Broadcast Solutions creates a television infrastructure from scratch in just four months

The new news broadcast center of CIBC Global (Azerbaijan), which supports the new news channel AnewZ, has been built in just four months by the team of Broadcast Solutions.

The biggest challenge of this project was, as it could not be otherwise, the calendar. The initial contact with Broadcast Solutions Group by technical consultants and publishers on behalf of CIBC Global was held at the CABSAT fair in Dubai at the end of May 2024, with the immovable deadline of the inauguration of the COP29 on November 11. At the time of initial contact, CIBC Global did not even have a building prepared for the new canal, neither personnel, nor editorial policies nor, of course, technology.

From its Dubai facilities, Broadcast Solutions took charge of all aspects of the delivery of the centre, from the supervision of civil works and conditioning interior up to staff training in the operation of the system. Rufat Hamzayev, CEO of AnewZ, recounts his experience: "The most important thing for us was the time pressure. Not only to set up the system, but also to ensure that the staff was prepared from an operational point of view, since on the opening day they were going to be in the spotlight of the whole world."

Broadcast Solutions relied on the integrated production environment nxtedition, which, in addition to offering complete editorial control to all journalists and producers working at AnewZ, automates the operation of the three news studios: a studio for presenters and up to four guests; a second studio for reporters and weather presenters, and a broadcast position in the heart of the newsroom. In the most purely technical section, the infrastructure is completed with production mixers Ross, audio tables Tascam, PTZ cameras Canon and studio lighting.

To Laurent Mairet, managing partner of Broadcast Solutions Group, "this project demonstrates that, through collaboration and teamwork, an entire television channel can be delivered, from scratch, in four months. We continue to work with AnewZ in a second phase, to introduce advertisements in order to monetize the channel."

"We posed a huge challenge to Broadcast Solutions: to build a complete channel from scratch with an absolutely fixed delivery time. They proposed a technical solution that offered all the editorial control and creativity we needed, which is totally reliable and works on standard computers for easy support. In addition, its use is totally intuitive and allows our operational teams to control our three studios from a central production room," he concludes. Hamzayev.