Imagine Communications has extended its playout installations for France Télévisions Outre-Mer (France Ô), the service of France Télévisions which broadcasts to overseas territories. France Ô already uses Imagine Communications Versio™ playout for 12 channels broadcast from Paris; the new contract adds installations in Tahiti, serving the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific, as well as Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.

Imagine Communications has supplied a virtualized playout and asset management system to Janata Television, based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Janata (which translates from Hindi as “the people’s”) TV is part of the Nepalese Janata media company, which is also active in radio and publishing.

Imagine Communications’ groundbreaking Versio™ microservices-based playout solution has become the platform of choice for global media companies at every stage of the transition to next-generation technology. In the last three months alone, Imagine has put more than 100 channels on air with the award-winning Versio playout solution.

TV Azteca, one of Mexico’s leading broadcasters, has collaborated with Imagine Communications to deploy a next-generation playout and master control infrastructure. The scalable, software-based platform running on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware is currently driving 120 channels from TV Azteca’s headquarters in Mexico City.

Leading Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia, home of Antena 3 and other popular entertainment channels, has complemented its existing Imagine Communications Versio™ integrated playout installation by deploying a Versio-based disaster recovery playout centre. The new backup facility maintains tight synchronisation with the primary playout centre to ensure instant and seamless failover should it be necessary.

ENCO, a specialist in automated workflow and instant playout solutions for radio, television and commercial AV systems, appoints broadcast industry veteran John Casey as Director of Sales, effective immediately. Reporting to ENCO President Ken Frommert, John will focus specifically on domestic business development across new customers and existing accounts.

Pixel Power, the global automation, branding and graphics innovator, is extending its highly customisable, evolutionary platform with a new set of functionality. StreamMaster PRODUCE will be launched at IBC2018 and builds on both the company’s 30-year track record in graphics excellence with its modular, software defined media processing technology platform.

Imagine Communications invites attendees at IBC2018 (14-18 September 2018, Amsterdam) to visit their stand at the Amtrium, #4.A01. Industry experts will be on hand to demonstrate practical innovation and migration strategies that enable media companies to personalize the path and pace of their transition to next-generation architectures and business models.

Magewell is well known for its high-performance yet cost-effective capture products, which enable end-users, systems integrators and OEM developers to reliably integrate professional video and audio signals into today's software-based media production workflows. At the IBC2018 exhibition, taking place September 14-18 in Amsterdam, the company's key theme will be showcasing how its latest innovations extend its product lines "beyond capture" into other critical signal processing functionality. Magewell will exhibit in stand 8.A84.

ATG Danmon reports the completion of a systems integration project for BBC Scotland. The project centred on the modernisation of a compact television gallery assigned to the production of bulletin-style news programmes.

Cinegy today announced that Canada-based Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has implemented Cinegy’s TV Pack software modules on a corporate level to research and develop new approaches for producing and delivering its accessible program offerings. Cinegy epitomises software defined television through its digital video processing, asset management, video compression, automation and playout tools, and is at the vanguard of IP and cloud technologies.