Vizrt’s content and control application and the clip store component of Viz One, Vizrt’s video management system, for a complete newsroom content management workflow. Viz Pilot integrates with the customer’s NRCS and allows the journalist to create graphics based on templates. These graphics are added to a playlist in the NRCS along with clips from the Viz One clip store to be used as part of a virtual set in the studio. (Source: Press release)
24 March 2014
Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) participates in the Gulf Radio & TV Festival in its 13th session. The event takes place March 25th – 27th 2014 in Manama – Kingdom of Bahrain, and Arabsat will also showcase its new satellites during the event.
Eng/Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour, President & CEO of Arabsat, said “Arabsat is always keen to sponsor and participate in various media events in the Arab world. Arabsat will be showcasing its new state-of–the-art satellite Badr-7, which is considered a breakthrough in Arabsat satellites combining satellite TV broadcasting services and satellite communications services. Badr-7 is expected to be launched next year on Arabsat exclusive Hot Spot 26° East to cover the Middle East and Central Asia.”
Balkheyour added “The manufacturing and launching RFP of Arabsat four new satellites has been already posed in an international tender in the market , two of them on Arabsat orbital positions, and the other two on Hellas-Sat orbital position, whose majority stake was acquired by Arabsat last year .These satellites will enhance and extend Arabsat coverage to include Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ” (Source: Press Release)
24 March 2014
Euronews, Europe’s leading news channel and MSN Arabia, one of the leading web portals in the Middle East and North Africa, team up to provide users with a comprehensive selection of news programmes from three Euronews services.
Thanks to the syndication of an international and multilingual content agreement, Euronews Arabic, Euronews English and Euronews French, are delivered to different regional North Africa and Middle East sites of the MSN Arabia’s network. Indeed, www.arabia.msn.com is accessible to Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia and Pakistan.
The 100 million monthly visitors to the MSN Arabia site can now follow, through articles and video content provided by Euronews, the latest international news and a complete up-to-date selection of programmes on Business, Europe, Culture, Science and Technology, all available in English, French and Arabic. The subjects covered are updated several times a day by the Euronews editorial teams.
“Thanks to our partnership with MSN Arabia, already followed by 100 million visitors each month, we reinforce Euronews’ presence in all MENA countries,” said Walid Chamak, Head of Digital Partnerships at Euronews.
“Beyond the editorial quality, Euronews is a perfect fit for news providers such as MSN Arabia willing to diversify their news sources and target a multilingual audience” he added.
“We are very pleased to have concluded this agreement with one of the world’s leading news providers,” said Basma Samir, Portal Development Executive, MSN Arabia and North Africa.
“This is a great win for both parties. We are pleased and very optimistic about the value this brings to MSNA visitors and users in terms of content quality and coverage not to mention the language diversity. This is only one in many deals that MSNA is working on to power our different verticals and channels to offer our visitors around-the-clock coverage with premium quality content from premium providers,” said Ramy Riad, Executive Producer, MSN Arabia and North Africa. (Source: Press release)
