Kenneth Copeland Ministries Selects Miranda's Kaleido-X

Miranda Technologies has announced that Kenneth Copeland Ministries, of Fort Worth, Texas, has chosen Miranda’s Kaleido-X multiviewer to monitor the delivery of the global ministry’s 'Believer's Voice of Victory' (BVOV) program.
BVOV debuted in 1979 and is now available worldwide in multiple languages, both daily and Sunday, via television broadcast, podcasts and webcasts. The cornerstone of the broadcast operation is the ministry’s fully owned and operated broadcast truck with a new Miranda NVISION 8280 router at its core, seamlessly linked to a new Kaleido-X multiviewer.
Kelley Hemphill, senior technical purchasing agent for Kenneth Copeland Ministries, said: "The Kaleido-X multiviewer is an impressive piece of technology that will enable us to see what is taking place throughout our broadcast chain with a high degree of accuracy and detail."
The ministry’s 53-foot truck includes seven cameras and the NVISION 8280 router, coupled with the Kaleido-X. The truck is typically parked in a permanent bay just outside the ministry’s studio and television building and is connected in a way that, according to Hemphill makes it "…our production control on wheels." The truck was specifically designed by the ministry’s engineering team to do double duty as a fixed, or mobile when required, production control facility. This required careful consideration of the technology.
Hemphill said: "We do almost all of our early engineering and all of our system integration. Our decisions on what equipment to use are therefore determined by extensive in-house research. During that period of research we take a close and careful look at absolutely every component. As we considered our choices for a multiviewer, Miranda was right at the top of our list from the beginning. We had heard good things, and it just seemed the most user-friendly, flexible and powerful multiviewer available, which has proven to be the case."
The ministry’s Kaleido-X multiviewer is a single 192-12 frame version with advanced metadata extraction, signal probing and alarming capabilities that make it highly suitable for production environments. The multiviewer can be tightly integrated with NVISON or third party routers to create highly versatile monitoring systems.
Hemphill added: "The ability to use the truck for daily broadcasts from our home studio, move it around our campus if necessary or take it on the road around the country for our live events is very important to us. Miranda has added to that efficiency and versatility with reliable technology that delivers total system visibility, wherever the truck is in use."
Jay Gravina, Miranda’s vice president of sales in the United States, said: "Kaleido-X's flexible architecture is a significant benefit to applications such as Kenneth Copeland Ministries. In addition to its almost unlimited flexibility, the Kaleido-X’s rich integration with the NVISION router family will enable Kenneth Copeland Ministries to grow and develop its broadcast operations as it wishes for the foreseeable future."
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