Partnership strengthens ARD’s newsroom workflow with the deployment of dira!, OpenMedia and Viura

CGI - the leading newsroom and radio system provider in Europe, has announced a landmark framework agreement has been signed with Germany’s leading public service broadcaster group, ARD, to help facilitate the deployment of CGI media management and planning systems throughout the ARD’s nine regional broadcasters. The agreement signifies the ongoing, trusting relationship between the ARD Group and CGI that spans more than three decades.

CGI, one of the leading newsroom and radio system provider in Europe, is pleased to announce its attendance at NAB 2022 in Las Vegas, April 23-27.  CGI will highlight how its array of new media solutions is solving the critical challenges of modern broadcasters and radio stations, as TV meets radio and merges with online and social in the teeth of the global pandemic.

South Africa’s public broadcaster invests in CGI’s dira! solution for new playout production and music scheduling system

CGI, the leading newsroom and radio system provider in Europe, has announced the successful rollout of its dira! solution across eight of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) 19 radio stations. The rollout to the remaining radio stations continues in 2022.

The contract, won via a competitive tender process, has seen the SABC invest in CGI’s full dira! Solution Suite, including Onair Player, Highlander, Scheduler, Startrack, Orion and Broadcast Report. The proof of concept and subsequent implementation by CGI has achieved the SABC’s goal to enable dira’s use throughout the company’s radio environment - from sales, sport, news and current affairs to education and drama.

CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), the leading newsroom and radio system provider in Europe, has announced that it is supporting the editorial staff of France Télévisions, the leading French audiovisual group, which brings together six national channels, 24 regional branches and nine overseas branches, in the modernization and standardization of its editorial tool, through its OpenMedia solution. Planned for a period of four years, this contract is valued at more than 3.5 million euros.

CGI, the leading newsroom and radio system provider in Europe, has announced a two-year extension of its contract to provide the British Library’s ‘Save our Sounds’ initiative with access to its dira! platform to record and archive a representative selection of the UK’s radio output for posterity. dira!’s support of the project will now run until May 2023, allowing the National Radio Archive to continue to preserve some of the three million hours of radio broadcast throughout the UK every year for future researchers.

CGI, the leading newsroom system provider in Europe, is pleased to announce the key appointment of Johann Rückel to the role of Director of Business Development, in which he will be responsible for furthering the growth of OpenMedia’s market position within the Newsroom Solutions space. His role will also focus on developing and strengthening new client relationships internationally and expediting the global growth strategy working with the OpenMedia sales team.

CGI, the leading newsroom system provider in Europe, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Hasselmann to the role of Product Manager for CGI’s growing OpenMedia portfolio.

CGI, the leading newsroom system provider in Europe is pleased to announce that Germany’s Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), a member of the ARD Group, has integrated StudioDirector 2.0 into its existing OpenMedia newsroom ecosystem.

The public radio and television broadcaster NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, and first became a CGI

SCISYS Media Solutionstwonational TV stations, an information channel, 24 regional TV stations, 10 overseas TV and radio stationsand approximately 3000 named users, the new multi-million Euro deal will see France Télévisions’ newsroom operations transition to SCISYS Media Solutions’ flagship OpenMedia Infinity newsroom computer system. This will work in conjunction with the Newsboard unified web-based user interface for journalists and editorial teams.