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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 9 | September 2017

InMedia

Bulgarian National Radio
Digitises Archive with NOA
T

o ensure preservation of its
valuable
audio
collection,
Bŭlgarsko
Natsionalno
Radio
(Bulgarian National Radio) is taking
on the ambitious task of digitising its
entire legacy archive.
For the project, BNR is replacing
the existing archiving system at the
broadcaster's headquarters in Sofia
with a full line of archiving and ingest
equipment from NOA.
Specifically,
the
broadcaster's
data-migration process involves the
digitisation and transfer of its existing
legacy repository - approximately
320,000 legacy audio carriers and
100,000 CDs - to the NOA mediARC
archive asset management framework.
In addition, BNR will be utilising the
NOA Record ingest system, the N7000c
audio ingest frontend, NOA CD Lector,
and the mediARCWEB visual content
browser application.
BNR's IT Director Andrey Petrenko
explains that the main objective of

the project is to guarantee the
conservation of irreplaceable
content, as well as to allow
for easy future access of
this newly digitised legacy
material, all through the
application of Open Archival
Information System (OAIS)
principles.
"As a comprehensive Archive
Asset Management (AAM)
solution, NOA´s mediARC
system implements a variety of
OAIS principles to secure long-term
archiving within dedicated business
processes," said Petrenko. "Our
decision to upgrade BNR's existing
system with NOA ingest and AAM
technology will allow us to achieve
seamless business continuity for our
long-term archiving tasks."
With recent installations in Croatia,
Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
and United Arab Emirates, NOA
mediARC has gained a strong base

processes and to optimise
staff efficiency and archiving
results,"
said
Christophe
Kummer, NOA's CEO. "The NOA
know-how and systems bring
benefits to the broadcaster,
which include proficient audio
ingest methods, a dedicated
archive business process, and
the ability to manage various
production platforms through
open standards and interfaces
Bulgarian Radio
- all this with standard IT
of users in both broadcasting and technology."
institutional
archiving.
Providing
NOA's
intuitive
proprietary
customers with structured and technologies are currently installed
flexible high-performance content in more than 30 international
management that will last for decades, institutions
including
Austrian
mediARC allows access to a deep level National Broadcaster ORF, Sveriges
of the database and makes it easy to Radio Förvaltnings (SRF), Yleisradio
create extremely specific business Finland (YLE), Radiotelevizija Slovenija
procedures using intricate and (RTV), the national sound archives of
sophisticated workflows.
Switzerland and Mexico, the Vlaamse
"We are delighted to assist BNR in Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT) and
the modernisation of its management many more.

San Antonio's Alamodome Selects
VITEC's IPTV and Digital Signage
V

ITEC, a worldwide leader in
advanced video encoding and
streaming solutions, has announced
that its EZ TV IPTV and Digital
Signage Platform has been selected
to distribute broadcast-grade video
streams to displays within the newly
upgraded concessions areas in San
Antonio's Alamodome arena.
"We are proud to have been selected
to drive the video experience in the
upgraded Alamodome facility," said Eli
Garten, VP IPTV and Enterprise Video
Solutions at VITEC. "We designed EZ
TV to be a powerful system that is
easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage.
It enables sports and entertainment
venues to elevate engagement levels
and the overall experience of visitors
and fans, while reducing new overhead
and operating costs for the owners.
We're happy to see Alamodome
being added to a growing list of high
profile venues that select EZ TV for
its scalable architecture, cutting-edge

capabilities and ease of use."
VITEC's EZ TV IPTV and Digital
Signage Sports Venue Solution
utilises the facility's existing IP
network to stream live event
video, low-latency game-day
camera sources and eye-catching
digital signage content to TV
monitors.
Designed as a turnkey solution
for all video distribution and
digital signage requirements in
today's multi-purpose venues, VITEC's
EZ TV empowers video production
teams and event operators to easily
replace legacy video and signage
solutions or add new capabilities in
existing facilities.
EZ TV is 100% agnostic to the
network type and TV monitor brands,
making it easy to integrate to any
environment and immediately upgrade
the venue's ability to distribute HD
video in ultra-low delay to any screen,
centrally manage TV channels, in-

house feeds, menu boards and signage
campaigns.
VITEC is a leading worldwide endto-end video streaming solutions
provider for broadcast, military and
government, enterprise, sports and
entertainment venues, and houses of
worship.
Combining broadcasting with live
streaming capabilities, VITEC's H.265
(HEVC) and H.264 offering is the
most extensive in the market with
encoding and decoding appliances,

VITEC EZ TV Arena concession signage

IPTV solutions for desktops and mobile
devices, and PCI cards with SDK for
integration projects.
VITEC's intuitive digital video
solutions can be tailored to each
customer's unique market needs,
delivering easy-to-use technology that
ensures high-quality, low-latency HD
video, capturing live and recorded
events for seamless distribution
in a multitude of formats anytime,
anywhere, to any device.
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