SI MEDIA – HOPE CHANNEL
SI Media expands Hope Channel network
In 2019 SI Media completed the installation of YES! at Hope-TV, a German Christian television channel with its Headquarters based in Alsbach (Germany) and with links spread all over the continent with many other locations involved in the same network: France, Norway and Ukraine are some of the affiliates.
The TV channel is operated by Hope Media Europe e.V., an institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The TV channel has a playlist mainly composed by programmes produced in the Media Center in Alsbach-Haehnlein and by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, dealing with religious, health, educational and family life topics.
Hope Media Europe is a 24-hour satellite broadcaster.
Just 2 years after the first deployment, in 2021, Hope Media Europe was one of the first SI Media customers to fully migrate to our new web-based platform YES!, renewing its trust on our software solution.
Spread throughout Europe, the Hope Channel Network has branches in several countries where contents are broadcasted with the various sites connected through a centralized network that allows the sharing of media contents in real time. It allows all affiliates to contribute by
sending their local productions to the main System and at the same time to search and download contents shared by the main site in Germany.
This is how YES! has been configured to achieve the required workflow:
– Hope Channel France and Norway are among the main European affiliates, with a direct connection to the German headquarter, which physically hosts their installations and represents the central core of the network. The French affiliate does not have a 24\7 channel but produces its own contents, while the Norwegian channel is broadcasted on air from the main site. In both branches, operators manage all the media tasks using the same centralized UI, filtered with YES! rights management to provide filtered access to each affiliate contents. Basically, YES! installation is shared between the head office and the affiliates which produce their own contents and then broadcast them using Hope Channel Europe infrastructure, which manages all the back-end from its data center in Frankfurt.
– Hope Ukraine is the most independent affiliate of the Hope group in Europe, running its operations with an independent system and a separated database. Hope Ukraine is producing and broadcasting its own contents from its facility based in Kiev that has adopted YES! in 2023 and has recently started their live operations with YES! system in the past few months.
SI Media’s goal is to ensure that all Hope TV locations can use YES! as a common platform for sharing multimedia content and to schedule live events produced by other branches into their own schedules, or at least that they can cooperate in an integrated network sharing contents and metadata, to improve the quality of the overall production of the entire organization.
We deeply thank Hope Media Europe for choosing YES! and SI Media for their broadcasting system and for the renewed trust with the several expansions deployed in the last years.
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