Media-Alliance to supply Regional Newsrooms to Russia's National Broadcaster, VGTRK
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ISPA and Media-Alliance have been awarded a contract to deploy several regional newsrooms by VGTRK, Russia's National Broadcaster.

To better support the installation and commissioning of such a large and prestigious project, ISPA and Media-Alliance have joined forces establish a new company in Moscow. Established in July 2010 the new company will be called "Media-Alliance CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)".

The VGTRK Regional Studios Project involves the migration of a number of remote Regional Television News production centres from video tape based operation to a fully tape-less and IT based architecture. Each Regional installation will include a full deployment of Media-Alliance software and hardware, including VIVA Ingestion System, AVIO Ingest Video Server, MediaXplorer Media Asset Management, NewsNet Newsroom Computer System, 2D/3D Character Generator and NewsMaster for the News Playout which will be based on Omneon MediaDeck Video Servers. Several other tools will be provided to complement the workflow, such as file based XDCAM or DVCAM ingest and supports Non Linear Editors. VGTRK is one of the first customers worldwide to adopt the ALTO-100 system from Disk Archive Corporation for long term archiving of its assets. ISPA Will provide the System Integration and full support to VGTRK's Regional News systems to ensure smooth deployment of these complex systems.

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About VGTRK

All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) was established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation dated 14 July 1990 A few months after signing the decree, "Radio Russia" begun transmissions and May 13, 1991 began broadcasting television channel RTR, which since 2001, became known as "Channel" Russia " In early 1993, All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company received the status of nationwide television and radio. That same year, RTR became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union with the right to make key decisions in the EBU. Today the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company - the three national TV channels: "Russia 1", "Russia K", "Russia 2"; first public state television channel for children and youth "Bibigon"; 89 regional televisions and radio stations broadcasting in all regions of the Russian Federation , Russia's first non-stop news channel "Russia 24"; TV channel RTR-Planeta ", which is published abroad since 2002; Russian version of Euronews TV and five radio stations and the public Internet-channel "Russia", which unites dozens of Internet resources.

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About ISPA

ISPA is the major distributor and system integrator in Russia for the Television and Media market with over 100 million $US revenues. I.S.P.A.-Group offers professional products, solutions and services for the music industry, telecommunications, cinema technologies, TV, radio and IP broadcasting. I.S.P.A's highly qualified specialists develop turn-key system solutions. I.S.P.A. provides a wide range of professional services, including project management, design, assembly, installations, personnel training, in-warranty and out-of-warranty service and production.