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The BroadcastEnineering 12,<br />
al<br />
Excellence Awards<br />
New studio or RF<br />
technology - station<br />
WINNER: KCET -TV 12<br />
Runner -up: Digital Switch Over<br />
New studio<br />
technology - non -broadcast<br />
WINNER: Miami Marlins<br />
Production Facility 36<br />
Newsroom technology<br />
WINNER: CBS News 38<br />
Runner -up: Associated<br />
Press DSNG vehicles<br />
New studio technology - network<br />
WINNER: FOX News Channel<br />
Runner -up: Crown Media<br />
New studio technology - HD<br />
WINNER: Turner Studios 34<br />
Runner -up: CNN -Washington, D C.<br />
Station automation<br />
34 WINNER: KSL -TV<br />
Runner -up: Maharaja TV (MTV)<br />
36<br />
Network automation<br />
WINNER: PAC -12 Distribution<br />
Center 38<br />
Runner -up: Centralcast<br />
Post & network production facilities<br />
WINNER: NBA Digital Broadcast<br />
Operations Center 40<br />
WINNER: West Works Studios 41<br />
Runner -up: PAC -12 networks<br />
KCET-TV<br />
Winner of new studio or<br />
RF technology - station<br />
Submitted by<br />
Harris Broadcast <strong>Com</strong>munications and<br />
The Systems Group<br />
Runner -up<br />
Digital Switch Over<br />
Submitted by Argiva<br />
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Los Angeles -area community television station KCET -TV sold its<br />
broadcast home of 40 -plus years, providing the opportunity to create<br />
a brand -new broadcast and media facility using a predominately file -<br />
based workflow. The new space included the fifth and sixth floors of a<br />
new high -rise in Burbank, CA, where nothing stood beyond bare concrete floors.<br />
Krismar Construction broke ground with the goal of turning over the broadcast<br />
area to integration by mid- December, while The Systems Group developed the<br />
broadcast design with the KCET team. The KCET team chose XOR Media<br />
servers and Avid editors to work natively in their preferred file system, XD-<br />
CAM. Marina from Pebble Beach Systems was chosen as the broadcast automation<br />
system.<br />
A Harris Platinum router serves the core infrastructure, with integrated<br />
frame synchronization and MADI capability for high- density audio routing.<br />
Additional Harris equipment includes the Selenio media convergence platform<br />
for signal encoding, 6800+ series modular -core processing gear and X85<br />
signal processors. The KCET master control room is the pulse of the new facility,<br />
with monitoring capabilities through Harris HView SX Hybrid multiviewer<br />
feeds, and signal routing through Magellan and NUCLEUS control panels.<br />
All components tie back to the Platinum router, which serves as the core of<br />
the infrastructure, and additionally houses the multiviewers and other signal -<br />
processing capabilities to minimize rack -space requirements.<br />
The entire infrastructure was wired with Cat 6A plenum -rated 10GB -capable<br />
copper, allowing for fast, bidirectional file delivery between the servers and<br />
editing systems. Ross Video was the main supplier for two production control<br />
rooms. The larger room includes a Ross Vision 3 switcher and a two -channel<br />
Expression.<br />
KCET began broadcasting from its new location in the wee morning hours<br />
with only a few minor challenges, before moving its entire operation to the<br />
new location.<br />
32 broadcastengineering.com<br />
I March 2013
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