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'Growing Trust' In WinMedia Solutions

WinMedia has achieved a number of notable successes in the deployment and extensions of its
broadcast automation and management solutions...

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inMedia, a leading provider
in automation and content
management software solutions
for broadcasters and content
producers, has announced that
over the past six months, customers
worldwide have renewed their trust
in the company's solutions.
In order to sustain their growing
business, they awarded WinMedia
major extensions. Among
these high-profile projects are
installations in Asia, Africa, North
America and Europe.
"These encouraging results are the
fruit of long-term relationships and a
superb process of exchange with our
clients, with the main objective being
to forge bonds of trust and establish
lasting connections through which
every party ﬁnds success," said
WinMedia CEO Stéphane Tésorière.
In Asia, RMN, the largest radio
network in the Philippines, has
chosen WinMedia to deploy six new
radio stations countrywide.
"Since 2010, Radio Manila
Network has relied on WinMedia
comprehensive media systems
to optimise and manage their
advertising workflow, including
account management, order entry,
ad serving and delivery, ﬁnancials
and reporting," said Cédric Seguin,
APAC Sales Manager at WinMedia
Asia. "We are thrilled to see that our
high-quality solution along with the
great local support provided over
the years by our local partner BTSI
have been the starting point of an
even wider collaboration with RMN."
In Africa, Hit Radio ﬁrst selected
WinMedia in 2006 as the end-toend automation system for their
operations in Morocco. Today, Hit

Radio capitalises on its tremendous
success to launch a new radio
station in Portugal.
Pascal Cima, Europe, Middle East
& Africa Sales Manager at WinMedia
Europe, said: "Our fully-integrated
solution allows Hit Radio to manage
all their operations, including ingest,
editing, playlist management,
advertising management, playout
and multi-device delivery from an
intuitive and single platform.
"Looking to implement the same
streamlined and efﬁcient workﬂow
in their new premises in Portugal,
Hit Radio renewed trust in WinMedia
and we are extremely proud to be
able to accompany them in their
international development."
In Canada, RNC Media widened
its reach by implementing new
radio stations in four cities
across the country.
"RNC Media and WinMedia have
been collaborating for more than
ten years," said François Beaumier,
North America Sales Manager at
WinMedia Canada. "Our solution
has already been deployed in 6 radio
around the St-Jean Lake in Quebec
and allows the broadcaster to
manage its entire production chain,
from ingest to playout while enabling
media and metadata exchanges
between remote locations.
"After a detailed tender process, the
reliability of our system, as well as
its adequacy to meet their particular
needs, have driven RNC Media to
choose our platform for their new
operations. As Le Cegep, a college
providing education in radio hosting
and production also uses WinMedia,
RNC Media can beneﬁt from a large
talent pool when recruiting new staff,

WinMedia in action at Rouge FM & TV

resulting in lower training costs and
better integration of newcomers."
In Europe, Unicast, Switzerland,
renewed trust in WinMedia after
four years of successful exploitation
of the company's TV and web
radio solutions.
Stefano Alloco, Technical Manager
at Rouge FM & TV, said: "WinMedia
allows us to smoothly operate our
TV and radio stations, as well as
our web radios, all within a single
system. Structured around a
centralised database, the system
ensures immediate access to all our
content, including videos, images,
texts and audio. Media convergence
is only one of the many development
initiatives undertaken by WinMedia
over the years.
"We also take advantage of their
innovative cloud-based advertising
management offering that allows for
the booking of advertising space

in real-time.
"WinMedia was absolutely the
right choice as a partner because in
addition to a rock-solid solution they
also provide an outstanding level of
support that allowed us to tailor the
production and playout workﬂows to
our speciﬁc requirements."
WinMedia CEO Tésorière added:
"Thanks to this win of renewals and
to numerous new wins, we are
ecstatic to see that our high-quality
products and services beneﬁt from
a high-level of trust and conﬁdence
in the industry.
"Our end-to-end platform has
proven to be the cost-effective,
ﬂexible, versatile and reliable solution
that many broadcasters and content
producers are looking for.
"We will continue to set our sights
on future innovation as it helps
customers meet the challenges of
a new media world head on.'

dB Broadcast Shows Innovative Solutions At BroadcastAsia
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B Broadcast is showing its
latest innovative products and
solutions at BroadcastAsia again
this year.
Best known as one of the UK's
leading systems integrators, dB also
designs and manufactures a range
of broadcast technology products
for signal acquisition and monitoring,
and supplies to customers globally.
"We look forward to meeting up

with current and future clients at
the show and to discussing how
we can help with their broadcasting
challenges, through dB Broadcast's
extensive system integration
experience and capabilities", said
Mark Barnes, Technical Specialist
of dB Broadcast.
This year, dB will be demonstrating
on its stand the latest in the
Hawkeye monitoring receiver range.

dB Broadcast's MERlin monitoring receiver

Designed for DVB-T2 monitoring,
the IQDBT105 is capable of
continuous off-air demodulation
and monitoring of both DVB-T2
and DVB-T signals. The IQDBT105
is designed in a modular package
and eight modules can be ﬁtted in
a 3RU rack space.
This new product has the added
advantage of integration with
Snell IQ Modular frames and the
RollCall Monitoring and Control
system. Hawkeye IQDBT105 can
be deployed in DVB-T networks,
and so provides a future-proof
solution for those looking ahead to
the possibility of DVB-T2 networks.
The MERlin monitoring receiver,
also designed for the demands of

DVB-T2 and deployed throughout
the UK transmission network,
will be on show.
This self-contained monitoring
receiver is designed for high
reliability applications - for use at
remote transmitter sites for example.
It occupies only 1RU space and
monitors input RF modulation
parameters and signal performance
metrics including Modulation Error
Ratio (MER) and Low Density Parity
Check (LDPC) status.
The latest DVB-T2 signal
acquisition and monitoring
solutions can be seen on display
at BroadcastAsia2014 at the dB
Broadcast stand.
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