Televisa in Latin America Expands Tedial Architecture

Tedial, S.L., provider
of Media Asset Management (MAM), Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and
Business Process Management (BPM) software, announced that Televisa, a media
company in Latin America, has expanded its Tedial workflow infrastructure for
its news archive upgrade project.

Tedial’s archive integrates with a Quantel production system, which was
installed in 2010 when Televisa launched its 24/7 news channel: FOROtv.

Once the news content production was well established Televisa began
to analyse the best archive solutions to complement the Quantel system. It
selected Tedial thanks to its tight integration with Quantel, which enables use
of the archive and the news production system.

Televisa required the news system to archive 100 hours of new media
in SD (DV50-MXF) and 20 hours in HD (DV100-MXF) on a daily basis within a ten
hour timeframe. In addition to this, the system is able to retrieve 50 hours of
SD and 10 hours of HD media daily through eight different specialised
workflows. Since the first day of operation the Tedial system was able to
archive 600 clips per day and has already built up a library of 100,000 assets
in both SD and HD totaling 600TB of archived material.

For the second phase of this project, the Tedial system is going to
migrate 140,000 hours of legacy content from an existing news archive stored in
a Sony PetaServe. In order to do this the Tedial system has to convert metadata
and audio files based on legacy Sony systems using proprietary formats into
Televisa’s corporate format of DV50-MXF with PCM audio used by the new Quantel
solution.

Arturo Rodríguez, Televisa’s News Digitalisation & IT manager,
says: "We didn’t choose Tedial
because it’s the incumbent system, we selected it because it was the only
technology that guaranteed a tight integration with Quantel, and very
importantly, the transparent migration of the historical archive."

Prior to the Quantel integration Tedial’s MPM workflow within
Televisa has enabled the integration of an Avid Interplay system used for
program post production and Apple XSAN and FCP editing solutions used for
sports production.

Rafael Dubois, Tedial’s sales and marketing director says: "Televisa is a long-term customer of Tedial
and we are delighted to continue our strong partnership. Our full range of
systems including Tarsys MAM, BPM, MPM and AST archive are already used across
Televisa’s entire network. This latest expansion provides Televisa with efficient
workflows and integration to its production and post production divisions."