Pharos wins Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit Award for the Mediator 4 user interface
Pharos Mediator 4 wins Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit award for playout automation, content management and user interface.
Pharos has won a Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit award for its Mediator 4 playout automation and content management platform. The Mediator 4 user interface was selected during the recent IBC2008 exhibition by an independent panel of judges including readers of Broadcast Engineering World Edition magazine, consultants and working professionals in broadcasting, post-production and related industry sectors. Now in their 24th year, Broadcast Engineering Pick Hits recognise technology innovation, and are highly coveted.
"This award was a highlight of one of the most forward-looking IBCs ever," responds Russell Grute of Pharos. "The new Mediator 4 user interface stimulated in-depth discussions with international broadcasters and service-providers planning their next-generation workflow. The integrated workflow, content management and playout automation delivered by Mediator and Playtime was clearly seen as the right solution architecture by many visitors.
"Pharos Mediator 4 builds on 11 years of experience, redefining workflow in broadcast operations and provides a common user interface with search tools and integrated browse at every desktop. Pharos Mediator and Playtime solutions are already proven and in operation round-the-clock at many of the world's largest broadcasters and transmission service-providers including, Ascent Media, Channel 4, the BBC World Service, Globecast and HBO. The refinements available in Mediator 4 result from listening to our customers, working closely with them and developing the platform to meet the needs of the rapidly evolving media and entertainment market."
Pharos Mediator with Playtime is a high performance platform to deliver efficiencies for playout, content management with workflow driven from the desktop. It offers highly efficient multi-channel, multi-platform and multi-site broadcast and new media delivery by unifying operations under a single enterprise. Mediator handles all files transfers automatically and keeping unnecessary complexity away from the user, allowing them to concentrate on the task at hand.
Highlights of Mediator 4 include:
- New workflow tools to streamline operations in Library, Ingest, QC, Compliance, Promotions, Approvals and Playout:
- Browser based multichannel playout user interface enabling traditional playout and publishing operations to be distributed more efficiently than ever before.
- Multi-language user interface allowing operators to share content, workflow and infrastructure using their preferred language.
- Mediator Event Templates enable traffic, scheduling and channel management systems to simplify secondary events and manage channel and content promotions directly for any distribution platform - including terrestrial, satellite VOD, IPTV and mobile.
- Mediator 4 Business Reports Framework, a unique range of live reports to help improve short term and long range business planning.
Pharos solutions deliver efficient content management to international broadcasters and service-providers in television, radio, IPTV and telecommunications. Founded in 1997, Pharos has continually developed the unique Mediator broadcast management platform. Mediator workflow offers greater efficiency throughout broadcast operations from library management, and ingest through quality control and post-production, with integrated Pharos Playtime playout automation. Mediator also processes and delivers content for new media services such as VOD, IPTV and mobile. Mediator protects investment in third party technology and directly manages storage, file transfers, archive subsystems and transcoding. Pharos solutions offer a next-generation platform to manage multiformat content and enable rapid expansion in playout, presentation and new media distribution. The Pharos software architecture enables disparate broadcast and IT processes to be unified across the enterprise.
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Pharos Mediator 4 content management platform shown with Playtime automation option provides a unified desktop user interface throughout broadcast operations.
Published on 2 Oct 2008