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Antenne Réunion Chooses
BCE's Broadcast Software Solutions
Seeking a replacement for its channel management software, Antenne Réunion Television
turned to BCE's broadcast solutions suite to improve the efficiency of its operations...

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ntenne Réunion Television, the
ﬁrst general interest channel
for Reunion Island, was looking
for a new solution to increase its
productivity and reliability in its dayto-day channel operations.
The Broadcast solutions suite,
including Athena, Cronos and
Adonis, came as the answer
to their needs.
Created in 1991, Antenne Réunion
is the leading broadcasting group of
Reunion Island, which is located to
the east of Madagascar in the Indian
Ocean. The company runs a general
interest channel with a complete
replay offer as well as two websites,
"antennereunion.fr" and "linfo.re" a
dedicated portal for news.
Antenne Réunion replaced its
channel management software
with BCE's broadcast solutions
suite. The implementation of
BCE's channel management
software will optimise and secure
the core business applications,
increase productivity and reliability
information between scheduling,
advertising management, back
ofﬁce and broadcasting.
"The integration of BCE's channel
management tools is an important
milestone in the evolution of
Antenne Réunion," said Nicolas
Delacroix, Directeur de l'Antenne,
Antenne Réunion.
"The entire value chain will be
optimised from the tracking of
purchases to the analysis of the
audience and the catalogues
management, the programmes as
well as its broadcasting.
"Beyond the obvious gains for our
business these tools will improve

Antenne Réunion Television control room

office internal relations, get us
closer to the information and foster
corporate culture."
"As a TV broadcaster, BCE has
clearly identiﬁed our issues as well
as current TV channels' challenges.
It is essential for a channel to be
able to rely on a reliable provider
with a very high added value
business," said Fabrice Chinjoie,
CIO, Antenne Réunion.
"The development teams have
been very reactive to ﬁt our needs.
In conclusion, the accompaniment
of BCE was a key success factor in
this project."
BCE's broadcast solutions cover
the complete broadcasting workflow:
* Athena is a library and rights
management solution that is
able to monetise the contents
and synchronise with the archive
and accounting department. Its
modular architecture can be
integrated in BCE software
solutions or any existing software;
* Cronos creates the long-term and
short-term planning, delivering
TV programme grids, including
detailed titles, materials, costs
and rights information. Its user
friendly intuitive modular interface
improves the current processes
for the programming teams;
* Adonis creates and manages
the running order for any kind
of automation. It also manages
primary and secondary events.
It imports advertising scheduling
and ensures several controls
as media information, time
breaks, segments, scheduling
consistency... Its user-friendly
interface allows a quick and

L-R: Yoran Ursulet, Thony Tailamee, Florence Sellier, Melanie Monsellato,
Thierry Jams, Karoll Dugain, Olivier Payet, Fabrice Chinjoie, Alex Seca,
Anthony Vingadassalom, Pascal Thiery, Séverine Pajaniaye

easy use of the program: Adonis
increases user productivity
and can be integrated with any
scheduling, advertising and
playout system.
"We are glad to provide Antenne
Réunion with our solutions,

thanks to our experience in
broadcast and our strong team
of developers, our products were
tailor-made to our customer needs,"
commented Alex Seca, Broadcast
IT Manager at BCE.

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