TV Centre migrates to HD and AVC Intra with Dalet Galaxy Five as orchestration system and MAM

Leveraging the Dalet Galaxy Five workflow engine, TV Centre can now create and orchestrate news ingest, transcoding, and automation workflows, as well as employ specific archive file migration policies across the operation.

Russian broadcaster ТВ Центр (Tv centre) to upgrade its media operations with new media asset management and orchestration (MAM) platform Dalet Galaxy Five, driving a workflow of Multi-platform high-definition production and distribution, which will better connect content with your audience on the device of your choice.

A Dalet client since 2006, TV Centre is a Moscow-based Russian state-owned television broadcaster with the fourth largest coverage in Russia, after Channel One, Russia-1 and NTV. Dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of life in the capital, the channel is broadcast nationally and is also broadcast outside Russian territory.

Facilitating writing and scheduling needs from ingest to delivery, Dalet's initial facility included Dalet MAM with end-to-end news production, NCRS and broadcast for the newsroom and integrated production tools for unified search, assembly and distribution of program content.

Under the new Dalet Galaxy Five progressive workflow, TvCentre will move into HD production and delivery with the ability to support higher resolutions in the future. It will also leverage the capabilities of Dalet Galaxy Five to Streamline social media posting, being able to upload informative content to all major social channels, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. In addition to boosting its social media initiatives, Tv Centre will also be able to integrate its digital platform into its CMS for the rapid publication of online news. To complete the upgrade, the TV center files will be fully integrated.

Alexey Brusnitsky, Technical Director of Tv Centre, highlights that "the operational objective that drove the upgrade to Dalet Galaxy Five was our transition to HD and AVC Intra as a mezzanine format. However, this move is much more than a technical improvement, and at the TV Centre we are faced with a wider strategic landscape. We also wanted to leverage the migration to evolve our operations to meet the changing demands of our audience, as well as enable future technologies. We felt that the Dalet Galaxy Five platform offered the agility needed to deliver on this ambition, with Dalet as our trusted technology partner to help us get to that next level."

Leveraging the Dalet Galaxy Five workflow engine, TV Centre can now create and orchestrate news ingest, transcoding, and automation workflows, as well as employ specific archive file migration policies across the operation.

Johann ZemmourDalet's Managing Director for EMEA and APAC, said: "Galaxy Five's API integrations are also very attractive for the TV Centre, especially for their archives. Connecting files to the workflow will give them a smooth and connected movement of content from ingest to broadcast to archive. In addition, Galaxy 5 will give them the ability to employ workflows in IMF in the future using the Dalet AmberFin media processing platform and the Dalet workflow engine. The ease with which TV Centre has been able to advance its production and distribution capabilities while integrating a range of internal systems underlines how robust and flexible Dalet Galaxy 5 is as a platform on which it can evolve the operation and maximise its ROI."