Harris Corporation announced that Lok Sabha TV, a 24-hour television channel operated by the Indian Parliament, is on air with the Harris® NEXIO NewsNet newsroom system. The NewsNet newsroom system is installed in the Parliament House in New Delhi, India.
Lok Sabha TV covers a variety of parliamentary proceedings and broadcasts the live footage as a television channel. The NewsNet newsroom system installation includes NEXIO servers in a mirrored configuration; Velocity
non-linear editors; an X75 multiple-path converter/synchronizer; an
IconMaster SD/HD-configurable master control system; an IconStation system for on-air branding; a variety of 6800+ and NEO® processing modules; and Videotek® test and measurement equipment. The hardware is controlled by Harris® H-Class ADC Playout Automation.
Key factors in the selection of Harris equipment included reliability and upgradeability to accommodate the expanding needs of Lok Sabha TV as it
broadcasts the important proceedings of the Indian Parliament to homes
across the Indian sub-continent. BECIL (Broadcast Engineering Consultants
India Limited), the project management consultant for the Lok Sabha TV
setup, selected the technology and supervised the implementation. Systems
integrator Ideal Systems Asia Pacific Ltd. was responsible for configuring,
supplying, installing and commissioning the facility.
“We are pleased to have played a fundamental role in such a cutting-edge
broadcast project that was designed to bring the Indian Parliament closer to
the people,” said Tim Thorsteinson, president of the Harris Broadcast
Communications Division.