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Channel 7 Perth on air with IBIS SprinTx
Ranmore, April 2004: IBIS SprinTx is now live in Perth, the latest addition to its series of regional digital newsrooms for the Channel 7 Network in Australia. Perth follows successful SprinTx installations in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane where the move from tape to online storage provides a new flexibility and speed in the preparation of news and sport packages. SprinTx is specifically designed for the News and Sports environment, providing a series of modular applications for the control of ingest, playout, editing and media management.
Perth works in a similar vein to Adelaide and Brisbane, where the News and current events program Today Tonight are made locally and sent to the Melbourne site. The programs are transmitted from the Melbourne centre between 6pm and 7pm each evening with approximately 12 news updates broadcast during the day.
The SprinTx applications in Perth operate as follows: ServerLoad, manages ingest from tape or line feeds either manually or using the timed scheduler in ServerLoad, with four ingest applications - two into each of the Quantel SQ servers. Each server has 2 edit seats and there are approximately 26 desktops running Quantel’s Qcut application server.
ServerPlay is used to send completed News and Today Tonight packages back to Melbourne where they are re-ingested using ServerLoad. The flexibility of ServerPlay allows late breaking news to be broadcast direct from the Perth studio.
ServerBase core media management capability manages the stored media via CORBA tools allowing the monitoring and deletion of clip media. Archive material can also be viewed; ServerMirror is used for mirroring high-resolution clips, providing resilience on air and ServerArchive is used for archive to tape.
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