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Newmembers join the Association for International Broadcasting
The membership of the AIB continues to grow. Organisations joining the Association within the last quarter include:
APTN
BBC Global News
Omnibus Systems
Quantel
Teletrax
We’re delighted to welcome all these major players in the world’s broadcasting industry as members, and look forward to working closely with them
over the coming months.
APTN
is the world’s largest video
news agency. With over 80
bureaux worldwide, linked by
a network of global satellites,
APTN delivers the most reliable
and accurate video news
content in the world.
APTN also provides live shots
fromglobal flashpoints whenever
there’s breaking news. Strategic
locations and worldwide reach
enableit tofacilitatethecrewing,
editing, and tape replay needs
of broadcaster clients.
APTN Entertainment delivers
the world’s top entertainment
stories and features, which,
combined with News, make its
Library is one of the most
comprehensive film and video
archives in the world.
APTN Corporate Services
accelerate the release of
advertising campaigns and
public relations messages via
our global satellite network.
APTN delivers more than ninety
per cent of the world’s leading
sporttointernationalbroadcasters
viaSportsNewsTelevision(SNTV),
and its Middle East Services
provide the only truly customised
international news and broadcast
servicefortelevisionclientsinthis
region. APTN’s new service
Video.Net is the only on-line
content provider with the
technology to deliver video in
multiple formats to businesses
needing video for Internet,
broadband, or mobile products.
APTN is the international
television arm of The
Associated Press, the world’s
oldest
and
largest
newsgathering organisation
The
BBC’s Global News
division
is a single integrated
international news and
information division bringing
together
BBC World Service
radio,
BBC World
television,
BBC’s international online
news resource and BBC
Monitoring.
The division is led by Mark
Byford,Director, BBC Global
News. It works in partnership
with BBC News, which provides
newsgathering and English
language news and current
affairs programmes.
The
BBC World Service
is the
leading international radio
broadcaster. It attracts audiences
of at least 150 million listeners
each week. It is rapidly
developing into a multimedia
broadcaster, using radio and the
internet, for all its 43 language
services. It is funded by grant-
in-aid from the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.
BBC World,
the BBC’s
commercially
funded
international 24-hour news
and information channel, is
owned and operated by
BBC
World Ltd
, a member of the
BBC’s commercial group of
companies. Reaching over
256 million homes in over
200 countries and territories
worldwide (101 million 24-
hour homes), BBC World
launched in its present format
in 1995 and is funded by
advertising and subscription.
Over 100 million people use
the BBC’s international online
news services in 43 languages
through
every month. Traffic more than
doubled during the Iraq war.
OmniBus Systems
provides
broadcasters worldwide with
comprehensive automation
and asset management
solutions that address every
area of a television facility and
deliver wide-ranging customer
benefits and cost-savings
across the full spectrum of
operational processes.
These both enhance
automation - from acquisition
and recording through low-
and high-resolution editing,
media asset management and
playout to final archiving –
and facilitate the development
of new business initiatives.
OmniBus Systems is a
worldwide company with
headquarters in the UK and
offices in Germany, Asia and
the United States (Stamford,
Connecticut and Nevada City,
California). In 2000, the
company won the Queen’s
Award for Enterprise
(Innovation), the most
prestigious prize available to
UK-based industry.
Based on standard open IT
protocols, OmniBus Systems’
G
3
is a brand new architecture
that re-defines the entire
development process for new
broadcast systems by shifting
the
emphasis
from
applications to specific tasks.
With components of
functionality delivering the
precise requirements of
individual users, G
3
allows
broadcasters to control and
configure both OmniBus
automation and multiple
manufacturers’ equipment to
provide unparalleled levels of
workflow and operational
flexibility.
Quantel’
s
generationQ
integrated production systems
for News/sport have achieved
wide industry acceptance
following their launch in 2002.
Customers already include BBC
TV Regions, the BBC Jupiter
centralized news project and
the equipping of ESPN’s new
Digital Center with mixed
standard and HD server-based
production. In addition,
generationQ is already finding
wider applications in areas such
as centralized promotions
production for broadcasters and
direct feed, close to air post
production in areas such as
serial dramas and sports
highlight package production.
generationQ offers a totally
integrated, fully scalable
production environment. It is
based on a new, completely
scalable server architecture
that holds both broadcast and
browse media on the same
storage, controlled by a single
SQL database. This eliminates
much of the complexity
inherent in previous
generation systems, while also
providing much greater on-
air security. generationQ also
offers an integrated, scalable
range of timeline editing and
graphics applications with a
consistent, progressive
interface, so training is fast
and simple and multi-skilling
becomes an achievable end.
generationQ has embraced all
of the current broadcast media
standards: MPEG, DVCPro,
HDCam, Gigabit Ethernet,
AAF/MXF, CORBA, MOS.
generationQ represents a
blueprint for every news and
production system, from the
smallest to the largest.
Teletrax
is the world’s first
global video broadcast
monitoring service for digital
rights management and has
been lauded as a significant
television
industry
innovation.
Teletrax is a revolutionary
service for those seeking to
protect and leverage their
video property. It digitally
adds a unique, indelible and
imperceptible watermark to
your footage which can be
tracked and reported upon
wherever and whenever your
video is broadcast. It is
unaffected by standards
conversion, copying or
transfer – even between
digital and analogue formats.
In fact the only way to
destroy the Teletrax coding is
to destroy the footage itself.
And anywhere television
goes, Teletrax follows,
bouncing back detailed data
almost immediately.
Teletrax enables content owners
to make informed decisions
about how their content is
being used, thereby improving
business efficacy and the all-
important bottom line.
Complete information about
all AIB Members is published
in the
Global Broadcasting
Guide and AIB Directory
.
This twice-yearly book is
available by mail order - go
to
to buy a
copy online or use the order
form on page 13. For details
about joining the AIB,
contact
Anver Anderson
at
or
call the AIB head office on
+44 (0) 20 8297 3993.
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