Successful Partnership Between BCE And T18

Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), a leading European provider of media services, system integration and product development, has been the partner of CMI France for the successful launch of T18, a new national free-to-air channel on France's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform.

The channel was launched on DTT on June 6th and the project was delivered in just five months, underlining BCE’s reputation for agility, technical excellence and trusted collaboration.

Owned by CMI France media group, T18 is a general-interest free-to-air channel offering a wide range of programming, including talk shows, documentaries, magazines, fiction, movies, culture, lifestyle and entertainment. T18 is the first new national channel to join the French DTT line-up in nearly a decade.

BCE manages end-to-end playout and broadcast services, with playout operations based in Luxembourg and distribution across France handled via a national operator.
The project also incorporates secure media storage at BCE’s headquarters ISO 27001–certified datacenter and 24/7 monitoring by the company’s Network Operations Centre (NOC).

The deployment integrated a range of advanced services, including playlist delivery, multi-lingual audio, graphics integration and secure file transfers.
With a 99.9% infrastructure availability rate, system redundancy and high-level broadcast standards, BCE implemented for T18 a seamless launch via infrastructure designed for long-term reliability.

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