With new studios, Great american country looks and sounds good
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY MICHAEL GROTTICELLI
File distribution
The machine room houses networked Miranda signal conversion cards and an NVISION 128 x 64 video router.
Completed shows are sent by overnight courier on an IMX or Digital Betacam videotape to Scripps' Technology Center in Knoxville, TN. Commercials and promos are inserted before they are played to air with an Omneon Spectrum server. Once aired, the shows are kept in a massive archive for permanent storage in Knoxville.
The network will soon be able to send programs as digital files via a fiber connection. Previously, a network fiber link was used for a few time-critical shows airing the same day. Soon, files will be played out directly from one of the Avid systems or a VTR in real time and sent to Knoxville. The program will then be recorded, QC'd, closed captioned and ingested into the server for playout to air.
The network's file-based workflow keeps content digital from ingest to finished output. This allows shows to maintain the highest quality images while enabling the production crew to have access to associated clips and elements throughout the process. The new system is so streamlined that the crew can now turn around its “Top 20 Country Countdown” show, a weekly, two-and-a-half hour, viewer-selected program, in three working days.
Michael Grotticelli regularly reports on professional video and broadcast technology industries.
Technology at work
Autoscript teleprompter
Avid
AirSpeed ingest and playout server
Interplay asset management
ISIS SAN
Media Composer Adrenaline NLE systems
Avocent KVM switcher/router
Broadcast Pix Slate 2100 switcher
Chyron
HyperX2 SD/HD CG
XClyps SD/HD clip player
Digidesign Pro Tools HD DAW software
Forecast Consoles furniture
Fujinon
HA22×7.8 and HA13×4.5 2/3in wide-angle HD studio lenses
HTS18×4.2 1/2in HD studio lenses
Furukawa optical fiber cable
Image Video TSI-1000 tally system
JVC
GY-HD250U HD cameras
DT-V24L1DU and DT-V20L1DU LCD monitors
Miranda
Densité signal conversion cards
Kaleido-X multi-image display system
NEC Multeos M40-AV and M46-AV LCD monitors
NVISION
AES audio router
128 × 64 NV5000 HD video router
Omneon Spectrum server
RCI Custom Broadcast Service Panels
RTS/Telex Cronus intercom
Sachtler Video 18 pedestals
SGL FlashNet content storage and archive management software
Solid State Logic C132 digital audio console
StorageTek SL500 archive
Thomson Grass Valley
Kayak SD/HD 2.5 M/E switcher
LDK 4000 SD/HD 1080i cameras
Telemetrics robotic system
Vinten Osprey Elite camera pedestals
Wheatstone E-6 audio console
Design team
Broadcast Integration Group
Tom Larrison, vice president, customer liaison/contracts
Matthew Hathaway, design engineer
Brian Kincheloe, on-site team leader
Scripps
Peter Crowley, senior vice president, property development
Mike Donovan, senior vice president, engineering/satellite distribution
Kevin Kritch, vice president of production operations, GAC
Mike Nichols, broadcast engineer, GAC
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