Explorer® 700 Extreme broadcasting

“EXPLORER 700 is the perfect tool as it is built to withstand almost any environment.”

When Italian news station SKY TG24 was looking The choice for journalists and film crews for technology for broadcasting in extreme “BGAN has opened up many new areas of communication and situations, the combination of EXPLORER 700 and perhaps one of the most important of these is within the media,” Inmarsat BGAN was the obvious choice. explains Mr. Marco Imperatori, Land Mobile Applications Manager, Telemar. “Although reports from far flung places and extreme envi- SKY TG24, headquartered in Rome, is one of Italy’s premier news ronments were available before the advent of BGAN, only are channels. In order to keep the impressive viewing figures and we starting to see high quality, clear footage that can be delivered expand the audience, SKY TG24 is dedicated to reporting the either live or via FTP to the station, for a quick turnaround to broad- breaking news at home in Italy and from all over the world, no matter cast. EXPLORER 700 is the perfect tool to enable this as it is built to how extreme the environment is in which the story is unfolding. withstand almost any environment, whilst being lightweight, easy to use and reliable at the same time. These attributes not only make it “We were looking for a technology that would enable us to broadcast the choice for journalists and film crews but also for producers and live in extreme situations,” says Mr. Flavio Maspes, Foreign desk directors who demand the footage as soon as it is taken.” Supervisor, SKY TG24. “So, we did some testing with a computer, connected to a Thrane & Thrane EXPLORER 700. ” A truly mobile package Equipped with just a DV camera, a laptop and EXPLORER 700, The initial testing was done with the help of Telemar, a Thrane & SKY TG24’s correspondent in Lebanon was on-hand to film at the UN Thrane partner in Italy. Telemar has a wide-ranging experience with peacekeeping force’s base when France was handing over command BGAN and EXPLORER terminals with many diverse customers such to Italy. A truly mobile package as the encoding of the streaming as Everest-K2-CNR, an organization that uses EXPLORER for weather sequence takes place on the laptop, which is placed between the tracking on Mount Everest. camera and the EXPLORER. “We broadcast the whole ceremony live thanks to the streaming function at 256 kbps of the EXPLORER 700,” says Flavio Maspes. comments Flavio.comments newsroom,”our packagestoover video compressededited send to transferprotocolfile the use also westreaming, live the “Beside technologyavailable.suitable most and latest the use todedicated is TG24 SKY failure.Toend, successor this in factor critical newsa of channels,technologymajorityis the with As Mediterraneanthe water.” in down cooling and falling seen be could stones burning the and lavathe where hillside fromthe directlylive reporting spondent corre- our harbor.had fromthe Instead,webroadcasting just with weren’twe sosatisfied is solution the lightweightflexiblehow and just realizedwe spot, the on Oncescene. EXPLORER the for left and satellitethe traditionaltook a truckwe so use to clearlyimpossible was It erupt. threateningwasto volcano Stromboli The up. came “ALebanonstory,the fewafter trickyweeks another situation Flavio:explainsextremeenvironment more somewhata TG24’ssystem in SKY newmobile was of use next The flexible and Lightweight E Thrane &Thrane A/S·[email protected] ·www.thrane.com xplorer directlyfromthehillside wherethelava andthe coolingdowntheMediterraneanin water.” “Wehadourcorrespondent reporting live burningstones couldseenbefalling and ®

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