Tsl, Partners Create Asiansports Superstar To Service multichannel,multilingual Market

摘要

ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) is a 50-50 joint venture between two cable and satellite broadcasters, Walt Disney (ESPN) and News Corporation Limited (STAR). ESPN STAR Sports reaches more than 310 million viewers in Asia via 17 networks covering 24 countries, each localized to deliver specific premier sports programming to Asian viewers. ESS' existing tape-based system was becoming increasingly inefficient. Having experienced success with past projects, the broadcaster came to TSL again to design and integrate a next-generation, multichannel, multilanguage live sports broadcast system at its 60,000sq-ft facility in Singapore. The project's requirements were unlike those of any other broadcaster in the world. Many systems support live sports programming, some specialize in multiple live channels and there are a number of multilingual broadcasters in the world; however, ESS is unique in that it combines them all. TSL first formed a "super user group" that would be closely involved in the design and testing of the system.