Pebble Secures Contract With Cobb County

Pebble has secured a contract to deliver an advanced automated playout system for Cobb County, Georgia.

The project was negotiated in collaboration with Pebble's systems integration partner, CTI, which also managed the installation.

CobbTV broadcasts via Comcast cable and ATSC terrestrial platforms. In addition to live coverage of county commission sessions and other government meetings, the channel airs educational and informational content, along with real-time traffic updates during peak commuting hours using highway camera feeds.

The county authorities sought an easy to use, highly reliable automated playout platform, which would involve very low operational and maintenance overhead. Following a procurement exercise, the contract was awarded to CTI and Pebble.

"To meet CobbTV's particular needs, we proposed a very simple configuration," said Eric Paris, Project Manager for CTI. "It uses a single Pebble Integrated Channel device which is capable of supporting four concurrent channels. Under the control of Pebble Automation software it provides links to Cobb's NAS media storage, and manages live inputs and recordings."

Video inputs and outputs are SDI, with the capability of 12G-SDI for a future move to Ultra HD. As well as switching and routing, the Pebble platform also generates and inserts rich graphics. It also includes audio channel management and mixing.

CTI installed, integrated and commissioned the Pebble system in July 2025 for an on-air date in August.

For Pebble, CEO Peter Mayhead said: "This project is an important pointer of the way the media industry is transforming. Once the province of monolithic broadcasters, video is now seen as the route for direct communications by businesses, sports clubs and - as seen here in Cobb County - by public sector bodies who want to ensure their citizens are properly informed.

"We designed our technology to be scalable, not just in number of channels but in the level of operational involvement. That means for non-broadcasters like CobbTV we can provide the highest technical and operational quality and reliability with minimal operator or engineer involvement."

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