TSL Awarded Major Contract In Kuwait

Television Systems Limited (TSL) has announced that it has been awarded a major contract to build a complete HDTV facility from the ground up for a new Kuwait City based broadcaster.
The new station is owned by Dar Al-Watan a well respected Middle Eastern publishing house that distributes one of the Kuwait's leading national newspapers and a number of major regional publications.
TSL has been contracted to design, supply and integrate a complete HDTV facility on behalf of Dar Al-Watan, which will be split between two sites. The main site will house the largest TV studio in the Middle-East, and a second smaller space, which will contain the HD studios, MCR and two channels of HD Playout. The second site will house a further three HD studios with edit suites. Both sites will produce a variety of HD programmes that will be distributed to homes in the region via satellite.
Neptune will manage playout of both channels and the design of the new HD playout suite also comprises a Leitch IconMaster modular master control and branding system and a Miranda Kaleido Alto mulit-image display processor for monitoring. The playout server will be based around the latest Omneon Spectrum server.
The production side will be based on Apple's Xserve RAID and Final Cut Pro will take centre stage in the new network's edit suites. Management of the studio recording and play-in will be by the Gallery based around its Virtual VTR package.
Russel Grute, TSL Head of Sales commented: "We are delighted to annouce this new relationship which after 20 years in the business is our first contract in Kuwait. This system has been designed with a very straight-forward tapeless workflow that allows Dar Al-Watan to get up a running in HD very quickly."
Founded in 1986, TSL is a leading creator of integrated broadcast systems.
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