Arab Radio & Television (ART) has placed an order worth over $2.5m with ATG Broadcast covering the supply, installation and commissioning of a five-camera production studio plus a file-based ingest system.
“ART has contribution studios in many countries of the Middle East which are controlled from its technical headquarters in Amman, Jordan,” explained AMC CTO, Alan Constant. “This facility will form the technical heart of an entirely new site in Jeddah. ART has constructed a new building which will replace an outside broadcast vehicle currently deployed as a regional contribution centre. The new system will be essentially HD with some initial parts of the system in SD.”
“Pre-fabrication of the new facility for ART is now in progress in the 800 square metre system assembly and testing facility on the ground floor of our Letchworth premises,” commented ATG Broadcast Managing Director, Graham Day. “The project is being handled by a six-strong team drawn from our engineering and technical-support staff, headed by John Brewer and supervised by Dave Whitaker. The complete system is scheduled to be ready for factory acceptance tests by March with installation and completion on-site in May.”
“The studio will be equipped with five Ikegami HDK-79EX cameras, a Kayak SD/HD vision switcher and a Studer Vista 5 audio desk,” added Project Manager, Dave Whitaker. “Routing will be via a 64 x 64 Snell Sirius HD matrix.
Studio output is a mix of live-from-studio and clip-list-managed disk server sources transmitted via satellite link to Amman. Other equipment in the order includes a Vizrt Trio realtime 2D/3D character generator, Axon glue, Tektronix test gear, and a Miranda KX multi-image processor feeding two Panasonic 42 inch plasma monitors on Custom Consoles Media Walls.”
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