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InNews
TheBlaze Newsroom
Runs On Octopus 8

USA: News and entertainment
network TheBlaze has ordered an
Octopus 8 newsroom computer
system for its Mercury Studios
headquarters in Dallas.
The project forms part of the
network's relocation of its radio
broadcast facilities from New York
to Dallas. Founded in 2012 by Glenn
Beck, TheBlaze is a multi-platform
news and entertainment network
available on television, radio and
the internet. TheBlaze is carried
by over 100 television providers,
with 11 of those being in the top 25
nationwide.

SSL Delivers Station
Automated Audio

USA: Solid State Logic will release
additions to its System T range at
NAB. SSL's System T is a powerful
set of network objects that include
processing engines, traditional
audio IO devices and control interfaces. The Tempest Control Rack
(TCR) allows broadcasters and integrators to build modular systems
from System T components where
a traditional broadcast console is
not required or not appropriate.
It is launched alongside a lower
power and lower cost T25 Tempest
Engine option.

AIMS Welcomes
More Members

USA: AIMS has announced that
Bridge Technologies and Solid
State Logic have joined AIMS as
associate members, Clear-Com has
joined as a full member.
"The
march
toward
IP
standardisation gets louder as
more vendors join our effort every
month," said Michael Cronk, AIMS
Board Chair.
"We're happy to welcome Bridge
Technologies, Clear-Com, and SSL.
Their expertise in product and
workflow development and their
service to the broadcast and media
industries will be invaluable as we
move forward."

SAM Gets The VIBE
For Real-Time News
S

nell Advanced Media
has launched SAM
VIBE, its new realtime news and sports
production solution.
SAM VIBE has fast
workflows to enable a
single team to create and
deliver high quality news
and sports content to
social media, the Web and
TV. It combines the agility
of SAM's sQ Servers with the flexibility
of standard IT storage for a fully
scalable platform. The solution is to be
demonstrated on SAM's NAB booth.
Neil Maycock, EVP and General
Manager, Media Software Solutions at
SAM said: "In the past decade mobile

devices, such as smartphones and
tablets, have revolutionised the way
consumers view content. Watching
TV, especially news and sports, has
evolved from a fixed pastime into an
on-the-go, mobile occurrence where
consumers are in control.

"The challenge for
content providers is
to meet this demand
for content anywhere
while keeping quality at
a premium. SAM VIBE
facilitates this by offering
a flexible, cost-effective
system that delivers a
tightly integrated single
platform approach to
creating and distributing
content rapidly so that it reaches every
screen first. This is truly a modern
platform for efficient news delivery."
The SAM VIBE real-time production
solution is a scalable combination of
media storage, production tools, and a
fully customisable workflow engine.

Norway's TV 2 Chooses Nevion
T

he largest commercial television
broadcaster in Norway, TV 2, has
selected Nevion to provide the IPbased software defined network (SDN)
solution that will connect studios,
control rooms and datacentres within
and between the broadcaster's two
main production facilities.
The solution, which is part of TV
2's move to IP across the production
workflow, will enable the broadcaster
to make better use of production
talent, equipment and locations.
Ole Johan Skogheim, Lead Systems

Architect at TV 2, said: "We saw
our move to new facilities as an
opportunity to rethink how we
produced content. We could have
taken the safe route of building a
baseband infrastructure, but the
benefits of moving to IP in terms of
flexibility and cost effectiveness were
compelling.
"Nevion proved to us that the
technology has reached sufficient
maturity to support our needs.
Obviously Nevion's wealth of IP
experience gained in contribution

combined with their leading role in
shaping IP standards and architectures
for the facilities were key in our
decision to opt for Nevion's products
and services."
TV 2 is planning to move to brand
new production facilities in Norway's
second-largest city, Bergen, in 2017.
The new facilities in Media City
Bergen (MCB) will be IP-based, with
an SDN core network for all live
production and broadcast routing
requirements.
Nevion Virtuoso
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