The network is taking a big technological leap this fall, running its master control and routing functions with a cloud-based hybrid IP-baseband system with critical hardware and software products from Imagine Communications. While the network’s transition to a hybrid IP-baseband environment is profound, it will be completely transparent to ABC affiliates and O&Os, which will continue to receive a baseband signal via satellite as if nothing has changed. In the photo above, Disney/ABC’s Vince Roberts (l) and Imagine’s Charlie Vogt announced the decision to go IP at this year’s NAB Show.
To make the transition, Disney/ABC Television Group will use Imagine Communications’ VersioCloud, IP-enabled master control and playout software, replacing traditional broadcast master control that relies on various discrete pieces of technology, such as graphics and branding systems and playout servers. With this new cloud model, the network’s affiliates will continue to have the ability to do local inserts of their own news and other programming, commercials and promos.
No Doubt About It: Future of TV, Imagine Is IP
Charlie Vogt, Imagine Communications’ CEO, says TV is inevitably moving from broadband to IP. He talks about his company’s strategy for enabling that transition, Imagine’s recent acquisitions and how it will be affected by the upcoming spectrum auction. He also emphasizes the importance of moving to the next-gen transmission system ATSC 3.0.
IP-Enabled Workflow Advances Set For NAB
IP transport will touch so many aspects of television that it is positioned over time to supplant most everything people know and understand about TV workflows — from origination and contribution to distribution and consumption. The latest developments will be on display at next month’s NAB Show. This is the latest installment of a special series on emerging tech trends, NAB Hot Topics, that will appear each week leading up to the NAB Show that runs April 11-16 in Las Vegas. The schedule: March 26: Audio; April 2: Automation. Read the earlier installments here.
4K, File Formats Challenge Editing Workflow
TV stations are forced to deal with the arrival of new file formats at a dizzying pace. Fortunately for TV broadcasters, a number of vendors of broadcast editing systems have been at work on this problem, and some new approaches to grappling with it will be on display at the 2015 NAB Show. This is the latest installment of a special series on emerging tech trends, NAB Hot Topics, that will appear each week leading up to the NAB Show that runs April 11-16 in Las Vegas. The schedule: March 19: The IP Transition; and March 26: Audio. Read the earlier installments here.
Exclusives
Imagine’s Charlie Vogt a Hall-of-Famer
The purchase will strengthen Imagine’s lineup of video playout and distribution solutions.
Imagine Communications will supply independent branding agency The Richards Group with its Landmark Agency management system. The renewal contract extends a relationship dating back to the 1990s. By providing one centralized system designed to control business processes, Landmark Agency lets agency clients to monetize cross-platform campaigns in a multiscreen world. “For years, Imagine Communications has […]
Imagine says the investment strengthens its advertising business systems portfolio in key market segments and will accelerate development of next-generation advertising management platforms.
Imagine Communications, a provider of software and networking solutions, today unveiled the Xenio workflow manager, a software engine that lets broadcasters and service providers design, deploy and manage customizable software-defined workflows. “Xenio is a significant component of our Software-Defined Workflow road map, providing a framework that will serve as the underlying architecture for expanding Imagine […]
Harris Broadcast, a portfolio company of The Gores Group, announced today it would split into two companies,Imagine Communications and GatesAir. Imagine Communications will focus on video and multimedia software and processing products for media, broadcast, MSO and government and enterprise customers. GatesAir will target over-the-air broadcast technology and return to the Gates name, one of the premiere brands in the history of broadcasting.
California-based Imagine Communications specializes in digital video solutions for online providers and TV Everywhere applications.
Harris Broadcast, looking to make a splash in the TV everywhere and over-the-top sector of the media industry, acquired San Diego-based Imagine Communications, the company announced today. The acquisition allows Harris to update its Selenio product with adaptive bit rate transcoding, a neccessity in the OTT and TV everywhere space.
2011 IBC Show Preview Imagine Communications Stand 3.A15j Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions, will demonstrate solutions for TabletTV streaming, including its new ICE Streaming System, for streaming live multi-format video to multiple tablets. Imagine’s ICE Streaming System is a new network-side transcoding video processing platform that allows multi-screen service providers to […]
Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions, announced version 4.0 of its ICE Broadcast System, an upgrade to its video processing platform. Imagine plans to demonstrate ICE Broadcast System 4.0 at NCTA’s The Cable Show in Chicago, June 14-16, in booth ES-55. The ICE Broadcast System platform is a multi-codec, multi-rate, multi-resolution video […]
Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions, today announced the appointment of telecommunications veteran David Sykes as vice president, sales. He will report directly to Imagine’s CEO Richard Stanfield and lead the company’s sales team. “David has an impressive and successful track record growing telecommunications companies, and we’re pleased to have him join […]
