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This project is one of the largest of its type in Europe this year
London, UK - January 10, 2008 – Ascent Media Systems & Technology Services (S&TS) a provider of consulting, systems integration, and technical support services for the electronic media and entertainment industry, today announced that it has won a major contract with leading French broadcaster TF1 (Télévision Française 1). The deal covers the design and build of TF1’s new tapeless production system for all of the broadcaster’s news and sports programming.
Each of the components of the new TF1 system will be provided by leading broadcast and IT manufacturers. At its core is the Dalet Media Asset Management platform that is also managing the system’s entire workflow and integrates with TF1’s existing newsroom computer system and archive management. In the main system, 26 channels of video are being ingest and a further 40 played-out from an Omneon high performance server platform. In addition, an Exanet Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution will manage 96 Terabytes of redundant storage provided by DataDirect Networks. Apple Final Cut Pro was chosen as the sole editing platform and 150 workstations will be integrated into the new workflow to allow editors and journalists to edit content both on-site and from the field.
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