Brazil. Brazilian public broadcaster TV Cultura is migrating its playout operations to Marina Lite, Pebble Beach Systems' automation solution.
TV Cultura has four main channels that broadcast national and regional news, cultural programming, music, children's programs and documentaries. It also offers web channels and disseminates educational content from the Virtual University of the State of São Paulo. All channels have more than 126 million viewers throughout Brazil.
Maintaining its reputation for excellence and continuous innovation, TV Cultura recently invested in modernizing the equipment and infrastructure of its broadcast operations. TV Cultura initially implemented a Neptune playout automation solution from Pebble Beach Systems more than 10 years ago, and is now working with Videodata, a São Paulo-based systems integrator, to ensure successful migration to a modern Marina Lite 4R automation system with Lighthouse, a web-based dashboard that offers remote management and monitoring.
Videodata implemented a flexible and intelligent migration strategy, designed to cause little or no disruption to TV Cultura's operations, seamlessly migrating the station's Neptune database to the new Marina platform. In addition, as Neptune playlists can be opened natively in Marina, and both Neptune and Marina can communicate with the same file and NLS in parallel, operators can continue to work normally without interruptions and with minimal training throughout the migration process.
The facility features two main control rooms, each with two channels and four GV Maestro master switches, GV K2 video servers, and a Jupiter router. Marina will also control TV Cultura's ingest workflow, and the system is designed with full redundancy for automation, playout and database. In addition to offering better integration with the traffic system, this migration will simplify your media approval and management workflows, as well as your web and closed caption workflows. In addition, Marina will offer greater flexibility for operators in design creation and provide detailed reports and logs for each device and user.
"TV Cultura has long been recognized as a pioneering broadcaster and we are constantly looking for ways to improve our facilities and workflows with the long term in mind," explained Gilvani Moletta, Director of Engineering and Technology at TV Cultura. "Our Neptune automation system has served us very well over the past decade, so the logical next step was the upgrade to the latest Marina. Not only is the transition seamless, but we are also confident that the technology is right to help us grow and meet the challenges of the next decade and beyond."
With Lighthouse, TV Cultura will extend Marina's functionality to commercial users, operations staff and engineers on and off the premises. The web-based interface will provide them with monitoring, media management and system configuration tools, so that status information and corrective actions are just seconds away, even when they are outside the control room.
