Mon, 20 Feb 2017 News_MBS, News_Homepage dira! At SABC Phase 2 of South Africas largest radio system project starts Bochum, February 2017 - South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) awarded a contract to SCISYS' Deutschland GmbH' Media & Broadcast division in the summer of 2016. The scope of this contract is to roll out the dira! Radio production and playout product suite, including the music rotation software by SCISYS partner MusicMaster / ON AIR, to all of SABC's commercial, non-commercial and local radio networks. A total of 19 channels will replace their existing systems from Dalet and RCS to dira! Being one of the largest radio systems in Africa, the implementation was planned to happen in several stages: First, SCISYS has set up a 'Proof-of-Concept' (POC) System to ensure that all technical and workflow requirements can be fulfilled by the system. This POC system was set up in Johannesburg at SABCs Radio Park and succeeded in the acceptance test in September. Kersan Kistan, manager at RBF Digital SABC, said: 'This involves some 19 channels in 16 locations - we have a large organization with a great variety of workflows - therefore it was necessary to test if dira! Can fulfill all the requirements. Feb 23, 2017 - The scope of this contract is to roll out the dira! Radio production and playout product suite, including the music rotation software by SCISYS. Onair Control is a application for radio playout. It's based on an MS-Windows server running as operating system. Wihtin a workstation are two parallel operating software modules – the actual end-user application dira! The POC system proved that dira! Is absolutely up to the task. We are now looking forward for the actual roll out.' The second phase was just finished: - the roll out of the music rotation software, MusicMaster, to 14 of SABCs channels, located on Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Polokwane. Since the end of January 2017 all 14 channels are successful on air. The following phase, starting in March 2017, will be the implementation of dira! At 5 channels at SABC in Johannesburg. Once completed, the dira! System will be rolled out to 15 regional locations across South Africa. The new system will integrate with third-party systems for newsroom integration and advertisement/spot scheduling and playout. More than 700 workstations will access the complete system, with more than 1500 users working in 19 languages. Indian train games free download for pc pc. Dennis Herold, General Manager Radio Broadcast Facilities, said: 'SABC did a thorough evaluation of the existing systems on the market, and SCISYS delivered the most convincing offer. Beside the technical requirements, SCISYS' experience with large systems was of great importance to us in choosing them.' Willi Pieper, Director SCISYS Deutschland GmbH declares:'We are very proud that SABC has chosen dira! As their new radio production and playout system and very much welcome this very famous African broadcaster into the dira! Family of highly satisfied customers.' About SABC: The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the state broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as 4 television broadcasts to the general public. The main object of the Corporation is to supply broadcasting and information services and services that are ancillary thereto, to the general public in the Republic of South Africa and beyond its borders. About MusicMaster/ON AIR: MusicMaster for Windows is the fastest-growing music scheduling software for radio and music-television stations worldwide. In Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania MusicMaster is distributed and supported by ON AIR. About SCISYS: SCISYS has been offering solutions in the professional broadcast segment for almost 30 years. SCISYS MBS implements turnkey systems for leading broadcasters based on the modular dira!® product line and the SCISYS content management system for archives. Its customers include the major German, UK and Arabic broadcasters. Contact: Ute Thie SCISYS Deutschland GmbH Tel: +49 (0)234 92580 dira-marketing @scisys.de.
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