Tapeless technology specialist EVS will provide a fully integrated news production solution for the launch of Sky News Arabia´s new 24/7 Arabic news channel. Sky News Arabia is a joint venture between British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation (ADMIC). EVS is already working with the channel´s team to introduce the tapeless […]
Tapeless technology specialist EVS will provide a fully integrated news production solution for the launch of Sky News Arabia´s new 24/7 Arabic news channel. Sky News Arabia is a joint venture between British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation (ADMIC).
EVS is already working with the channel´s team to introduce the tapeless technology at Sky News Arabias studios, based at the twofour54 in Abu Dhabi.
The project covers ingest, production and playout workflows, including on the fly timeline news editing, online storage and seamless integration with third-party systems (such as Avids iNews NRCS).
180 multimedia journalists will be working with the system to ensure news coverage simultaneously catering to television, internet and mobile phone audiences.
Set to launch in 2012, Sky News Arabia will broadcast in high definition as well as standard definition to audiences in the Middle East and North Africa.
