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IBC2017 Innovation Awards Shortlist Announced: eSports, OTT, IP-OB trucks, and Content Delivered on High Speed Trains amongst Industry Trends Tackled by Entrants
IBC announces today the shortlist for the IBC2017 Innovation Awards.
Demonstrating a breadth of innovation in the electronic media,
entertainment and technology industry, the international judging panel
reviewed an array of compelling entries, settling on 11 finalists from
around the world, all offering very different solutions.
The shortlist covers everything from a major football final to e-sports;
from virtual studios to channel marketing; from mobile OTT on a massive
scale to seamless content delivery on high speed trains. Taking to the
stage during IBC Awards Ceremony on Sunday 17 September will be
representatives from Toronto to Singapore, the UK to India, and Spain to
the USA.
For 2017, IBC's 50th anniversary year, categories in the
Innovation Awards were updated to reflect and respond to the shifting
industry landscape. Three awards will be presented for the most
innovative projects in Content Creation, Content Distribution
and Content Everywhere. What has not changed is the emphasis on
collaborative work to tackle a real challenge, and the trophies are
taken home not by the technology partners but by the broadcasters, media
enterprises and service providers who commissioned the project.
"I was astounded by the quantity, and most important the quality, of
entries this year," said Michael Lumley, chair of the judging panel. "It
took a lot of intense discussion to get down to 11 finalists - it was a
very tough task and there were many excellent projects which did not
make the shortlist, often by a very fine margin."
"The international spread of 2017 finalists reflects the global reach of
IBC, and the global significance of these most highly-coveted awards,"
Lumley added. "I look forward to congratulating all the finalists and
hearing the winners announced on Sunday night at IBC."
Content Creation - three finalists
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ITV in the UK has been shortlisted for its Project Phoenix. The
broadcaster needed to develop a system which managed the production of
promos and trailers from commissioning to transmission. The result
creates more than 1,000 marketing assets every month, with almost all
versioning carried out automatically. Technology partners alongside
ITV were 100 Shapes, Cantemo, Codemill, NMR, Pixel Power and Vidispine.
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Leading broadcaster Mediacorp made the shortlist for
implementing a service-oriented architecture to break down silos
across its global campuses and create a seamless production and
delivery environment. Its new centre includes a 3,000 square metre
newsroom producing online, television and radio news in four
languages, together with six studios and a large theatre, more than
100 edit suites and OTT and broadcast delivery. Systems integrator
Qvest Media brought in an enormous number of technology partners,
including Actus, Adobe, ATCI, Autoscript, Avid, Axon, Baton,
Blackmagic Design, Cisco, Dalet, DHD audio, EVS, Fairlight, Grass
Valley, Harmonic, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Ihse, Lawo, Lund Halsey, Netia,
Octopus, Oracle, Raritan (News - Alert), RCS, SAM, Scheduall, Shotoku, Sony, ST
Electronics, Telestream, TriplePlay, TSL and Vizrt.
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Groupe Média TFO has transformed itself from a small, French
language broadcaster in Ontario, Canada, into a major online presence
poducing much-loved children's programming. Its Laboratoire d'univers
virtuels, or LUV, took a fresh approach to virtual sets, using the
power and cost-effectiveness of the Unreal games engine from Epic
Games. Today TFO produces as many as 40 short videos, in real time,
each day, from a single studio. As well as Epic, technology partners
were CEV, stYpe and Zero Density.
Content Distribution - four finalists
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Arena Television is a UK-based outside broadcast provider, and led the
industry in Europe with its first all-IP truck. It is regularly used
to originate BT Sport's 4k Ultra HD coverage of the English Premier
League. Technology partners for this pioneering truck (and a second
which is now also in service) were Cisco, Grass Valley (News - Alert), Lawo and
Videlio Video Solutions.
