Turner Studios’ Sports Central Wins Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award

“We’re delighted that the work of our Turner Studios technology team has been recognized with this award,” said Craig Heyl, senior vice president of Turner Studios. “This was a very complex project and thanks to the efforts of EVS and the other technology providers, it has been a big success.”

Turner Studios, the full service production division of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc. is responsible for providing the production systems and personnel that support Turner Sports coverage for many of the top US national sporting leagues. The group seamlessly broadcasts live sports for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA), providing content that is used to feed live broadcasts, websites, mobile, multimedia platforms, and on-demand services in support of these partner Leagues.

Turner Studios designed a centralized production system for live feeds and highlights to supply quick turnaround media to Turner Sports’ partners and provide a historical record for search and retrieval of all archived content. They selected EVS XT3 and XS video production servers and IPDirector suites as the ingest and playout backbone of the new system. They also integrated solutions from several other manufacturers, including Dalet, Stainless Code, Quantum, NetApp, and Apple, to create a customized workflow solution.

Turner Studios Sports Central provides a growth ready platform that can expand in any needed area of feeds, playout, storage, or distribution. It allows Turner Sports to send content to partners quickly and efficiently, within seconds of air, and meet the demands of today’s fast-paced content anywhere, anytime, any-screen world.

“We congratulate Turner Studios on winning this prestigious award which sets the bar for innovation, design and construction of new facilities,” said Greg Macchia, VP of Operations, EVS Americas. “We’re extremely grateful and proud to have played such an integral role in their award-winning system. This award is a testament to our relationship with Turner Studios and the unmatched speed, reliability and performance of our servers.”

The Broadcast Engineering Excellence Awards are voted for by Broadcast Engineering readers. The award will be presented to Turner Studios at the 2013 NAB Show taking place in Las Vegas on April 6-11.

About EVS
EVS provides its customers with reliable and innovative technology to enable the production of live, enriched video programming, allowing them to work more efficiently and boost their revenue streams. Its industry-leading broadcast and media production systems are used by broadcasters, production companies, post-production facilities, film studios, content owners and archive libraries around the globe. It spans four key markets – Sports, Entertainment, News and Media.

Founded in 1994, its innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionised live broadcasting. Its reliable and integrated tapeless solutions, based around its market-leading XT server range, are now widely used to deliver live productions worldwide. Today, it continues to develop practical innovations, such as its C-Cast second-screen delivery platform, to help customers maximise the value of their media content.

The company is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and North and Latin America. Approximately 475 EVS professionals from 20 offices are selling its branded products in over 100 countries, and provide customer support globally. EVS is a public company traded on Euronext Brussels: EVS, ISIN: BE0003820371.