ON-AIR Help Launch City Channel In Two Irish Cities

ON-AIR Systems has assisted City Channel, the first cable only channel in Ireland to launch in two new cities.
City Channel’s Broadcast Manager Jamie Conway commented: "They’re simple to use and the customer support is second to none."
City Channel uses ON-AIR Systems K-Series software (Kapture, sKedule Importer and playKast) to ingest and playout all of its channel work.
Speaking about the launches in Waterford and Galway, Conway added: "Without support from ON-AIR we wouldn’t have been able to launch these channels. They’ve provided us with extra equipment and helped us with a rental package for both software and hardware, enabling a low-cost start-up for both these channels."
City Channel launched the first channel in Dublin in 2005 using ON-AIR K-Series software, and needed to integrate a number of their other systems into the workflow. ON-AIR wrote an import module that allows schedules output from City Channel’s RCS scheduling package to create daily playlists in ON-AIR playKast, with AS-RUN logs confirming played output. "We needed to put certain graphics on our channel," said Conway, "and we decided to use an Infocaster system. ON-AIR wrote a triggering module to switch the output for this so it could be integrated with the ON-AIR video content, although the newest versions of playKast have these features, so we won’t need these for future channels. In addition to this we’re currently developing a trigger system for our live studio show, and ON-AIR is helping us with integration into our editing systems."
The company intends to launch a number of additional channels in different cities in Ireland and Europe, and has confirmed these will use ON-AIR products. Jamie added: "We’re very impressed with ON-AIR’s new generation of hardware (based on the Matrox X.mio) and the additional features available in the new software on that platform."
(DS/SP)