dB Broadcast build new control room for QVC

Cambridgeshire-based systems integrator dB Broadcast have completed work on a new control room (control room B) for shopping channel QVC.
The new control room will act primarily as an immediate back-up to QVC's original control room A, so that the station can stay on-air, or resume broadcasting very quickly, in the event of an emergency.
Control room B comprises five areas/rooms: the vision racks area, vision desk, directors desk and monitor stack, the sound control room and producer's gallery.
dB supplied eight fully cabled vision racks that house 12 CCUs; a triax patch panel, custom designed by dB to connect up to 15 cameras to 30 destinations; character generators; clip stores; a DVE; a 64 x 64 router, vision mixer electronics; DAs and other conversion equipment; and jackfields etc.
The vision desk is approximately 3.5 metres long and the monitor stack comprises 17 monitors. The director's desk is approximately 6.5 metres in length with a stack of 35 monitors. The sound control room has a stack of nine monitors, with an audio rack of equipment supplied by dB, while the producer's gallery can seat up to five people. All the monitor stacks include under monitor displays. These are cabled to allow remote control of the monitors.
While QVC were responsible for the design concept, dB's contribution was the detailed design, prefabrication and installation of the video and controls systems within all five areas of the control room.
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