CASE STUDY: K24 (Nairobi)
At K24, the most important news channel in Nairobi and one of the biggest of the whole continent, SI Media has provided a complete turnkey solution both for Master Control Room and 2 Production Control Rooms.
The system has been deployed together with System Integrator Onset System from Israel.
The workflow (see below the design) is composed by several servers and workstations.
More than 150 journalists work every day with MediaNews WEB to create stories, prepare rundown and manage all the media of the redaction (video, audio, images, documents..).
The story life of the contents is managed by SI Media from the ingest, both base band based through 7 MediaRec workstations and file ingest from tapes, portable cards such as XD Cam, P2, ftp servers, directly from the web and from all the integrated NLE stations.
SI Media has integrated several devices in this project: a QUALSTAR library to import contents from tapes, archive the material from Nearline to Offline archive using also the partial restore feature; a 96×96 AV Router Carbonite Extreme to manage automatically all the sources, feeds from satellites, studios, cameras from the Master Control Room, MC-1 Ross Master Control to automate process in Program Control Room from our software application MediaNews Play.
In addition to this, using our certified Mos Protocol SI Media has interfaced and integrated 2 Teleprompters from Autocue and the graphics engine provided by Wasp3D, which is remotely controlled by SI Media MediaDevice.
