The channels, which went on-air in March and April 2005, bring the total of OmniBus-controlled 24-hour news services in Mumbai and Delhi to seven. Sahara TV uses OmniBus applications to control ingest, manage the media flow throughout the facility, and coordinate the operation of a wide range of broadcast devices, including VizRT on-air graphics solutions, Miranda mixers and Leitch video servers and routers.
The entire broadcast infrastructure is tightly integrated to APs ENPS newsroom computer system, which delivers the news playlists to OmniBus via an MOS (Media Object Server) gateway. OmniBus Columbus application checks the integrity of the playlist and the availability of the media, and plays it to air either in a fully automated mode, for the news wheel items, or with automation assist for live news.
OmniBus provides editing, audio control, and V/O functionality at each of 150 journalist workstations, from where journalists can search, view, and manipulate any piece of media in the system, even active feeds. This new agreement not only expands the existing operation to become the largest and most sophisticated
newsroom system in Asia, it also consolidates our long and successful partnership with Sahara, said OmniBus sales manager Iain Wood. The flexibility of the OmniBus system allows Sahara to provide multilingual services for different states across
India, where some 40 different languages are spoken. Obviously, great care has to be taken with the media management as each piece of content can potentially
have many different voiceovers in different languages. OmniBus allows the operators to have full control of the process and precise knowledge of the entire media store and associated metadata.