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Planet TV launches with Quantel

TSmedia, media arm of Slovenia's national telecoms provider, Telekom Slovenije, has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround production system. The system handles all news and sports programme production for new national TV channel Planet TV.

TSmedia, media arm of Slovenia’s national telecoms provider, Telekom Slovenije, has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround production system. The system handles all news and sports programme production for Planet TV, the new national commercial TV channel launched by TSmedia in November 2012. The launch of Planet TV marks Telekom Slovenije’s first venture into television. “Media platforms are becoming very important in the telecommunications business today, and our expansion into broadcasting gives us a new market area for long-term development,” said Bine Lebenicnik, TSmedia head of Development. “TSmedia already has one of the biggest web news portals in Slovenia, and stepping into television is a natural evolution of our media brand.” Quality is at the heart of the Planet TV brand. “Our first and last thought is for our viewers,” Lebenicnik continued. “We respect our viewers’ wishes and we are sure that this sets us apart from our competitors. Our market research showed that Slovenian viewers want quality documentaries and timely, well-informed news broadcasts, all in HD. These requirements helped us define the specification for our news/sports production system – speed and quality, with no production bottlenecks. Added to these were ease of use for the journalists and editors, and open integration with newsroom computer and automation systems. All these considerations led us to select Quantel.” The Planet TV system comprises 300 hours of HD workspace, with 12 sQ Cut and sQ Edit desktop editors and two Qube craft editors. Three sQ Load applications handle XDCAM/P2 file ingest, with sQ Record for line feeds. Playout is handled by two sQ Play applications. The system is fully integrated with Planet TV’s Octopus Newsroom computer system – the Quantel sQ Cut editors run inside the Octopus GUI. Users also have instant access to media stored on Planet TV’s Front Porch DIVArchive via Quantel’s new sQ Fileflow application. Planet TV launched with a team of 25 journalists and six craft editors who are fully trained on sQ Cut, sQ Edit and Qube. “Quantel is very easy to learn, intuitive and efficient. Almost every editor came from a different background and yet there was no problem quickly getting used to the Quantel interface,” said Maj Jukic, head of Graphics Editing. “The feature we find most useful, alongside FrameMagic [Quantel’s built-in smart media handling technology], is publishing and sharing – you can access any edited sequence from any Quantel seat. It gives us a completely flexible workflow.”www.quantel.co.uk