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Alarab TV Selects Elemental
For Live News Channel
A

larab TV, a soon to launch
Arabic-language news channel,
has chosen Elemental Technologies'
video processing systems for its
live linear and multiscreen TV
service offerings.
Based in Bahrain, the all-Arabic
channel will include extensive
news programming as well as
regular news roundups and travel
content. The channel's deal with
Bloomberg will enable it to bring
business people the very latest
information they need.
"Image quality and high availability
are both extremely important to us
as we aim to offer the very best
level of service possible to our
end-viewers," said Jamal Khashoggi,
General Manager at Alarab TV. "For
these reasons, we chose software-

based solutions from Elemental,
which are able to meet our stringent
demands for service quality."
The Alarab TV broadcast workﬂow
includes multiple Elemental Live
encoders paired with Elemental
Conductor management systems
to ensure seamless input failover.
Active Elemental Live instances
are used for processing live video
source into H.264 streams for both
linear television and multiscreen
delivery to smartphones and tablets
supporting the HLS protocol.
Video streams also may be stored
as archives for VOD retrieval and
catch-up TV content. Elemental's
regional channel partner in Dubai,
Qvest Media, designed and
installed the entire broadcasting
infrastructure.

T

V Cultura, headquartered in Sao
Paulo and part of the Fundacao
Padre Anchieta, is updating its
production workﬂow system with
a full production suite from Grass
Valley.
The suite, which includes
GV STRATUS nonlinear media
production tools, will help TV
Cultura get breaking news out
more quickly and improve its
operations management.
With four servers and 12 total
channels, the addition of GV
STRATUS enables TV Cultura to
deploy a streamlined workﬂow for
increased efﬁciencies and effective
collaboration across its broadcast
environment. TV Cultura has one
of the largest K2 and K2-SAN
production systems in Brazil. The
upgrade is expected to be complete

Jamal Khashoggi, General Manager
at Alarab TV

in December 2014.
costs and create a more agile
production environment."
"By going with GV STRATUS from
Grass Valley, we're getting much
Starting in 2007, TV Cultura
more than an upgrade for our
installed solutions from Grass Valley
production system," said Gilvani
to support the improvements to its
Moletta, Technology Director at TV
production workflow system.
Cultura. "In
addition to
improved
connectivity
and
GV
S T R AT U S
being a
future-ready
application,
we chose
this solution
because
it will also
help
us
r e d u c e GV STRATUS will enable TV Cultura to deploy a
operational streamlined workflow

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HUN: AMC Networks International
- Central Europe (AMCNI-Central
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distribution workﬂow powered by
the Avid MediaCentral Platform.
Headquartered in Budapest,
Hungary, AMCNI-Central Europe
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The Equalizer
On Baselight

TV Cultura Upgrades With Grass Valley
6

AMC Deploys
MediaCentral

USA / GBR: The Equalizer, the new
thriller from Director Antoine Fuqua
and starring Denzel Washington,
was graded on Baselight EIGHT
at Sony Colorworks at Culver City.
Colourist Doug Delaney worked
with the Director Antione Fuqua,
DoP Mauro Fiore and Editor John
Refoua to create a distinctive
and atmospheric look to the film.
Colorworks boasts three DI
grading theatres, each with a
Baselight EIGHT.

Long Canon 4K
Cine-Servo Lens
GBR: Canon has bolstered
its cine servo lens lineup with the new CN20x50.
Designed to be a portable solution
for broadcast productions using
super 35mm cameras, this ultratelephoto zoom lens is aimed at
sport and nature TV production.
The CN20x50 is the ﬁrst lens of
its type to combine a built-in 1.5x
extender, 20x magnification and
a removable servo drive, with a
native 50-1000mm focal range that
expands to a huge 75-1500mm.

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