Danish Broadcasting Corporation Purchases Harris H-Class(TM) Automation System For Massive New TV and Radio Broadcast Centre
August 09 2005 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
H-Class(TM) Automation Integral to One of the Largest Projects By a
National Broadcaster in 20 Years BASINGSTOKE, England, Aug. 9
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today
announced that it has won an important contract to supply Danish
Broadcasting Corporation (known as "DR") with Harris' revolutionary
H-Class(TM) Broadcast Presentation Manager (BPM), a next-generation
play-out automation application. H-Class(TM) is Harris' new
end-to-end Content Delivery Platform. A world first, the
H-Class(TM) BPM will be installed in DR's new television and radio
broadcast centre in Orestad, one kilometer south of Copenhagen's
city centre and close to the new Oresund Bridge link to Sweden. DR
is moving from multiple sites around Copenhagan to a centralised,
purpose- built centre. The construction of the new broadcast centre
is one of the largest single projects undertaken by a Danish
national broadcaster in the last 20 years. DR Project Manager Bo
Stubbergaard Hansen said, "This is an exciting time in DR's
history. It is absolutely vital that we have the ability to migrate
our existing media asset management system and other databases, as
well as take advantage of the automation and playout benefits." The
H-Class(TM) delivery platform enables broadcasters and content
providers the means to integrate disparate processes into a single,
modular system that handles all content management and delivery
enterprise-wide from creation to consumption. Because H-Class(TM)
is based on open standards and is network-, content- and
service-agnostic, content providers like DR can use the entire
platform as an end-to-end platform, or deploy separate solutions
and applications in order to upgrade their existing infrastructure.
In this case DR decided to purchase the BPM Play-out Automation
application and Schedule Manager, a distributed, secure, multi-user
configurable tool that enables offline or online editing of
play-out schedules. Harris is working with German systems
integrator BFE (BFE Studio und Medien Systems GmbH) for design,
installation and integration of a server- based, network integrated
platform for play-out to support radio, Internet, broadcast and
television. Harris, Mediagenix, Dalet and Omneon will provide a
fully automated, software-controlled production system which is
linked to a redundant server and play-out system. The four-phase
construction of the new broadcast centre has already begun and is
expected to be completed in 2006, when DR will move into the new
facility, which has already been given the name "DR BYEN." About
Harris Broadcast Communications Division Harris Broadcast
Communications Division is one of four divisions within Harris
Corporation, an international communications equipment company
focused on providing assured communications(TM) products, systems
and services for government and commercial customers in more than
150 countries. One of the world's leading suppliers of broadcast
technology, Harris Broadcast Communications Division offers a full
range of solutions that support the digital delivery, automation
and management of audio, video and data. For more information,
visit http://www.broadcast.harris.com/ . About DR DR (Danish
Broadcasting Corporation) is Denmark's oldest and largest
electronic media enterprise and is an independent, licence-financed
public institution. DR TV comprises two channels, DR1 and DR2. DR1,
founded in 1951, is broadcast via a terrestrial network, while DR2,
founded in 1996, is a satellite channel, which can be viewed by
approximately 80 percent of the population via satellite dish
reception or cable TV. Since 1997 DR has transmitted television on
the Internet, including daily transmissions of TV- Avisen (news).
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Corporation, +1-217-221-7577, or ; or Becky Smith of Ellabeck
Communications Ltd in England, +011-44-1622-684592, or , for Harris
Web site: http://www.harris.com/ http://www.broadcast.harris.com/
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