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CBC Radio-Canada Taps Grass Valley Open Standards IP Playout for New Montreal Broadcast Center Posted: 15/02/2019
CBC Radio-Canada Taps Grass Valley Open Standards IP Playout for New Montreal Broadcast Center

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC/Radio- Canada, has chosen the iTX integrated playout platform from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, for its new Maison de Radio-Canada broadcast center in Montreal, due to open in 2020. Handling over 100 TV, radio and web channels, and supporting SMPTE ST 2110, iTX will enable the broadcaster’s production teams to seamlessly manage multiple formats – such as 4K UHD – and mix IP live inputs using back-to-back IP sources and file-based clips.
Tags: Grass Valley | CBC | Grass Valley a Belden Brand | iTX
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Bitmovins player streamlines Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland online platforms Posted: 30/07/2018
Bitmovins player streamlines Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland online platforms

Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, has announced that CBC is using Bitmovin’s HTML5 web player and SDKs across multiple web, mobile and online platforms of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland to increase the reach of their content beyond TV screens.
Tags: Bitmovin | CBC | RTL | video | DRM | technology | HTML5 web player | SDK | web | mobile | online | MedienGruppe | Deutschland | TV
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ATEME Kyrion Powers Formula 1 for RTL Group Posted: 14/12/2016
ATEME Kyrion Powers Formula 1 for RTL Group

ATEME has announced today that Cologne Broadcasting Center Gmbh (CBC), the premier provider of high-quality video networking services and part of RTL Group, has chosen the Kyrion encoder and decoder for its contribution link to stream the Formula 1 Championship throughout Germany. The ATEME Kyrion encoder and decoder are the perfect match for sport, particularly racing, due to their ultra-low latency mode below 100ms.
Tags: OTT | Satellite | ATEME | Formula 1 | CBC | Kyrion encoder and decoder
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CBC Upgrades TV Production and Delivery Services With NetApp Posted: 01/12/2016
CBC Upgrades TV Production and Delivery Services With NetApp
"Although CBC's legacy storage infrastructure gave them the basic media bandwidth they required, they quickly found they needed additional enterprise-class scalability, reliability, and support to guarantee video throughput for all of their graphics and edit workgroups," said Barry Evans, CTO, Pixit Media. "Given their needs, we knew immediately that a mix of the NetApp E-Series all-flash and hybrid systems would best support their video and audio production needs."
Tags: CBC | TV production | delivery services | NetApp | Pixit Media | storage | recovery | infrastructure | broadcast | Cologne Broadcasting Center
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Egypts CBC Boosts Flexibility of HD Signal Transport With Riedel MediorNet Real-Time Network Posted: 18/06/2014
Egypts CBC Boosts Flexibility of HD Signal Transport With Riedel MediorNet Real-Time Network
Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that leading Egyptian TV channel Capital Broadcast Center (CBC) has upgraded its Cairo facilities and operations with the installation of a MediorNet real-time media network. Riedel MediorNet frames enable flexible transport of 10 HD video signals between two CBC buildings within the Egyptian Media Production City.
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CBC Germany chooses Vizrt for live graphics and virtual sets Posted: 19/08/2013
CBC Germany chooses Vizrt for live graphics and virtual sets

CBC Cologne Broadcasting Center, part of Media Group RTL Germany, has elected to switch its existing live graphics systems to Vizrt. The transition, which will be phased in starting August 2013, includes new Viz Trio live 3D graphics systems Viz Content Pilot template-based graphics system and Viz Virtual Studio systems for live, immersive 3D virtual sets.
Tags: CBC Cologne | Viz Trio | 3D | graphics | virtual sets | Vizrt | post production | broadcasting
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RTW SELLS 100 TOUCHMONITOR TM3 UNITS TO COLOGNE BROADCASTING CENTER Posted: 07/09/2012
RTW SELLS 100 TOUCHMONITOR TM3 UNITS TO COLOGNE BROADCASTING CENTER
RTW (IBC Stand 8.E76), a leading vendor of visual audio meters for professional broadcast, production, post production and quality control, is pleased to announce the recent sale of 100 TouchMonitor TM3 units to Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC), a television production and broadcasting company with offices in Cologne, Munich and Berlin. CBC purchased the TM3s to help meet the German government's upcoming loudness requirements for TV shows. Schmitronic, a Cologne-based expert provider of professional audio components, supplied the units, which CBC has already begun to install. 
Tags: RTW | CBC | IBC 2012 | TM3 | audio metering | IBC 2012 | IBC 2012
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CBC Deploys never.no Interactivity Suite to Give Viewers a Voice During Power and Politics, Tripling Facebook Likes Posted: 29/02/2012
CBC Deploys never.no Interactivity Suite to Give Viewers a Voice During Power and Politics, Tripling Facebook Likes

