NCPower Pro in Russia
Zvezda TV & Yugra TV
Type of delivery
Based in Moscow, the public-sector Zvezda TV is operated by the Ministry of Defense and covers patriotic matters. Its audience comprises roughly 50 million households across Russia.
The challenge
The Russian TV industry is one of the world's largest in terms of broadcasters and audience numbers. At the same time, the production of news in a country spread over many different time zones makes particular demands of news rooms. News and magazine shows must be produced flexibly and efficiently. Young broadcasters require "out-of-the-box" solutions integrating all production processes such as ingesting, newsroom and playout functions in a single system.
Environment
Based in Moscow, the public TV station Zvezda TV has in NCPower an end-to-end tape-free Apple-based IT production process. The young broadcaster reaches around 50 million households around Russia on a 7/24 basis. With its open software architecture, NCPower is a superior integration platform allowing Zvezda TV to produce news and magazine shows flexibly and efficiently.
The NCPower software packages provide the basis for a homogenous workflow extending across the entire production process:
- NCPower Search & Retrieval of Multimedia Assets
- NCPower Assignments
- NCPower Scriptwriting, Video-Edit, Voice Over & Rundown
- NCPower Workflow Management
The workstations were installed swiftly and efficiently with Russian partner Vidau Systems as the system integrator.
Facts and figures
- NCPower as the core of a fully integrated broadcasting solution
- All production processes such as ingesting, newsroom and playout functions Apple-based
- End-to-end tapeless, IT-based workflow
- Integrated iMac-based workplaces
- Xsan-Network Solution allows centraliied retaining, processing and archiving of all information
Solution
With its open software architecture, NCPower is a superior integration platform allowing customers to produce news and magazine shows swiftly and flexibly on an end-to-end platform NorCom's standard NCPower product based on Mac OS X components can be put into operation within a short space of time. It is easy to use and allows TV broadcasters to go on air more quickly. The NCPower software packages provide the basis for a homogeneous workflow covering the entire media production process right up to broadcasting and archiving.
Public broadcaster Zvezda TV reaches around 50 million households throughout Russia from its Moscow studios. By using NCPower, it is one of the world's first broadcasters to implement all production processes on an Apple basis and has at its disposal a highly modern studio environment integrating all production processes.
Role of NorCom:
- Project management, development and implementation
- Delivery of products
- System integration of many components and devices
Success Story Zvezda/Yugra download
