TV Azteca Deploys TVU Remote Production System for Annual Hollywood Awards Show Coverage

MOUNTAIN
VIEW, CA – April 23, 2019 – TVU Networks, the global technology and innovation
leader in live IP solutions, today announced that TV
Azteca, one of
Mexico’s largest media companies, produced its coverage of Hollywood’s most
prestigious awards show held annually in February with the company’s innovative
TVU Remote Production System (TVU RPS). TVU RPS was used to transmit
video footage from TV Azteca’s mobile unit at the venue in Los Angeles to a
remote studio set up in a nearby hotel. A small stage on the terrace of the hotel suite served as a
makeshift talk show set for commentary from the hosts during the live broadcast.

With
director Alfonso Cuarón taking home three statuettes
that night for “Roma,” the critically acclaimed drama set in Mexico, this
year’s award celebration was of considerable regional interest to TV Azteca
viewers. It was the first Mexican film to win the “Best Foreign Language”
category.

“This was likely the most watched this presentation has ever
been in Mexico,” said José Vera, Especial Events Technical Director, TV Azteca.
“We needed to create a broadcast for our audience that looked great, included a
lot of live interaction with our hosts, but didn’t add a ton of cost. TVU RPS
maintained extremely high video quality video as it traveled from the hotel to
the production unit and back. It allowed us to reliably transport video from
one location to another, yielding professional-level results while still making
economic sense.”

TVU
RPS allows broadcasters to leverage an existing studio control room
infrastructure and a public Internet connection from any venue to
deliver frame accurate, genlocked and synchronized multi-camera remote production. The product
consists of one rack-mount transmitter (encoder) and one rack-mount
receiver (decoder).

TV
Azteca installed the RPS encoder at the hotel and the RPS decoder at the mobile
unit as a backup solution. The networks successfully sent three high-quality
streams from the hotel terrace to the parked mobile unit at the theatre, as
well as a return feed from the mobile unit back to the hotel.

“They were looking for something with rock-solid reliability and no
degradation during transmission that was also cost-effective,” said Rafael
Castillo, General Manager of Latin America, TVU Networks. “RPS was an ideal
solution for them. With RPS, there is zero video degradation, no matter the
transmission distance. I’m thrilled we were able to help TV Azteca produce such
dynamic coverage of a very important live event.”

RPS
performed so well during the event, that TV Azteca plans to extend its use to
coverage of sporting events, including football matches.

TVU
RPS provides a lower cost alternative for live remote synchronized multi-camera
coverage for news and sports. With RPS, broadcasters no longer need to rely on
production trucks and large production crews. It features an easy-to-use web
interface for monitoring and controlling all aspects of the transmission,
including real-time previews of all-six channels, current bit-rate and
latency. The TVU RPS transmitter can encode up to six synchronized SDI sources
and transmit high quality and low latency IP video to the TVU receiver,
which in turn outputs six synchronized SDI outputs.

TVU Networks has over 2,500 customers in more
than 85 countries. The TVU Networks family of IP transmission and live
production solutions gives broadcasters and organizations a powerful and
reliable workflow to distribute live video content to broadcast, online and
mobile platforms. TVU has become a critical part of the operations of many
major media companies. The TVU Networks suite of solutions has been used to
acquire, transmit, produce, manage and distribute professional-quality live IP
HD footage as an integral part of news, sports and major global events. For
more information about TVU Networks solutions, please visit www.tvunetworks.com.

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