never.no today announced that CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada's national public broadcaster, uses never.no's Interactivity Suite (IS) to display Facebook and Twitter comments, conduct real-time polling, and otherwise interact with audience members during its news show "Power & Politics." The show is the first of many programs for which CBC will deploy IS to engage its audiences. The real-time interaction enables the show's producers and on-air talent to hear and react to input from their viewers, and changes the flow of the program accordingly. Since deploying IS, "Power & Politics" has already tripled its Facebook page likes.
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CBC Television Deploys Front Porch Digitals DIVArchive(R) to Support Avid(R)-Based Workflow Posted: 16/02/2011
CBC Television Deploys Front Porch Digitals DIVArchive(R) to Support Avid(R)-Based Workflow Front Porch Digital, the global leader in solutions that migrate, manage, and market media content, today announced that CBC Television has implemented the company's DIVArchive(R) content storage management solution (CSM) to manage archiving and retrieval of SD and HD news, arts, and entertainment programming produced in-house. Tightly integrated with one of the largest Avid(R) Interplay(R) news and post-production environments in the world, the DIVArchive system provides an infinitely scalable file-based storage and preservation repository serving the needs of the CBC now and into the future.
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CBC Cologne Broadcasting Center Builds Ingest and Playout on Omneon Spectrum(TM) HD Media Server Posted: 07/02/2011
CBC Cologne Broadcasting Center Builds Ingest and Playout on Omneon Spectrum(TM) HD Media Server Harmonic Inc. today announced that Germany's CBC Cologne Broadcasting Center, part of The Media Group RTL Germany, has installed an Omneon Spectrum(TM) HD media server system to support ingest and playout for its RTL HD and VOX HD channels from a brand-new broadcast center in Cologne.

"When we first moved our Munich branch to a file-based environment five years ago, we chose to build our broadcast workflow on Omneon Spectrum media server systems," said Mido Fayad, head of broadcast operations and engineering at CBC. "Given the excellent versatility and performance of those systems in supporting our playout and archive applications, it was an easy decision to invest in Spectrum HD systems for our new Cologne broadcast center."
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Abit Helps CBC to implement File Based Workflow on SUPER RTL Posted: 26/08/2010
Abit Helps CBC to implement File Based Workflow on SUPER RTL Leading automation provider, Abit, today announced that it has installed its new Present It automation system at CBC (Cologne Broadcasting Center) new premises in Kln-Deutz as part of CBC's relocation project resulting in a highly integrated workflow specifically designed around the latest Broadcast equipment and the corporate IT infrastructure.
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Abit Automation to Interface With Newest Release of Omneon Transmission Servers Posted: 26/04/2010
abit Playout automation specialist Abit Ltd today announced that it has enhanced its Present-it automation system to take advantage of the new features provided by the latest generation of Omneon Spectrum media server systems.
 
"With the increase in a mixture of both HD and SD material in the transmission path, customers are making greater demands on automation. We have been able to leverage the new features in the Omneon servers to enhance operational performance," explains Rob Leishman, marketing manager at Abit.  "With the Abit enhanced Present-it automation system and using standard Video Disk Control Protocol (VDCP), we can control many of these advanced features, including support for the 'schedule ID commands' to allow for shorter clips and AFD control to ensure correct aspect ratios. Additional metadata exchange is carried out using the Omneon Media Application Programming Interface (API).
Tags: playout | abit automation | omneon transmission server | MTV | NRK | RTL | CBC
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