Disaster Recovery: What Every Broadcaster Should Know November 15^th 2017 - 09:00 AM

Disasters can strike at any time and in many forms, leaving facilities with severe damage and stripping broadcast data centers of power for days. Though this can have catastrophic results, many broadcasters — through no fault of their own — surprisingly don’t have plans about how to truly protect content/playout since…

Redundancy Myths November 10^th 2017 - 10:00 AM

Some TV people become concerned when all their eggs are in one basket. In fact, when everything is in one basket, you always know exactly where the basket is.

Cloud Broadcasting - Free Software October 19^th 2017 - 05:00 PM

As well as providing functionality, tangible products present the opportunity of adding worth through their aesthetic appearance, cost of manufacture and development expenditure adds to the perceived barrier to entry for other vendors, and combined with low volumes, the cost to broadcasters has been traditionally very high.

BCE Going Deeper - Part 1 - Cable, Standards and ITIL October 19^th 2017 - 12:30 PM

At the start of 2013, BCE at RTL City was a hole in Luxembourg’s ground and in less than four years they were on air broadcasting 35 different channels across Europe and Singapore. Costas Colombus is BCE’s Special Projects Manager and gave The Broadcast Bridge a unique insight into how the…

MicroServices Bring New Agility And Cost Savings To IP-Based Content Delivery October 18^th 2017 - 09:00 AM

Broadcast equipment suppliers continue to add new types of IT-centric functionality to their signal distribution and playout platforms, leveraging the cost and operational benefits of COTS hardware and Software Defined Networks (SDN) as a way to attract new types of customers that increasingly require the handing of hundreds or thousands…

Understanding IP Networks - Plug And Play October 5^th 2017 - 04:00 PM

Differing approaches to providing audio solutions are emerging in the broadcast world. Audio over IP is a given, but where to start and which vendors to choose are proving tough decisions to make, especially as the hardware investment can have a ten-year life expectancy. And moving from an analogue, MADI…

Dynamic Ad Insertion Demystified July 3^rd 2017 - 01:00 PM

A Dynamic Ad Insertion platform allows broadcasters, networks and content distributors to monetise their live channels across multi-platform devices.

Understanding IP Networks - Audio Integration June 6^th 2017 - 12:05 PM

In the previous articles, we investigated IP from a broadcast engineers point of view as it helps us understand IP. In this article, we start to look at audio integration, and how we make IP work with audio signals, and the challenges we need to overcome.

Understanding IP Networks - Why Do We Need Interoperability? May 24^th 2017 - 11:00 AM

Point to point connections with well-designed standards have given broadcaster engineers piece of mind for many years, knowing when they connect one AES-3 audio output to an AES-3 audio input, the two will connect seamlessly and audio will pass without incident. The same can be said of MADI and analogue…

Production Engineers - Understanding Your CEO’s Business Needs May 22^nd 2017 - 03:00 PM

As broadcasting moves to highly efficient production lines of the future, understanding business needs is key for engineers, and recognizing the commercial motivations of CEOs and business owners is crucial to building a successful media platform.