TV Relocation Completed By dB Broadcast

A Cambridge-based systems integrator, has recently completed a large contract to relocate BBC London's television facilities to the new Egton Wing adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London.
The station produces local television news programmes and local radio news for the capital as well as web publishing, regional Ceefax and contributions to the corporation’s network television news.
The relocation contract won by dB Broadcast included the design, prefabrication, installation and commissioning of a four camera TV studio with control gallery, as well as a two camera in-vision presenter position for short news bulletins within the newsroom.
In addition, dB oversaw the delivery of a hub transfer area for receiving incoming material for ingest to the video server, ten editing workstations, two non-linear editing systems and a weather graphics system.
The new facility includes the Sienna network news automation system manufactured by Gallery software. This is an Apple Mac based system which comprises of a video server with editing and viewing workstations, playout control, ingest and archiving.
Other major equipment included within the system are the QMDX vision mixer from Ross Video, Zeta digital audio console from Calrec, Evertz vision router and Miranda multiviewers.
Work on the project started late 2008 and the facility went live recently. dB Broadcast has spent the past few weeks assisting the BBC W1 team in getting the television station on air.
Tom Swan, dB Broadcast's Director of Sales and Marketing added: "The initial vision system is for a 625/50 SD system, but an important requirement was that it could operate at 1080P in the future. To support this migration, dB had to select products with an upgrade path to 1080P as well design and build an HD infrastructure. It was also important to provide a system approach that would be familiar to the current operational team at BBC London."
(BMcN/BMcC)