Royal Media Services has proudly unveiled its latest addition, Ramogi TV, a Luo station marking the company’s third TV venture alongside Citizen and Inooro. In the relentless pursuit of viewer satisfaction and market leadership, Royal Media Services sought a playout system that was reliable, stable, and scalable—an elusive requirement that many vendors and system integrators struggled to fulfill.

In response to this critical need, Jamiro Broadcast was entrusted with the task of supplying, installing, and training the Ramogi TV team. The chosen solution was CINEGY Air PRO, representing the logical evolution in broadcast automation and video servers. Recognizing the importance of staying ahead in an ever-evolving media landscape, this collaboration ensures that Ramogi TV is equipped with a cutting-edge playout system, solidifying Royal Media Services’ commitment to delivering high-quality content and maintaining its prominent position in the market.

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.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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 CinegyStudio 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 own innovation “MCRPack” is Master Control Room Solution which is built on the virtualization concept is one of our success stories with the brand that was launched in 2019. 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 servers 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.

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.