Bulgarian start-up broadcaster kicks off with Quantel’s ‘news system in a box’

Bulgaria-based TV7 has installed a Quantel Newsbox as a key component of its brand new broadcasting operation.
The system TV7 has chosen is a Newsbox Four – which includes ingest and playout automation, 110 hours of MPEG 2 30Mbit broadcast and browse storage, a built-in ISA database, six sQ Cut and four sQ Edit journalist editors, one sQ Edit Plus craft editor, a Paintbox for graphics creation, the network switch and five years of Quantel’s comprehensive QCare support.
TV7 Managing Director, Rumen Artarski, said: “Our aim is to be Sofia’s first choice for keeping up to date with what’s going on both locally and internationally, and news and current affairs will obviously play a vital role in this. The Newsbox is perfect for our needs.
“When you’re building a new operation from scratch, you don’t need engineering nightmares,” continued Artarski. “The Newsbox is a complete system yet it comes ready built and tested so it’s ready to go as soon as we are. It’s also brilliantly easy to learn and use, yet very powerful in what it can do. And finally, because it’s ‘off the shelf’, the price is within the range that a small TV station such as ours can afford but still has all the facilities we will need in the future to meet our much larger ambitions.”
TV7 plans to begin broadcasting in September 2005. The Newsbox will be used for the breakfast show, creating and updating regular news bulletins throughout the day, the main 7pm news, a 9pm magazine programme and – at weekends – for sports programming as well.
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