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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 11 | November 2017

InNews
Viacom Agrees
Avid Deal

USA: Avid has announced a
multiyear enterprise agreement
with
global
entertainment
company Viacom. The deal will
see Viacom enhance its worldwide
production infrastructure on Avid's
MediaCentral platform.
MediaCentral
will
boost
collaboration,
and
increase
efficiency and productivity, while
introducing new economies of
scale, and a path to the Cloud for
Viacom's operations.
Media Composer | Cloud Remote
deployment will enable editors to
remotely connect and collaborate
with teams no matter where
they're located.

TV4 Play Inserts
Yospace Solution

GBR / SWE: TV4 in Sweden
has chosen Yospace's Dynamic
Ad Insertion (DAI) solution to
monetise live channels on its
TV4 Play platform. TV4 is using
Yospace's server-side DAI system
to open up new inventory across its
live streams in a way that provides
a seamless online television
experience for the platform's 2.5
million registered viewers.
By extending the technology to
live, TV4 is able to implement a
long-term business case across this
previously pre-roll only format.

Witbe Partners
Optiva Media

USA: Witbe, a leader in QoE
monitoring and test automation
has announced a partnership
with Optiva Media, a professional
services engineering company
to support customers with
multiscreen monitoring technology
in Europe and Latin America.
Optiva Media, who specialises
in delivering audio and video
technology solutions across the
entire digital TV and audio media
market chain, recently became a
Witbe Certified Partner.
This partnership will allow Optiva
Media to offer support and
consulting services on Witbe's
Technology.

TBN Commissions
Octopus Newsroom
O

ctopus
Newsroom
has announced the
completion of a newsroom
computer
system
sale
to Trinity Broadcasting
Network (TBN).
For its first use at the
Trinity Music City production
facility in Hendersonville,
Tennessee, TBN has initially
acquired Octopus for its new
show, 'Huckabee', being
hosted by former governor TBN's
and presidential candidate Hendersonville
facility
Mike Huckabee.
After this initial implementation, the a wide variety of information and
system will be rolled out to several of entertainment content," said TBN
TBN's other major network production Director of Broadcast Operations
facilities.
& Engineering, Larry Haley. "After
"The challenge we faced was how carefully researching the available
to integrate a newsroom platform management solutions, we identified
into an innovative show concept with the Octopus Newsroom system as the

best choice."
He said that Octopus 8
seamlessly interfaced with
Ross graphics, IPV asset
management,
Cuescript
prompting and EVS playout
infrastructure.
"We have supplied a
complete
core
system
including 15 concurrent
user licenses, a MOS
gateway, wires, RSS and
email handling, full social
media integration, hotstandby server facility,
two years of premium support, and
on-site professional services," added
Gene Sudduth, Octopus Newsroom's
National Sales Director for North
America.
The new programme will be available
in the USA and internationally.

Euronews Completes
Dalet Transformation
D

alet has announced that Euronews
recently completed a strategic
transformation that puts content
customisation for local audiences at
the heart of its operation.
The
pioneering
multicultural
news provider replaced its legacy
broadcast infrastructure with the Dalet
Unified News Operations solution,
transitioning from a single multilanguage channel to 12 separate crossplatform channels, tailored to local
audiences.
The 500 users across Euronews'
four major offices in Athens, Brussels,
Budapest and Lyon are connected and

collaborating on a single environment,
relying daily on the power and the
agility of the Dalet Galaxy platform
for the production, orchestration and
delivery of their stories.
"Customisation is at the heart of
this transformation. Euronews will
adapt its output to the needs of the
consumers it serves, empowering the
uniqueness of our multiculturalism,"
said Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews.
"Thanks
to
the
substantial
investment
in
Euronews
core
capabilities and operations, we are
creating a robust, agile and innovative
organisation to become the first

Dalet at core of Euronews

global News brand by reinventing our
approach to broadcast journalism from
production to distribution."
Since its inception in 1993, Euronews
has been addressing the region's
need for multilingual programming
by providing a single channel of news
programming with identical video and
English-only graphics delivered to all
countries with 12 different language
translations.
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