3 November 2020 was a transformational day, and not just for the football club AFC Wimbledon. It marked the day they went “Back to Plough Lane” 29 years after Wimbledon FC left a stadium on the same road. Fans reformed as phoenix club AFC Wimbledon in 2002, after the original club was controversially allowed to relocated 120km north and rebrand as MK Dons in a widely unpopular move. AFC … Read More
Despite being physically one of the largest countries in the world, Greenland has a small, and typically isolated, population. Despite this, it supports a national broadcaster, Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (KNR). The broadcaster is government funded but remains decisively independent. It broadcasts largely in Kalaallisut, the Greenland native language, along with Danish (Greenland is a self-governing part of Denmark), and there … Read More
Broadcast Solutions Press Release, For Immediate Release Broadcast Solutions creates live fan engagement programme; model for low cost, high impact future production Basingstoke, UK, 11 November 2020: Systems integrator Broadcast Solutions planned and executed almost two hours of pre-match excitement for AFC Wimbledon – with a crew of just three people. The occasion was the opening match at the football … Read More
Production automation specialists nxtedition recently installed, commissioned, trained and handed over a four-studio newsroom system for Stockholm-based Expressen TV. Because of the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, nxtedition was forced to achieve all this remotely, yet still got the new system on-air, on-time and on-budget. nxtedition’s newsroom system is built on a suite of microservices to create a virtualised architecture, running … Read More
Roger and Adam where recently asked to contribute to an article about cloud playout by TVBEurope. As a ‘live led’ playout solution is a part of the nxtedition system, here they spell out nxteditions ethos towards cloud playout from their perspective. How long have you been developing software-only, IP-connected technology? R: We started developing nxtedition in 2012 and our first … Read More
In a recent interview our resident nxtpert, Adam Leah, was asked a few questions for an IBC365 article on cloud playout. Amid the covid-19 pandemic there’s been an increase in curiosity about the migration of playout to the cloud fulled by broadcasters seeking greater flexibility. Adam puts across the nxtedtion philosophy for playout in the 21st century. To what extent … Read More
