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RTL TVI, the Belgium subsidiary of the RTL group, modernizes its facilities with the leading newsroom solution
Amsterdam, The Netherlands — September 10, 2006—Dalet Digital Media Systems, an independent software vendor and a leading provider of media asset management and digital production tools, today announced that TVI, the Belgium subsidiary of the RTL group, has selected Dalet OpenMedia to upgrade its newsroom infrastructure. The digital newsroom system will be implemented in the new RTL facilities. On-air date is December of 2006, in less than a hundred days.
“The timeline for this project is aggressive and Dalet provided us with its commitment to help us meet our deadlines," explains Mr. Thierry Piette, Technical Director of TVI. "With Dalet OpenMedia, our journalists and producers will have a fully integrated digital newsroom at their fingertips."
“The flexibility of Dalet OpenMedia allows us to implement large-scale newsrooms rapidly," comments Mr. Michael Schueller, managing director, Dalet Germany. “The Dalet OpenMedia plug-in technology further enhances the robust newsroom computer system by integrating broadcast devices and IT systems.”
The Dalet OpenMedia newsroom system will integrate a variety of third-party systems including EVS CleanEdit news production and play-out servers, Avid Deko computer graphics and MTB automation. The Dalet OpenMedia e-Regie plug-in will provide enhanced usability in the gallery by offering advanced timing functions and live-assist counters to operators.
This 24/7 mission critical newsroom system will be deployed on a high availability HP Microsoft cluster certified system. In addition, a Dalet OpenMedia hot stand-by server will be implemented so as to ensure for automatic fail-over in case of a hardware failure.
Based in Brussels, TVI, the Belgian subsidiary of RTL Goup, is producing programs for the 3 RTL channels (RTL-TVI, Club RTL and PLUG TV) operating under Luxembourgian license and targeted to the Belgian market. Among those programs are the following news shows; “Le 13 Heures”, “Le 19 heures”, which are clearly the audience leaders with up to 50 percent of market share in the French speaking Belgium.
Founded in 1990, Dalet Digital MediaSystems is a leading developer ofsoftware solutions that facilitate themanagement of audio and videoassets for broadcast, entertainment,government, education, corporationsand non-profit organizations. Developedfor standard IT hardware, Dalet softwaresolutions enable organizations tocapture, manage and store digital media.The all-digital solutions greatly enhanceproductivity through immediate accessto and management of valuable mediaassets. Traded on the Eurolist C compartment,Euronext Paris Stock Market (ISIN FR0000076176, Reuters DALE.PA),Dalet has offices throughout Europe ,the United States and Asia Pacific.
Operating worldwide, Dalet solutionsare used in 50 countries by over1 700 customers including ABC, ARD(Tagesschau, BR, DW, NDR, SR, SWR, WDR), ART, BBC, BFMTV, Cadena Ser,CBC-Radio Canada, Catalunya Radio,DR, EMAP, Emmis, Entercom, ERT Greece, ERT Tunisia, eTV, FashionShow Media Network, MBC, Mediaset,MediaCorp Singapore, National PublicRadio, Polskie Radio, Prime TV, RadioFrance, Radio France International,Radio Suisse Romande, Russia Today,RTP Asturias, Radio Television Malaysia,The Scottish Parliament, SKY Television,S4C, SABC, SEBC Korea, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UBF, Voice ofAmerica, The Weather Channel, and XM Satellite Radio.
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