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Client: Television
Jamaica - TVJ
Location: Kingston – Jamaica |
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Television Jamaica Limited contracted BIG in July
2003 to design, integrate, install and implement
their new all digital television station,
as well as their radio operations. Additionally,
BIG provided design and consultation services
for the complete lighting systems, and acoustic
treatment for their two television studios,
voice over suites and radio booths.
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TVJ’s
new facility features automation of the
master control area as well as a fully
automated News solution with 5 multi
functional news edit suites, two complete
production studios and control rooms
and a Graphics Design Suite. Both Radio
and Television facilities are linked
and share resources in a networked environment
controlled by QNews. |
Some
of the manufacturers selected by BIG’s
Systems Design team for this project were:
Florical Automation Systems, Grass Valley/Thomson,
AutoCue Systems, Ikegami, Hitachi, Avid, Axon,
Maya, RTS/Telex, Yamaha, Colortran and Forecast
Custom Consoles.
Television
Jamaica has been fully operational and On Air
since February 2004 and the radio stations
went live in March 2004. |
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Client: Omni
Cable
Location: Sonora
, Mexico |
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The
project covers the construction of Hybrid Fiber Coaxial
networks in 4 cities located in the state of Sonora
, Mexico . The high bandwidth nature of these networks
will not only allow the distribution of TV channels
but will also provide for voice and data services to
residential and corporate subscribers. The project
included the network deployment and the head end equipment
needed to accomplish the following tasks: signal reception
via satellite or via air, channel modulation for distribution
and the Cable Modem Termination (CMTS) for the data
(Internet).Distribution through cable modems. |
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Client: Telemicro
& Digital 15
Location:
Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic |
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“Telemicro”
and “Digital 15” are located in a newly
renovated building that houses two identical production
serial digital (ITU-R601) infrastructures to feed
the two channels. These rooms include two separate
control rooms. A shared Grass Valley™ Networked
Attached Storage (NAS) system, and combined linear
and nonlinear edit and graphics suites. The master
control, engineering and studio control rooms are
uniquely divided up by acoustically sensitive, double-pane
glass, which allows employees and visiting public
tours to see the entire workplace at a glance. |
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“Faced
with the worldwide move to digital production,
we decided to leap forward from the existing [analog]
state of television in our country to a first-class
digital facility that would successfully blend
our Latin style of television work with a tapeless,
server-based, content-shared environment,: said
Gomez-Diaz.
“We did not want technology to overwhelm our
work style or philosophy and we feel we succeeded
in making our production and news operations faster,
fresher, and more stylish,” he added. “The
equipment choices we made reaffirmed our leadership
position and ensure our investment.” |
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Location: Miami
, Florida – USA |
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Kitchen is a state-of-the-art audiovisual services company
offering a variety of specialized services to the television
industry including network playout, language conversion,
and distribution of audiovisual material.
Prominent in this installation is the Barco iStudio monitoring
system, capable of displaying 40 images simultaneously
in a single display. In addition to Barco, the system
includes 8 channels of Thimson/GV Profile, full automation
control, non linear edit suites, Scientific Atlanta PowerVue
receivers, full standard conversion, SD video/audio routing
and more. |
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Client: Antena
Latina
Location: Santo
Domingo – Dominican Republic |
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In September 1999 ANtena Latina contracted BIG services for
the design, engineering, integration, and installation
of an upgraded Master Control Room, Core Engineering
and fully digital Virtual News Set.
The Orad Virtual set was the first one installed in the Caribbean
and it uses a set designed by Delvin Design Group, in addition
to the Orad set, the system uses a GVG 1200 Switcher, Hitachi
digital studio cameras and full complement of video and audio
equipment.
The upgraded Master Control was designed around the GVG Master
21 and Florical Automation for commercial insertion from
a Profile server. |
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Fiber
optic network design 
