After an EU-wide RFP German public broadcaster Suedwestrundfunk (SWR) chose Cologne based company Wellen+Nöthen as general contractor for the project „tapeless production“ in Stuttgart. S4M – Solutions for Media provides its Video Production Management System (VPMS) as central Media Asset Management System for the public broadcaster.

SWR’s new building in Stuttgart will provide modern production technology for TV, Radio and the Internet concentrated under one roof in a 22,000 m2 location.

In this way SWR will be able to produce different TV formats in a future proof way. Surrounded by several production areas and technical service rooms like control rooms, Video- and Audio Editing Suites, the studios are the core of the new building.

As convenient Media Asset Management (MAM) System VPMS acts as a cross-functional control unit for broadcasting processes within the infrastructure of video server, editing and graphics. A key component is VPMS’s web based Media Center that provides for easy and effective central controlling. The complete system is constructed for HD, controls single as well as mass ingest of tapeless media (XDCAM HD, P2, files of all kind), integrates seamless with SWR’s Newsroom System and provides powerful interfaces to the according production planning, scheduling and file transfer systems.

With VPMS SWR decided in favour of a highly scalable and cross media solution that will also be able to meet the broadcaster’s future requirements.

Suedwestrundfunk (SWR)
Suedwestrundfunk (SWR), the joint regional public broadcasting agency of the German Federal States of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz, has three main locations in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz. SWR ist he second largest member of Germany’s association of public broadcasters (ARD). SWR’s broadcast region includes more than 55.600 km² with about 14.7 million inhabitants.

S4M – Solutions for Media GmbH
The Cologne-based company S4M – Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of Arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes specialized software solutions for the broadcast and new media industry. Customers in 30 countries around the world use S4M systems for commercial airtime sales, video content management, program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation, or production planning. S4M also offers customers professional consulting services based on its experience and knowledge of media and information technology.