Inooro TV Acquires Multi-Channel Playout Server and Broadcast Automation Software
Inooro TV is a Kikuyu TV station under the royal media services group which is the leading vernacular television station by reach and market share in Kenya. Established in October 2015, the vision of Inooro TV was to tell local stories in vernacular by International Standards and through such a vision keep the Gikuyu speaking audience up to date with local and international news and events as they happen, entertained with high quality programming which leaves them educated.
In the spirit of keeping their viewers satisfied and to maintain the leading position in the market share, Royal Media Services required a reliable, stable and scalable playout system which many vendors and system integrators have failed to provide over the years!
It was “A walk in the Park” when Jamiro Broadcast received the request to Supply, Install and train the users on our preferred solution: CINEGY Air PRO. Cinegy Air PRO is the logical next step in the evolution of broadcast automation and video servers. Gone are the monolithic black boxes, replaced by TCP/IP network-attached real-time service appliances. Cinegy Air PRO provides a broadcast automation front-end and a real-time video server for SD, HD and/or Ultra HD (4K) playout, in an integrated software suite.
Jamiro Broadcast assembled the hardware by carefully selecting the components required to match the software specifications and meet the user requirements for an IT enterprise architecture. “Being the only “CINEGY Gold Partners” for Africa region, the solution provides us with cutting edge Newsroom and MCR solutions which we are able to integrate to our customers in Africa.” Says Benson Nyaga –Technical Director. We are able to provide all the established and start-up media channels with CINEGY which goes beyond playout and automation by incorporating the features below:
Multi-channel: Cinegy Air PRO supports multi-channel
playout, including simultaneous playout of several playout
channels which can be controlled by a single Cinegy Air
PRO control application. Multiple instances of Cinegy Air
PRO playout can run on one powerful machine transforming
it into a playout server broadcasting multiple independent
channels.
Live: Cinegy Air PRO can be easily turned into a cart wall
/ trick mode playout for news, sports, reality show and
other live operations. A/B roll, chain, slow-motion, loop
and bounce playback are all supported and can be
controlled with the Cinegy Studio PRO software control
panel, via RS-422 compatible devices using 9-pin protocol
or even GPI triggers. Cinegy Studio PRO can be integrated
into a 3rd party MOS-based newsroom solution such as ENPS,
Avid iNews, Octopus or Annova Systems, so it will
automatically download the rundowns via the Cinegy MOS
Gateway tool.
Cloud Compatible: Cinegy Air PRO can run in a VMWARE ESX,
Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer virtual environment
(VM) and is available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
and Microsoft Azure as well. Running Cinegy Air PRO
playout in a VM has many advantages including better
hardware utilization, instant deployment of additional
channels, much easier migration and inexpensive
high-availability clustering. As SDI cards cannot be
virtualized but may still be needed and where they cannot
be replaced by RTP or UDP streams via IP, the SDI I/O is
done via Cinegy Encode, which performs RTP to SDI
conversion and vice versa.
Traffic and MAM Integration: Cinegy Air PRO can work
completely stand-alone or in concert with media asset
management, archiving and traffic solutions. Cinegy’s MAM
solution, Cinegy Archive can be fully integrated with
Cinegy Air PRO, as well as a number of leading 3rd party
traffic solutions. Media, metadata, placeholders and
graphics elements will seamlessly migrate into the Cinegy
Air PRO playout schedule from Cinegy Archive or a 3rd
party traffic system
Our success story with brand was launched in 2019 by innovating our own “MCRPack” This is Master Control Room Solution which is built on virtualization concept. With the modern cloud utility model, virtualization turns broadcasting into a software driven business. In any standard MCR, you’ll expect to find Hardware Routers, Hardware Switchers, Hardware Multiviewers etc. All these complex, expensive and sophisticated gear can be reduced into a single box of powerful custom-built server with ZERO SDI interface cards for Inputs and outputs.
Our Workflow fits both in new and existing channels. We start with migration from SDI- to IP-based infrastructure in a gradual, step-by-step manner until we are able to achieve a 100% IP streams registry for MPEG-TS. At the registry server, we are able to manage both SPTS and MPTS and can deliver the streams to Multiviewers, Switchers, Routers and Decoders at the Head-Ends.
