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

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

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

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

Facilitating writing and programming needs from ingest to delivery, Dalet's initial installation included Dalet MAM with end-to-end news production, NCRS and playout 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 take advantage of the capabilities of Dalet Galaxy Five to streamline social media publishing, being able to upload informative content to all the main social channels, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. In addition to boosting its social media initiatives, Tv Center will also be able to integrate its digital platform into its CMS for rapid online news publication. To complete the upgrade, the TV center files will be fully integrated.

Alexey Brusnitsky, technical director of Tv Centre, highlights that "the operational objective driving 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 Television Center we are faced with a broader strategic picture. We also wanted to take advantage of the migration to evolve our operations and meet the changing demands of our audience, as well as enable future technologies. We felt that the Dalet Galaxy Five platform offered the necessary agility to meet 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 Center can now create and orchestrate news ingestion, transcoding and automation workflows, as well as employ specific archive file migration policies across the entire operation.

Johann Zemmour, Dalet's general manager for EMEA and APAC, notes that "Galaxy Five's API integrations are also very attractive for TV Centre, especially for their archives. Connecting archives to the workflow will give them a seamless and connected movement of content from ingest to output to archiving. In addition, Galaxy 5 will give them the ability to employ IMF workflows in the future using the Dalet AmberFin media processing platform and the Dalet workflow engine. The ease with “That TV Center 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 maximize its ROI.”