Ideal Systems Group announced the successful completion of a turn-key project for Al-Ghad TV’s advanced TV News Studios in Cairo, Egypt.
Ideal Systems was selected by Al-Ghad TV to shift their existing broadcast facilities located in Egyptian Media Production City to its new studio facility.
The full turn-key project included over 8,000 sqft of fixed and virtual studios over three floors, with studio production control rooms plus transmission and master control rooms and a lines room for satellite bookings, seven near line edit suits, eight creative desks, and workstations for over one hundred and thirty journalists.
The Ideal Systems design team worked with Al-Ghad to create news studios with a variety of sets to support different programming styles.
The main studio design concept centres on a stylised globe that features curved LED display walls from LianTronics while visuals are captured by Sony studio cameras.
Additionally, Ideal Systems designed and integrated AVID’s iNews NRCS and Media Central Cloud UX production asset management system with VizRT’s V5 graphics engine including AR and VR graphics functionality.
The audio network is IP-enabled, utilising Dante and controlled S300’s and Tempest control rack from Solid State Logic. It also incorporates Sennheiser’s Dante microphones and in-ear monitoring systems. Ideal Systems used Imagine Communications for playout, automation, routing, and core broadcast infrastructure with Lynx Technik green machines for additional AV processing.
As for the studio lighting system, it is fully IP-based using the ArtNet Protocol.