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Dutch media company DMC has migrated from broadcast playout
centre to comprehensive media logistics service. As part of this it
has migrated to a fully virtualised private broadcast cloud that
provides DMC's clients with the asset management, publishing and
distribution services they need, linking international content owners
with 700 million European viewers. The new platform was developed with
Cisco, Equinix (News - Alert), Pebble Beach Systems, Red Hat, Super Micro and VMware.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group operates 233 television stations in
108 US markets. As part of its programme to provide a common platform
for on air and online services, it has developed a revolutionary
approach to terrestrial transmission. The usual American model is
"high tower, high power": a single mast and transmitter. The new
approach - developed by TeamCast and ONE Media for Sinclair - takes a
cellular approach, using mini-transmitters just where they are needed
in a large single frequency network.
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Viacom 18 is a joint venture in India between media giant Viacom
and local service provider Network 18, running a multi-channel OTT
network called VOOT. Faced with the prospect of delivering content to
the 300 million smartphones in India, across networks which are often
crowded and at high data costs, it took a fresh approach, developing a
progressive web service that delivered high performance without taking
valuable memory space. Within just a few days VOOT saw a 77% increase
in conversion from visitor to video viewer and a 39% increase in
session time per user. Google provided technology support.
Content Everywhere - four finalists
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BT Sport was host broadcaster for the 2017 Champions League
Final in Cardiff, Wales, and went all in to engage with as many people
as possible, in as many ways as possible. Separate trucks covered the
game in HD and in 4k Ultra HD with Dolby Atmos sound - using the Arena
truck nominated for the content distribution award. A unique 12 camera
VR operation provided a rich 360° feed, including in-vision graphics,
live replays and a separate commentary. The content was available
online to all platforms as well as broadcast. Technology partners
included Dolby, Ericsson, Moov, SAM, Sony, Telegenic and Timeline (News - Alert).
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ESL, the Electronic Sports League, is an eSports company that
organises gaming competitions worldwide. For the finals of the 2017
Intel Extreme Masters tournament, held in Poland, it needed to find a
delivery partner that could deliver live feeds to 13 broadcasters in
multiple regions, with additional OTT and digital cinema delivery to
some territories. ESL partnered with Deluxe to enable the
delivery of live ESL broadcast feeds over the public internet. The
eSports tournament reached more than 46 million viewers.
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For a decade Google Earth has given us the ability to explore the
world using just the internet. Now we can immerse ourselves in its
wonders using Google Earth VR. The new app uses touch, sight
and sound to engage the viewer and to receive control feedback. New
techniques render imagery smoothly, maintaining the immersion without
confusion or motion sickness. Technology partners were Ant Food,
Even/Odd, Joshua Moshier and Richard Devine.
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The final project on this year's shortlist is a real content
everywhere application - ensuring consistent media delivery on trains
travelling in excess of 300km an hour. Renfe, Spain's national
railway operator, worked with Telefonica (News - Alert) to ensure its 19
million high speed rail passengers can access premium content and live
sports on trains and at stations as if they were at home. The project
was led by Telefonica, with technology partners including Accedo,
Cires21, Cisco, Hispasat, Iecisa, Indra, Nagra, Signiant and Teldat.
IBC2017 Awards Ceremony
The winners of these three awards will be announced during the IBC2017
Awards Ceremony, at 18:30 on Sunday 17 September, in the RAI Auditorium.
Special guest host for the evening is scientist and broadcaster Dr Helen
Czerski.
As well as the Innovation Awards, the ceremony will see the announcement
of the Judges' Prize, also in the gift of the same panel of
international editors and consultants who have judged the Innovation
Awards. Other awards to be presented during the ceremony include the IBC
International Honour for Excellence, IBC's highest award.
The ceremony is free for all IBC attendees.
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Notes to Editors:
About IBC
IBC is the world's leading media, entertainment and technology show. It
attracts 55,000+ attendees from more than 170 countries and combines a
highly respected and peer-reviewed conference with an exhibition that
showcases more than 1,700 leading suppliers of state of the art
electronic media and entertainment technology.
IBC2017 Dates
Conference: 14 - 18 September 2017
Exhibition: 15 - 19 September 2017
For more information about IBC2017 visit: https://show.ibc.org/
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