Case study Benefits [News integration]

“BCE updated our installa- With its new infrastructure and its fully tapeless workflow, RTL Lëtzebuerg tions with the best technology is now able to meet the market needs in quality and fast news. The differ- at an affordable price. ent steps of a news project are easily done with the best quality and a The flexibility of the system greater interaction between the departments. with its easy integration of new technologies and its The structure design allows easy upgrade with new technologies and the opening to Internet ensures integration of new video formats. our investment.” + Flexibility Alain Berwick Managing director (RTL Lëtzebuerg) + File based production workflow

+ Reactivity

“Short deadlines, difficult work- RTL Lëtzebuerg is today Luxembourg’s number one channel. The “The new infrastructure gives + Real editing in the newsroom ing conditions or very sophisti- company’s success is based on its willingness to offer local contents us much more flexibility and cated projects, they have done to Luxembourg’s viewers. allows us to be much more it all. reactive in terms of breaking + Creation & conservation of the metadata In all the years we have been Its programs are fully targeted to the Luxemburgish audience, with news. working with BCE, they always news and shows. RTL Lëtzebuerg presents 2 distinctive channels, The increase of speed has met the deadlines.” been reinvested in the quality RTL and RTL2. of our news and magazines.” + Easy evolution with new technologies Jacques Van Luijk Production manager The first one focuses on news and magazines, whereas the second Jacques Van Luijk (RTL Lëtzebuerg) channel offers the same content as RTL during the day with live Production manager (RTL Lëtzebuerg) events in the evening. During the day the two channels complete each other with radio Web TV, Real Estate TV, RTL Shop and RTL Kids.

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www.bce.lu www.bce.lu Challenge: Update the running system to a more flexible solution Solution: Open tapeless system with digital archiving

? File based workflow is today’s market standard, RTL Lëtzebuerg needs to ! BCE managed the transfer from a proprietary tapeless system to an open system. have the capacity to adapt to any type of content with a fully interactive newsroom system. The newsroom application together with Newslink were used for the integration of any content coming from anywhere in the world with a centralised archiving system, where all videos can be stored and BCE’s challenge was to update the old tapeless system to today’s uploaded for direct editing, playout or streaming. requirements with a multiplication of digital format entries (MPEG, MOV, DIVArchive MP4, H264, etc..) and to give the same flexibility for outgoing content. StorageTek Digital tape archive Although RTL Lëtzebuerg’s installations were fully tapeless between the News feeds newsroom and the broadcast, the ingest and part of the broadcasting were still tape-based. Playout Satellite Production Transmission More than just opening the system to all possible formats, the system had Satellite Easy news integration for direct to be flexible enough to adapt to any new standard. Finally, this complete playout. new workflow had to be adapted to the different departments in RTL Lëtzebuerg, including journalists on the field. Office sQ server sQ server

“As technology evolves Tape Editing Web rapidly new solutions are > Challenge: needed. More than just updating their tapeless > Update the system from a proprietary to an open system Edit Edit Plus Paintbox system, RTL Lëtzebuerg Web wanted to be prepared for the future, with an intelli- > Ensure full compatibility of the system with any digital format gent system, capable of > Solution: acquiring any files in any > Allow the complete communication between the depart- format. ments, the newsroom and the journalists > Fully transparent tapeless system We delivered a solution that meets exactly their > Give RTL the possibility to receive and send their files from > Fast journalists feeds integration within minutes in the newsroom with Newslink needs with no boundaries and to any source. and without completely > Tapeless system between all the departments of RTL Lëtzebuerg changing their old installa- tion.” > Tapeless system between the journalists and the newsroom About Newslink: Jean LAMPACH Head of Technical Services > Easy archiving of all the digitized videos and interactive database for (BCE) Newslink is a tailor-made tapeless solution to connect journalists and easy repurposing of content. Zoom on: newsrooms in an easy, fast and reliable way. Digital archiving

The StorageTek Digital Tape 2005 2006 Library has a storage capacity of 2.5 Petabytes, giving an almost unlimited space to the channel. Tapeless platform update The content is stored in high reso- Fine tuning lution and a low resolution preview is automatically generated for easy Newslink integration and fast review. Launch and team training All the departments have imme- diate access to the archive.