South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will begin the next phase of its radio project that started last year. The next phase will be the implementation of dira! at five channels at SABC in Johannesburg. Once completed, the dira! system will be rolled out to 15 regional locations across South Africa.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will begin the next phase of its radio project that started last year. The next phase will be the implementation of dira! at five channels at SABC in Johannesburg. Once completed, the dira! system will be rolled out to 15 regional locations across South Africa.
The new system will integrate with third-party systems for newsroom integration and advertisement/spot scheduling and playout. More than 700 workstations will access the complete system, with more than 1500 users working in 19 languages.
Dennis Herold, General Manager Radio Broadcast Facilities, said: SABC did a thorough evaluation of the existing systems on the market, and SCISYS delivered the most convincing offer. Beside the technical requirements, SCISYS experience with large systems was of great importance to us in choosing them.
Dr. Willi Pieper, Director SCISYS Deutschland GmbH added: We are very proud that SABC has chosen dira! as their new radio production and playout system and very much welcome this very famous African broadcaster into the dira! family of highly satisfied customers.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) awarded a contract to SCISYS Deutschland GmbH Media & Broadcast division in the summer of 2016. The scope of this contract is to roll out the dira! Radio production and playout product suite, including the music rotation software by SCISYS partner MusicMaster / ON AIR, to all of SABCs commercial, non-commercial and local radio networks. A total of 19 channels will replace the networks existing systems from Dalet and RCS to dira! systems.
The project implementation will take place in several phases beginning with a proof of concept by the vendor. The POC system was set up in Johannesburg at SABCs Radio Park. It passed the acceptance test last September.
Kersan Kistan, Manager at RBF Digital SABC, said: This involves some 19 channels in 16 locations we have a large organisation with a great variety of workflows therefore it was necessary to test if dira! can fulfill all the requirements. The POC system proved that dira! is absolutely up to the task. We are now looking forward for the actual roll out.
The second phase invloved the roll out of the music rotation software, MusicMaster to 14 of SABCs channels, located in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Polokwane. The networks 14 channels went on air in January this year.
