Fox Equips 26 O&Os with Digital Nirvana MonitorIQ

Digital Nirvana, a provider of monitoring, logging, compliance and services solutions to television networks, stations and broadcast-related industries, completed delivery of its MonitorIQ broadcast monitoring systems to 26 Fox owned-and-operated television stations in 16 markets.

The systems will be used by the stations to record and log their ATSC and QAM transmissions for compliance monitoring. A MonitorIQ Central Management Interface at the Fox Central Master Control Hub in Las Vegas provides for aggregating all of the recordings and logging at the hub.

The system — a scaled network appliance — is used for multiple channel signal monitoring, aircheck logging, archiving, content repurposing, competitive analysis and QC. It records ATSC, NTSC, PAL, QAM, HD/SD-SDI, DVB and ASI feeds — video, audio, metadata, and captioning — in both full resolution hi-def and low-res. Control is via Web interface, with extensive search functionality, cut/clip, and export to a wide range of file formats.

National TeleConsultants of Glendale, Calif., was the systems designer and integrator for the Fox project.